Tuesday News: “Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.'”; “Biden gets major win from Turkey ahead of key NATO summit”; “Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election”; “Anyone who thought Glenn Youngkin was a moderate was badly hoodwinked”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 11.

• Preliminary data shows hottest week on record. Unprecedented sea surface temperatures and Antarctic sea ice loss (We’re in deep, deep trouble.)
• Underground Climate Change Is Weakening Buildings in Slow Motion
• More Nations Are Growing Wary of Deep Sea Mining (“Scientists warn of irreversible damage in the quest for key minerals.”)
• Summer Heat Waves Killed 61,000 in Europe Last Year, Study Says
• EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change
• Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’
• Ukraine tops NATO summit agenda after Turkey backs Sweden’s membership
• Biden gets major win from Turkey ahead of key NATO summit
• NATO Leaders Gather, Buoyed by Turkey’s Support for Sweden’s Membership
• Biden just secured a big win from his Europe trip
• US: NATO allies will send ‘positive signal’ on Ukraine membership
• NATO Latest: Stoltenberg Proposes Fast-Track Path in Ukraine Bid
• Ukraine will get positive message on membership – Nato boss
• With the counteroffensive underway, 12 charts show the latest from Ukraine
• Turkey backs Sweden’s Nato membership – Stoltenberg
• U.S. says to move forward with transfer of F-16 jets to Turkey
• Desperate Ukrainians take long and uncertain journey to escape Russian occupation
• G-7 Nations to Offer Separate Security Assurances to Ukraine
• Hungary Backs Sweden’s NATO Accession, Foreign Minister Says
• Wagner Will Keep Part of Its African Business After Russian Mutiny
• Russia-Ukraine war live: Sunak says ‘Ukraine’s rightful place is in Nato’ as France agrees to supply long-range missiles to Kyiv
• Opinion: Welcome to the ‘looking-glass’ world of Putin’s Russia (“Putin seems less and less able to grasp the challenges before him. After the 2014 invasion of Crimea, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel described Putin as living in ‘another world.’ An open question now is whether he can find the way back.”)
• How the Biden administration sealed the Sweden deal with Erdogan (“Behind all the public bluster, Erdogan’s most important ask has long been clear: He needs the United States to sell him F-16s.”)
• Exclusive: ‘Shameful and unethical.’ Heineken, Unilever and Oreo maker Mondelez accused of breaking promises to leave Russia
• Dirty Socks and Rotting Bodies: What Russians Left in the Trenches
• Wagner Fighters Neared Russian Nuclear Base During Revolt (“Ukraine’s head of military intelligence said that the Wagner fighters intended to acquire small Soviet-era nuclear devices in order to ‘raise the stakes’ in their mutiny.”)
• Miss Netherlands contestant makes history as first trans woman to win the pageant
• Judicial Overhaul Protesters to Grind Israel to a Halt After Blow to ‘Reasonableness Standard’
• Israel protests flare over Netanyahu’s new Supreme Court bill
• ‘Heaviest rain ever’ causes deadly floods and landslides in Japan
• [Australia’s climate and energy minister Chris] Bowen: We’re playing catch-up, but 82 pct renewables target can be met
• Thailand PM Prayuth Chan-ocha to retire from politics, nine years after seizing power in a coup
• Trump Administration Officials Were Legitimately Worried About Trump Provoking Nuclear War With North Korea: Report
• US faces week of dangerous weather with flooding and heatwave alerts
• No, ‘Socialism’ Isn’t Making Americans Lazy
• U.S. Students’ Progress Stagnated Last School Year, Study Finds
• White House unveils plan to eliminate threat of fentanyl laced with xylazine
• Campus visits and travel by Supreme Court justices put them in the company of big money donors (Corruption runs amok on the US Supreme Court.)
• Clarence Thomas’ ethics mess goes from bad to worse
• Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh Could Change the Lives of Domestic Violence Survivors
• A monumental LGBTQ rights case is barreling toward the Supreme Court (“A new federal appeals court decision is a terrible blow to trans rights, and a potential earthquake in the fight for LGBTQ equality.”)
• Trump co-conspirator seeks delay in Mar-a-Lago documents case
• Under oath, John Kelly raises serious allegations against Trump
• Don’t ignore Trump’s threats of retribution: “As the legal vise tightens, he becomes more dangerous”
• Trump Will Use the Justice Department to Destroy His Enemies in a Second Term, Former Officials Warn
• Grand jurors who will consider Trump charges to be selected Tuesday
• Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election
• Trump opposes quick trial date in classified documents case
• Trump Just Trashed A Key 2024 Swing State As ‘Disgraceful’ In Wild New Rant (“The former president goes off on more conspiracy theories in his latest interview.” Total nutjob.)
• ‘I don’t invite her to events’: Donald Trump attacks Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds for neutrality
• Trump threat to skip first debate divides GOP
• ‘Whistleblower’ who accused Bidens of corruption is charged with arms trafficking and violating Iran sanctions
• U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Co-Director Of Think Tank For Acting As An Unregistered Foreign Agent,
• Voters broadly disagree with House Republicans’ priorities, polling shows
• Trump’s 2024 rivals predict shift is coming in primary landscape
• Republican women learn the hard way: Complicity will not protect you
• As hard-right House radicals dig in, prepare for a summer of obstruction
• Here’s a realistic agenda for Biden’s second term
• Meta plans feed for Threads after users complain
• Zuckerberg, Musk and Madison: It’s All About the Checks & Balances, Baby
• Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta’s new Threads app
• The only app that can kill Twitter? Twitter itself.
• ‘Not what it was’: House Freedom Caucus wrestles with its future amid split over tactics and Trump
• Tuberville’s hold leaves Marines leaderless for first time in 164 years
• Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville Slammed For Outrageous Defense Of White Nationalists (“The Alabama lawmaker said he just calls them ‘Americans’ who have ‘different beliefs.'”)
• Marines without Senate-confirmed leader for first time since 1859 after GOP senator blocks nominee (Tuberville is a racist, moron, extremist, traitor, etc. Typical MAGA Republican, in other words.)
• Doug Burgum is about to drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on gift cards to qualify for the debate
• Kari Lake Insists She Hasn’t Been Dumped by Trump
• Tucker Carlson May Be Losing His Relevance
• Arizona’s GOP Went All-In on Trump’s Big Lie—Now It’s Broke
• Extremist election denier Sam Brown announces 2024 Senate bid in Nevada
• Flash floods hit N.Y. and Vermont, killing 1 and prompting emergency
• Rescuers brace for more rain in the Northeast as storms swamp Vermont’s capital
• Northeast storms dump over 2 months’ worth of rain on Vermont
• Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels, could worsen hurricanes
• One of Tucker Carlson’s Targets Wants His Day in Court
• As Mountain Valley Pipeline doubles down on calls to dismiss cases against it, court stays construction in national forest
• Appeals court orders temporary halt to Mountain Valley Pipeline construction (“The stay was ordered despite language in the debt ceiling law directing federal agencies to issue permits needed for the controversial pipeline.”)
• TikTok crackdown bill may need changes, US senator says (“Democratic Senator Mark Warner told Reuters that aggressive lobbying by the ByteDance-owned short video app TikTok against the Restrict Act ‘slowed a bit of our momentum’ after it was introduced in March.”)
• Senators Warner and Kaine Call for Better Housing Reforms and Protections for Military Families
• VA Dems: “[Youngkin]’s the ‘parents rights’ governor, so long as your kids are straight.” (The Youngkin administration “is actively putting LGBTQ youth at risk in Virginia”)
• Study finds Virginia underfunds K-12 schools, recommends spending billions more
• After JLARC Report Released, VA House Dems Leader Don Scott Says, “It is our children who are suffering because extremists in the Virginia GOP would rather fund corporate giveaways than their education” (“It is imperative that we fully fund our schools”)
• Virginia’s K-12 formula leaves schools underfunded, report says
• JLARC: Virginia formula significantly underfunds K-12 schools
• Commentary: Leadership is hard work. On budget, Youngkin displays little of either
• Millions funneled into Virginia primaries reignite calls for campaign finance reform
• Audio: Far-Right VA Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Threatens “Serious Write-In Campaign, Similar to Nick Freitas’” Against SD12 GOP Nominee Glen Sturtevant This Fall (Chase: “I would argue that Glen Sturtevant is the Democrat [sic] candidate…the uniparty’s choice”)
• Lab school projects pushed by Youngkin move forward despite funding questions
• Youngkin just says ‘no’ to retail cannabis sales. Here’s the tax revenue that passes up.
• Youngkin says small reactor ‘moonshot’ on track (So stupid.)
• Youngkin, Dominion Energy celebrate 50 years of nuclear power from Surry Power Station
• Richmond acquires 4 acres of land along James River as part of its grand plan to make public spaces its crowning jewel
• Former Newport News teacher’s $40M lawsuit continues
• Lake Monticello plans a recall election after a member of the HOA board posted nasty remarks about Democrats and people from the LGBTQ community
• Arlington superintendent Francisco Duran gets new 4-year contract
• D.C.-area forecast: Hot weather rebuilds through midweek before storm chances return