by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 25.
- Study finds climate change fingerprints on July heat waves in Europe, China and America
- Europe and US heatwaves near ‘impossible’ without climate change
- Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show (“Analysis makes it clear human-caused global heating is destroying lives with worse to come without sharp emissions cuts”)
- What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things really are
- ‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out
- This summer is what climate change looks like, scientists say
- Greta Thunberg found guilty of failing to obey police at climate protest
- How America Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World
- U.N. Assesses Damage to Cultural Sites From Russia’s Bombardment of Odesa
- Russian Attack Threatens Even Alternative Routes for Ukrainian Grain
- Ukraine claims advances along southern front
- Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites
- Putin appeared paralyzed and unable to act in first hours of rebellion
- Rare testimony reveals brutal life for Russian convicts fighting in Ukraine
- Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports
- U.S. Weighs Potential Deal With China on Fentanyl
- What new norm of slower Chinese growth could mean for the global economy
- The ground is cracking under Netanyahu’s feet (“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition have ignited a political crisis of immense proportion. They should begin to find a way out.”)
- Israeli Doctors Go On Strike Over Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
- What Israel’s new judicial law reveals about its democracy (“A democracy long under pressure is now on the brink of collapse. But it’s not over yet.”)
- Changes to Judiciary Deepen Split in Israel as Opponents Weigh Options
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a victory, but in doing so, he propelled Israel into an uncertain new era.
- This is how Israel’s Supreme Court might react to the challenge to its power.
- In Israel, a Glimpse of a Trumpian Future (“Netanyahu is willing to undermine the rule of law in order to insure his own political survival. Sound familiar?”)
- Biden wrestles with Israel’s defiant turn to the right
- Israel approves divisive judicial overhaul, weakening court’s power amid pro-democracy protests
- Powerful right-wing radicals are testing democratic checks and balance in both Israel and the US
- North Korea fires 2 short-range ballistic missiles after US submarine arrives in South Korea
- Denmark Quran burning: Muslim nations condemn far right group’s action
- South African Electricity Minister Attacks Climate Finance Pact
- Heat wave expands across the U.S., as Southwest continues to swelter
- Clash of Fed Hawks and Doves Over Rates Deepens
- Will Biden’s Meetings with A.I. Companies Make Any Difference?
- Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages (“Decades of progress for animal welfare are potentially at risk.” EVIL.)
- Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification
- RSV vaccines will be available soon. Older adults should get the shot.
- A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn’t Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion
- ‘They railroad them’: the states using ‘fetal personhood’ laws to criminalize mothers
- Biden chooses a longtime Hill aide respected by Republicans as his new legislative affairs director
- A radical idea: Just give kids lunch
- Democrats champion free markets as Republicans target Wall Street
- US House Republicans bring culture wars into spending showdown with Senate
- McCarthy floats “impeachment inquiry” into Biden (McCarthy is way beyond pathetic.)
- Will Kevin McCarthy’s “Crazy Bastards” Bring the Economy to the Brink—Again?
- Conservatives’ Wrath Clouds Kevin McCarthy’s Spending Path
- The GOP is rushing headlong into huge election losses in 2024
- Trump wanted Ukraine to impugn Biden. D.C. Republicans finally delivered.
- Trump’s downfall is coming: Now the Democrats must use his crimes to finish him (“An expert panel agrees that Trump’s moment of reckoning is finally here — but Democrats must show strength”)
- Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections
- Former U.S. Attorney Spots ‘Main Signal’ Next Trump Indictment Is Coming
- A Republican nightmare seems about to become real (“And, frankly, the mainstream media has made it that much easier for cowardly Republicans to stick with Trump. Rather than challenge Republicans at every turn to defend their embrace of Trump or even to examine seriously the historical origins of toxic racist, xenophobic and delusional beliefs, the mainstream media largely sticks to horserace politics. “)
- Former Giuliani colleague turns over thousands of pages to special counsel on 2020 election
- Special counsel received documents from Giuliani team that tried to find fraud after 2020 election
- Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith
- What the Joe Manchin-No Labels Fantasy Gets Wrong About America
- Donors, Don’t Fund a Trump Plurality (By Sen. Mitt Romney)
- Trump anxiety among GOP senators grows as indictments appear to help him
- US Supreme Court faces ‘outright defiance’ from Alabama
- Man who beat officer with flagpole during Capitol riot is sentenced to over 4 years in prison (The sentence should have been a LOT longer than that!)
- Justice Department sues Texas after Gov. Abbott refuses to remove floating barrier
- Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled
- Why are Republicans so afraid of confronting America’s racial past? (“The GOP seems to fear that knowing the history will make White Americans feel culpable.”)
- Florida curriculum on slavery is an obscene revision of Black history
- Rebooting Ron DeSantis Still Leaves You With Ron DeSantis (“The Florida governor’s floundering presidential campaign is good news for democracy.”)
- A Minor Reboot Won’t Save Ron DeSantis’s Toxic Campaign
- Florida and DeSantis dig in as criticism of Black history curriculum mounts
- DeSantis campaign mired in controversies over slavery, anti-gay video, alleged Nazi symbol
- Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges
- Michigan Supreme Court expands parental rights in former same-sex relationships
- Lauren Boebert blames her AirPods after she threw away photo of 10-year-old Uvalde victim
- Fox’s transparent RFK promotion is crowding out its coverage of Trump’s GOP challengers
- Obamas’ personal chef drowns near family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard
- Jason Aldean? Please spare me the small-town nostalgia.
- Why Elon Musk Bid Twitter Goodbye
- Musk risks even more damage to Twitter’s business as the messaging app changes name to X
- Why did Elon Musk change Twitter to X? Marketers are asking, too.
- Elon Musk hits X rebrand hiccup as police stop Twitter sign removal (“Authorities intervene to halt ‘unauthorised work’ but later say no crime has been committed”)
- Elon Musk has officially killed Twitter. The zombie platform lives on as X, a disfigured shell of its former self (“So far, however, there is little hope Musk will be able to successfully steer the ship out of iceberg-ridden waters. He is, after all, the captain who led the ship into them — all while manically laughing alongside his inner circle while standing at the wheel.”)
- Elon Musk’s Clumsy Twitter Rebrand to ‘X’ Falls Flat on Its Face
- New Twitter Logo Probably Not Stolen Just Bad
- Rep. Paul Gosar promotes another antisemitic site that praises Hitler and denies the Holocaust
- Right-wing antifeminist influencers are starting to get a little uncomfortable with all the woman hating (“Exactly how misogynistic should conservatives be?”)
- Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds (Appalling.)
- Jury Decides Ammon Bundy Must Pay More Than $50M for Defaming Hospital
- Despite House defeat of proposal to add Reagan National flights, backers say fight isn’t over
- Audio: On Far-Right Radio, VA GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Hung Cao Triples Down On His Support of the Anti-Reproductive-Freedom “Dobbs” Decision (Cao “would be an automatic vote for a national abortion ban. He belongs nowhere near the U.S. Senate”)
- Feds say Virginia paid millions for Medicaid patients who had already died
- Virginia is investigating if it’s safe to eat fish caught from waterways with PFAS
- Stop the Next Ron DeSantis from Destroying Virginia (“Glenn Youngkin and his allies are trying or pledging to turn back the clock on countless issues”)
- Glenn Youngkin’s Worst Nightmare? Right Before “Barbie” Started, HD71 Dem Nominee Jessica Anderson Was Approached by an Almost-18-Year-Old Who’s Super-Excited to Vote Democratic This November; “Our youth are paying attention”
- State lawmakers divided on what to do with budget surplus
- Va.’s disparities reflect why Aldean’s menacing ‘Small Town’ song flies in rural America
- Virginia Beach School Board to have ‘legal review’ of new transgender policies
- Arlington Schools Chief Rejects Youngkin’s ‘Discriminatory’ Trans Policies
- Litigation over Charlottesville Lee statue appears to be over
- Video shows 5 officers tackling mentally ill man. Experts question why. (“The Arlington police officers took down Delgardo Franklin II after he refused to surrender. It defied their training, a Post investigation found.”)
- Norfolk casino developer pulls project review to meet with city officials over plans
- D.C.-area forecast: Strong storms possible later today, then scorching late-week heat (“Thursday through Saturday could be the hottest days of the summer as the heat index climbs past 100 degrees.”)
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