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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 5.
- Climate change: World’s hottest day since records began
- Earth Keeps Breaking Temperature Records Due to Global Warming (Broken record alert: we need to get off of fossil fuels on an emergency basis.)
- Mineral discovery could meet global battery and solar panel demand for next 100 years
- European Power Prices Go Below Zero Again as Solar Output Surges
- Russia has planted suspected explosives on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant roofs, says Zelenskiy (Putin’s Russia is completely deranged, terroristic, etc.)
- Ukraine live briefing: Kremlin, U.S. have talked prisoner swap for Gershkovich
- Putin Created a Beast, and Now He Has No Idea How to Rein It In
- Inside Ukraine’s tech push to counter Russian ‘suicide’ drone threat
- Multilateral Man Is More Powerful Than Putin Realized (“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced today that Jens Stoltenberg, its secretary-general for the past nine years, will stay on for an almost unprecedented tenth year.”)
- ‘You’re Going In as Meat’: A Russian Soldier’s Story
- Zelenskyy warns of provocations at nuclear plant; Xi reportedly warned Putin against nuclear attack
- Putin and Xi attend a key Russia-friendly summit
- China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains destroy buildings and displace thousands (“Scientists have warned the country to expect ‘multiple natural disasters’ this month including typhoons and high temperatures”)
- China’s Export Curb on Chip-Making Metals Prompt Countries to Explore Supply-Chain Diversification
- War with China might not be ‘imminent,’ but Taiwan is preparing anyway
- Taiwan’s Impossible Choice: Be Ukraine or Hong Kong
- The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says Japan can release nuclear waste water into the ocean
- Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge
- Terror in Tel Aviv: At least nine wounded in stabbing, ramming attack
- Israeli forces begin withdrawal from West Bank city of Jenin
- Violence in Jenin foreshadows the next phase in an endless conflict
- Wind and solar face planning brick wall that threatens to derail switch from coal
- Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Reports Says
- Top court watcher: This term was marked by a broad expansion of judicial power (Out-of-control, far-right judicial activists.)
- The Supreme Court is on a mission to ensure the US assumes the form that the Republican Party wants (“It is really hard to reconcile these decisions with one another in terms of an overarching theory of law”)
- Biden faces renewed pressure to embrace Supreme Court overhaul
- Swing state Republicans bleed donors and cash over Trump’s false election claims
- Inside the House GOP’s plan to go after FBI and DOJ (The Trump GOP is the ANTI-law-and-order party.)
- McCarthy’s latest challenge: Prevent shutdown while avoiding GOP revolt
- Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for majority
- Trump’s dominance has America bracing for a toxic campaign
- Former Trump press secretary says he showed classified documents to people on Mar-a-Lago dining patio
- Statement from President Joe Biden on Gun Violence Across America
- Biden Calls For Gun Reform On Highland Park Anniversary: ‘Much More Must Be Done’
- Memo to Chris Christie: You can’t troll Donald Trump in a GOP primary
- Judge blocks U.S. officials from tech contacts in First Amendment case (“The Trump-appointed judge’s move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.” These Trump judges are disaster.)
- How Wingnuts Made Violent Extremism the New Normal
- Reclaiming Real American Patriotism (“This Fourth of July, let’s rescue our love of country from those who have hijacked it.”)
- Powdery substance found at White House sent for further testing, Secret Service says
- To stop decline, pull DeSantis off trail, political analyst says
- DeSantis is squeezing the sunshine out of Florida’s public records law, critics say
- Former GOP congressman and Jan. 6 select committee adviser Denver Riggleman now working with Hunter Biden
- Republican Party forced to delete Fourth of July tweet after being ridiculed for using Liberian flag
- The killer in one of Philadelphia’s deadliest mass shootings evidently fired randomly, police say
- Oil lobbyists spend millions to stall California’s game-changing climate bill
- Renewables are saving Texas. Again.
- With court case stalled, skill-game industry keeps cash flowing to Virginia politicians
- SCOTUS declines to hear Fairfax gender dysphoria case
- Southwest Virginia colleges reviewing admissions practices after Supreme Court ruling on race
- Charlottesville’s police department gets back to business
- Veterans share love, fellowship and a lot of remembrances during South Norfolk’s July 4th parade
- D.C.-area forecast: Typical July heat on repeat; storm chances trend higher by the weekend
