by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 17. Under 24 hours until polls open for Virginia’s primaries tomorrow.
- Wind and solar power half the cost of coal and gas, one-third the cost of nuclear, says Lazard
- New Research Finds Most of the World’s Largest Marine Protected Areas Have Inadequate Protections
- Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected (That alone should automatically disqualify Trump.)
- Putin taunts West as speculation over North Korea visit ramps up (“Russia’s president is due to meet Kim Jong Un next week, his first visit to North Korea since 2000.”)
- One-Two Punch From the Skies Is a Massive Blow to Putin (“At last, there’s some good news for Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin is not going to have this war all his own way.”)
- Israeli Military Says Hezbollah’s Strikes Risk ‘Wider Escalation’
- US envoy due in Israel for talks aimed at averting deeper conflict with Hezbollah
- Benjamin Netanyahu disbands Israeli war cabinet
- Israel’s army will pause daytime fighting along a route in southern Gaza to help ramp up aid
- AP investigation reveals how entire family trees are dying in Gaza, one generation after another
- Hiding Hostages: Inside a Notable Gaza Family’s Dark Secret (“To the outside world, they were a physician and a journalist. No one suspected their apartment had become a prison.” Evil.)
- ‘A Hellscape’: Dire Conditions in Gaza Leave a Multitude of Amputees
- Netanyahu is fighting a war on two fronts. No end is in sight for either one
- Netanyahu reportedly criticises military tactical pause in Gaza amid divisions with IDF
- Brazil Thought It Was Safe From Natural Disasters. Then Came the Flood.
- France’s Safeguards Against the Far-Right Are Starting to Unravel
- Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say (That’s murder.)
- ‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years
- The Global Crisis That No Border Crackdown Can Fix (“At America’s southern border, arrivals from Mexico to Morocco, China to Chad, are caught in a no-man’s-land between the danger they’ve fled and the paralyzed system that awaits them.”)
- A water war is looming between Mexico and the US. Neither side will win
- Epic heat wave to expand from Midwest to East Coast, bringing warnings to 72 million
- Stifling heat wave settles in for the long haul
- US braces for ‘dangerous’ conditions as heatwave to hit midwest and north-east (“Meteorologists warn that heat will spread east through the week, with ‘heat dome’ expected to trap high temperatures”)
- The First Three Months (Anthony Fauci: What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19)
- Big Tech’s Energy Needs Are Growing So Fast That Power Grids Can’t Keep Up
- Surgeon General Calls for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms
- Democratic senator calls Supreme Court “brazenly corrupt” (Correct.)
- Jewish senators alarmed by Alito’s pro-Christian agenda (Alito is a far-right fanatic/extremist, no doubt about it. Also a total nutjob.)
- Biden campaign launches $50 million ad push targeting Trump over hush money conviction
- Biden unloads on Trump in ad: ‘A convicted criminal who’s only out for himself’
- The Overlooked (But Real) Possibility of a Big Democratic Win
- Opinion: There is only one way to approach candidate Trump (“That is why second-term resistance strategies only divert resources from the more pressing imperative at hand: keeping Trump from winning a second term. That’s the top priority — in fact, the only real priority — we should focus on. Nothing else matters.”)
- Trouble for Trump in a New Poll on His Conviction (“A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll shows that Trump’s criminal conviction hurts him with independents.”)
- The Hunter Biden and Trump trials were a litmus test. Only the Bidens passed.
- Trump’s Planned Tariffs Would Tax US Households, Economists Warn (This would be a disaster.)
- Trump Lets Loose With Unhinged Father’s Day Message for His Enemies
- Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Calls ‘BS’ On Trump’s ‘Black Friends’ Claim
- ‘Deranged’ Trump Put On Blast After ‘Worst Holiday Greeting’ Ever (“Critics ripped the former president for turning a Father’s Day message into an attack on ‘radical left degenerates.'”)
- Why some Republicans are concerned about Johnson’s Intel Committee moves
- Trump unleashed: This is the calm before the storm (“We will look back at these months before the election and Donald Trump’s sentencing as relatively good times”)
- Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl
- Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting
- Md. governor to pardon 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order
- Video: Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Argues Dems “have to be…as tough as Republicans,” Use “raw power” Like Mitch McConnell Did (“It would be nice to go high, but we’ll put that off for a little while. The stakes are just too high”)
- Sam Shirazi: Virginia Congressional Primary Preview (The primaries are on Tuesday, 6/18)
- What to watch in Virginia’s congressional primaries this week
- In Virginia, Bob Good’s Republican Primary Has Split the MAGA Movement
- Virginia’s state budget will fund OB-GYN medical residencies amid obstetrics closures
- More districts leave Virginia School Board Association (“Conservative and some newly elected board members, including those from Warren and Orange counties, said the organization wasn’t incorporating their legislative priorities and providing training that mirrors their principles.”)
- One candidate says he’s quit but hasn’t officially withdrawn, so Roanoke still has a contested Democratic council primary
- After zoning, arena, Alexandria mayor race is a debate over ‘listening’ (“All three Alexandria mayoral candidates have pledged to listen to this Virginia city’s residents. Each one has a different interpretation of what that means.”)
- Vinton District GOP supervisor, Roanoke council Democratic slate on Tuesday ballot
- Virginia city repeals ban on psychic readings as industry grows and gains more acceptance
- D.C.-area forecast: It keeps getting hotter this week
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