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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 20.
- When It Comes to Climate Change, There’s No Such Thing as a New Normal
- ‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come (“James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’”)
- 7 Eye-popping Numbers From the Worldwide Heat Wave
- Do the current heatwaves show that climate change is speeding up?
- At International Deep Sea Mining Meeting, Debate Moves Behind Closed Doors
- Renewables could pass coal as leading global power source next year
- How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World
- Russia’s nixing of Ukraine grain deal deepens worries about global food supply
- Video Appears to Show Wagner Leader Rallying Troops in Belarus
- White House says Russia is preparing for attacks on civilian ships in Black Sea
- Russia bombards Ukraine ports, threatens ships, jolting world grain markets
- How bad will things get now that Russia has quit its grain deal with Ukraine?
- Wheat prices soar after Russia threatens ships
- Ukraine says it blocked 18 out of 38 Russian air attacks overnight
- US-China climate talks brought goodwill, modest progress
- China’s Xi Jinping meets with Henry Kissinger in Beijing
- Kerry’s trip to China yields no breakthrough on climate
- Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad ahead of planned Quran burning in Stockholm
- Why ultra-green Germany turned its back on nuclear energy (“Can a country be a climate leader without nuclear power?”)
- Tourist who saw US soldier sprint to North Korea initially thought it was a stunt
- Travis King: North Korea ‘not responding to calls’ on missing soldier, says US
- The Political Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shakes Israel’s Sense of Identity
- Extreme heat indices above 105°F to hit 80 million people in U.S.
- Majority expecting ‘significant negative effect’ from climate change: poll
- New GOP Bill Would Curb Biden’s Power To Fight Climate Change
- Ex-meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas firms to shame them
- GOP Pushes Disastrous Environmental Plan As The Planet Bakes (“House Republicans want to turbocharge the very industries chiefly responsible for the accelerating climate crisis.”)
- Can U.S. power grids handle the surge in energy use as temperatures climb?
- GOP doubles down on impeachment push even as border numbers plummet
- Doctors in the Northeast launch abortion pill pipeline into states with bans (“At least 3,500 doses have been shipped to antiabortion states since mid-June, a process enabled by new shield laws”)
- Supreme Court Has Worked on Code of Conduct but Gotten Nowhere
- Authoritarianism Expert Warns Why It’s Critical To Listen To Trump’s Words Right Now (“Ruth Ben-Ghiat explained how authoritarian takeovers usually go down.”)
- Fact check: After getting target letter in 2020 election probe, Trump tells another election lie
- All eyes on grand jury amid signs of possible third Trump indictment
- Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024
- After fitful starts, Trump Jan. 6 investigations hurtle toward charges
- Potential Trump Charges Include Civil Rights Law Used in Voting Fraud Cases
- Trump has a plan to consolidate power in a second term. It just might work. (That would be the end of America as we’ve ever known it and its descent into fascism.)
- Trump under investigation for civil rights conspiracy in January 6 inquiry (“Federal prosecutors say they have evidence to charge Trump with three crimes over efforts to overturn 2020 election”)
- Playbook: Is Trump’s third indictment imminent?
- Trump’s team seeks to learn whether special counsel has evidence, witnesses they don’t know
- Trump quietly adds new attorney to January 6 legal team
- Jan. 6 Rioters Have Bad News for Trump About D.C. Juries
- Trump bets, again, on legal troubles yielding big donations
- Trump Loses Bid to Move New York Hush Money Case to Federal Court
- Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
- Trump is denied a new trial in E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation case
- Why Trump’s Indictments Don’t Feel Like Part of the Finale
- 2024 won’t be a Trump-Biden replay. You can thank Gen Z for that.
- Donald Trump’s Attorneys Are in the Pants-Shitting Phase of Criminal Investigation Process: Report (“The target letter sent to Trump last weekend indicates that Jack Smith “will prosecute a bigger case against Trump than the former president’s team was expecting.”)
- Biden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit over 30M views in 12 hours
- Biden meets privately with auto workers’ union president
- Alabama legislature passes redistricting maps that Democrats say defy court order
- Is the Sheer Stupidity of Republican Politics Breaking Through? (“From Hunter Biden to trans people and Barbie, Republicans are hell-bent on becoming ‘monomaniacally anti-woke culture warriors,’ as one Democratic lawmaker put it. Still, it remains to be seen whether Democrats can seize the moment.”)
- The Humiliation of Ron DeSantis (“The Florida governor isn’t Trump plus competence; he’s Trump minus jokes.”)
- GOP senators say Manchin bid would boost Trump, hurt Biden
- Joe Manchin Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
- Convicted con man who was pardoned by Trump is again charged with fraud
- Republicans Have So Little Hunter Biden Evidence They Shared His Nudes Instead (Repulsive people.)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Photos Of Naked Hunter Biden At IRS Whistleblower Hearing (“Greene made a mockery of what was supposed to be a sober examination of political favoritism in the Justice Department.”)
- Donald Trump’s death wish for Hunter Biden (“The former president’s violent rhetoric is clearly escalating”)
- ‘It makes them all look silly’: Dems prepare to scorch RFK Jr. testimony
- RFK Jr. ally and campaign speaker forwarded antisemitic COVID conspiracy theory and Holocaust denial
- Quick to Mock MAGA, Biden Stays Silent on Trump Indictments
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville keeps breaking his promises to support veterans and the military
- Schumer says he’s open to giving Sen. Tuberville a vote on the military’s abortion policy
- The Strange Unseriousness of No Labels
- How No Labels is ruining the label of ‘independent’
- Florida approves Black history standards decried as ‘step backward’
- Florida board OKs Black history standards, rejects concerns about omitting history
- Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Admissions (Every college and university should do this.)
- Poultry plant blames staffing company for hiring 16-year-old who was killed in workplace accident
- Sununu’s exit spells the end of a whole breed of Republican governor
- Right-Wing Media Flocks to Jason Aldean’s Defense After ‘Pro-Lynching’ Video Pulled
- Jason Aldean’s new music video was filmed at a lynching site. A big country music network pulled it
- It’s now or never: NFL owners meet to approve sale of Washington Commanders
- Former congressional candidate Hung Cao to challenge Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in 2024 (“Cao has promoted conspiracy theories about the Biden family and opposes reproductive rights, gun safety, LGBTQ equality, and climate protection.”)
- Youngkin administration’s transgender student policies a new spark in heated Virginia debate (The news media loves reporting stuff like this as a “debate,” even better if it’s “heated.” Anything to avoid taking a “side” or be perceived as taking a “side.”)
- Schapiro: Bitter lessons of Youngkin education policy
- Glenn Youngkin Goes After Transgender Kids in Revised School Policies
- Youngkin tells transgender kids to ‘trust your parents, they love you’ after VDOE releases new policy
- ‘This is just one step in a multifaceted effort to erase trans identity’ LGBTQ+ protections and resources changing in Virginia
- Opinion: ‘Parents matter,’ apparently more than protecting children
- Youngkin’s K-12 transgender policies: Sports just one area of uncertainty
- Former VA Secretary of Education Atif Qarni Says Youngkin Administration’s “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students” Are “really about attacking civil rights”; School Districts “don’t have to adopt them” (Qarni: “I know of ZERO cases where a transgender student assaulted another student in a restroom or in a locker room”)
- Governor Youngkin Has No Right to Override Legislature and Remove Grant Opportunity to Expand Teacher Diversity (Progress VA: “Youngkin doesn’t get to unilaterally decide which parts of the state budget he wants to comply with and which parts he doesn’t”)
- Reaction to new state guidance on transgender student policies
- Top negotiators to resume Virginia budget talks Thursday after breakdown
- Editorial: Virginia’s broadband windfall will make a difference in rural communities
- New proposal aims to permanently allow caregiver option for Va. disability program
- As temperatures rise in Va., researchers report sparsely located cooling centers
- Virginia forests might be a last hope for Hellbender salamanders
- Court appearance for Del. Fariss postponed again (“Del. Matt Fariss, R-Campbell County, was due in Campbell County General District Court for a preliminary hearing on two felony charges in an alleged hit-and-run that injured a pedestrian in March and led to the woman obtaining a protective order against him.”)
- Virginia Beach must take action on ward-based election system or risk lawsuit, city attorney warns
- Some good news: Virginia’s 2023 rabies numbers are looking normal
- Former Virginia National Guard member who stormed Capitol gets 7 years in prison
- After 9 months as ‘acting,’ Edwards is named new Richmond police chief
- 6 years running: Arlington is the fittest city, with DC on its heels
- Members of Philadelphia ‘high-end theft crew’ arrested in Fairfax County
- Fairfax County attempts to crack down on speeding drivers, as another fatal crash devastates community
- D.C.-area forecast: Typically warm and humid today, with storms possible tonight
