Tuesday News: “Supreme Court hears the biggest abortion case since Dobbs”; “No One Is Above the Law, Except, Apparently, Donald Trump”; “NBC stands for Now Boosting the Coup”; “Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses after being struck by ship”

by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 26.

• Calls for international criminal court to end ‘impunity’ for environmental crimes
• EU nature restoration laws face collapse as member states withdraw support
• A major European climate change plan stumbles amid farmer protests
• Moscow shooting poses awkward questions for Russia’s intelligence agencies
• ‘Give us the damn Patriots’: Ukraine needs air defenses now, minister says
• Putin looks to exploit Moscow terror attack
• How Russia pushed false claims about Moscow attack
• Russia’s political class is taking a dark and vengeful turn
• Russian Court Extends WSJ Reporter’s Detention
• President Vladimir Putin said “radical Islamists” had committed the Moscow attack, but still blamed Ukraine.
• Netanyahu provoking crisis with White House for domestic politics: U.S. officials
• Arab Nations Balk at Funding U.N. Aid Agency Vital to Palestinians
• Gaza’s risk of famine is accelerating faster than anything we’ve seen this century
• Bowen: Biden has decided strong words are not enough
• ‘An extraordinary thing’: U.S. break with Israel on UN cease-fire vote triggers Netanyahu rage
• The frustrating Israel-Gaza war: Don’t expect Biden to solve the insoluble
• What the U.N. cease-fire resolution means for Gaza and how countries voted
• Israel ‘will not cease fire,’ foreign minister says after UN Security Council resolution
• 
  Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US
• MPs and activists challenge claim North Sea oil and gas supports 200,000 jobs
• With Immigration a Key Issue for U.S. Voters, Mexico Emerges as Power Player
• It’s the Biden vs. Trump Economy—and Hell No, It’s Not Even Close
• Obamacare Is in Grave Danger, Again
• The Supreme Court will weigh in on the January 6 insurrection. What could possibly go wrong?
• Supreme Court Hears Arguments Tuesday In Case That Could Restrict Access To Abortion Medication
• The Supreme Court hears the biggest abortion case since Dobbs
• When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it opened the floodgates for abortion-related lawsuits
• Retired Justice Stephen Breyer warns “law will turn into chaos” if Supreme Court overturns too many cases
• What’s at stake in the Supreme Court abortion pill case
• Audio: Biden-Harris 2024 Press Call Ahead of SCOTUS Mifepristone Hearing (Also, Biden campaign on Trump’s press conference: “Trump is weak and desperate – both as a man and a candidate for President.”)
• The Heritage Foundation quietly released draconian new IVF policy recommendations for the next GOP president
• Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake. (“Fetal personhood, prosecuting women—attorney Lynn Paltrow has seen this coming for decades.”)
• Trump’s legal wins and losses: 5 takeaways
• Trump seethes after New York trial set for April 15
• Trump reels from competing court decisions as trials disrupt campaign
• Trump tells ‘mind-bogglingly nonsensical’ story about the New York Stock Exchange (Trump’s brain is completely addled.)
• Team Biden Roasts ‘Feeble, Confused, Tired’ Trump After Unhinged Presser
• Billionaires sought to help fund Trump bond in civil fraud case, sources say
• Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People
• In win for Trump, appeals court lowers his bond to $175M in civil fraud case
• Jeff Yass just bought Trump. Here’s what he stands to gain. (“The right-wing billionaire and TikTok investor is about to help the former president add billions of dollars to his net worth. This is what oligarchy looks like.”)
• The Dangers of a Second Trump Term Go Far Beyond the White House
• Trump loves to play the victim — NY appeals court bailout shows he’s the most coddled person alive (“There appears to be no end of breaks for a spoiled rich boy who has never done a decent thing in his 77 years”)
• Two myths about Trump’s civil fraud trial (“There’s a reason we have laws against fraud.”)
• No One Is Above the Law, Except, Apparently, Donald Trump
• Skulking and Winking, Trump Learns He Must Face Trial
• The goofy origins of Trump’s ‘too big to rig’ mantra
• Trump Social Media Firm Soars Ahead of Post-SPAC Deal Debut
• Donald Trump’s Nine Lives (“The former president got his latest reprieve when a court reduced the $464 million bond in his fraud case.”)
• Records confirm Trump’s mother-in-law came to U.S. through process he derided
• The other failure of the Republican investigation into Biden
• Trump’s inflationary policies were almost totally ignored in the top 5 US newspapers’ early 2024 inflation coverage (The “news” media in this country is a disgrace.)
• Bloomberg/Morning Consult swing state poll hints at Biden comeback
• Biden Gains Ground Against Trump in Six Key States, Poll Shows
• Mike Johnson’s House Is Imploding (“The GOP will soon have just one vote to spare, with members heading for the exits, and the Speakership is again in jeopardy—this time at the hands of Marjorie Taylor Greene”)
• The ‘Mainstream Media’ Isn’t the Bulwark Against Totalitarianism We Wish It Were
• Ronna McDaniel and MSNBC Are a Match Made in Hell (“Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are just the latest pundits to object the hiring of the ex-RNC chief, who spent her tenure casting baseless doubts around the 2020 election.”)
• Ronna McDaniel outrage renews scrutiny of politics-to-pundit pipeline (Yeah, that’s NOT the issue here; the issue is that McDaniel aided and abetted an INSURRECTION against the U.S. constitution, government, etc. Of course, Axios doesn’t get that.)
• Why Chuck Todd’s Scorcher Against NBC Matters
• NBC stands for Now Boosting the Coup
• Maddow blasts ‘inexplicable’ decision by NBC to hire McDaniel (It may not be “inexplicable,” but it’s appalling, disgraceful, unacceptable, etc.)
• Chuck Todd Elaborates On Why NBC Shouldn’t Have Hired Ronna McDaniel
• NBC Guild: ‘Our journalism is tarnished’
• Liz Cheney: controversial NBC hire Ronna McDaniel enabled Trump ‘depravity’
• What Was NBC Even Thinking?
• The RNC’s Ronna McDaniel is not ready for her NBC close-up
• The DOJ is investigating dozens of threats against election workers (Lock ’em all up.)
• Federal officials say 20 have been charged for threatening election workers
• Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official
• Florida Passes Law Banning Social Media for Minors Under 14
• RFK Jr.’s family trust earns thousands from an oil and gas company
• The Shocking Story Behind One Megadonor’s Support of RFK Jr.
• Fear of Multiple Casualties in Horror U.S. Bridge Collapse (“Terrifying video footage shows a large section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore falling into the Patapsco River after it was hit by a cargo ship.”)
• 2 people pulled from water after Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses, 1 in serious condition
• Moment bridge collapses after being hit by ship
• Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapses after being struck by ship (“Fire officials say they are searching for up to 20 people believed to be in the water”)
• Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) Goes Full On MAGA, Campaigns With Insurrectionist John McGuire (“Kiggans can no longer deny her loyalty to the extreme, radical right”)
• How the SCOTUS abortion pill case could impact Virginia
• Virginia Democrats launch their own budget tour to push back on Youngkin’s criticisms
• Press Conference: Louise Lucas, Don Scott, others talk about Democrat-passed Virginia budget
• After lots of debate this session, the governor will soon weigh in on skill games
• CASEY: Freedom, or ‘free-dumb?’ Cocktails-to-go are now legal in Virginia
• Editorial: State government should stay out of short-term rental regulations
• Youngkin signs homemade food bill inspired by ‘kingpin of cake pops’
• Board of Wildlife Resources considering changes to ‘right to retrieve’ regulations
• Loudoun4All: “Shock” – Including by Trump and Youngkin – Over Loudoun County School Board’s Removal of Video Recording for Public Commentary Is “quite simply feigned,” “faux outrage for political posturing” (In fact, many VA school districts “do not provide any video recording of meetings at all”)
• Loudoun School Board votes against showing public commenters’ faces in meeting video streams
• Group of Sandbridge residents oppose wind energy cable landing as Avangrid makes another pitch
• Jonathan Huskey, Progressive Democrat Opposed to Potomac Yard Arena, Enters Alexandria City Council Race
• Richmond residents are fighting to save a historic Black hospital
• Richmond City Council outlines budget priorities
• D.C.-area forecast: Turning cloudy today with damp weather Wednesday and Thursday