by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 25.
- Chart: A quarter of cars sold in 2025 will be battery-powered (“The global outlook is solid for EV and plug-in hybrid adoption, even as Trump’s trade and policy plans threaten to stifle growth in the U.S.”)
- Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline (“In tests, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 would resort to ‘extremely harmful actions’ to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.” Here we go…)
- Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal (“Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch”)
- REVEALED: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action (“BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.”)
- Chinese PV Industry Brief: January–April solar installations hit 105 GW (China isn’t f’ing around when it comes to increasing solar power generation.)
- Russian attack in Ukraine kills 12 as Zelensky condemns ‘silence of America’
- Russia and Ukraine swap 307 soldiers on second day of POW exchange
- ‘US silence encourages Putin’ says Zelenskyy after largest Russian attack to date (100% accurate.)
- Russia hits Ukraine with the largest drone-and-missile attack of the war so far (If we had a president who wasn’t a huge Putin fanboy, we’d be sending Ukraine weapons to defend itself, adding more sanctions on Russia – and countries helping Russia – etc.)
- Trump softens on Putin as Russia’s military edge weakens, officials say (Beyond bizarre.)
- Russia Launches Massive Aerial Assaults on Ukraine, Defying Trump’s Peace Calls (Putin has zero respect for Trump.)
- Twelve people killed after Russia’s biggest air raid of war against Ukraine (“Three children killed in Kyiv region after 298 drones and 69 missile strikes launched in multiple waves”)
- Europe’s Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump’s Tearing It Up (“The Trump administration sees tariff talks as a chance to pressure a rival into concessions. E.U. officials have acted as though they were dealing with an ally.”)
- Taiwan students heading to Harvard ‘anxious’ after US enrolment block
- “White genocide” and white guilt: Donald Trump versus history (“Trump’s racist assault on South Africa’s president was shockingly clumsy — because the truth doesn’t even matter”)
- Trump Is Making Netanyahu Nervous (“Cracks are showing in the U.S.-Israel alliance.”)
- North Korea makes arrests over botched ship launch (Sounds like it’s Kim Jong Un’s fault more than anyone’s, but of course, he’s not being arrested.)
- King’s invite to Canada sends a message to Trump – and the world
- Salvador-Style Emergency Powers On Track for Noboa’s Ecuador
- Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex (“As President Trump blurs the lines between politics and business, and threatens steep tariffs, governments feel compelled to favor Trump-related projects.”)
- “More confident than ever:” Australia set for stunning low price for solar, with help of robots and AI
- Trump Admin Says Due Process for Immigrants Is ‘Burdensome’ (“Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller tweeted on Saturday, ‘The only process illegals are due is deportation.'” Nope, totally false and fascistic by Miller.)
- The companies raising prices because of Trump’s tariffs (“Many retailers have warned that they won’t, as Trump has suggested, ‘eat’ additional costs caused by import taxes”)
- Trump Tries to Make Sure States Don’t Fight Climate Change Either (“The Trump administration wants to block states from trying to limit the ‘astounding’ costs and impacts of climate change” MAGA really is a death cult.)
- House Republicans nuke incentives for clean energy — except nuclear (SOOOO stupid!)
- A Convenient Piece of Junk Science (“RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a questionable report.”)
- How Trump’s megabill transfers wealth in the US
- ‘Fiscally irresponsible’: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ benefits the rich at the expense of the poor
- Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats
- JUST IN: Judge Strikes Down Another Big Law EO
- J. D. Vance Warns Courts to Get in Line (“The Vice-President says it’s time for Chief Justice John Roberts to step in and make judges behave. He’s wrong.”)
- Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?
- As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests (“President Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback.”)
- Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
- Donald Trump’s ‘Trophy Wife’ Remarks in West Point Speech Raise Eyebrows
- Trump Hijacks West Point Ceremony to Rant About ‘Drag Shows’
- Drag shows, ‘trophy wives,’ and Al Capone: Trump’s rambling West Point commencement left many confused
- Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the ‘great late’ Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address (“President praised his administration’s efforts to end DEI programs and crack down on immigration while addressing West Point’s Class of 2025”)
- Trump MAGAfies West Point (Disaster.)
- Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer (“For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.” Yep, total scam.)
- Trump Seeks Extensive Student Data in Pressure Campaign to Control Harvard
- Why Trump’s triple-down on attacking Harvard is meeting trouble in court
- Something remarkable is happening with violent crime rates in the US (“Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.”)
- 5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold
- The world witnessed George Floyd’s murder. 5 years later, what has changed?
- Exclusive: FEMA chief was set to be fired before public break with Trump (“Cameron Hamilton’s dismissal was seen as punishment for his testimony about FEMA, a view the White House did not contradict. But sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that Trump’s allies already wanted him out.”)
- In Trump v. Springsteen, I Bet on the Boss
- 7 most likely successors to Trump in 2028
- Kamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conference (“Former US vice-president tells conference ‘I do worry, frankly, about what’s happening right now in the world’”)
- Former President Joe Biden makes first public appearance since cancer diagnosis (“Former first lady Jill Biden and the former president’s daughter Ashley posted photos of the family attending a high school graduation.”)
- Joe Biden winning the 2020 nomination was probably suboptimal, but it was not an elite conspiracy
- A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking (This guy is completely deranged.)
- Fetterman Doesn’t Want To Show Up For Work, Says His Mental Health Has Been ‘Weaponized’ (If you’re a US Senator and you can’t or won’t show up to work, just resign.)
- Texas Is Closer To Putting The Ten Commandments In Classrooms After A Key Vote
- What It Looks Like As Andrew Cuomo Closes In on Mayoralty (So f’ing stupid.)
- Column: As governor, I’ll lower health care costs for Virginians (By Abigail Spanberger)
- Augusta Free Press Editor’s Analysis of the Wildly Differing VA Governor’s Race Polls: “it could be what we’re seeing with the discrepancy in the numbers is, the Virginia FREE poll has a thumb or two on the scales” (Also, VA Scope noted that the VA FREE poll was “conducted by Pantheon Insight, a group that was founded by current executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia”)
- Virginia Supreme Court ruling in autistic boy’s case makes clear: School boards immune from most lawsuits
- For state police job, recruiters found ‘superstar’ candidate. Youngkin instead hired an insider.
- Second Virginia measles case reported in Charlottesville (Trump’s and RFK Jr’s America…)
- Williams: A wish list for Richmond’s next CAO
- Commentary: Want to fix Richmond? Build a new IT system
- Norfolk judge asks attorneys to explain who has authority over misdemeanor case
- CWG Live updates: A touch cool, but comfortable before rain chances return late Tuesday
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