by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, April 19.
- Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report (Batsh** crazy.)
- Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era
- Xi Thinks China Can Slow Climate Change. What if He’s Right?
- Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO
- Democrats take “unprecedented” step to save GOP’s foreign aid bills
- In Unusual Vote, Democrats Rescue Measure to Allow Vote on Ukraine Bill
- Top Dem Goes Nuclear on GOP for ‘Diddling Around’ While People Die in Ukraine
- Ukraine war: Children among nine dead in Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk region (House Republicans have blood on their hands.)
- Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine? (“The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.”)
- Pompeo puts support behind Johnson in pushing aid for Ukraine
- ‘They want Russia to win so badly’: GOP congressman blasts far-right House Republicans
- Ukraine claims it shot down a Russian strategic bomber. Moscow says the plane crashed
- The West Needs to Make Ukraine Aid Sustainable (“Europe is right to look at longer-term funding options, but only the US can ensure Vladimir Putin doesn’t win.”)
- Mike Johnson’s Game of Chicken
- House foreign aid bills advance with Democrats’ help; Johnson may still be in peril
- Fearing for Ukraine if Trump Returns, Some in Europe Try Outreach Now
- Tehran plays down reported Israeli attacks, signals no further retaliation
- Israel strikes Iran with a missile, U.S. officials say, as Tehran downplays Netanyahu’s apparent retaliation
- Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN, as region braces for further escalation
- Israel conducted strike on Iran, senior U.S. official says
- U.S. and Israel hold high-level talks on Rafah amid Iran tensions
- Israel’s strike on Iran: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other
- Iran Says Strike by Israel Involved Drones and Failed
- Israel Debates If Reported Iran Attack Is Strong Enough Message
- Middle East crisis live: No plan for immediate retaliation against Israel, senior Iranian official says after blasts reported near Isfahan
- Google Fires Dozens Of Employees Who Protested $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
- US vetoes Palestinian request for full UN membership
- Weather tracker: rains bring deadly flash floods to Afghanistan and Pakistan
- The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land
- FBI watching for threats to Jewish Americans ahead of Passover, Wray says
- Trump’s hush-money trial enters fourth day after difficult jury-selection process (“Prospective jurors were grilled on myriad facets of their life, with one raising concerns her identity had been discovered”)
- Trump’s Trial Is Already Wreaking Havoc on His Campaign (“The hush money trial was never going to be good for Trump, but the first week in court proved just how disruptive and damaging it will be for his 2024 bid.”)
- Trump’s first criminal trial is a test run (“What has the Age of Trump done to the American people and our national character?”)
- A Third and Very Dramatic Day for Trump’s Jury Selection
- The Trump Trial Is Already Influencing Public Opinion (“Pundits are reading these shifts completely wrong—this is exactly the kind of movement that could determine the election.”)
- Opinion: Trump might have dozed off in court. Here’s how that could come back to bite him
- Why is the Trump trial jury anonymous? The brief and imperfect history of anonymous juries in the US
- Takeaways from the day a jury was selected to decide Donald Trump’s fate in the hush money trial
- All 12 jurors seated for Trump’s historic criminal trial
- 2 members of Trump jury excused, including woman who feared being identified
- The Crucial Factor of the Stormy Daniels Case (“The case has one important advantage the others don’t.”)
- Donald Trump turns the GOP into a protection racket — and demands Republican candidates pay up
- Trump tempts the court to find him in contempt
- Jan. 6 lawsuits against Trump may advance despite criminal case, judge rules
- House progressives release an agenda for 2025, with ideas for Biden to excite the base
- Mike Johnson pulls his punches on motion to vacate
- Marjorie Taylor Greene would like to remind us that she is not serious
- 36-year-old joins wave of House Republican retirements
- Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Voters
- Biden Is the Most Pro-Labor President Since F.D.R. Will It Matter in November?
- Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr
- The Kennedys rally to prevent RFK Jr. from extinguishing their torch (“They are trying to salvage what remains of the family’s legacy.”)
- A Comically Large Number of Kennedys Endorse Joe Biden, Not RFK Jr., for President (“That’s got to hurt”)
- WATCH: Kennedy Family Endorses Biden-Harris 2024 (“We cannot stand aside when we’re up against a man who says he wants to be a dictator on day one”)
- Kennedy Family Strongly Endorses Biden
- Turning Point Action official resigns after accusation of election-related fraud (Right wingers do the very things they falsely accuse Democrats of…)
- Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform
- Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (Elect Republicans, THIS is the disgusting crap you’ll get.)
- 108 arrested at pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University (“Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, was among those arrested, New York police said. She said on X that said she was notified that she was suspended from Barnard College.”)
- Sen. Mark Warner: “The best time to [pass aid to Ukraine] would have been months ago. The second best time is right now.” (“I urge the House to act swiftly to get this done and end this painful and embarrassing delay”)
- Youngkin, lawmakers to seek fresh start on state budget, but not today
- Commentary: Youngkin declines to fully protect victims of intimate-partner violence. Why?
- Commentary: Virginia just revealed the truth behind government attacks on DEI
- Who has the upper hand in a Virginia budget standoff?
- Video: VA Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, Del. Cia Price Discuss Their Work to Safeguard the Right to Contraception – and the Serious Threats to That Right by Republicans Like Glenn Youngkin (Youngkin “now has 30 days to decide if he’s going to continue to cosplay as a moderate while acquiescing to the most extreme flank of his party”)
- Pope & Schapiro: Plenty of unfinished business
- Youngkin signs student athlete compensation bill
- Teel: Virginia governor signs ‘permissive, cutting-edge’ NIL bill
- VCU, UVa, Virginia Tech coaches applaud state’s new NIL law
- Audio: Del. Marcus Simon Says “If it takes electing a Gorka [as Fairfax GOP Chair] to…wake people up to [the fact that THIS is who Fairfax Republicans are], then I’m a BUY on that!” (Del. Alfonso Lopez: “the fact you have Ms. Gorka as the chair of the Fairfax County Republicans does not bode well…”)
- Virginia tests tree exchange to remove invasive species
- Shenandoah County debates whether to restore Confederate names to schools
- HRBT expansion marks breakthrough as first new tunnel is completed
- Board members bring back idea to rename Fort Monroe
- Youngkin taps education official for Cannabis Control Authority
- U.S. Supreme Court sides in Richmond veteran in GI benefits case
- Loudoun Co. judge sets new jury trial for fired superintendent Ziegler, challenge possible
- D.C.-area forecast: Cooler today with a passing shower chance this afternoon
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