by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 6.
- El Niño plus climate change means record-breaking heat
- Earth’s average temperature matches record high set a day earlier
- Yes, it’s hot. But this could be one of the coolest summers of the rest of your life. (“Heat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better.”)
- For the third day in a row, the Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high
- To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower? (“The degrowth movement makes a comeback.”)
- Oil giant Shell warns cutting production ‘dangerous’ (Quite the contrary; in fact, continued fossil fuel production/consumption is what’s extremely dangerous.)
- The West Again Learns That War Needs Industry
- Ukraine war: Four killed in Lviv as Russian strike hits apartment building in western city
- Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Russia weeks after mutiny, president of Belarus says
- Russian state TV appears to escalate campaign against Wagner boss
- Former U.S. officials have held secret Ukraine talks with prominent Russians
- Exclusive: Zelensky says he wanted counteroffensive to start ‘much earlier’ to pre-empt Russian defenses
- Russian jets harassed American drones that were targeting ISIS, U.S. says
- Opinion: Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina never got to finish her story. We must tell it for her
- Can ‘good cop’ Yellen help fix US-China relations?
- Janet Yellen arrives in Beijing on mission to find common ground for U.S. and China
- As Germany’s Business Model Wobbles, Firms Reassess Reliance on China
- Biden ratchets up efforts to secure Sweden’s Nato membership ahead of key summit (“Work to persuade Turkey to drop its objections continues, as president meets with Sweden’s prime minister at White House”)
- Israel Faces a Familiar Foe From a New Direction (“Iran has made inroads in the West Bank, and it has been helped by Netanyahu’s policies.”)
- What’s going on in Jenin and why it’s happening now (“Disaffected, mainly young Palestinians from refugee camps are rising up against the Israeli occupation and Western-backed Palestinian leadership.”)
- Accounts, analysis of Greece migrant boat tragedy cast doubt on coast guard claims (“A Washington Post investigation retraced the route of the Adriana. The findings suggest that the deadliest Mediterranean shipwreck in years was preventable.”)
- Hong Kong slashes directly elected seats in local polls, further reducing democracy
- U.S. Prevents Iran from Seizing Two Merchant Tankers in Gulf of Oman
- Meta’s Threads App Won’t Launch in EU on Regulatory Concerns
- Australian minister calls Trump Jr a ‘big baby’ over cancelled tour (And a complete psycho.)
- AI Boom Stems Tech Downturn
- ‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
- Fed sees more rate hikes ahead, but at a slower pace, meeting minutes show
- U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal (“Decades behind schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world’s only remaining declared stockpile of the munitions will be completed as soon as Friday.”)
- New study estimates ‘forever chemicals’ may be found in 45 percent of U.S. tap water
- America Has a Supreme Court Problem (“Hillary Clinton tried warning us. Now, what do you do with a rogue Court?”)
- The Supreme Court Didn’t Put Racism on a Leash. It Granted It License.
- Court ruling prompts fears of ‘Wild West of disinformation’
- A Trump-Appointed Judge Says Spreading Medical Disinformation Far and Wide Is Free Speech
- Judge’s decision in key misinformation case is latest to botch facts (“Judges are supposed to be beacons of interpreting the law. Sometimes they can’t even get the basic facts right.”)
- A Trump-Appointed Judge Just Handed Right-Wingers a Huge Victory in Their Fight Against Purported Social Media Bias (“The Biden administration essentially won’t be allowed to talk to social media companies about their content.”)
- Restricting the Government from Speaking to Tech Companies Will Spread Disinformation and Harm Democracy
- Disinformation Researchers Fret About Fallout From Judge’s Order
- State Dept. cancels Facebook meetings after judge’s ‘censorship’ ruling
- Biden Appeal Opens a New Front in Battle Over Internet Speech
- It’s Hard to Overstate How Awful the Latest Injunction Against the Biden Administration Is
- The Supreme Court Just Legalized Stalking
- Democrats eyeing suburban women to launch new gun control effort
- A Georgia teacher’s plight exposes the essence of anti-woke MAGA fury (“How badly drafted GOP laws are fueling a reactionary frenzy.” Total insanity.)
- Oath Keepers leader warns Trump against trial: ‘You’re going to be found guilty’
- Justice Department had video of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago before FBI search, unredacted document shows
- Trump Begins to Sour on ‘Spotlight Hound’ Kari Lake for VP (“Trump advisers say Kari Lake has been losing her footing with the former president because, in his eyes, she always wants attention.”)
- Trump pulled in more than $35 million in the second quarter
- DeSantis Campaign Struggles to Make a Strong Case Against Trump
- Ron DeSantis Super PAC Spokesman Basically Admits the Governor’s Presidential Prospects Are in the Gutter
- Team behind ‘Peaky Blinders’ says DeSantis campaign was not given permission to use footage of Cillian Murphy
- Ron DeSantis defends video going after Trump on LGBTQ issues: ‘Totally fair game’ (The ad is completely bizarre, f’ed up.)
- Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested there.
- White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official
- Attorney who challenged Trump’s 2020 loss gives up law license as states weigh disciplining him
- MAGA Lawyer Lin Wood Calls It Quits Rather Than Face Disbarment —
- Tony Evers uses veto powers to extend annual increases for public schools for the next four centuries
- Wrongly imprisoned for 7 years, exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ member wins NYC Council primary
- Nevada Republicans Challenge Law Protecting Election Officials From Harassment
- Special counsel subpoenas Arizona secretary of state office in Jan. 6 probe
- My Deeply Unsettling Return to the Moms for Liberty Conference (“Beneath the ‘joyful warrior’ cosplay was a startlingly dark agenda.”)
- Of Course Josh Hawley Tweeted a Fake Quote to Push Religious Propaganda (“The senator from Missouri celebrated the Fourth of July by falsely claiming the United States was founded ‘on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.'” Total opposite, in fact; the US was founded on SEPARATION of church and state.)
- Josh Hawley rings in July 4 with fake quote with antisemitic, white nationalist roots
- Iowa’s Republican governor calls a special legislative session to revive abortion restrictions
- Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
- Fake “liberal” Twitter account exposed: We should worry less about AI and more about human stupidity (“‘Erica Marsh’ was obviously not real, but MAGA Twitter just can’t quit their addiction to disinformation”)
- Instagram Snags 10 Million Users Within Hours for Threads App, a Threat to Twitter
- Ten million join Meta’s Twitter rival – Zuckerberg
- Battle Of The Timelines: Meta Launches ‘Threads,’ Its Alternative To Twitter
- What you need to know about Threads, Instagram’s new Twitter killer app
- Threads: how do I sign up and is it any different to Twitter?
- GQ pulls article slamming Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Zaslav after complain
- Man gets life sentence for raping girl, nine, forced to leave Ohio for abortion
- $6.6B Mountain Valley Pipeline gets green light to finish construction
- Reps. McClellan, Beyer, Connolly, Scott, & Wexton Submit Amicus Brief to Support Legal Challenge to Mountain Valley Pipeline (“Our constituents deserve to have their day in court on the new claims they have raised in the underlying petitions”)
- Va. representatives push Congress to let families use 529 savings to pay for workforce training without IRS penalties
- Virginia elections board certifies primary results, denies extension for late filers
- Virginia Court of Appeals says probable cause alone isn’t enough for warrantless search
- General Assembly remains at odds over budget talks
- A calculation error shortchanging Virginia schools still hasn’t been resolved
- “Russet Perry is in a strong position to win Virginia’s most competitive Senate election this year” (“While Russet Perry has been working for, living in, and raising her kids in this community for well over a decade now, her Republican opponent moved to Loudoun from out of state in October of 2022.”)
- Waterlogged in Southeastern Virginia (“As sea levels rise, certain places in the Hampton Roads region are sinking faster than anticipated—and some residents may have to think about moving out of harm’s way.”)
- Dominion Energy Virginia lowers customer rates beginning July 1 (“Residential customers will see $14 in average monthly savings; Residential rates now 20% below national average, 39% below regional average”)
- Smyth County woman challenges Virginia’s process for restoring voting rights to convicted felons after her application was denied
- Richmond’s UNOS threatens to block flow of organs in ongoing dispute (“UNOS says it will prevent an intermediary from accessing the organ transplantation network, which could disrupt transplantation at 63 hospitals.”)
- Lynchburg’s Republican majority on council embroiled in ‘chaos’
- Search for Charlottesville city manager narrows after Rogers drops out
- Riverview revival: New development in Norfolk neighborhood includes former theater
- D.C.-area forecast: Steamy summer days with afternoon storm chances continue
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