by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 30.
- Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation
- China Is Reshaping Global Development. Is That Good for the Planet? (“Some projects have degraded highly sensitive ecosystems and displaced scores of local communities.”)
- Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk (“From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal government”)
- The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (“This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.”)
- The U.S. Has Changed Its Mind About Europe (“After following America’s lead for 80 years, the continent’s democracies do not recognize the danger now before them.”)
- Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints
- France’s Political Order Braces for Shock if Le Pen Is Banned From Elections (“The far-right politician faces a five-year disqualification when judges rule Monday in her embezzlement trial.”)
- Netanyahu Will Travel to Hungary, Meet Orban Despite ICC Warrant
- Hamas reportedly agrees to release five living Israeli hostages for ceasefire (“Militants release video of Israeli captive Elkana Bohbot pleading for freedom as they seek a 50-day halt to conflict”)
- Israel-Hamas ceasefire back on table in new negotiations
- Turkey says Swedish journalist detained on terror charges and for ‘insulting the president’ (“Joakim Medin, who works for the Dagens ETC newspaper, was arrested on Thursday when his plane landed” WTF???)
- Syria’s Leader Announces New Government After Ousting Dictator (“The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would create a government representative of all Syrians.”)
- JD Vance admits that he wasn’t entirely sure why Trump wanted Greenland in the first place
- Prime minister of Denmark to visit Greenland in wake of Vance’s trip
- Trump says military force not off the table for Greenland after Danish FM scolds his administration (NATO would then come to Greenland’s defence, and the US would be at war with NATO???)
- Smell of death permeates Myanmar cities after quake kills over 1,600 and leaves countless buried
- In Bangkok, Looking at High-Rises With a New Sense of Dread (“Buildings are rising all over the city, emblems of economic growth. But an earthquake that sent one crashing to the ground has stirred fears about building safety.”)
- Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism
- SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
- Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
- ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish (“These distant detention facilities and court systems have long been associated with rights violations, poor medical treatment and due process concerns, which advocates argue are only likely to intensify during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and promise to carry out mass deportations that has already led to a surge in the detention population. But rarely do cases within these centres attract much public attention or individual scrutiny.”)
- Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers
- Trump pushes aides to go bigger on tariffs as key deadline nears
- Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise prices due to tariffs, says he believes it will make people buy American-made cars
- Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs (“President denied pressuring automakers to control costs, saying that people would ‘start buying American cars’”)
- Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner
- The Era of Cheap Stuff Was Already Ending. Now Comes the Tariff Threat.
- “Spiraling Deeper and Deeper Into Danger”: RFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Official
- STAT+: Ouster of FDA’s Peter Marks alarms a biopharma industry that saw him as an ally
- Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing
- DOGE fires nearly all staff at U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters (Illegal and unconstitutional.)
- Editorial: Punishing free speech erodes principles that made our country great
- White House Correspondents’ Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinner
- White House Correspondents Fire Comedian For ‘Insulting’ MAGA on Beast Podcast (Seriously, screw the White House Correspondents Association.)
- Trump quickly works to consolidate power and muzzle dissenting voices (“From law firms and universities to the arts and the press, Trump has targeted these independent actors and tried to bend them to his worldview — willingly or not.”)
- Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond
- Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets (“Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America”)
- We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy (“Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.”)
- For Trump, Recent Setbacks Are a Price Worth Paying for Radical Change (“Missteps big and small are part of an approach that gives priority to speed over drawn-out decision-making.”)
- Trump’s election order creates much confusion before the next federal election in 2026
- Signalgate Can Teach Democrats How to Take Down Elon Musk (“A very Trumpian scandal has brought out the best in liberal lawmakers.”)
- Trump says he won’t ‘fire people’ over Signal messages, reiterates support of national security team
- ‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz
- Coons Trashes Hegseth for Bringing Wife to Military Meetings
- They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the White House. (“The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger.”)
- Kristi Noem Refused To Say Who Financed Some Of Her Travel. It Was Taxpayers Who Were On The Hook.
- ‘Never been done’: Why Republicans might approve a budget whose numbers don’t match up (“The planned House vs. Senate split sidesteps a thorny political problem but sets up a tricky path forward.”)
- Elon Musk’s Attempt to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Reaches a New Low (“His vote-buying scheme shows how far he’ll go to extend his plan for oligarchy.” Isn’t this blatantly illegal? If so, will the law actually be enforced???)
- Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power
- Protests against Elon Musk’s purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms
- A Competitive Race for Mike Waltz’s Seat Rattles Republicans
- Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
- After Exit of Top Vaccine Official, Ranking House Oversight Committee Member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11) Demands HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Reverse His Vaccination Suppression Efforts (“I am deeply alarmed that you continue to sow doubts regarding the efficacy of vaccination.”)
- Opinion: As Virginia steers toward recession, our political leaders jump ship (Classic brain-dead “both sidesism,” when the problem here is basically 100% with Republicans – Trump, Youngkin, etc. But yeah, that’s how the Richmond Times-Dispatch and other “mainstream media” outlets roll…)
- Audio: Sam Shirazi’s Detailed 2025 VA House of Delegates Preview Concludes, “Democrats are going to be on the offense trying to potentially flip those eight seats [held by Republicans but carried by Kamala Harris]” (For a read on voter enthusiasm, “keep an eye out for Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court race” (and other races))
- Youngkin’s Vetoes Take Another Hit on Cannabis Reform in Virginia
- Scorecard: How your legislators fared in the General Assembly session
- Hampton Roads cities keeping close watch on federal cuts as they roll out budgets
- Williams: VCU embraces exclusion at its peril
- What Fairfax Co. police chief said about Youngkin’s immigration enforcement callout (“Our plate is full with the enforcement in the investigation of state and local laws for crimes that occur here in Fairfax County. And we do a pretty good job at closing cases here”)
- Ash falling on parts of Arlington and Fairfax County due to ‘very large controlled burn’
- PHOTOS: Crowd protests outside West End Tesla dealership to ‘fight for America’
- CWG Live updates: Staying warm with late-day storms likely tomorrow, then cooler midweek (“Storms late tomorrow afternoon into the evening have a chance to be strong to severe.”)
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