by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 24.
- Global Heat Map: Tracking Extreme Heat Across Europe and Asia
- Fears of record-breaking El Niño event this year raise climate alarms
- We’ve Been on the Front Lines. We Know What Ukraine Needs.
- Blinken: Ukraine has already retaken 50 percent of occupied territory
- Russia says Moscow and Crimea hit by Ukrainian drones while Russian forces bombard Ukraine’s south
- China’s Politburo Signals Property Easing, Debt Risk Plan
- China Dominates Solar. Does the U.S. Stand a Chance?
- South Korea Emerges As Key Partner for America’s Energy Transition
- Spain Elections: Results Show No Party With Enough Votes to Govern
- Spain’s election ends with no clear majority, throwing the country into political limbo (“With all votes counted, Spain’s conservative Partido Popular party secured 136 parliamentary seats, followed by the incumbent socialist party PSOE with 122 seats.”)
- Specter of right wing entering Spanish government fades after inconclusive national election
- Why Europe is so angry about Biden’s signature climate bill
- Israeli parliament begins vote on judicial overhaul plan as police clash with protesters
- Showdown Over Judicial Overhaul Roils Israel
- Israel’s president races to reach judiciary accord before parliament vote (“We are in the midst of a national emergency…The crisis has spread to the military, with protest leaders saying thousands of volunteer reservists would not report for duty if the government continues with the plans and former top brass warning that Israel’s war-readiness could be at risk.”)
- Exclusive: Biden says Bibi shouldn’t rush “divisive” judicial overhaul bill amid threats
- Netanyahu leaves hospital as Israel faces a key vote — and a crisis — over divisive legal changes
- Greece: wildfires break out on Corfu and Evia as 19,000 flee Rhodes blazes
- UN Command says it’s communicating with North Korea over detained U.S. soldier
- Uprooted: How climate change is reshaping migration from Honduras
- Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro fading from the spotlight (That’s what SHOULD have happened with Trump, but instead, Republicans doubled down on the criminal, traitor, insurrectionist, etc. That says it ALL about Republicans.)
- U.S. needs to go ‘further and faster’ to achieve climate goals, lawmakers say
- Washington’s governor on climate: ‘The Earth is screaming at us’
- Why the Fed Isn’t Ready to Declare Victory on Inflation
- Walking is getting a lot more dangerous (“There’s no single explanation for why it’s getting more dangerous to walk on US roads, but there are a few major contributing factors. One is deadly road design. In the decades after World War II, new communities emerged, centered on the premise that inhabitants would drive everywhere. Governments and regional planners designed wide, multi-lane arterial roads for high-speed travel.”)
- Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall (“Residents of rich blue towns talk about inclusion, but their laws do the opposite.”)
- House, Senate divides over funding grow as time left for spending bills shrinks (This headline is bland, non-descriptive mush. In fact, the problem is that House Republicans have gone completely off the rails, and the headline should say so!)
- House Republicans start their funding rumble with shutdown looming
- 16 States Made It Harder To Vote This Year. But 26 Made It Easier. (Overwhelmingly in “blue” states.)
- Five questions around Trump’s looming indictment
- GOP, McCarthy on collision course over expunging Trump’s impeachments (“If he doesn’t stage the vote, he risks the ire of Trump and his allies. If he does, the measures would be shot down, validating Trump’s impeachments just as his legal troubles are piling up.”)
- Fulton county prosecutors ready to seek charges in Trump Georgia investigation (“Exclusive: Prosecutors completed appellate reviews, the final step before seeking charges, weeks ago”)
- GOP Splits Over Jan. 6 Deepen as Trump Indictment Looms
- Trump threats will only backfire on him — they prove Jack Smith’s entire case (“Republicans struggle to pretend Trump’s an innocent angel while he begs his followers to commit violence”)
- Opinion: Trump tests the Oscar Wilde-P.T. Barnum theory
- Mike Pence struggles to gain attention and traction in longshot bid
- Mike Pence Fled for His Life on January 6. He Still Won’t Call Trump’s Actions Criminal. (“Spine, please.”)
- Fox Business Poll: Trump has commanding lead in South Carolina GOP primary
- Fox Business Poll: Trump leads in Iowa, as DeSantis and Scott round out the top 3
- How Trump maneuvered his GOP rivals into a tortured position on his legal battles
- 7 GOP presidential candidates meet polling criteria for first RNC debate
- Tucker Carlson Could Help Trump Boycott Fox News’ GOP Debate (“The conservative host is raising big money for a new venture—which he’s jokingly dubbed “Go F–k Yourself Media”—and may take a swing at his old employer by booking Trump on Twitter.”)
- “Fifth-tier people”: Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor on who would want to work for the next regime
- DeSantis camp briefs donors, pledges to ‘Let Ron be Ron’ (Yuck.)
- In the GOP primary, one thing sells (merch) above all: Owning the libs (No positive, constructive ideas of their own, only attacking “the libs.” Pathetic.)
- ‘These people look pathetic’: Pelosi slams McCarthy on expunging Trump impeachments
- Musk Makes Fan-Created ‘X’ Twitter’s New Logo in Abrupt Change (Musk is unstable.)
- Elon Musk: Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird (Bizarre.)
- Video: Former VA Secretaries of Education Anne Holton, Atif Qarni Talk About Fighting Youngkin’s Misinformation and Attacks on Public Education, The Need for Democrats to Win Elections at the State and Local Levels (Thanks to Youngkin et al, “[teachers] and their principals sometimes are self-censoring out of fear”)
- Physician assistants’ petition aims to ease prescription access in Virginia
- Insurrectionist/Conspiracy Theorist VA Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Rips Glenn Youngkin’s Push for Early Voting, Says It’s a “BAD idea”; “The absurdity needs to end now” (“What next? Voting by phone?”)
- Video: “Loud & Proud for Women” Panel with Delegates Jackie Glass, Kathy Tran, Cia Price, Briana Sewell (Del. Price: “y’all look real cute in this room, but we need you to get up, okay? We cannot fight fascism from the sidelines.”)
- Virginia’s model policies for trans students in schools: What to know – The Washington Post
- Attorney General Miyares warns that Virginia Tech and UVa should not do anything to hurt the other in conference realignment
- D.C.-area forecast: Showers today before intense, late-week heat (“Highs could approach 100 Thursday through Saturday with heat indexes over 105.”)
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