by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 2.
- Putin crackdown on Wagner rebellion creates new weak points in Russian military
- Shell still trading Russian gas despite pledge to stop
- Where are Ukraine’s missing children?
- Prigozhin-controlled Russian media group shuts amid mutiny fallout
- In Small Victory, Signs of Grueling Combat Ahead in Ukrainian Counteroffensive (“Expecting a quick retreat, a volunteer Ukrainian unit instead faced two days of tough resistance from dug-in Russian forces”)
- Reading the Tea Leaves on the End of the War in Ukraine (“In several books, experts on Russia and Ukraine weigh the importance of the Wagner Group and try to predict how Vladimir Putin’s invasion will play out.”)
- Ukraine war corrosive for Vladimir Putin – CIA boss
- French Riots Over Killing Start to Ease as Economic Costs Mount
- France riots: 700 more arrests and mayor’s family attacked
- France Is on Fire
- “Crazy world” of EU power – negative prices across western Europe, all day in Germany
- After fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa (These people are a menace.)
- Extremists in Africa offer economic promise in the face of failing harvests (“Declining crops and dwindling fish hauls make Boko Haram appealing for young men in the Lake Chad region.”)
- Israel to buy 25 more F-35 stealth jets in $3 billion deal
- Israel’s air force attacks Syria and Syrian air defense missile explodes over northern Israel
- More Than 600 People Died After a Migrant Ship Capsized. A Report Reveals the Fatal Response. (“European officials monitored the ship using radar, telephone, and radio for 13 hours as it lost power and drifted in the Mediterranean Sea.”)
- Oil Market Bets Against Saudi Hopes for Rebound (“The oil market has flashed a warning to Saudi Arabia: The world economy is weakening, and the kingdom’s efforts to boost prices have run into a wall of excess supply.”)
- Brazil Worries It Has Become a Haven for Russian Spies Infiltrating the West
- Guatemala court orders presidential ballot review, opposition cries foul
- Sunak U-turn on wind farms in England draws wrath of green Torie
- How Long Will Canada Burn? (“One thing is certain: More extreme smoke days are coming.”)
- Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out
- The East Coast’s Smoke Could Last Until October
- Biden Rules Tighten Limits on Drone Strikes
- Summer in the South Is Becoming Unbearable
- US Jobs Seen Growing in Tune With Resilient Economy
- Wall Street’s ‘Crystal Ball’ Shatters as Stocks Stage Big Rally
- Biden has a new opportunity in the places Democrats struggle most (“The context here is that the administration is distributing a truly massive amount of domestic spending from four significant pieces of legislation Biden signed in his first two years in office: the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Chips and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. Put together, those four bills represent well over $3 trillion in new spending over a decade.”)
- Elena Kagan Has Had Enough
- John Roberts doesn’t want to hear any dissent about his Supreme Court (Roberts is a thug.)
- The Supreme Court Just Gave Democrats a New 2024 Rallying Cry
- In 370 days, Supreme Court conservatives dash decades of abortion and affirmative action precedents (“Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.”)
- Williams: The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is the latest right-wing attack on antiracism
- ‘I have no hope’: Student borrowers devastated by high court’s ruling
- Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved
- I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean.
- The supreme court backed voting rights this term – is it enough to protect the 2024 election?
- How Colleges Admissions Might Diversify Without Affirmative Action (“To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Could it work across America?”)
- Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny
- Supreme Court rulings scramble Congress seats in South for rising GOP stars
- ‘Unabashed’: Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position
- Trump praises his appointments after Supreme Court strikes down ‘unfair’ debt relief plan
- What liberal bias? My media research suggests it’s another right-wing myth (“Republicans complain endlessly about the media’s supposed bias. Yes, that exists — but primarily on their side”)
- What Ever Happened to That Other Jack Smith Investigation of Trump? (“Smith’s team has reportedly interviewed several interesting witnesses about Trump’s potential 2020 election interference.”)
- Scoop: Hunter Biden’s lawyer roasts IRS whistleblowers in message to GOP chair
- An anti-Trump video shared by the DeSantis campaign is ‘homophobic,’ says a conservative LGBT group (DeSantis is a disgrace, a bigot, a fascist, corrupt, you name it.)
- DeSantis, Seeking Attention, Uses L.G.B.T.Q Issues to Attack Trump
- Chris Christie Takes On Donald Trump
- The RNC’s debate plans have a major, largely unnoticed problem (“You have to hit certain polling metrics to qualify. But what happens if there aren’t enough polls conducted?”)
- Trump supporters boo, call Lindsey Graham a ‘traitor’ at South Carolina rally
- Trump says Lindsey Graham can help him get ‘liberal votes’ as crowd boos mention of senator
- Feds Say They Have 80,000 Pages of Evidence Against George Santos
- Thousands of Twitter users report problems accessing site as Elon Musk says new limits have been installed
- Twitter Limits Number of Tweets Users Can See Each Day (Elon Musk is an IDIOT.)
- A Climate Laggard in America’s Industrial Heartland Has a Plan to Change, Fast (“Lawmakers in Michigan have long fought tough pollution controls. But the toll of flooding, lost crops and damage to the Great Lakes appears to be changing minds.”)
- ‘Never apologize’: How Moms for Liberty teaches its members to spin the media
- Baltimore shooting: Two dead and 28 injured in mass casualty event, police say
- Flip and Defend-A-District Friday: Volume II
- “When We Vote We Win”: Women’s Summit Returns to Fight for a Blue Virginia (“We have learned–from both our wins and losses – that grassroots enthusiasm is what wins elections”)
- Youngkin taps GOP Sen. Norment, attorney Malveaux to BOV in new round of appointments, Rector Poston returning
- Commentary: In Chesterfield, schools are leading the fight against climate change
- A trucker’s death on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Could better guardrails have prevented it?
- D.C.-area forecast: Storm chances stay high today, then trend lower by the Fourth
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