by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Memorial Day 2024.
- World has ‘moral responsibility’ to help small island states survive climate crisis – UN agency chief
- Climate change is behind increasing flight turbulence, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says
- WHO chief Tedros ‘confident’ of eventual pandemic treaty deal
- Russia is flooding Europe with disinformation. The U.S. elections are next.
- ‘Drone wall’ against Russia: Six NATO countries announce border defense plan
- Israeli airstrike kills dozens in Rafah tent camp, Gaza authorities say (Totally unacceptable.)
- EU-Israel relations nosedive as Spain and Ireland are set to formally recognize a Palestinian state
- World leaders condemn Israeli strike after 45 are reported killed in Rafah tent camp
- Biden Administration Presses Allies Not to Confront Iran on Nuclear Program
- How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy
- Search for bodies continues after catastrophic Papua New Guinea landslide
- Papua New Guinea disaster agency tells UN 2,000 people are buried after landslide
- Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states
- Covid will still be here this summer. Will anyone care?
- What more need Alito do before Durbin gets off the stick?
- The Comstock Act, the long-dead law Trump could use to ban abortion, explained
- Denial about Donald Trump has reached a new low (“Authoritarians have often told us what they are going to do, but people have rarely believed them.”)
- What To Expect As Trump’s Criminal Trial Nears Its End
- Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? Major week looms in Trump hush money trial
- Trump’s Post-Verdict Playbook: Anger and Retribution, Regardless of Outcome
- ‘Heads, we win; tails, you lose’: how rightwing hush-money trial coverage boosts Trump
- RFK Jr. loses in first round of Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination vote. Trump didn’t file paperwork to qualify
- Trump booed at Libertarian convention
- Libertarians block Trump’s longshot bid for party support
- Tim Scott on Trump Getting Booed by Libertarians: He’s So Popular! (Tim Scott is such an embarrassment)
- Tim Scott Won’t Condemn Trump Over Claim Biden Was Prepared To Kill Him In Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Heroes or “losers”: Trump taints Memorial Day with divided memories
- Fetterman, Flashing a Sharper Edge, Keeps Picking Fights With the Left
- This QAnon Candidate Could Cost Trump a Key Swing State (“Mark Robinson, the hardcore conspiracy-theorist Republican running for governor in North Carolina, has been posting through it ever since his rise to power in 2021 as the state’s first-ever Black lieutenant governor.”)
- Scoop: Bill and Hillary Clinton to headline Virginia fundraiser for Biden
- Trump Endorses Virginia Senate Candidate Hung Cao (Disgusting.)
- Va. went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. (“Solar proponents say the Dominion Energy’s requirements have halted dozens of small and midsize solar projects throughout Virginia.”)
- Advocates vow to return to bullying definition after Youngkin veto
- Troubled Southwest Virginia draws promise of help from Youngkin, lawmakers
- Va. dentists are scrambling to close a statewide shortage of hygienists, mostly in Fairfax Co.
- After ‘whites only’ job posting, Va. tech company hit with fine from the Justice Department
- 15-year-old girl killed in Mount Trashmore shooting, 18-year-old man in critical condition.
- D.C.-area forecast: Scattered severe storms possible this afternoon and evening
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