by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 14.
- Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year
- How does today’s extreme heat compare with Earth’s past climate?
- Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s
- Deadly Landslides in India Made Worse by Climate Change, Study Finds
- Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions
- ‘The dumbest climate conversation of all time’: experts on the Musk-Trump interview (“Trump talked about ‘nuclear warming’ while Musk said the only reason to quit fossil fuels is that their supply is finite” These two are MORONS.)
- The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why
- Ukraine pounds Russia with drones and says it is advancing deeper
- Another Russian region declares emergency as Ukraine offensive enters second week
- Ukraine hammers Russian airbases as Kyiv’s incursion triggers panic
- US says it aims to ‘lower temperature’ in Middle East
- U.S. approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel
- Biden says Iran could hold off on Israel attack if Gaza deal reached
- A new round of Gaza cease-fire talks is starting. Why is a deal so elusive?
- Israel is not the only target of Iranian assassination threats (“Tehran has been plotting a violent retaliation campaign against the United States for years.”)
- The mpox outbreak never ended in Africa. Now a deadlier strain is spreading.
- Japan set for new PM as Kishida bows out as party leader
- Nicolás Maduro’s refusal to quit raises a troubling question for Venezuela: what next?
- Tropical Storm Ernesto intensifies as it nears Puerto Rico
- US Inflation Data to Show Another Modest Increase, Cementing Fed Cut
- Wednesday’s big CPI inflation report could mark a change in thinking for the Fed (“Inflation is almost a nonissue at this point. There’s this broad expectation that the worst is easily behind us”)
- With ‘Cancer Moonshot’ announcement, Biden turns to causes most important to him in final months in office
- Numerous Project 2025 partners have falsely claimed that abortions are never medically necessary
- Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents (This WaPo article is total BULLSH***. As the top-rated comment says, “Funny, the press had no problems publishing emails stolen from the Clinton campaign. Had no problems broadcasting Trump discussing the contents and directing people to WikiLeaks. Why the double standard?”
- Harris campaign says FBI notified it last month about foreign influence operation
- Americans give Harris an advantage over Trump on honesty and discipline, an AP-NORC poll finds
- Trump’s continued attacks on Harris’ rise stir fears he could question election outcome if he loses in November
- Here’s What Scares Republicans Most About a Harris Win (“The day after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s choice for vice president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a crowd of lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky, that a Harris administration would spell certain doom for the Republican Party.”)
- Kamala Harris’s Economic Team and Agenda Start to Take Shape
- Walz, Harris shore up labor support, woo working class
- Walz rebrands progressive wins as household realities (“The campaign is betting that an economic message focused on children will attract suburban voters more than anger about what they hear and read in the classroom.”)
- ‘We know who built this country’: Walz courts union workers in first solo event (“Harris’s VP pick emphasizes his labor background at LA event and says Trump and Vance ‘waged war on workers’”)
- Tim Walz Defends His Military Record: ‘I Am Damn Proud Of My Service’
- Exclusive: Harris to detail plans to cut costs in key policy speech in North Carolina
- What Harris could get done in her first year (“With or without the Senate, there is work to be done.” Definitely need the Senate.)
- Media Complaints About Kamala Harris Clash in Wildly With Media Consensus of Five Seconds Ago (The political media in this country is such a joke. A bad joke, that is.)
- Have We Learned Anything Since 2016? (“Donald Trump will still play assignment editor—if the media lets him.”)
- Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works?
- Nikki Haley has blunt message for Trump, GOP as Kamala Harris gains momentum: ‘Quit whining’
- Top Republicans call on Trump to stop insulting Harris, refocus on policy (Hahaha, good luck with that!)
- Former aide: Trump ‘feels this election slipping away’
- Some Trump Cabinet officials pushed back on extreme demands. Experts say that won’t happen next time (“They will carry out the orders… without going through the trouble of firing everyone who resists”)
- Trump’s alternative reality campaign (Or Axios could just say Trump wildly lies, is delusional, etc.)
- UAW files labor charges against Trump and Musk after X interview, claiming worker intimidation
- UAW hits Musk, Trump with federal labor charges over union-busting comments
- Whoops, Trump and Elon Musk’s Xwitter Convo Didn’t Go Over Well with the United Auto Workers
- The Trump Campaign’s ‘Please Shut Up’ Phase (“The former president’s interview with Elon Musk was a reminder that overfamiliarity with a candidate can breed contempt.”)
- Teamsters’ Black caucus defies leadership with Harris endorsement
- So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules
- After Trump’s Disastrous Musk Interview, Harris Mocks ‘Rich Guys’ Who Can’t Run a Livestream
- Trump Drops New Excuse for His ‘Strange’ Voice in Musk Chat (“Which is weird, because his campaign originally insisted there was nothing wrong with his voice at all.”)
- MAGA Election Official Immediately Spews Conspiracies After Conviction
- Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum
- Ilhan Omar fends off challengers to win primary after AIPAC stays out of the race
- Missouri voters could face choice between continued abortion ban and new constitutional amendment
- With over 577,000 signatures verified, Arizona will put abortion rights on the ballot
- Former NBA player Royce White will take on Klobuchar for Senate seat
- Hovde will win GOP nod to face Democratic Sen. Baldwin in critical Wisconsin race, CNN projects
- The New York Times Is Making a Huge Mistake (“Making endorsements in local races is one of the newspaper’s core responsibilities”)
- Video: New Ad Points Out That Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) “has repeatedly voted to restrict access to abortion, including for servicewomen, and she even voted to punish doctors for reproductive care”
- VA Senate Democrats “Deeply Troubled” by Delay in SOL Score Release, Call for Immediate Action (“The lack of urgency in addressing this issue suggests a troubling indifference to the well-being of Virginia’s students”)
- Tax reform back on table as assembly panel meets for the first time
- New format shows nearly half of Virginia students live in poverty
- Virginia Tobacco Commission considering second round of energy grant requests
- Virginia tutor grant program compromised families’ information
- City of Richmond seals sewer pipe leaking into James River
- Former Virginia Beach economic development director’s travel expenses under scrutiny
- Lynchburg council censures 2 members, strips their seniority, bans them from some proceedings
- Editorial: Hampton VA Medical Center on watch to implement needed changes
- Nansemond Indian Nation aims to heal land, water along their namesake river
- Family Foundation condemns Chesterfield School Board inaction on state transgender policy
- Chesterfield Public Schools appoints interim superintendent
- Roanoke Valley SPCA, Virginia Tech partner on improving animal behavior and research
- Community intensifies search for missing Manassas Park mother (“The community of Manassas Park is rallying together to find missing mother Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who disappeared nearly two weeks ago.”)
- Man who bragged on video about killing teen is convicted of murder in Fairfax County
- Man accused of breaking into Loudoun Co. Public Defender’s Office held without bond
- D.C.-area forecast: Sunny and warm through Thursday. Storm chances return starting Friday.
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