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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 12.
- How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: ‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’
- What’s causing bird flu to surge? Probably climate change, experts say (“Our overheating planet has changed how birds migrate — giving H5N1 the boost it needed to spread rapidly”)
- The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
- How Climate Change Has Fueled L.A.’s Devastating Wildfires: ‘We Have Unleashed Forces Beyond Our Control’
- ‘The worst way of dying’: scientists urge coordinated effort to stop whales getting tangled
- Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these hurdles (“But to make fusion a feasible source of commercial power, engineers now have to tackle a host of practical challenges.”)
- Wall Street looks forward to a bonfire of capital and climate rules under Trump
- Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
- Trump’s talk of expansion puts world leaders on alert
- Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia
- North Korean troops in Ukraine gain battlefield experience, cementing alliance with Russia
- Syria’s Alawites, Sect of the Assads, Fear for Their Future (“They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings—are beginning to resemble a pattern of anti-Alawite acts.”)
- Syria Confronts an Immense Challenge: Justice for Assad Regime Crimes
- Yoon Suk Yeol to miss start of South Korea impeachment trial on safety grounds (“Lawyer for suspended president says concerns about ‘potential incidents’ have arisen following thwarted attempt to arrest him at his residence”)
- The real danger of Trump’s Greenland gambit
- What Trump Really Wants From Greenland and Panama (“Yes, the president-elect really is serious about expanding the U.S. But what he mostly wants is to bully small countries that won’t fight back.”)
- ‘Why pick a battle over this?’: Trump’s threats over Panama Canal reopen wounds over 1989 US invasion
- Canada’s former leader Chrétien has blunt advice for Trump: ‘Give your head a shake!’
- How Biden’s middle-path foreign policy went off course (“The president laudably proceeded with care and caution, but he was unable to calm the storms buffeting the global order.”)
- More than a dozen states have passed new laws that led to restrictions on pornography. Now, the Supreme Court will weigh in
- Congress to Trump: Yes to removing criminals, no to mass deportations (“The president-elect would be wise to learn something from the Laken Riley Act.”)
- Fake news is driving us apart amid disaster — but slanted news is slowly drowning our democracy
- The Inauguration of Trump’s Oligarchy (“Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it would embarrass a medieval Pope.”)
- Vichy Democrats Take Note: The Republican Congress Is Coming for Everything
- Trump tells House Republicans to find a ‘fair number’ on SALT
- DOJ says judge was ‘plainly’ wrong to block Trump election interference report
- Special counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ
- F.B.I. Briefs Top Senators on Armed Services Panel About Hegseth
- Steve Bannon: ‘I Will Do Anything’ to Keep Elon Musk out of the White House
- Vance Says Violent Jan. 6 Protesters Shouldn’t Be Pardoned
- Republican congressman calls for halting of disaster relief to California (Nutjob.)
- LA’s biggest blaze threatens communities west of 405 freeway
- Los Angeles Fire Pushes Northeast to Threaten Bel Air, Brentwood
- Los Angeles wildfires death toll rises as crews fight heavy winds to save homes and landmarks
- The Insurance Crisis That Will Follow the California Fires (“For years, experts have warned that homeowner insurance in the state could easily collapse.”)
- Aerial assault aims to stem LA Palisades fire eastward spread
- California Governor Gavin Newsom Invites Donald Trump To Witness the Firestorm Devastation: “We Must Not Politicize Human Tragedy.”
- Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
- The Washington Post Is Limping Into Trump’s Second Term
- Tim Kaine on Trump effort to end birthright citizenship: ‘No legal basis’
- Glenn Youngkin Signs on to GOP Governors’ Letter Expressing “overwhelming support” for Trump/Musk/Ramasawamy’s “DOGE” Effort to Slash the Federal Government (This, of course, would do enormous harm to the country, as well as to Virginia.)
- Commentary: In Virginia, Medicaid expansion is in jeopardy. Protect it
- Boil Water Advisory Lifted in City of Richmond, as Well as Hanover, Henrico, and Goochland Counties (Mayor Avula pledges “comprehensive and transparent after-action analysis to better understand what happened”)
- All Richmond-area boil water notices lifted
- Virginia officials lift Richmond’s boil-water advisory
- Richmond’s water crisis: 115 hours without drinkable water (“How a meager snowstorm could cripple Richmond’s water supply for six calendar days is still being investigated. Here’s a timeline of how the events unfolded.”)
- Schapiro: For Avula, the unsexy can be politically sexy
- Could Richmond’s type of water crisis happen in the New River and Roanoke valleys?
- Editorial: Rolin Hill’s death in jail demands a new approach to those in crisis (“Our approach toward those experiencing a mental health crisis needs to change following the death of Rolin Hill at the Virginia Beach jail.”)
- CWG Live updates: Not as cold today and tomorrow. A harsh chill returns by Tuesday.
