by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 19.
- Heat waves: Historic temperatures affect three continents
- First Thing: Europe, Asia and US continue to face dangerous heatwaves
- The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat (“A string of deadly heat waves has upended daily life across much of the world, straining businesses and threatening power grids”)
- Al Gore on Extreme Heat and the Fight Against Fossil Fuels (“It’s been 17 years since former Vice President Al Gore raised the alarm about climate change with his documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth.'”)
- Summers are always hot. Here’s how we know climate change is making summer 2023 hotter.
- The World Is Reeling From Record Heat and Flooding. Scientists Say Its the Cost of Climate Inaction
- ‘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'”)
- The West feels gloomy about Ukraine. Here’s why it shouldn’t.
- Russia launches intense nighttime attacks across Ukraine, targeting the southern port city of Odesa
- A hidden pipeline in Central Asia supplies Russia with banned tech
- Record heat wave grips China as flood toll rises in South Korea
- John Kerry in China: climate crisis must be separated from politics (“US climate envoy and former secretary of state is in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials amid strained US-China relations”)
- Washington and Beijing are talking again. Good.
- U.S. and China on Climate: How the World’s Two Largest Polluters Stack Up
- Europe heatwave: Nearly all major Italian cities on red heat alert
- Facing Possible Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions and ‘Ancient Wisdom’
- As water shortages intensify Iran’s heat wave, authorities shift blame (“In a growing country of some 88 million people, mired in droughts exacerbated by climate change, experts say the damage is irreversible.”)
- North Korea Detains U.S. Soldier After Unauthorized Border Crossing
- Soldier Travis King who fled to N Korea faced US disciplinary action (“King served two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges and was released on 10 July.”)
- Israel Struggling to Recover Ancient Artifacts Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago: Report
- House approves pro-Israel resolution after outcry over Jayapal comments
- Biden Has a Few Words for Netanyahu
- U.S. has accepted half a million migrants under legal migration expansion (“The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S. with the help of smugglers and entering the country unlawfully. It has also given the administration a faster way to resettle refugees as it attempts to rebuild a resettlement system gutted by drastic Trump-era cuts.”)
- GOP front-runners have little to say on climate change amid record heat (That alone should be disqualifying.)
- The Supreme Court Has a Clear Intellectual Lightweight (“The best that can be said of Kavanaugh may be that he is a lot like Chief Justice John Roberts—the two men are the court’s most reliable pairing—minus the chief justice’s fluency, wit, and shrewdness.”)
- The storm of legal threats engulfing Donald Trump (“The former president showed that he’s willing to once again trash faith in US democracy to protect himself”)
- Trump’s target letter suggests the sprawling US probe into the 2020 election is zeroing in on him
- Special Counsel’s Jan. 6 Target Letter to Trump Mentions Conspiracy, Tampering
- ‘If Trump’s lawyers complain he’s got too many indictments, maybe he should stop criming’: MSNBC host
- Judge in Trump classified documents case tells prosecutors that a mid-December trial date would be too soon
- Aileen Cannon Hasn’t Yet Decided If She’s Gonna Just Throw the Documents Case in Trump’s Favor
- A Jan. 6 Trump Indictment Would Include Very Serious Charges
- Trump got a new legal headache this week. Then another, then another. (“With a third potential indictment to come, the walls continue to close in on Trump.”)
- Looming indictment wrenches open the central question of 2024: Is Trump fit to serve? (The fact that the political media’s even asking this question, the answer to which is as glaringly obvious as could be, tells us a great deal about how the political media in this country rolls…)
- Republicans Shrug at New Possible Trump Indictment (The GOP is the “commit severe crimes and get away with them if you’re a Republican politician” party.)
- GOP Lashes Out Over Trump Target Letter: ‘Worse Than Russia’
- What we know about Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election
- Pence: Judgment over Trump’s actions on Jan 6 should be left up to American people (So Pence doesn’t believe in the rule of law. Got it.)
- What Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Are Saying About Another Potential Indictment
- Trump leans on George Soros for campaign cash (“Republicans have long known that antisemitism pays on the right”)
- Ron DeSantis Says Trump Should Have Done More to Stop January 6 but Prosecuting Him for It Would Be a Bridge Too Far (DeSantis is a fascist.)
- DeSantis says Trump ‘should have come out more forcefully’ on Jan. 6
- Kasich urges GOP candidates to ‘step up and say something’ after Trump gets target letter
- Rudy Giuliani Denies Claims That He ‘Flipped’ on Trump
- Kemp rules out 2024 presidential bid and calls on GOP candidates to stop talking about 2020 (To the contrary, EVERYBODY should be talking about Trump’s and his allies’ attempts to destroy our democracy, seize power, etc. That’s one of the biggest stories in American history and still cries out for justice to be done!)
- Ramaswamy’s court stunt will harness future justices to partisan goals
- Senators to Propose Ban on U.S. Lawmakers, Executive Branch Members Owning Stock
- Former Arizona governor contacted by special counsel in Jan. 6 probe
- Trump’s Conspirators Are Facing the Music, Finally
- 16 false Trump electors face felony charges in Michigan
- Michigan indicts alleged plotters in fake elector scheme. Here’s what it means.
- Michigan AG charges 16 GOP activists who falsely claimed to be electors in bid to aid Trump
- Michigan attorney general charges ‘false electors’ over efforts to overturn the 2020 election
- Kevin McCarthy Says Potential Jan. 6 Charges Against Trump Reflect Political Bias (Kevin McCarthy is a disgrace to the US House and to the United States of America.)
- Jim Jordan Is Going to Parade RFK Jr. Around Congress to Fight ‘Censorship’
- Legal bills mount for Georgia Republican Party in Trump investigation
- Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says (“Democratic candidate’s recent false claim that Covid could have been ‘ethnically targeted’ is not an aberration but fits long pattern”)
- Ron DeSantis allies press for a campaign shake-up
- DeSantis defends Pentagon proposal purging ‘woke’ policy from military
- Which 2024 Candidates Are In Trouble, According To The Latest Fundraising Numbers?
- ‘A wild goose chase’: Giuliani associate urges House GOP to abandon Biden probe
- Biden shares video of Marjorie Taylor Greene speech to promote his agenda (This is awesome!)
- Is Tennessee a Democracy? (“What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn’t satisfied”)
- No Labels Begins to Give Itself an Out (“The centrist group has started musing about how it might not have to run a third-party candidate against Joe Biden.” It’s not “centrist,” but ok.)
- Louisiana lawmakers overturn governor’s veto on gender-affirming care ban for trans minors
- CMT pulls Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ video as singer defends divisive song (It’s completely indefensible.)
- Compromise would add more long-distance flights at Reagan National
- Far-Right Republican Hung Cao Launches U.S. Senate Campaign with Dark, Disturbing, Unhinged, Fear Mongering, Falsehood-Filled Video (Among the insanity, Cao falsely claims, “that’s Joe Biden arresting his challenger in the next election, a former president of the United States”)
- Virginia Republican Hung Cao joins race to take on Sen. Tim Kaine (This bland WaPo headline tells readers nothing useful about Cao.)
- Opposition forms to Virginia Gov. Youngkin sending National Guard troops to Mexico border
- Virginia Republicans and Democrats are agreeing on one thing: semiconductors
- Youngkin, Warner vow full court press for new semiconductor projects
- Wilbur Ross to host Hamptons event for emerging White House hopeful Glenn Youngkin (Ross is a corrupt slimeball.)
- Virginia Education Association Calls Youngkin Administration’s Transgender Model Policy “an outrageous affront to decency”
- ‘Ideological beliefs’: Youngkin administration shares 2023 model policies for schools’ treatment of transgender students
- Virginia releases updated transgender student model policies
- VA Senate Dems: Youngkin’s “decision to halt teacher diversity grants is a clear indication of yet another attack on education”
- NAACP demands transparency in how Gov. Youngkin restores rights to felons upon release
- Video: VA NAACP Rips Youngkin’s “arbitrary and secretive rights restoration process that threatens to disenfranchise thousands of returning Virginia citizens, in particular Black Virginians and other Virginians of color” (“[W]e have sent to the Governor today our list of policy proposals based on principles of transparency and fundamental fairness.”)
- Virginia NAACP demands to see Gov. Youngkin’s criteria for restoring voting rights to felons
- Youngkin holds ‘Parents Matter’ rally in Bristow (And by “Parents Rights,” Youngkin means “Parents who agree with Youngkin’s right-wing policies.”)
- Campaign money soars in battle to control Virginia legislature
- New proposal aims to permanently allow caregiver option for Va. disability program
- In Virginia, Alzheimer’s disease is most prevalent in Southside, new study shows
- Suffolk has officially surpassed Portsmouth in population. But Hampton Roads as a whole is lagging in growth.
- Opinion: Richmond School Board’s dysfunction is bordering on a crisis
- Charlottesville tiki torch marcher charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
- Most of lawsuit to stop melting of Charlottesville Lee statue is dismissed
- Cville animal shelter passes inspection but plans improvements
- D.C.-area forecast: More humid with a few showers today; potentially a pretty nice weekend
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