by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, May 10.
- ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families (It’s VERY hard to argue with their reasoning.)
- Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere
- ‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns (We should have stopped burning fossil fuels like…a decade ago? Longer?)
- Ukraine peace summit pushes neutral Swiss toward Western embrace
- The Russians Destroyed Their Villages. Now They Rebuild.
- Zelensky fires head of bodyguard after failed plot (“No reason was given for Serhiy Rud’s dismissal. He has led the president’s security detail since 2019.”)
- Biden’s Public Ultimatum to Bibi (“A hostage and ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is ‘not dead,’ a senior U.S. official says, but only if Netanyahu holds off on invading Rafah.”)
- Gaza war: Netanyahu vows to defeat Hamas in Rafah despite US arms threat
- ‘We would need to make choices’: Why Biden is threatening Israel now
- Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Anger Flares Over Israel’s Incursion Into Rafah
- How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel
- Inside Biden’s decision to go public with his ultimatum to Israel over Rafah
- How Israel’s Rafah Operation Threatens Gaza’s Critical Aid Pipeline
- Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center (If accurate, this is wildly unacceptable.)
- Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after ‘Israeli extremist’ arson attack
- Israeli tanks encircle eastern half of Rafah
- Blinken report expected to criticize Israel, but say it isn’t breaking weapons terms
- Republicans want to force Biden to send arms to Israel
- Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency (“If a wealthy, advanced economy is having a hard time getting off coal, what does it mean for the rest of the world?”)
- How Xi’s Europe Trip Is Reviving the Continent’s Cold War Divide
- Biden Set to Impose Tariffs on China EVs, Strategic Sectors
- UK exits recession with fastest growth in nearly three years
- North America’s biggest city is running out of water (“Mexico City is staring down a water crisis. It won’t be the last city to do so.”)
- House Democrats’ Surprise Campaign Play: Embracing Border Security
- Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse (“We will see more maternal mortality.”)
- 23 states, rural co-ops sue EPA over ‘unlawful, unreasonable’ power plant rules (There’s absolutely nothing unlawful or unreasonable about these rules. To the contrary, they should have been a LOT more aggressive and put in place many years ago!)
- Trump Is Not Invincible
- Trump Flaunts His Corruption (“The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous.”)
- At a Dinner, Trump Assailed Climate Rules and Asked $1 Billion From Big Oil (Massive, blatant corruption!)
- ‘A little bold and gross’: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
- Trump’s political fate likely won’t be decided by the courts after all (Massive failure by our justice system over decades.)
- A Former White House Aide Returns to the Stand in Trump’s Criminal Trial
- The Grim Cross-Examination of Stormy Daniels Could Double as a Class in How the Law Mistreats Women
- Trump hush-money trial resumes after graphic testimony by Stormy Daniels (“Relationship between ex-president and adult actor central to case as lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to quash story about affair”)
- The Fox News campaign to undermine the jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial (Fox “News” is heinous in pretty much every way.)
- Judge Merchan chides Trump’s lawyers for not objecting more during Stormy Daniels’ testimony
- Opinion: The Trump team swung for the fences. Thanks to Stormy Daniels, they struck out
- Wonder If I’ll Ever Get These Details from Stormy Daniels’s Testimony Out of My Head (“Her final day on the stand in the hush-money trial was a doozy.”)
- There’s A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House
- “It Was Horrific”: A Situation Room Officer’s Harrowing Account of an American Insurrection (“In an excerpt of George Stephanopoulos’s new book, The Situation Room, Mike Stiegler recalls how Donald Trump whipped up a ‘surreal’ storm that put the White House’s emergency protocols into action: ‘We went into a continuity-of-government situation.'”)
- Biden’s Holocaust speech highlights antisemitism’s threat to democracy
- Trump’s Shameful Antisemitism Shtick is Back (“Like Sleepy Don himself, Trump’s monthly attack on Jewish voters is getting tired”)
- Health Care Leaders Warn of Threat Posed by Second Trump Term (“Every chance Trump got while in office, he made it his mission to rip health care away from working families.”)
- Exclusive: Jared Kushner pitching donors on father-in-law Trump, sources say (Evil.)
- Some unsolicited advice for Joe Kahn of The New York Times and other editors (“No top editor is going to be able to make everyone happy; I ran a newsroom once myself so I know. When everyone is criticizing you — whether in good faith or bad, from the left or the right — there’s a great solution. Get out of the defensive crouch and do the right thing. The thing that history will judge wise and brave and public-spirited.”)
- Hakeem Jeffries Flexes Power as Mike Johnson Flounders (“Some Democrats want their leader to take a harder line if they need to rescue the Republican House speaker again”)
- Greene’s rebellion sparks new talk of consequences for House GOP rebels
- “Reaching her expiration date”: How Marjorie Taylor Greene fell so fast from MAGA stardom
- Trump, Whose Own Brain Appears to Have Been Eaten by Worms, Claims RFK Jr. Is a “Fake” Anti-Vaxxer Whose Family Is Plotting to Take Over the Country
- Are R.F.K. Jr. Signature Gatherers Misleading New Yorkers for Ballot Access?
- Why Florida and Alabama banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist (“Bans on cell-cultivated, ‘lab-grown’ meat are about protecting Big Ag.”)
- Kaine responds to letter on Israel-Hamas conflict delivered by VCU students (Sen. Tim Kaine: “I will continue to call for a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas, establish a ceasefire, and deliver more humanitarian aid into Gaza, as I have done publicly and repeatedly for some time. These steps are the only viable means to reach a sustainable resolution to this crisis”)
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says He Doesn’t Think “anyone in the Israeli government should be surprised that the president is going to stick to his guns” (On campus protests, Sen. Warner says “the right to protest is enshrined in our Constitution…But at the same time…When you start to make living and protest encampments, then there will be consequences.”)
- Congresswoman and Mom of 2 Speaks Candidly About Her Incurable Brain Disease: ‘I’m Too Young for This’ (Exclusive) (“Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton opens up to PEOPLE about her diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy — or “Parkinson’s on steroids” — a rare and degenerative disorder that’s forcing her into early retirement”)
- Youngkin and budget negotiators reach deal on state’s biennial spending plan
- Budget deal reached by Virginia governor and negotiators, chairman says
- Virginia House budget chair says 2-year spending plan is ready (“The General Assembly reconvenes Monday for a special session on the budget.”)
- Virginia budget negotiators, Youngkin strike deal on spending plan
- General Assembly budget leaders, Youngkin reach compromise
- Pope & Schapiro: Looking ahead to next week’s special legislative session
- Judge to decide whether to delay construction of Dominion’s offshore wind project
- Dominion Energy delays construction for Virginia Beach offshore wind farm, says lawsuit won’t affect timeline (“Installation of the wind turbine monopiles, expected to begin this week, could get underway as soon as next week, said Dominion spokesperson Jeremy Slayton. He said a slight delay in the arrival of an installation support vessel pushed back the start date.”)
- Editorial: Commonwealth’s NIL rule for college sports should be national model
- “An Impossible Choice”: Virginians Asked to Waive Constitutional Rights to Get a Plea Deal (“Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have barred prosecutors from making defendants waive protections against unreasonable police searches as a condition of pleas.”)
- Parents of special needs students ask federal appeals court to step into Virginia’s IDEA process
- Students confront UVa President Jim Ryan, demand answers after police crackdown on protesters
- Faculty who were there say UVA mishandled protest
- Lawsuit filed to halt $170 million in bonds for new Richmond baseball stadium and development district
- Missing Middle, visions of growth in Arlington debated at County Board candidate forum
- Pro-Palestinian demonstrators say Israeli drones use Virginia Tech hardware. Public documents don’t support that claim.
- Loudoun included in preliminary ‘priority’ corridor for new or expanded transmission lines
- Man convicted of murder following homophobic incident in Fairfax City
- Virginia school board approves restoring Confederate leaders’ names (“The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools.”)
- Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools
- D.C.-area forecast: Cool and showery today, with slow moderation this weekend
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