by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 24.
- As climate change wreaks planetary chaos, researchers forecast more economic effects
- Top Climate Scientist Sums Up Second Donald Trump Term With 2 Chilling Words (It would be “game over” for the climate.)
- At least 1,300 hajj pilgrims died during extreme heat, Saudi Arabia says (“Riyadh says more than four-fifths did not have permit to make pilgrimage to Mecca, where temperatures hit 51.8C”)
- The New Climate Denial Is Based on These Six Terms
- Mission 2025 group urges governments to set more ambitious climate goals
- More Debt Is Better Than More Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters
- Ukraine inches closer to EU dream after decade of war
- Nineteen dead in attacks on churches and synagogue in southern Russia
- Ukraine’s Naval Drones Turn the Tide in the Battle of the Black Sea
- Intense fighting in Rafah near end, says Netanyahu (“But the war in Gaza will continue until Hamas is driven from power, the Israeli prime minister says.”)
- Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal
- Israel’s Defense Minister Holds Talks in Washington on War’s Next Phase
- An Israel offensive into Lebanon risks an Iranian military response, top US military leader says
- Intense fighting in Gaza about to end and focus will shift north to Hezbollah, Netanyahu says
- Iran election: Young voters’ divide over 2022 protests shapes presidential race
- ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: On the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon (“A Brazilian special forces unit marks the second anniversary of the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips with what they hope will be a famous offensive against the criminals obliterating the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth”)
- South Korea battery plant fire kills 22 people, most of them Chinese
- Record-breaking heat wave sets its sights on the South as Midwest recovers from disastrous flooding
- Drawn-Out Heat Wave Expected to Finally Let Up in Many Parts of the U.S.
- Series of US mass shootings brings weekend of death and mayhem
- Supreme Court decision on Trump immunity: What to know (The main thing to know is that the far-right/MAGA “justices” on the Supreme Court have already given Trump a huge victory by wasting six months on this insane case.)
- Clarence Thomas and John Roberts Are at a Fork in the Road
- Inside the $100-million plan to restore abortion rights in America (“Leaders of the coalition say they want to make the procedure more accessible and affordable than ever before.”)
- Abortion Debate Shifts as Election Nears: ‘Now It’s About Pregnancy’
- Trump Marks Second Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Overturned By Trying To Figure Out How Best To Brag About It
- I Know What America’s Leading C.E.O.s Really Think of Donald Trump
- Why Conservatives Should Vote for Joe Biden (“A liberal’s plea to the rule-of-law right.”)
- Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
- Why Trump is suddenly talking up Biden after months of slamming his cognitive capacity (Suddenly, right before they debate, Trump thinks Biden is sharp as a tack? That shows you that all the Trumpists’ blather about Biden’s cognitive capacity – which is SUPERB – is BULLSHIT.)
- How Biden Can Flip His Fortunes—or Flop!—in His First Debate With Trump (“Time and again, Biden, over the course of the debate, could just calmly and consistently needle a thin-skinned Trump about being the biggest loser of all time. Pick two or three issues: a botched pandemic response, an aversion to NATO, his support for extremists, his chaotic first term, his two impeachments and 34 felony counts. Just jab, poke, and parry, and I believe Trump will unravel.”)
- Opinion: Is this the worst idea Trump has ever had? Almost
- Biden campaign lays out debate week strategy in new memo
- In This Debate, CNN Is the Decider
- Disappointment and ‘depression’: Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish
- Trump is on a fundraising blitz. But Republicans are still nervous about ‘very dicey’ November.
- Forget conventional wisdom. Trump needs the debate more than Biden.
- Trump freewheels towards debate as Biden rehearses at Camp David
- A group supporting President Biden is seeking to focus voters’ attention on the makeup of the Supreme Court.
- Trump taunted Jewish employees with jokes about Nazi ovens: Ex-Trump Org VP
- Trump Made ‘Nazi Ovens’ Joke Around Jewish Execs: Ex-Trump Org VP
- Scoop: House Dems try to make post-Dobbs comments haunt GOP
- Former first lady Melania Trump stays out of the public eye as Donald Trump runs for president
- ‘Look At The Evidence’: Karl Rove Drops Bad News For Trump Live On Fox News (“The longtime GOP strategist points to a shift that’s taken place over the past few weeks — and predicted what will happen next.”)
- A closer look at Harris shows how effective she’s become
- John Fetterman’s War (“Is the Pennsylvania senator trolling the left or offering a way forward for Democrats?”)
- Wes Moore’s marijuana pardons are a model for the country
- Video: On “This Week,” Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA10) Says It’s Not “Relevant” Who Trump Picks for VP, “because whoever it is, is going to just…be….saying whatever Donald Trump wants” (Comstock says, in debate, Biden should “ignore Trump and his antics and talk directly to…swing voters”)
- Spanberger to Biden: Fill USPS vacancy
- Tim Kaine discusses Medicare and healthcare problems with JABA
- Two years after Dobbs, an abortion access amendment is still on Virginia’s horizon
- As offshore wind installation rises, Dominion showcases environmental, economic benefits
- Editorial: Home values skyrocketing in RVA? Not if you’re Black
- Dominion Energy burying miles and miles of outage-prone power lines
- Bristol’s only documented lynching will finally get a marker (“But the marker won’t be at the actual site where leaders of the effort believe the 1891 lynching occurred, nor will soil be collected from the site as part of the remembrance project, because the property owner won’t allow it.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Mostly tolerable heat and humidity this week, except for Wednesday
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