by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 19.
- The Climate Crisis Is Here Now, Experts Warn, as Death Tolls From Summer Disasters Mount (“From the United States to China, to northern Europe, hundreds of people have died in devastating floods and fires around the world in recent weeks with thousands more displaced.”)
- Mountain treelines are rising due to climate crisis, study finds (“Remote sensing technology shows 70% of tree coverage moved uphill between 2000 and 2010”)
- Oceans keep Earth habitable. Climate change is wrecking them
- Russian women fear return of murderers freed to fight for Wagner (“Concern that convicts re-entering society after stints in Ukraine will bring ‘wave of murder, rape and domestic violence’”)
- Gen. Milley on Ukraine, Tuberville and ‘wokeness’
- Third of Ukraine Crop Exports Wiped Out After Black Sea Block
- Ukraine’s Zelenskiy visits Sweden to meet PM, royal family
- At Camp David, Biden hails ‘new era of partnership’ between U.S., South Korea and Japan
- US, Japan and South Korea agree to expand security ties at summit amid China, North Korea worries
- US, Japan and South Korea agree to expand security and economic ties at historic Camp David summit
- FACT SHEET: The Trilateral Leaders’ Summit at Camp David
- The Spirit of Camp David: Joint Statement of Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United States
- A Defense Agreement Likely to Deepen Chinese Rancor (“Its signers, Japan, South Korea and the United States, see deterrence whereas China sees encirclement, and even provocation.”)
- What just happened: Storm clouds loom for China’s economy
- North Korea becoming more repressive amid reports of starvation
- Biden to sign strategic partnership deal with Vietnam in latest bid to counter China in the region
- Charting the Global Economy: China Reduces Key Interest Rate
- Canada wildfires: British Columbia declares emergency as 15,000 homes told to evacuate
- Guatemala elections to serve as crucial test for democracy in Central America (“Polls show centre-left anti-corruption candidate has the lead as Sunday’s vote takes place against backdrop of smear campaigns”)
- Ecuador prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ vote to stop oil drilling (“Referendum on Sunday will decide whether to halt fossil fuel extraction in Amazon park, home to the Waorani people”)
- Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico’s Baja. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California
- A Tropical Storm in August? California’s Year of Extremes Grinds On
- Unusual Pacific Storms Like Hurricane Hilary Could be a Warning for the Future
- Southwest braces for dangerous flooding as Hilary approaches
- Heat dome over Central U.S. could bring hottest temps yet to parts of the Midwest
- Q&A: A Legal Scholar Calls the Ruling in the Montana Youth Climate Lawsuit ‘Huge’
- Covid-19 Is Back. Flu and RSV Are Coming. What to Know About Fall Shots. (“Shots against all three viruses are available for the first time”)
- Millions will see prescription costs cut as Inflation Reduction Act takes effect
- Judge won’t delay Trump’s defamation claims trial, calling the ex-president’s appeal frivolous
- ‘Lock Them Up’ is Now the Republican Party’s Highest Goal
- Editorial: Trump made a mockery of American democracy. Why are Americans shrugging this off?
- Trump Plans to Skip G.O.P. Debate for Interview With Tucker Carlson
- What Trump’s Debate Stunt Says to Republican Voters
- Trump attorneys, Fulton County DA expected to meet next week: Sources
- Trump’s surrender at Fulton County jail will be different
- Former White House lawyer on Trump’s expected surrender in Georgia: ‘He won’t enjoy it’
- Former US attorney general says Trump ‘should serve time’ if convicted
- Surprise: Trump Cancels Press Conference He Claimed Would Exonerate Him in Georgia
- House Republicans attack Biden for trying to cut carbon pollution (These people are deranged.)
- Miami Mayor Francis Suarez claims he’s qualified for GOP presidential debate, but RNC can’t confirm
- Christie Says DeSantis Should Drop Out if He Defends Trump at Debate
- DeSantis meets privately with Kemp in Georgia
- DeSantis rivals sharpen knives for first debate
- Is This the Ron DeSantis Campaign’s Rebirth or Its Last Stand?
- I Hate These ‘Tales of the Unknown Geniuses’ Behind Candidates (“Ron DeSantis is a meathead running a world-historically bad campaign. There is nothing anybody can do about that.”)
- Georgia GOP’s Endless Fight Over 2020 Could Help Biden in 2024
- Disney-DeSantis feud takes another turn with new damages claim (Typical media bullsh**; it’s not a “feud,” it’s DeSantis’ assault on Disney.)
- ‘America First 2.0’: Vivek Ramaswamy pitches to be Republicans’ next Trump (“The candidate is emerging as a challenger – however slight – in a race still thoroughly dominated by the former president”)
- GOP Presidential Hopeful Ramaswamy Sued Over Strive’s Practices
- Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing
- A Jan. 6 defendant scheduled to be sentenced on Friday is now missing
- Rudy Giuliani Was Always Like This
- Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors
- FBI joins investigation of threats to grand jurors in Trump Georgia case
- Mark Meadows Has Gone Quiet
- Arizona Investigators ‘Aggressively’ Looking at Top Trump Ally Kelli Ward
- Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It. (“I find something like this…to be really dangerous.”)
- Maui wildfire death toll, already highest in modern U.S. history, could surge
- Hawaiian Electric Was Warned of Its System’s Fragility Before Wildfire
- Fossil Fuel Firms Continue to Try to Dismiss Climate Lawsuit in Hawaii (These fossil fuel companies should pay trillions of dollars in reparations. There also should be criminal penalties.)
- James O’Keefe Is Under Investigation and Project Veritas Is Finally Going to S–t (Pure evil.)
- Exclusive: James O’Keefe Is Now Under Investigation for Looting Project Veritas
- The real ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are laughing in their boardrooms
- James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100
- Elon Musk says users on X, formerly Twitter, will lose ability to block unwanted followers
- Elon Musk Plans To Dump ‘Block’ Feature On Twitter, And People Are Pissed
- Elon Musk’s Latest Antics Have Some Asking: Is He Out of Touch? (He’s bonkers.)
- After a police horror story, this Mississippi sheriff needs to go
- North Carolina is the latest in a wave of states passing anti-trans laws (Put Republicans in charge, this is what you’ll get – including here in Virginia.)
- Van Jones, Bezos’ $100M Man, Pushed Out of His Non-Profit
- Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Announce Key Virginia Priorities in Senate Draft of Government Spending Legislation (“We hope that our colleagues in the House of Representatives will negotiate in good faith in order to reach a compromise on a final deal that includes funding for these important priorities”)
- Rupert Murdoch encouraged Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin to seek presidency (Murdoch, of course, is one of the most evil people in the world.)
- Meet the Candidates in Virginia’s Sexiest Senate Seats
- Schapiro: Va.’s divided government balky but not bad (Yeah, actually, it’s bad, because it’s almost impossible to pass good legislation.)
- Flip and Defend-A-District Friday: Volume IX (Del. Holly Seibold, Del. Mark Sickles, Del. Shelly Simonds, Debra Gardner, Larry Jackson)
- SOUND THE ALARM: Juan Pablo Segura Could Be The Deciding Vote to Ban Abortion in Virginia (EMILY’S List: Segura has “given thousands to extremists who want to ban abortion, hosted events with radical activists”)
- Despite Pressure and Lies by Glenn Youngkin, Prince William County Schools Announce That Policy 738 Nondiscrimination And Harassment Of Students, *Remains In Effect* (Virginia’s largest jurisdiction by far, Fairfax County, has also told Youngkin where to shove it.)
- Appalachian Power seeks state approval for transmission upgrades
- Hampton Roads Regional Jail to be shut down, email shows
- Attorney general’s office will not review VMI’s relationship with student newspaper
- Status of federal ICE contract in Farmville remains uncertain
- 2 people died at Charlottesville’s jail. Officials waited nearly a week before saying anything.
- RVA BikeShare set to relaunch Monday
- UVa ‘Karen’ expelled to avoid media firestorm over football game protest, lawsuit suggests
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunshine rules on pleasant Saturday, toasty Sunday
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