by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, June 27.
- ‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
- Shipping is one of the world’s dirtiest industries – could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets?
- Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends (“As some wealthy countries backslide on climate promises, the world’s least developed countries warn that “every fraction of a degree matters.””)
- Nearly a third of Tuvalu citizens enter ballot for climate-linked visa to relocate to Australia
- Chart: Which countries get the most power from solar and wind?
- Oil set for steepest weekly decline in two years as risk subsides
- ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts
- China Confirms US Trade Framework, Vows to Review Exports
- US reaches deal with China to speed up rare-earth shipments, White House says
- Exclusive poll: Most voters back Iran strikes, but worry about attacks on U.S.
- Tehran is coming back to life, but its residents are deeply shaken
- Iran Dismisses US Claim of Nuclear Talks Resuming Next Week
- Did the US Obliterate Iran’s Nuclear Program? We Just Don’t Know
- What senators are saying after being briefed on the US strikes on Iran
- Exclusive: Details emerge of secret diplomatic efforts to restart Iran talks
- Trump and Hegseth Are Melting Down Over Leaked Iran Strike Intel (“The president and his Pentagon chief have furiously lashed out at the media for not sufficiently praising the strikes”)
- Battling to survive, Hamas faces defiant clans and doubts over Iran (Hamas definitely needs to die.)
- Inside ‘Operation Narnia,’ the Daring Attack Israel Feared It Couldn’t Pull Off
- Dollar falls to three-year low after report Trump may name next Fed chair early
- Support Rises For Giving Most Undocumented Immigrants A Pathway To Legal Status vs. Deportations,
- US plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that’s not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge (This is truly Kafkaesque.)
- White House: Report Abrego Garcia will be deported again “fake news”
- Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami
- Florida plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail sparks chorus of outrage (“Environmental groups, immigration advocates and Native Americans decry idea to set up the outdoor detention camp” Just heinous all around.)
- US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’ (“Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister”)
- On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers
- Supreme Court meets Friday to decide 6 remaining cases, including birthright citizenship
- States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules (This Supreme Court far-right majority is systematically destroying our country.)
- Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’
- The Supreme Court’s disastrous new abortion decision, explained (“The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.” Pure evil.)
- Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines
- CDC vaccine advisory committee recommends against flu vaccines containing thimerosal (This is BONKERS.)
- Asbestos, Measles, Coal Plants: How Kennedy and Trump are Making America “Healthy” Again
- Republicans scramble to save Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
- Key Medicaid provision in Trump’s bill is found to violate Senate rules. The GOP is scrambling
- House GOP fumes at changes to Trump bill: “Insulting and disgusting”
- 5 House Republicans declare red line on megabill land sales
- GOP agrees to drop ‘revenge tax’ from megabill after Bessent cites progress in global talks
- Senate Republicans explore tweaks to pension plan after parliamentarian ruling
- Who Is the Senate Parliamentarian and Why Do Some Republicans Want Her Fired?
- Thune says Senate won’t overrule parliamentarian
- Republicans Prepare to Open ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Budget Gimmicks
- How Fox News is hiding the GOP’s brutal Medicaid cuts
- Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan (“The parliamentarian’s go-ahead is a win for Republican senators, who are scrambling to keep their policy megabill together.”)
- Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard
- The Criminals Are Running DOJ
- Despite “No Kings,” the Trump resistance is still “muscle-building” (“Four experts on what could be a hot summer of protest and how to get at Trump’s Achilles’ heel”)
- Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting (Trump’s continuing to try and intimidate the press.)
- Why did Pete Hegseth attack Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin for being right?
- ‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration (“Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.”)
- DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations (Wildly illegal and unconstitutional.)
- The Situation: The Talented Mr. Bove (“He’s got all the skills, and none of the ethics, needed for service on the bench.”)
- Former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York over 2020 election interference case
- Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91 (R.I.P.)
- Harvard Is Asking Corporations to Fill Its Federal Funding Gap
- Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor’s ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN
- Inside Andrew Cuomo’s flat, flailing comeback bid
- Eric Adams Meets With Business Leaders Desperate to Stop Mamdani’s Rise
- Metro needs billions to stay on track, but local leaders say a regional tax is not the answer (It actually IS the answer, but they are afraid to propose it.)
- Warner, Kaine push senate committee to reauthorize 18 VA medical facility leases
- Sen. Tim Kaine on how much damage was done to Iran’s nuclear capacity
- Senator Warner demands cost analysis for HUD move to Alexandria, raises concerns about NSF displacement
- A guide to the GOP primary in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District (Pretty useless, as the Republicans largely didn’t respond to questions.)
- A guide to the Democratic primary in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District (Four candidates didn’t respond to the questionnaire, but there ARE a few interesting responses in here, like the “yes” responses by Lee, Punnoose and Roma about increasing oil production…)
- Democratic Attorneys General Association Announces Initial $1 Million in Virginia AG Race (“With so much at stake, it’s vital we take back this seat in November”)
- National Democrats pour $1 million into Jay Jones’ bid to flip Virginia AG seat
- Video: Jason Miyares, John Reid Ratchet Up the Fear Mongering (“crazy”/”leftist communists”/”domestic terrorist attitude”/”sided with felons over police”), Personal Insults (“Abbitard”), etc. Yes, It’s Going to Be a Loooong Next Few Months.
- Virginia gubernatorial candidate Spanberger brings bus tour to Northern Virginia
- Pope & Schapiro: Virginia governors and the pursuit of the presidency
- Abigail Spanberger: ‘It’s time to get culture wars out of our schools and let teachers teach’ (They’re not “culture wars,” they’re an attack by the far right on LGBTQ kids, teaching the full history of America, etc.)
- Ebbin and Henson respond to Reid opposing amendment to repeal defunct same-sex marriage ban
- Full Interview: Abigail Spanberger on her run for Virginia governor
- Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign (“The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.”)
- DOJ officials call for UVa President Jim Ryan to resign
- ‘Hallowed ground, desecrated’: ICE sweeps at Chesterfield court draw fierce backlash
- Schools in Hampton Roads region brace for potential federal cuts, explore block grants
- Augusta County answers FOIA, releases documents on Pride event cancellation (“After sifting through the documents, unfortunately, we still don’t know who or what led the Augusta County Board of Supervisors to push for the cancellation of the event, aside from the obvious.”)
- 62 years after Danville’s civil rights movement, both the city and the local newspapers have evolved
- Queer in present danger in RVA
- Lawsuit seeks $3M, alleges ‘systemic failures’ caused Henrico jail death
- CWG Live updates: Much cooler and cloudy today. Toastier with storms this weekend.
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