by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, May 4.
- BP Was Warned Gas-Driven Climate Change Could Cause ‘Unprecedented Famine’
- Pro-Trump Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe (“Campaigners have referred the Epoch Times to the UK advertising regulator for ‘stoking the climate culture war’ on social media.”)
- G-7 Eyes Plan on US-Led $50 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine (“The plan would use windfall profits from frozen Russian assets to repay the aid.”)
- Drone footage shows Ukrainian village battered to ruins as residents flee Russian advance
- Israel, Gaza and the Law on Starvation in War
- Israel has briefed US on plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of potential Rafah operation
- Biden faces new Democratic pressure to rein in Israel
- Joe Biden Is Days From A Key Statement On Israel and Gaza. Here’s What The Ally Who Sought It Expects.
- Israel’s offensive is destroying Gaza’s ability to grow its own food (Ugh, not good at all.)
- The longshot plan to end the war in Gaza and bring peace to the Middle East (“The US and Saudi Arabia say they’re close to a historic mega-deal. There’s just one problem.”)
- Xi Jinping to visit France, Hungary and Serbia amid EU trade tariff row
- Two women are seeking Mexico’s presidency. But the race is about a man.
- Bodies, pickup truck found in Mexican region where American and Australian tourists went missing, sources say
- Dow closes higher by more than 400 points as April jobs report bolsters Fed rate cut hopes
- Fed-Obsessed Traders Need the Economy to Get Its Story Straight
- It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires
- The Supreme Court: The most powerful, least busy people in Washington (“The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.”)
- Was Foul Play Involved in the Boeing Whistleblowers’ Deaths? People Are Definitely Worried About It.
- Activist Groups Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests (“The political tactics underlying some of the demonstrations were the result of months of training, planning and encouragement by longtime activists and left-wing groups.”)
- To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest (“You must have been doing for the past eight years what Trump has been doing in court the past three weeks: napping.”)
- Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024’s rare contest between 2 presidents (Vague, weak headline by AP, which should flat-out state that Trump will destroy our democracy, Biden will protect it. The “mainstream media” is just pathetic.)
- “More credible”: Legal experts say Hope Hicks’ testimony “ties everything more closely to Trump”
- From Hope Hicks, the Tears of Truth
- Opinion: Hope Hicks’ testimony was a nightmare for Trump
- Fact check: Trump makes false courthouse claims about bail and his campaign schedule
- Takeaways from an emotional day in the Trump hush money trial (“Former Trump aide Hope Hicks described fallout from the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape and stories about hush money payments. Here’s what we learned.”)
- Trump Media’s accountant is charged with “massive fraud” by the SEC
- Who Could Have Ever Guessed That Trump Media’s Auditor Is a ‘Massive Fraud’? (“In an unbelievable coincidence, the number cruncher for Trump’s Twitter clone is bad at his job”)
- “More credible”: Legal experts say Hope Hicks’ testimony “ties everything more closely to Trump”
- Hope Hicks gets teary testifying at Trump’s hush money trial
- Trump trial judge dismisses ex-president’s claim he cannot testify (“‘I want to stress that you have an absolute right to testify at trial,’ Juan Merchan says, after Trump had falsely claimed otherwise”)
- The Dramatic Meeting Now Stalling Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Case (“A dispute over a 2022 exchange between federal prosecutors and Trump’s defense lawyers is holding up the classified documents case being overseen by Judge Eileen Cannon.”)
- Trump vows to fight ‘anti-white feeling’ in US. His allies have a plan
- Exclusive: Biden campaign rolls out new abortion ads aimed at Latino men
- Video: Biden-Harris 2024 Launches New Latino Media Blitz With Ad Focused on Trump’s Attacks on Reproductive Freedom (“If [Trump] wants to take any more freedoms away from my three daughters, he’ll have to come through me first. Me? I’m with Joe Biden”)
- President Biden Announces Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Fox News host: “Paul Pelosi needs the hammer instead of a medal” (Fox “News” is evil.)
- Ivanka Trump Has “Gotten the Urge” to Join Her Dad on the Campaign and in a Potential Second Term: Report (Horrible person.)
- Senate conservatives pan Greene’s ‘horrible idea’ to oust Speaker Johnson
- Mark Meadows unmasked in Arizona fake electors indictment, faces 9 felony charges: Report
- Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar indicted on charges of bribery, money laundering
- University of Mississippi: ‘abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned (“Largely white, male group taunts pro-Palestinian protesters on campus and one man makes racist gesture towards Black woman”)
- Oops: Kristi Noem’s New Book Includes a Made-Up Story About Meeting Kim Jong Un (What’s really disturbing is that Noem was actually elected. Also, that Glenn Youngkin campaigned for this psycho/freak.)
- Good and McGuire clash in 5th District; loyalty to Trump a factor
- Meet the candidates: Twelve Democrats run to succeed Rep. Jennifer Wexton
- Virginia Democrats running for Congress differ on the Israel and Hamas conflict
- VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears Decries Protesters “Destroying Your Buildings,” “Showing Up With Helmets…Gas Masks…Bear Sprays,” Assaulting Police. Nope, She’s Not Talking About the 1/6/21 Violent Insurrection. (But she certainly COULD be!)
- FOIA Friday: Richmond asks to dismiss whistleblower suit, abuse allegations in Roanoke government
- Virginia attorney general joins efforts to fight back against Title IX changes
- Virginia ranks seventh among states for major power outages
- Dominion: Big development projects get electric bill discounts
- Bent Mountain section of Mountain Valley Pipeline fails during post-construction tests (Brilliant, huh?)
- Montgomery County Public Schools launch new gun safety initiative
- Richmond speed cameras issued 5,242 tickets in first month
- Mayor touts Portsmouth’s potential as epicenter of ‘blue economy’ in State of the City address
- Daily Progress sues UVa after school withholds review of fatal 2022 shooting
- Tunnel boring machine resumes digging at Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel after old ship anchor delayed project
- D.C.-area forecast: Much cooler today as rounds of showers pass by
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