by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 4.
- Policy Experts Say the UN Climate Talks Need Reform, but Change Would be Difficult in the Current Political Landscape
- The surprising resilience of the Russian economy
- Russia’s Planes Keep Breaking Down as Sanctions Bite
- Kinzinger blasts Republican efforts to link border security with Ukraine funding: ‘The whole party has become a joke’
- Speaker Mike Johnson to put forth Israel aid bill next week, leaves out Ukraine aid
- House GOP plans new Israel package in blow to Senate talks (Mike Johnson is a fanatic, a puppet of Trump and Putin, and an utter disgrace.)
- US, Britain strike Yemen’s Houthis in a new wave, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants
- How the US and Iran Could End Up in a War They Don’t Want (“America might be overextended in the region, and Iran might not be able to control its proxies. That’s a recipe for a wider conflict.”)
- U.S. Strikes Avoid Iran’s Red Lines
- Mideast Crisis : U.S. and U.K. Launch Heavy Strikes on Houthi Sites in Yemen
- Houthis promise ‘escalation’ after U.S., British strikes in Yemen
- U.S. Strikes Test Iran’s Will to Escalate
- U.S. and U.K. launch fresh wave of strikes targeting Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
- With U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria, Biden sends Iran a signal of deterrence — and restraint
- At war both within and without, Israel is experiencing a brutal coming of age (“The choice is between a successful, inclusive democracy at peace with its neighbours and a nation sliding into authoritarianism or worse, forever under siege.”)
- The Israeli Firebrand Driving Netanyahu Further to the Right (“tamar Ben-Gvir spells out his plan for resettling Gaza during a rare interview and says Trump would be better for Israel than President Biden” This guy is evil incarnate.)
- Fear and Ambition Propel Xi’s Nuclear Acceleration
- ‘I will be a first minister for all’: Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill marks historic moment for once unionist state (“Countdown for republicans to potential Irish unification ticks louder as new first minister pledges to ‘serve everyone equally’ at Stormont”)
- Namibia President Hage Geingob dies aged 82
- Forest fires kill 51 in Chile, menace urban areas
- Around 200,000 gather across Germany in latest protests against far-right
- The French farmers’ protests are more complex than they seem
- El Salvador’s Anti-Gang Crusader Heads for Sweeping Re-Election (“President Nayib Bukele is on track to win re-election by a wide margin on Sunday for his relentless campaign to dismantle the country’s criminal gangs.”)
- Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore (And this Supreme Court is almost certain to blow it.)
- Why I changed my mind and think Trump should be thrown off the ballot (It’s clearly in the constitution that if you engage in an insurrection, which obviously Trump did, you are barred from holding public office in America.)
- Biden hits Trump during campaign HQ speech: He’s ‘not for anything’ and ‘against everything’
- The Polling ‘Disaster’ That’s Starting To Terrify Team Trump
- Biden Says This Is the ‘Weirdest Campaign Ever’ as Trump Suggests He’s an Elvis Lookalike
- Biden easily wins first official Democratic primary in South Carolina
- Biden gets the South Carolina victory he wanted
- Biden nets landslide victory in South Carolina Democratic primary, over 95% of votes
- ‘Making Donald Trump a loser again’: Biden wins big in South Carolina
- Joe Biden’s Weird Perception Problem (“For the President and his campaign staff, the problem is tactical. How can he pull this off? There is no shortage of advice.”)
- Mike Johnson’s Five Stages of Speakership Grief (“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has already angered a number of factions in his own conference—mostly because he refuses to talk straight to members.” Scumbag.)
- Inside Trump’s Not-So-Swift Brain
- Nikki Haley Crashes ‘SNL’ Cold Open to Confront Trump
- How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants (“The GOP made the same bargain the Prussian generals made in 1933 — and the consequence is their total destruction”)
- Moms for Liberty faces new challenges and growing pushback over its conservative education agenda (Bizarre headline: in fact, Moms for Liberty’s agenda is far-right, extremist, etc.)
- Elon Musk Took Drugs With Some Tesla Board Members: WSJ (Musk is a white supremacist and a completely f’ed-up individual. What’s fascinating – and revealing! – is how so many right wingers love the guy.)
- The Money and Drugs That Tie Elon Musk to Some Tesla Directors
- Virginia Democrat suggests new hostage deal is ‘best chance’ to deescalate war in Gaza
- Anne Holton: To help all students, overhaul Virginia’s broken K-12 funding formula
- VAPLAN’s Summary of Week #4 of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly: Guns, “Gambling and marijuana, oh my!”
- Column: Youngkin’s policies and budget won’t fix flood needs
- Cliff Hayes elected Chair of Hampton Roads Legislative Caucus
- Editorial: Richmond is going postal over lost mail. The timing couldn’t be worse
- Town of Blacksburg hopes Virginia Tech will ‘do the right thing’ on housing
- D.C.-area forecast: Staying dry with several days of sunshine ahead
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