by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 9.
- Scientists look beyond climate change and El Nino for other factors that heat up Earth
- Fears over Antarctic sea ice as yearly ozone layer hole forms ‘very early’
- Blast at Moscow industrial plant injures 25
- Putin chokes on the Ukrainian ‘porcupine’ (“The Russian president still seems to believe time is on his side. There’s reason to think he could be wrong.”)
- China-Philippines dispute could escalate into superpower conflict, say analysts (“Expert warns of ‘significant escalatory potential’ after Chinese coastguards used water cannon on Philippine boat”)
- Biden to Restrict Investments in China, Citing National Security Threats
- Why falling prices in China raise concerns
- China Deflation Provides Limited Relief for Global Central Banks
- China tips into deflation as efforts to stoke recovery falter
- Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy (Note that this story will get a tiny fraction of the attention that the submersible accident a few weeks ago got. That tells us a lot about how the media operates.)
- India Is on the Brink
- Niger crisis puts US in ‘tough spot’ as coup leaders refuse to back down
- Niger ex-rebel launches anti-coup movement in first sign of internal resistance
- ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X
- Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it’s not the migrants (That’s right, Republicans like Glenn Youngkin have been LYING. In fact: “the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley. Virtually none is seized from migrants seeking asylum.”)
- What to know about the EG.5 coronavirus subvariant, now dominant in the U.S. (“Although the updated booster shots expected in the fall don’t target EG.5, experts said they may nonetheless offer some protection.”)
- White House unveils wage rule for federal projects, in win for unions
- Vice President Kamala Harris touts ‘raise’ for union workers on federal construction projects
- Biden Just Made Land Around the Grand Canyon a National Monument—Blocking New Uranium Mining There
- Biden signs order protecting Grand Canyon lands sacred to tribes
- Violent US Storms Have Racked Up Heavy Losses for Insurers in 2023
- Roberts and Barrett join liberals as Supreme Court revives federal ghost gun restrictions
- What’s Behind Amy Coney Barrett’s Surprise Vote on Ghost Guns?
- The Supreme Court just handed gun groups a rare defeat
- CNN Poll: Abortion’s role as an electoral litmus test hasn’t faded a year after Supreme Court decision overturning Roe
- More than 1m acres of Indigenous land flooded by dams, new study finds (“Land dispossession and depravation was a mainstay strategy used by settler colonials to divide and disempower communities”)
- Donald Trump’s Legal Peril May Propel Him Into the GOP Debate (“The thrice-indicted former president and 2024 front-runner has considered skipping this month’s debate, but some Republican consultants see mounting indictments and high-stakes drama as motivation for him to jet to Milwaukee.”)
- Judge schedules Friday hearing on protective order in election subversion case against Trump
- Trump Unloads Particularly Unhinged Campaign Speech—Even for Him
- Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win
- Trump on possible court-ordered limits: ‘They’re not taking away my First Amendment rights’
- Trump’s criminal trials prompt GOP political doomsday alarms
- Trump mocks ‘fat pig’ Chris Christie’s weight
- Georgia Grand Jury Likely to Hear Trump Case Next Week
- DA probing efforts to overturn Georgia election results likely to present case to grand jury next week: Sources
- Special counsel still scrutinizing finances of Trump’s PAC
- Trump’s far-fetched defenses aren’t actually aimed at the courtroom
- “Dopey and Constitutionally Dubious”: Legal Experts Blast Judge Aileen Cannon’s Latest Pro-Trump Rulings (Cannon is a disgrace to the judiciary.)
- No, fellow Republicans, the Justice Department is not biased against us (“The reaction to Trump’s indictments is more worrying than the indictments themselves.”)
- House GOP moderates’ patience with conservative demands wearing thin (Note: it’s a flat-out LIE by “The Hill” that there are House GOP “moderates.” In fact, there are House GOP extremists and House GOP conservatives. Period.)
- Williams: The vicious jabs at the U.S. women’s national team have nothing to do with soccer
- Why Donald Trump and the right can’t leave women’s soccer alone
- Another Campaign Shake-up Not a Good Sign for DeSantis
- Ron DeSantis’ Attempt to Erase Trans People From Florida Schools Is Now Underway
- Florida schools drop AP Psychology after state says it violates the law
- DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools (Wildly unacceptable!)
- Ron DeSantis Thinks a New Campaign Manager, and Not a Personality Transplant, Is His Ticket to the White House
- Republican senator will ‘burn the military down’ over abortion policy, says Democrat (“Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut says the Senate needs to change rules to sidestep Tommy Tuberville’s block on promotions” ASAP!)
- Judge orders airline lawyers to take extremist advocacy group’s “religious-liberty training” (WTF???)
- Misogynistic manosphere influencers dive headfirst into antisemitism
- Fox News claims House GOP’s star witness said the exact opposite of everything he said
- The right wants to decide how states decide on abortion
- What the Ohio election results mean for abortion rights
- 3 Takeaways From The Special Election That Gave Ohio Democrats A Win (“An election that made it easier for abortion rights advocates to seek statewide protection has implications well beyond the Buckeye State.”)
- Not just Trump: The Ohio abortion vote exposes the bitterness fueling the GOP war on democracy (“Republicans want to impose their policies on unwilling voters, just like they’ll force childbirth on women”)
- The Abortion Backlash Reaches Ohio
- Ohio Vote Shows Abortion’s Potency to Reshape Elections (“The Dobbs ruling has turned a coalition of liberal, swing and moderate Republican voters into a political force, one that Democrats are working to harness.”)
- In the Ohio GOP’s scam referendum, the majority backed majority rule
- 4 takeaways from abortion rights advocates’ Ohio win (“As goes Ohio, so goes the nation?”)
- Ohio Blows Up the Republican Plan to Block Abortion Rights
- Issue 1 failing overwhelmingly in early vote results
- Ohio voters reject higher bar for altering constitution, a win for abortion rights supporters
- Arizona coalition seeks to enshrine abortion rights in state constitution next year
- Scoop: Kari Lake prepares to enter Arizona Senate race
- Arizona 2024: Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s Independent Candidacy Could Help Democrats for U.S. Senate
- Shakespeare and penguin book get caught in Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws
- Louisiana’s Wetlands Are Disappearing (Disastrous.)
- GOP Lawmaker’s Wife Makes Little Free Libraries a Culture War Battleground (Deranged.)
- As strike nears 100 days, economic hardships mount for Hollywood writers
- More allegations against Lizzo surface in wake of lawsuit alleging harassment, weight-shaming (She’s very talented, but she also appears to be a disaster, unfortunately.)
- Sen. Mark Warner Urges Google to Protect Patients and Ensure Ethical Deployment of Health Care AI (“Amid reports of inaccuracies in a new medical chatbot, Warner pushes for answers”)
- Former VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R): “None of these [Republican] candidates [for U.S. Senate] have a snowballs chance of defeating Kaine in a presidental election year.” (There are eight candidates so far: six are off the far-right deep end; two seem somewhat reasonable, so they certainly have no chance at the VA GOP nomination.)
- VA House Dems Leader Don Scott Predicts That “voters are going to turn out this November and beat back anti-choice MAGA extremists just like they did in Ohio”
- At parent-focused event, Youngkin takes aim at social media’s ‘destructive influence’ (Overwhelmingly Republican, Youngkin-supporting parents.)
- AI weapons detection startups compete with industry giant in expanding Va. school market
- Editorial: Proposed Chesapeake National Recreation Area would benefit Hampton Roads
- Address changes puts Del. Nick Freitas in new district
- Commission outlines changes to Richmond charter (“The nine-member panel recommended 47 specific moves in its report.”)
- VMI board asks attorney general’s office to investigate student newspaper controversy
- Virginia pediatrician is accused in lawsuit of sexually assaulting a mother during her baby’s exam
- New Loudoun County schools superintendent meets with reporters before school board meeting
- One critically wounded after Marshals task force opens fire in Alexandria
- Arlington GOP sees record fundraising amid pivot to local election strategy
- 6-year-old boy who shot teacher later boasted about it, affidavit says (This kid’s a disaster.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Warmer and dry today; occasional showers and storms likely tomorrow
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