by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 10.
- Curb ‘stupid plastics’ and stop industry BS: urgent actions to prevent a plastic crisis
- High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t (“Moscow is learning how to defeat Western precision munitions in Ukraine. ‘The Russians have gotten really, really good.'”)
- Zelenskiy Urges NATO to Help Kyiv Now, Before the US Election (“Ukraine seeks permission to hit targets deeper inside Russia; US leadership can make Putin ‘fear our actions,’ he says”)
- Joint Statement on Strengthening Ukraine’s Air Defenses by U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Nato summit live: Ukraine on the agenda as leaders gather in Washington (“UK prime minister Keir Starmer is urging fellow members to increase their defence spending as war in Europe continues”)
- Biden Looks to Move Past His Troubles, Opening NATO Summit With Warning to Russia
- NATO, the 75-year triumph whose future is always cloudy
- Russian Court Orders Arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s Widow
- Biden pledges air defences for Ukraine as Nato summit begins
- Russian Missile Identified in Kyiv Children’s Hospital Attack
- US Justice Department says it disrupted Russian social media influence operation
- Russia aims to undermine Biden in November election, intel officials say
- Biden aimed to prove US and global doubters wrong with NATO speech (“With the eyes of the world on him, President Joe Biden delivered a forceful speech to open the NATO summit in Washington”)
- Biden’s dual NATO mission: Reassure America and the world
- Forces on Both Left and Right Battle for Europe’s Political Soul
- Fighting the Far Right in France (“President Macron’s gamble in fighting the far right has to be declared, if not a success, at least not an absolute failure.”)
- Britain Has Huge Clean Energy Ambitions, but Are They Realistic?
- Israeli air strike kills 29 people at Gaza camp for displaced
- Israel presses Gaza offensive hours after deadly airstrike on tent camp
- US economy no longer overheated, Fed’s Powell tells Congress (So cut interest rates!)
- Powell Flags Rising Risks to Jobs While Avoiding Rate-Cut Timing
- Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities – study
- Trump says he knows ‘nothing’ about his party’s dystopian plans. Right. (“It’s preposterous for Trump to feign ignorance of Project 2025, conceived by his closest advisers.”)
- Donald Trump’s 2025 Vision (“The presumptive Republican nominee can try distancing himself from Project 2025, but his extremist agenda for America is written all over it.”)
- Trump 2024 vs. Project 2025 (“His campaign denies anything to do with the blueprint for a second term, but Trump’s alumni are all over it.”)
- Project 2025 would roll back protections for overtime pay — a longtime right-wing media priority
- There’s a Reason Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Project 2025
- The Architects of Project 2025 Don’t Give a Sh*t About This Heat (“People in need of skin grafts because they sat down on a sidewalk. Helicopters disabled and a bridge broken by the heat. Sounds like a crisis to me.”)
- Trump airs list of false grievances at Florida rally: ‘We don’t eat bacon any more’ (“Ex-president returns to campaign trail in Doral and makes baseless accusations but doesn’t name running mate”)
- Trump Attacks Biden’s Debate Performance In Lie-Filled Return To Campaign Trail
- ‘Unfit’ to serve, ‘con artist’: How Trump’s VP finalists once bashed him
- How Mar-a-Lago Became the Center of Gravity for the Hard Right (“The private club has become an oasis for the right wing of the Republican Party — and its transformation has been tremendously profitable for Donald Trump.”)
- The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men (“In Trump world, there’s always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society”)
- Biden buys time but every day tests his capacity to keep his campaign alive
- Some Democrats Rally to Biden’s Defense, Buying Him Time
- Democrats appear torn over Biden as concerns whether he can win deepen (“Seven House Democrats have so far called for president to quit, evidence of a party in disarray after disastrous debate”)
- Joe Biden Is Putting His Legacy on the Line: “Everything Will Be Seen as His Fault”
- Chaos swirling since Biden’s debate flub is causing cracks in a White House known for discipline (This is the top AP news story this morning. NOTHING on Trump’s insane rally last night.)
- Biden says he is staying in. Now he needs a winning campaign.
- Democrats remain divided on Biden, with one senator fearing Trump ‘landslide’
- Biden Looks to Black, Latino Leaders to Put Down Party Uprising
- Scoop: Biden rebels in Congress see their revolt crumbling
- Democrats lose ground in 6 states with election forecaster’s postdebate shift
- Biden’s last line of defense: Mutually assured destruction
- House Dems’ ‘sad’ venting session yields no clear path forward on Biden’s future
- Democrats feel powerless as ‘elites’ fall in line behind Biden
- On Capitol Hill, Democrats Panic About Biden but Do Nothing (“The president has yet to do what many Democrats said he must to show he is up to remaining in the race. But so far, they have thrown up their hands, doing nothing to nudge him aside.”)
- The Second Coming of the Political Convention (“For the first time in decades, at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer, we’re at risk of honest-to-God politics breaking out.”)
- Ahead of the Republican Convention, Nikki Haley tells her delegates to vote for Trump (Haley is a disgrace.)
- President Joe Biden saw neurologist at White House for Jan. 17 exam, press secretary says
- MAGA Senator Josh Hawley Advocates for Being a Christian Nationalist
- Ex-Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Makes ‘WTF’ Racist Comment About Kamala Harris
- Member of Justice Sotomayor’s security detail shoots armed carjacker near her home
- Sailor attempted to access President Biden’s restricted medical record: Navy
- Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies at 89 (Disgraceful career.)
- Sen. Mark Warner: “The best thing Americans can do to help safeguard our election is avoid succumbing to nefarious foreign efforts to create division and sow chaos” (“Social media, in particular, continues to be a popular vector for foreign covert influence attempts”)
- Jeff’s Notes: Biden’s future fueling rare rift between Warner, Kaine
- Spanberger wants Biden focused on one thing: ‘Ensure that Donald Trump is defeated’
- Kaine says Biden can beat Trump, calls debate ‘sad’
- Virginia Sen. Mark Warner issues a softer but still skeptical statement on Biden
- Youngkin Issues Executive Order with Goal of “Cell Phone-Free Education in Virginia’s K-12 Public Schools” (No doubt, cell phone use in schools is a problem, but is Youngkin’s top-down approach the right approach to dealing with it?)
- Va. Gov. Youngkin calls for ‘phone-free’ public schools in executive order
- What Virginia’s election rules say about parties swapping nominees
- Virginia’s fentanyl task force has some tough questions to answer
- Virginia legislators, the formerly incarcerated celebrate earned sentence credit releases (Republican legislators are bashing the releases, actually.)
- State survey says Virginia failing to serve low-income mothers
- New offshore wind plant to bring massive 660-foot tower, 300 jobs to Chesapeake
- Youngkin announces $681 million investment from South Korean company for Chesapeake submarine cable facility
- Former elections official pushes back on Registrar Balmer’s claims on nepotism
- Stoney on CNN: ‘I’m rocking my man, Joe Biden’
- Research shows heat exposure disproportionately affects Black Richmonders
- With $1 million grant, Dublin prepares to clean up industrial park
- Lynchburg city attorney, 2 council members clash at meeting
- Blacksburg council approves revised, higher-end housing plan on old high school site
- D.C.-area forecast: No letup in the heat today. Cooler by Friday, then heating up again.
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