by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 12.
- Can humanity address climate change without believing it? Medical history suggests it’s possible (“When it came to preventing infection, it was the behaviors rather than the beliefs that counted. The same could be said for global warming.”)
- UN demands Russia withdraw from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine
- Ukraine’s top prosecutor wants ICC to prosecute Kyiv hospital attack
- Ukraine’s ‘Irreversible’ Path to NATO Is Paved With Uncertainty
- Being Volodymyr Zelenskiy: How war has changed Ukraine’s leader
- Exclusive: US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine
- Moscow angered by US plan to site long-range missiles in Germany
- China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects (“Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s target”)
- Trumpism’s powerful weapon against Western democracies is antisemitism (“Trump continues to tell antisemites that it is fine to operate out in the open”)
- Trump’s authoritarian allies plan a reunion (“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday departed early from a NATO summit in Washington, D.C., where he played his perennial role of internal irritant, for a much friendlier meeting at Mar-a-Lago with former President Trump.”)
- ‘We have nothing’: Palestinians return to utter destruction in Gaza City after Israeli withdrawal
- ‘Depression, Emptiness, No Hope.’ Life as an Israeli Hostage in Gaza (“A hostage freed in a rescue mission last month recounts being held by militants who beat and threatened to kill him.”)
- Israel-Gaza war live: US mediators making progress on ceasefire deal but still ‘gaps to close’, says Biden
- Time is frozen in the empty bedrooms of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas
- Elon Musk’s X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says
- Core Inflation “lowest in more than three years”; “Democratic leadership in Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration helped restore and maintain a strong economy”
- Inflation continues to slow in the U.S., opening door to Fed rate cut
- Just-right inflation opens door to a Goldilocks economy
- Cuts Are Back in the Air After Inflation Surprise
- Economists Say Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump Than Biden
- AOC understands the stakes: The “high crimes” of Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito must be prosecuted (“The corruption of Supreme Court justices is about more than greed. It ‘constitutes a clear danger to our democracy'”)
- About time: Senators demand special counsel to investigate Clarence Thomas
- Trump seeks dismissal of N.Y. charges, verdict after Supreme Court ruling
- IRS tops $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires; compliance efforts continue involving high-wealth groups, corporations, partnerships (Excellent!)
- Project 2025’s plan to upend Medicare should set off alarm bells
- The GOP Has Found A New Reason To Pawn Off America’s Public Lands
- Unearthed video: Project 2025 director said project has “great” relationship with Trump and he’s “very bought in with this”
- Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts: “The overlap is tremendous” between Trump’s campaign platform and Project 2025
- Project 2025 would benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us
- Martyr Inc.: How Trump Monetized a Persecution Narrative
- The Democrats have a lot of options. Surrender can’t be one of them. (“Accepting Biden’s nomination while expecting him to lose is unacceptable.”)
- After Biden’s debate performance, the presidential race is unchanged
- Joe Biden Is Facing Questions About His Age And Mental Acuity. What About Donald Trump?
- Trump widely unpopular among Black and Latino voters, poll analysis shows
- The New York Times Fearlessly Declares That Trump Sucks (“The paper is striving mightily in Thursday’s op-ed to make us all forget how much it’s done to enable mainstream Republicanism.”)
- NY Times Editorial Board Declares “Trump Is Unfit to Lead”; “DANGEROUS IN WORD, DEED AND ACTION” (Now, “the NY Times must meet the moment with a drumbeat of coverage over days/weeks so voters know you mean it.”)
- A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia?
- ‘No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path’: Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall
- Obama, Pelosi privately expressed concerns over Biden (“The end for Biden’s candidacy feels clear, according to interviews with dozens of people in touch with the two democrats” – should be capital-D Democrats, btw; very sloppy by CNN)
- Pelosi moving behind the scenes to get Biden to reconsider presidential run
- Biden does some damage control with House Dems — but not enough (“At least two Democrats called on the president to drop out after a mostly steady press conference performance.”)
- Biden won’t drop out of election against Trump unless polls say ‘there’s no way you can win’
- Angry and stunned Democrats blame Biden’s closest advisers for shielding public from full extent of president’s decline
- Joe Biden’s Less-Than-Awful Press Conference (“The political crisis over the President’s reëlection campaign enters its third week, very much unresolved.”)
- Biden buys time: 5 takeaways from the NATO press conference
- Biden shows foreign policy depth in news conference with a few stumbles
- 5 takeaways from Biden’s crucial NATO news conference (“It was an improvement for Biden, but some answers were unlikely to soothe his party.”)
- Biden stands defiant on critical night – but gaffes mar fightback
- Biden’s Heartbreaking Press Conference
- Behind the Curtain: Committee to Unelect the President
- Biden touts cooling inflation, slams Trump tariffs at press conference
- Republicans: No Fair Nominating Somebody Else!
- The Democrats who have called on Joe Biden to step down
- Dems Kick Off Calls for Biden to Scram After Make or Break Presser
- What Biden’s news conference did, and didn’t, clear up (“The presser went fine. But the Democratic defections continued.”)
- Biden Digs In as Democratic Fears Deepen
- Democrats Were Hoping for One of Two Things Thursday Night. Joe Biden Didn’t Give Them Either. (“President Joe Biden did pretty well at his press conference Thursday night, and that may have disappointed a lot of Democrats. They were probably hoping for one of two outcomes: either that he would do badly, making it easier to persuade him to drop out of the race—or that he would knock it out of the park, allaying their concerns, making them think that maybe he can stay in and win the election after all.”)
- GOP Push To Fine Merrick Garland $10,000 A Day Over Biden Audio Fails
- How Rubio Went From ‘Little Marco’ to Trump VP Contender
- Before He Was a VP Contender, J.D. Vance Suggested Trump’s Sexual Assault Accuser Was Telling the Truth
- NYTimes Launders Its Own Agency
- ‘No rift’ between Warner, Kaine as Dems debate Biden’s status
- Virginia Rep. Bob Good seeks recount in primary with Trump-backed rival
- VA07 Democratic Nominee Eugene Vindman Added to DCCC’s Coveted ‘Red to Blue’ Program (DCCC contrasts Vindman’s “bravery, commitment to service,” with Republican Derrick Anderson’s “anti-abortion and MAGA extremism”)
- National Democrats focus on 7th District as key congressional race
- Republicans Falsely Claimed that VA Dems Passing 100s of Pieces of Progressive Legislation in 2020-2021 Would Drive Business Away. Uhhh…Actually, We’re Now “America’s Top State for Business!” (CNBC also specifically cites the fact that “Democrats also stood in the way of Youngkin’s effort to institute a 15-week abortion ban.”)
- Virginia ranked top state for business in CNBC tally
- Virginia public colleges, universities, asked to verify that investments aren’t politically motivated (“Following student protests calling for divestment from Israel, a letter from the state secretaries of education and finance is asking colleges and universities to verify that their investments are guided only by financial concerns.”)
- Column: For Youngkin, ‘bipartisanship’ is merely lip service
- Pope & Schapiro: Biden’s future, a recount, and cell phones in the classroom
- FOIA Friday: New footage shows ‘excessive force’ history of Chesterfield officer
- Push to restore Sunday early voting in Loudoun County
- Roanoke County School Board considers updates to student cellphone policy
- Hanover schools OK cellphone-free policy
- Richmond community college gets nearly $1 million for nurse training
- D.C.-area forecast: Wet and cooler today. Next blast of heat by Sunday. (“Into at least early Saturday, half-to-full inch of rain and downpours are possible. It’s likely driest northwest and wettest southeast.”)
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