by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 18.
- In Death, Navalny Is Even More Dangerous to Putin’s Lies
- U.S. Fears Russia Might Put a Nuclear Weapon in Space
- ‘All Hell Broke Loose’: How Congress Blabbed About Russia’s Space Nukes
- Biden Says Ukrainian City’s Fall Shows Impact of Aid Delays
- Kamala Harris on Trump: ‘No previous US president has bowed down to a Russian dictator before’
- ‘They’re doing everything to avoid handing over his body’: Kremlin plays for time after Navalny’s death
- Navalny’s Death Crowns a Long-Running Campaign Against Putin Critics
- Russia’s sheer mass proves too much for Ukraine in Avdiivka
- Ukrainian ground forces are in perhaps their most precarious position since the opening months of the war.
- Shock, anger and war fatigue: Ukraine’s two years of agony
- The Death Throes of a Ukrainian City
- Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny, Putin’s fiercest foe
- Alexei Navalny’s Last Laugh (“Something I’ve seen in Putin’s most effective opponents: Even if it costs them their life, they defy him with humor.”)
- Biden assures Zelensky US will send $60bn in aid
- Navalny’s death marks the end of an era for Russia (“Putin saw an existential threat in Navalny, the opposition leader whose name he dared not mention”)
- Opinion: Navalny’s death extinguished the last hope I had for my former home
- Putin, riding high before Navalny’s death, seems unstoppable (He’s definitely stoppable, if Republicans stop f’ing around and even helping Putin!)
- Trump will quit NATO, Hillary Clinton says, as anxiety mounts over U.S. commitment to the alliance
- Germany Says Failure to Back Ukraine Aid Could Hurt US Economy
- The Evil Empire collapsed. Putin’s regime will, too.
- Fighting, fuel shortages knock out Gaza’s second-largest hospital
- Palestinian Authority’s Financial Plight Imperils U.S. Plans for Postwar Gaza
- Israel strikes across Gaza as US says it will block
another cease-fire resolution at UN - Egypt preparing safe areas for Gaza refugees, foreign minister says
- What the U.S. can learn from Norway when it comes to EV adoption
- US EIA Predicts Solar Will Account for 58% of New Electricity Generation Capacity in US in 2024 (“In addition, another 14.3 GW, or 23 percent, will be provided by new battery storage facilities, 23 percent of the total. In all, solar and battery storage will be responsible for more than 80 percent of all new electricity capacity in the US this year.”)
- Team Biden-Harris Slam Team Trump’s Plans to Ban Abortion Nationwide, With or Without Congress (“The most chilling part of the playbook of horrors Trump’s advisors have cooked up is how confident they are that he can do untold damage in a second term—with or without Congress.”)
- Trump Allies Plan New Sweeping Abortion Restrictions
- Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars
- How to Make Trump’s Fraud Verdict Matter to Voters
- Rightwing mega-donors drift back to Trump as election rematch looms (Evil.)
- Camera shy v media hog: dilemma over Biden-Trump coverage amid brutal year for news media
- Fact check: Trump falsely claims Nikki Haley supported Obama over Republican opponent Romney
- Trump tells supporters his $355 million fraud fine is election interference (That’s a wild lie.)
- Speaker Johnson says he has priorities. So why hasn’t he acted on them? (” Four months into his speakership, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) is a leader in name only, failing to act on the policies he says are his priorities”)
- Too Old? Biden World Thinks Pundits Just Don’t Get Joe. (He’s definitely not too old if you look at his actual performance over the past three years, as well as what pretty much everyone – including Republicans – says about how sharp he is in private.)
- Trump Launches $399 Sneaker Brand A Day After $355 Million Verdict Against Him
- The GOP’s 2024 Campaign Message Is Falling Apart (“Republicans thought they’d run on high inflation, a bad economy, and border concerns. But with inflation easing, a good economy, and a blocked border bill, the GOP is struggling.”)
- Phillips announces campaign layoffs, says he will remain in race (This guy is such a joke.)
- White House medical unit under Trump and Obama flouted rules, improperly dispensed drugs, reports find (“It passed out drugs without prescriptions, gave free care to ineligible staffers, and used aliases to disguise those patients’ identities, four former medical unit employees said. Many issues trace to Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s personal physician and now a Republican congressman, reports and the ex-staffers say.”)
- Jimmy Carter’s Long Goodbye
- How billionaire Ted Leonsis decided to move Wizards, Capitals to Virginia (“After years of frustration in Chinatown and months of secret negotiations on both sides of the Potomac, an owner who once said he would never leave D.C. was lured to Alexandria.”)
- CASEY: Early voting in the March 5 presidential primaries prompts questions
- Virginia Lawmakers Elect Pivotal Utility Regulators To Oversee Energy Transition (“This is probably the most important decision that 99.9 percent of Virginians have no idea was made”)
- Virginia sued over Glenn Younkin’s trans student policies
- Virginia “Crossover” Week: The Bills That Lived (at Least for Now), the Bills That Died… (And a fiery speech by Del. Candi Mundon King)
- Column: Governor’s policies put Asian American youth at risk
- Leaking propane tank found at Virginia home before explosion that killed 1 firefighter, injured 10 others
- ‘The devastation is not just the house’: Neighbors speak on Sterling explosion that killed firefighter
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny with a breeze today. Warmer by midweek before next rain chance.
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