by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 14.
- Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West (“Warming temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are helping expand the range of heartworm-carrying mosquitoes and other vectors for diseases that afflict dogs and cats.”)
- It is difficult to imagine a post-American world. But imagine it we must
- Russian Attack on Sumy in Ukraine Kills and Wounds Dozens (EVIL.)
- Zelensky urges Trump to visit Ukraine ahead of deal with Russia
- Trump Makes More Excuses for Russia After Latest Horror (“The president did not condemn Russia or Putin for a Palm Sunday attack that killed 34 people, including children.” Horrifying.)
- Trump Is Getting Owned by China—but He’s Making Showering Great Again
- ‘Invasion’ barges, subsea cable cutters and surprise naval drills: how China is testing Donald Trump
- Trump’s showdown with China deepens, with huge stakes for the economy (“The president faces an urgent need to de-escalate trade war he ignited with Beijing before it inflicts deep damage”)
- China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies
- U.S. Allies Are Sitting Out Trump’s Trade War With China
- Why Wouldn’t China Weaponize Its $760 Billion Treasury Holdings?
- Trump mulls semiconductor levies after lifting reciprocal tariffs on electronics
- Trump Signals New Tariffs on Chips, Calling Exclusions Temporary
- Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer
- Trump news at a glance: Deep confusion as Trump signals new tariffs on smartphones and computers
- Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs
- Daniel Noboa is reelected Ecuador’s president by voters weary of crime (This is the thing, most voters hate crime and criminals – and will vote for authoritarianism if they think that will help stop it, even if authoritarianism makes their lives worse in many other ways.)
- Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings (Hungary’s Orban is one of Trump’s models!)
- Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging (UGH.)
- Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained (“‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says”)
- Trump Slump Hits U.S. Tourism as European Visitors Steer Clear
- When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
- Trump set to host Bukele at White House as El Salvador plays key role in administration’s immigration agenda
- Rubio says another 10 people have been sent to El Salvador (Reminder: Rubio was confirmed 99-0. That tells us a lot about how US Senators think…or more to the point, do NOT think! Because yes, they should have known who and what Rubio was – lots of us outside the Senate sure did!)
- Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines (“Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?”)
- Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US
- A note about injunctions in the context of the Abrego Garcia case (“It is in the nature of a constitutional crisis that one cannot predict the next events to unfold – for if one could predict what will happen next then it would not be a crisis. Perhaps nothing dramatic will happen at all – and this will be another quiet tug on the fabric of the constitution the effects of which will worsen over time. But it is hard to see anything good coming of this.”)
- American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
- No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
- The Attack on International Students
- Trump’s attacks on immigrants threaten the fundamental right to due process (“The president hasn’t shied away from ignoring court orders and violating legal norms in his push to remove noncitizens”)
- Official who oversaw dismantling of USAID leaves State Department (“Pete Marocco, a Trump administration official, left his position after less than three months. He and Elon Musk both recommended severe cuts to the aid agency.”)
- Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement (“Justice Department backs away from some cases involving foreign bribery, money laundering and crypto markets; defense lawyers brace for slowdown”)
- RFK’s pledge to discover the “cause” of autism isn’t just a ploy — it’s a war on children’s health (“The head of this “research” is no doctor — and has a history of torturing kids with fake autism “cures””)
- Critics slam deregulation of crypto as Trump family expands its footprint in industry (“Watchdogs say cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement has plummeted while Trump family invests heavily in it” Massively corrupt.)
- President Trump says CBS and ’60 Minutes’ should ‘pay a big price’ for going after him (That’s a direct and dangerous – and disgraceful! – attack on the First Amendment.)
- Trump Has A ‘Maximum’ Meltdown On Social Media After Hate-Watching ‘60 Minutes’ (“The Ukraine segment featured an interview with the nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by correspondent Scott Pelley. Pelley noted that Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine “immediately” and before even taking office, which did not happen. Pelley asked Zelenskyy about Trump’s false claim that Ukraine started the war, and that Zelenskyy is a ‘dictator.’ ‘I believe, sadly, Russian narratives are prevailing in the U.S.,’ Zelenskyy said. The other segment to trigger Trump involved Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory which the president has insisted should become part of the United States.”)
- Risk of failure looms large as GOP starts drafting the ‘big, beautiful bill’
- Johnson: US must ‘eliminate people on Medicaid’ who are not ‘eligible to be there’
- Meta faces historic antitrust trial that could force it to break off Instagram, WhatsApp (Good, do it!)
- Meta’s Antitrust Trial to Put Mark Zuckerberg to the Test Again
- Will Meta survive Judge Boasberg? The drama starts Monday. (Let’s hope not!)
- Suspect in custody after overnight fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence
- Josh Shapiro’s Firebombed House Revealed in New Inside Pics
- Harrisburg man to be charged with attempted murder for setting fire to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Harrisburg residence
- Cody Balmer’s Social Media Reveals Anti-Joe Biden Posts
- Texas Muslims Want to Build Homes and a Mosque. The Governor Says No. (Abbott is a fascist.)
- US Senator Tim Kaine arrives in Kyiv
- Senator Mark Warner seeks answers for USDA cuts, bipartisan letter sent to officials
- Video: At Town Hall, Rep. Suhas Subramanyamn (D-VA10) Says “things are NOT going well,” but “when we have actually put pressure on the administration, we have gotten some results” (Subramamyam also defends his vote for the Laken Riley Act, denies that he’s taken money from AIPAC or that his votes are swayed by contributions…)
- Va. education department submits overdue reports to lawmakers; one report outstanding (“Reports summarize teacher salaries, how much localities are paying for schools”)
- Republicans in swing districts unite in ‘Purple Caucus’ ahead of Va. House races (Every one of them needs to lose.)
- Back in spotlight: Virginia’s six-year legal battle over solitary confinement
- Virginia is close to becoming the nation’s largest no-kill state
- Fury and fear drive thousands in Hampton Roads to protest Trump administration
- President of VMI board steps down citing personal reasons (“VMI Board of Visitors President John Adams has resigned — six weeks after the board voted not to renew the contract of Superintendent Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins.”)
- A grassroots fight against data centers builds in rural Pittsylvania County
- Roanoke Earth Day Celebration spotlights renewable energy with “Our Power, Our Planet”
- CWG Live updates: Warm today before evening showers, storms. Windy midweek.
