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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 17.
- State of Climate: Earth Hottest on Record again, as CO2 still Climbs and Glaciers Wilt
- Africa’s top climate change challenges: a fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds
- The Chinese Dam Threatening the World’s Most Endangered Ape
- The Trump-Putin summit wasn’t a disaster, but it was a U.S. defeat (I’d say it was pretty close to a disaster.)
- Trump gets marching orders on Ukraine from Putin at Alaska summit
- Trump Has No Cards (“Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?”)
- First Lady Melania Trump’s ‘peace letter’ to Putin: ‘It is time’
- Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions
- Ukrainians Fleeing Russia’s Attacks Say the Alaska Summit Was an Insult
- Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news (“A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable news outlets to do it.”)
- Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv
- Putin made maximalist claims to Ukrainian territory in Trump summit: Sources
- Trump Tells Europeans He Is Open to U.S. Security Guarantees in Ukraine (“U.S. president says that Putin accepted that any peace would need to include presence of Western troops in Ukraine to ensure its durability”)
- Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy and ending a long war
- Ten Ways to Force Putin Back to the Bargaining Table
- Trump left with searing questions after Putin summit (“The Russian leader’s success leaves President Trump’s deal-making myth looking very ragged”)
- In Alaska, Trump gifts Putin more time to grind down Ukraine
- Trump reportedly to back ceding of Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of peace deal (Totally unacceptable.)
- Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
- Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance Over Lost Glory (“Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.”)
- Putin Returns From Summit With Air of Triumph
- ‘A structural dependence on heavy industry’: can South Korea wean itself off fossil fuels? (“Renewables face a bureaucratic maze in a country built on top-down and carbon-intensive development”)
- ‘Unlike any other kind of fear’: wildfires leave their mark across Spain
- US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign (“Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump”)
- Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
- U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Right-Wing Outcry (“The move blocked a pathway for those seeking medical care in the United States, including young children, who have arrived in recent weeks with serious conditions.” Those right wingers are pure evil.)
- Protesters go on strike in Israel demanding ceasefire and release of Gaza hostages
- Democrats Edge Away From Unwavering Support for Israel
- Israel prepares to move Palestinians to southern Gaza as Israelis urge mass protest over war
- Gaza’s Other Crisis—Not Enough Clean Drinking Water
- ‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to
- Trump hiked tariffs on US imports. Now he’s looking at exports – sparking fears of ‘dangerous precedent’
- Job market gloom hasn’t been this bad since the Great Recession
- Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
- Farmers in US midwest squeezed by Trump tariffs and climate crisis
- They’re Powerful Enough to Resist, But Are Caving to Trump (“Resist, But Are Caving to Trump
Corporations and universities with the power to stand up to Trump are instead bowing to his authoritarianism”) - Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others
- Thousands join US ‘Fight the Trump Takeover’ protests against Republican redistricting plans (“Protests against redrawing of electoral maps in Texas and other states take place in 34 US states on Saturday”)
- Trump takes another dictatorial step toward turning America into a police state
- Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington
- More National Guard Soldiers Head to D.C. and Prepare to Carry Weapons (“The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed”)
- West Virginia and South Carolina to Send State National Guard Troops to D.C.
- WATCH: Trump’s Masked Officers Tase Delivery Man in D.C. (“The confrontation was caught on camera by a bystander and shared with The Bulwark”)
- The Situation: Hopscotch is Now Illegal on D.C. Sidewalks
- As Feds Flaunt Trump’s Takeover, DC Pushes Back
- Spanberger declines CNN debate invite, for probably obvious reasons (“CNN, for instance, pays Trump water-carrier Scott Jennings a ton of money to keep people from tuning into its weeknight gabfests. Then, its lead anchor is Jake Tapper, who spent months of CNN airtime promoting his book on Joe Biden’s mental decline, without reporting a single segment on the obvious and much more pronounced mental decline of Donald Trump, who is the current president, not the past guy, like Biden. CNN is, basically, Fox News without the viewers, and to the Spanberger side’s point, the Virginia gubernatorial election is a Virginia issue.”)
- Video: Winsome Earle-Sears “has taken not one but two undisclosed flights on private planes paid for by a top donor” (“WINSOME, LOSE SOME: It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … No, It’s an Ethics Violation.”)
- Mark Rozell: For Va.’s next governor, economy might be all pain, no gain
- Offshore gambling websites’ boom spurs concern in Virginia over lost tax revenue, weak consumer safeguards
- New Article, “How to Destroy a University,” Theorizes That the Trump DOJ’s “unprecedented and remorseless campaign against” UVA Was, in Part, “a convenient way for supporters of J. D. Vance to politically damage Youngkin,” “show Youngkin up”
- Virginia’s Birth Injury Fund promised lifelong care. Families say it’s delivering delays and denials.
- Williams: Youngkin’s OK with detaining a 19-year-old whose family stood up for America. Are you?
- Commentary: In defense of George Mason’s president, and his DEI values
- Category 5 hurricane to fuel dangerous surf in Virginia Beach, Outer Banks
- CWG Live updates: Sunday sizzler with a few late-day storms possible; cooler this week
