by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, June 14.
- Major shift in global climate patterns is unfolding now, federal forecasters say (“El Niño is officially over, federal forecasters announced Thursday, but we’re not quite in a La Niña yet. We’re in the middling “ENSO-neutral” phase.”)
- Russia’s war with Ukraine accelerating global climate emergency, report shows
- WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich, Falsely Accused of Espionage, Is Indicted in Russia (Appalling and completely unacceptable.)
- US and Ukraine sign security deal as G7 agrees $50bn loan using Russian assets
- Ukraine wants peace but can’t trust Russia
- Biden to hold a private meeting with Pope Francis on sidelines of G7 summit
- G7 Leaders, Expanding the Circle, Shift Focus to Migration and the South
- Israelis and Palestinians are hopeful but cautious over the latest cease-fire proposal
- Emboldened Gazans Express Anger at Hamas, Israel Over Cease-Fire Talks Impasse
- In the search for hostages, U.S. is Israel’s key intelligence partner
- Carnage and Contradiction: Examining a Deadly Strike in Rafah
- Israeli polls show Netanyahu party narrowing gap behind Gantz (Netanyahu has 9 lives.)
- Netanyahu’s speech to Congress could harm the U.S.-Israel relationship
- Rishi Sunak warns a vote for Nigel Farage gifts Labour the UK election
- Macron’s Gamble on Stopping Le Pen Now Risks Ushering Her to Power
- French leftwing parties form ‘Popular Front’ to contest snap election (“Socialists, Greens, Communists and France Unbowed to have joint platform with a candidate in every constituency”)
- Europe’s biggest problem: It is falling way behind America’s powerhouse economy
- Japan could be energy-independent by 2060 thanks to renewables, Rystad Energy CEO says
- The fracturing of South African politics, explained
- ‘I need your help saving koalas’: how Australians banded together to build wildlife corridors (“Bangalow Koalas and private landholders have planted more than 377,000 trees across the region”)
- This Time, Higher Rates Are Boosting Spending and the Economy (“US households receive interest income on more than $13 trillion of short-term assets, according to one estimate.”)
- Justice Alito Is Right About One Thing
- Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds
- Clarence Thomas took 3 undisclosed trips on private jet provided by GOP megadonor, committee says
- Supreme Court upholds broad access to key abortion pill mifepristone
- Even Brett Kavanaugh Tears Anti-Abortion Lawsuit Apart
- In Surprise Move, the Supreme Court Decides Not to Obliterate Abortion Rights—For Now
- The real threat to abortion meds is Trump himself
- Abortion pill access is unchanged after the Supreme Court’s decision. Here’s what you need to know
- This Supreme Court Ruling Is Not the End of the Fight over the Abortion Pill (“If another case can be brought by someone who can claim they were harmed by mifepristone, who knows what this court will decide?”)
- After Supreme Court’s abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion (“The Christian right failed at a backdoor ban, so now their only path forward is winning the 2024 election”)
- The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobody
- The Christian right is coming for divorce next
- We are witnessing a war on women (“How can the religious right, a movement that calls itself pro-life, take a stance against a procedure that creates life?” For starters, they’re not really “pro-life,” they are anti-women’s freedom, bodily autonomy, etc.)
- Judge blocks Biden administration from enforcing new protections for LGBTQ+ students in 4 GOP-led states (Trump-nominated judge, of course. These people will be a menace for years to come.)
- Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President (“If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it.”)
- Trump turns 78, a birthday he says he’d like to pretend ‘doesn’t exist’
- Trump got the perfect birthday present: complete capitulation by the GOP
- Pelosi condemns Trump’s Capitol visit: ‘Returning to the scene of the crime’
- Report: Trump Demanded Mike Johnson Use the Federal Government to Overturn His Conviction, and Johnson’s Response Was Basically, “I’m on It, Boss!” (Horrifying.)
- Trump Angrily Demanded Mike Johnson Help Overturn Conviction: Report (This is so wrong and so dangerous.)
- Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (That would be WILDLY regressive and inflationary.)
- Trump Floats One Weird Idea To Replace The U.S. Income Tax (“It’s hard to see how it would work, and critics say it would hurt the poor when compared to the current tax regime.”)
- ‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicans
- Video: Biden-Harris 2024 Launches New Ad As Trump Heads To Capitol for First Time Since January 6 (“Donald Trump is ready to burn it all down.”)
- McConnell, Trump bury hatchet with eye on GOP takeover (McConnell is repulsive.)
- What Trump told CEOs in their private meeting (Fascism.)
- Donald Trump calls Milwaukee ‘a horrible city’ weeks before RNC comes to town
- In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission
- Schiff repeats ‘guilty’ 34 times at hearing on Trump prosecution
- Extremes collide in Florida: Summer weather and DeSantis’ agenda
- Alex Jones faces day of reckoning over what he owes Sandy Hook families
- Potential VP pick Sen. J.D. Vance once liked tweets harshly critical of Trump
- Democrats think they can flip Texas House seats by going after GOP’s education funding and school voucher policies
- Fox News misinterprets results of study to blame millions of “excess deaths” on the COVID-19 vaccine (Fox “News” is far-right propaganda.)
- Tesla investors back $56bn Musk pay deal (Crazy.)
- Trump backs Hogan in Md., teases Va. Gov. Youngkin as potential running mate (“Longtime Trump critic Hogan responded to the former president’s support by saying he won’t vote for him.”)
- Virginia Hasn’t Backed a Republican for President in Two Decades. Is It About to Flip? (“Early polls showing Donald Trump cutting into President Biden’s lead have served as a wake-up call for Virginia Democrats.”)
- Trump, Youngkin meet for first time as GOP eyes winning Virginia in November
- REMINDER: GOP Senate Candidates Oppose IVF Protections For Virginians (“If Hung Cao, Scott Parkinson, Jonathan Emord, Eddie Garcia, and Chuck Smith had it their way, they would let states make abortion and IVF illegal.”)
- Republicans to pick challenger to Senator Tim Kaine next week
- Pope & Schapiro: Primaries approach
- 5th District Republican primary draws big names and big money
- County Democrats Host Senator Tim Kaine and 6th District Candidate Ken Mitchell in Pre-Primary Event at Vibrissa
- House, Senate Democratic Leadership Release Statements on Legislation for Special Session on the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Education Program (“Democrats are proud to support Virginia’s commitment to becoming the most veteran-friendly state in America.”)
- Virginia Senate to meet before House on soaring military tuition costs
- Virginia House and Senate will take up military tuition benefit on different days
- Youngkin’s EV swerve could set back transportation
- Decision to ditch the Virginia School Boards Association sparks public protest
- Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Condemns Attorney General Miyares’ Attack on American Bar Association Standards for Diversity and Inclusion (“Miyares has recommitted his opposition to racially diverse learning environments despite decades of research proving they lead to better outcomes for all students.”)
- Youngkin’s Latest Dishonest Attack on Clean Energy (Youngkin is an Energizer Bunny powered by fossil fuels (or at least by their fatcat donors), on an endless quest to halt clean energy progress like some sort of Exxon-sponsored Terminator.)
- FOIA Friday: Court debate on police rosters, Newport News shields shooting report
- Portsmouth council members vote to nearly double annual salaries next year
- Richmond, Henrico officials celebrate new affordable housing community
- Richmond registrar violated city policies on nepotism, internal investigation finds
- A transgender man was in mental distress. Police wound up killing him. (“The parents of Jasper Aaron Lynch, shot by a Fairfax County officer in 2022, recall his years of emotional turmoil and fatal encounter with police.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Hot today with scattered storms, some potentially intense
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