by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 5.
- Global Stocks Rout Pushes Wall Street’s Fear Gauge to Four-Year High
- Japan’s Nikkei index has its worst day in decades as world markets quake over risks to US economy
- Ukraine finally deploying F-16 fighter jets, says Zelenskiy
- Angered by Paris ban, Russia’s media scorns ‘the Olympics of Hell’
- Russian dissident Kara-Murza tells BBC he thought he would die in prison
- ‘Everything is a target’: Dnipro suffers consequences of Russia’s bloody war
- Former Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway registers as lobbyist for Ukrainian billionaire with past ties to Trump (She is just a heinous person.)
- Scoop: Blinken told G7 Iran and Hezbollah could attack Israel in next 24 hours
- U.S. Prepares To Defend Israel, Which Bibi Says Is Already In ‘Multi-Front War’ With Iran
- Iran Says It Will Punish Israel But Wants to Avoid All-Out War
- For Israelis, the Wait for Retaliatory Strikes Stretches Into a New Week
- Joe Biden to meet national security team as fears grow of retaliatory Iranian attack on Israel (“US is attempting to ‘turn the temperature down’ after assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders last week escalate tensions”)
- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigns and leaves Bangladesh, ending 15-year rule (“Shortly after local media showed the embattled leader boarding a military helicopter with her sister, Bangladesh’s military chief Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman announced plans to seek the president’s guidance on forming interim government. He promised that the military would stand down, and to launch an investigation into the deadly crackdowns that fueled outrage against the government, and asked citizens for time to restore peace.”)
- Violent protests in Bangladesh result in nearly 100 deaths and hundreds injured
- The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain’s streets
- Rioters attack hotels used to house asylum seekers amid worst UK disorder in years (Right wingnuts run amok.)
- Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela’s opposition show
- Humiliated and Furious, Maduro Enforces Fiercest Crackdown of His Rule
- Democracy dies if we drop the case of Trump, Egypt and $10 million in cash
- Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress (“Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally” Horrifying.)
- Hurricane Debby to bring heavy rains and catastrophic flooding to Florida, Georgia and S. Carolina
- Gorsuch on Biden Supreme Court proposals: ‘Be careful’ (Gorsuch, of course, sits in a stolen seat and has ZERO business commenting on anything, really. In short, f*** Neil Gorsuch.)
- Senate Dems eye Trump’s tally for judicial confirmations (“Senate Democrats are quietly approaching a critical benchmark in confirming judges nominated by President Biden, but November’s election will determine how quickly they get there.”)
- Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says
- The NABJ interview with Trump provides a model for media coverage
- ABC Host Received Death Threats Following Trump Interview (That’s one big reason why journalists go so easy on Trump, ignore a lot of the horrible things he says/does, etc.)
- Trump says he has ‘no choice’ but to support electric vehicles because Elon Musk ‘endorsed me very strongly’ (Pure corruption.)
- What’s Rattling Trump: The Size of Harris’s Crowds
- Ex-Trump White House officials, dozens of Republicans endorse Harris
- ‘Unprecedented’: Launch of ‘Republicans for Harris’ causes commotion
- Harris has momentum, but the race is still tight. Here are the paths to the presidency (It’s absolutely insane that Trump even has a chance.)
- Harris’ new map: Sun Belt back in play
- Trump and Vance argue they don’t care about Harris’ VP pick (Suuuure they don’t, lol.)
- GOP gaslighting gets weirder: Why Trump and Vance spread lies about race and gender (“JD Vance calls a cis woman a man. Trump denies that Kamala Harris is Black. This is how they hope to win”)
- What unites Trump and Hitler: “Fierce determination and self-imposed blindness”
- It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP
- J. D. Vance and the Right’s Call to Have More Babies (“Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas.” In short, it’s really bad no matter how you lookl at it.)
- The Willful Amnesia Behind Trump’s Attacks on Kamala Harris’s Identity
- JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump (Wildly irresponsible and unhinged.)
- Is Sen. Mark Kelly in or out of Harris VP search? Posts on X stir intrigue
- Kamala Harris Is Doing In-Person “Chemistry” Tests With Her Top VP Candidates
- Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info
- Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations
- Elon Musk’s X Is Spreading Deepfakes of Kamala Harris (“Two phony videos seen by tens of millions of users appear to violate X’s own terms of service.”)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park (RFK Jr. is a warped, disturbed, broken individual. Sad.)
- Mississippi ruling reflects Virginia’s history of felon voter disenfranchisement
- In 2018-2020, Denver Riggleman Was Hard Right, Pro-Trump/Endorsed by Trump, etc. Fast Forward to August 2024 and…What??? Yep, He’s Endorsed Kamala Harris for President! (Riggleman, of course, was ousted from office by far-right-extremist Bob Good, then went on to serve on the January 6 committee, where he saw the extreme dangers of MAGA/Trumpism to our democracy…)
- Ex-GOP congressman Riggleman endorses Harris, rips Trump’s ‘thirst for power’
- Youngkin says there’d be plenty of jobs in Virginia if Trump fires federal employees (Youngkin is deranged.)
- Miyares takes aim at Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue (Really bad headline; should indicate how completely illegitimate what Miyares is doing happens to be…)
- Alexandria’s Lyles wins Olympic gold in 100-meter dash in photo finish
- UVa’s Gretchen Walsh closes first Olympics with another gold and world record
- UVa’s Gretchen Walsh, Arlington’s Huske win another relay gold
- D.C.-area forecast: Hot start to the week. Then we watch Debby.
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