by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, July 20.
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- Global quest underway to speed COVID-19 vaccine trials
- Emissions will hit record high by 2023 if green recovery fails, says IEA (“Worldwide energy body warns more must be done to help developing countries give up fossil fuels”)
- From Detroit to Germany to Mumbai, climate change is worsening torrential downpours
- Here’s What Climate Scientists Are Really Saying About This Catastrophic Summer (“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 degrees Celsius.”)
- Floods lay bare Europe’s “gigantic task” in averting future climate damage
- Harrowing report on plastic pollution says we have 29 years to save the ocean (“A journal article and report issued simultaneously point to a (difficult) path towards reducing plastic pollution”)
- ‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report (It should have been, and should be, ZERO – or actually LESS THAN ZERO.)
- Analysis: Caught between China and the U.S., Asian countries stockpile missiles
- Pedro Castillo declared president-elect of Peru (“The country’s election authority announced its verdict after reviewing claims of electoral fraud by his right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori. Mr Castillo, a 51-year-old former school teacher and union leader, secured just over 50% of the votes. He will now be sworn in as Peru’s president on 28 July.”)
- Peru socialist Castillo confirmed president after lengthy battle over results
- Iran’s Kidnapping Plot Exposes Its Paranoia (“A ‘pernicious’ plan to abduct a dissident in Brooklyn is only the latest intelligence scheme to silence dissent and target Americans.”)
- In France, angry protests, rising infections and record vaccinations.
- Haiti minister says ‘big fish’ behind president’s killing still at large (“New prime minister announced as elections chief says current suspects were probably not ringleaders”)
- AP source: Biden looks to increase staffing of Cuba embassy
- EXCLUSIVE U.S. expected to take initial steps soon in aftermath of Cuba protests
- Biden orders review of Havana embassy staff, remittances after Cuba protests
- Biden will not find a clearer case than this to put his muscle behind democracy (That would be Belarus.)
- Markets Stabilize After Worst Fall for Stocks in Months
- New Data Leads To Rethinking (Once More) Where The Pandemic Actually Began
- Pegasus: NSO clients spying disclosures prompt political rows across world (“Concerns that phone-hacking software may have been used to spy on political opponents spark fury”)
- Vaccine mandates more likely once FDA grants full approvals, health experts say (“The regulatory signoff would remove a significant legal and public relations barrier to requirements, former government officials said.”)
- A day of reckoning shows America’s pandemic battle is sliding backward (“A hybrid version of life for the foreseeable future is coming into view, where most of the vaccinated live and many of those who refuse their shots get sick or die”)
- Making sense of the recent Covid-19 spike (“The pandemic isn’t over in the US — but it is changing.”)
- Southern surge: Hospitals brace for wave of Covid cases not seen in months (Just get vaccinated!)
- We’re becoming two Americas: One healthy, one deliberately at risk (“This is not federalism at its best”)
- The right-wing sabotage behind the anti-vax persuasion problem
- Biden Says Inflation ‘Temporary,’ Affirms Fed Independence
- Markets Are No Longer Worried About Inflation
- Jeff Bezos And Blue Origin Will Try To Travel Deeper Into Space Than Richard Branson
- As Jeff Bezos prepares to lift off, he concedes that billionaires-in-space critics are ‘largely right’ (“Well, I say they’re largely right. We have to do both. You know, we have lots of problems here and now on Earth and we need to work on those, and we always need to look to the future. We’ve always done that as a species, as a civilization. We have to do both.”)
- Democrats to Propose a Border Tax Based on Countries’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions (“Senators will introduce a plan on Monday to tax iron, steel and other imports from countries without ambitious climate laws.”)
- It’s official: The Covid recession lasted just two months, the shortest in U.S. history
- Republican mendacity and the education of Joe Manchin (“Why Jan. 6 should impact the filibuster debate.”)
- Pelosi Under Pressure to Decide Next Move on Biden’s Agenda
- Biden Administration Transfers First Detainee Out Of Guantánamo
- Biden Just Explained Why His Version of Capitalism Is Better Than the GOP’s (“It’s more popular, too.”)
- Jeff Bezos to blast into space aboard New Shepard rocket ship
- McCarthy taps Jim Jordan, 4 other House Republicans to serve on Jan. 6 committee to probe pro-Trump riot (It wasn’t a “riot,” it was an insurrection. As for “Gym” Jordan, he’s an insurrectionist himself.)
- Kevin McCarthy Trashed On Twitter For ‘O.J. Simpson’ Approach To Jan. 6 Probe (“Three of the five picks voted against certifying the 2020 election results.”)
- What Is Happening to Our Apolitical Military?
- Biden’s budget vacancy raises eyebrows (“It’s been six months since President Biden took office, and one Cabinet position remains vacant: director of the Office of Management and Budget…Shalanda Young was confirmed months ago as deputy director of OMB and is serving as the acting director in absence of a Senate confirmed leader. Young is well liked on Capitol Hill and within the administration, was confirmed by the Senate as deputy director by a strong 63-37 margin, and is seen as a natural choice for full-time director.”)
- Infrastructure deal in precarious state as endgame nears
- Democrats: Don’t take the GOP bait and get bogged down in the process (“Voters don’t care about process, they care about results. So pass the dang infrastructure bill.”)
- GOP: Bipartisan infrastructure deal has ‘no chance’ on Wednesday (Republicans are not, and have not been, operating in good faith.)
- Republican negotiators retreated from their plan to help reduce the tax gap. That’s disappointing.
- Republicans Have Taken a Brave Stand in Defense of Tax Cheats
- Finally, it is infrastructure week (“Democrats hold the cards here.”)
- The Hill’s Morning Report – Will Schumer back down on his deadline?
- Pelosi’s Dems grit their teeth amid Senate infrastructure drama
- Biden Legal Team Decides Inmates Must Return to Prison After Covid Emergency
- Stop pleading with anti-vaxxers and start mandating vaccinations
- Delta variant poses major risk to Biden’s promises of swift economic comeback
- American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Recommendations for Opening Schools in Fall 2021 (“In addition to vaccinations, the AAP recommends a layered approach to make school safe for all students, teachers and staff in the guidance here. That includes a recommendation that everyone older than age 2 wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. The AAP also amplifies the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for building ventilation, testing, quarantining, cleaning and disinfection in the updated guidance.”)
- Leading Pediatrics Group Recommends All Kids Wear Masks In School This Fall
- All children should wear masks in school this fall, even if vaccinated, according to pediatrics group
- How Bad Is the Bootleg Fire? It’s Generating Its Own Weather.
- What is the suburban realignment to Democrats really made of? (“Republicans are betting that suburbanites will be alienated by bold progressive economics.”)
- Watchdog: Ross misled on reason for citizenship question
- Wilbur Ross probably should be indicted for perjury. Why won’t he be? (“The evidence is overwhelming. The message being sent by letting him off is dangerous.”)
- DOJ won’t prosecute ex-Trump Commerce chief Ross for misleading Congress on census question (Why the f*** not???)
- Merrick Garland’s insurrection ruling and democracy’s destiny
- I Don’t Know What Merrick Garland Is Doing
- Trump’s Business Hauled In $2.4 Billion During Four Years He Served As President (Totally normal, eh?)
- Gridlock in transmission queues spotlights need for FERC action on planning (“FERC is calling for stakeholder input to address the backlog in transmission queues holding 70% of the renewables needed for Biden’s policy goals.”)
- White House Dispute Exposes Facebook Blind Spot on Misinformation
- New chief selected for Capitol Police after 1/6 insurrection
- This Sentence Is Not Satisfactory
- Capitol Rioter Who Walked On Senate Floor On Jan. 6 Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison
- A federal judge upholds Indiana University’s vaccination requirement for students.
- Loneliness Is Breaking America (“A socially healthy society would probably never have elected Trump in the first place. As Daniel Cox, a senior fellow in polling and public opinion at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, wrote in FiveThirtyEight shortly after the 2020 election, the ‘share of Americans who are more socially disconnected from society is on the rise. And these voters disproportionately support Trump.’…A cruel paradox of Covid is that the social distancing required to control it nurtured pathologies that are now prolonging it. Isolated, atomized people turned to movements that turned them against vaccines.”)
- How an Unproven Alzheimer’s Drug Was Approved (Seems like a major f’up.)
- Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Posting Coronavirus Misinformation (Ban her.)
- Republicans Have Their Own Private Autocracy (“But the G.O.P. has become something different, with, as far as I know, no precedent in American history although with many precedents abroad. Republicans have created for themselves a political realm in which costly demonstrations of loyalty transcend considerations of good policy or even basic logic. And all of us may pay the price.”)
- Fox has quietly implemented its own version of a vaccine passport while its top personalities attack them
- The USDA Wants to Make Farms Climate-Friendly. Will It Work?
- The spirit of John Lewis lives on in the voting rights fight
- FBI agent in Whitmer kidnap case arrested following domestic incident
- A House Race in Cleveland Captures the Democrats’ Generational Divide (“Nina Turner’s move from Bernie Sanders’s campaign co-chairwoman to House candidate has highlighted a Democratic divide between impatient young activists and cautious older voters.”)
- The Moderate Position Among Arizona Republicans Is a Slightly Less Insane Lie
- New Report: VA02 Republican Candidate Jen Kiggans Caught Plagiarizing Elaine Luria With ‘Really Bizarre’ Email
- It *Would Be* Debate Week in Virginia…If Glenn Youngkin Weren’t a Coward (“At the VBA debate, Youngkin would have had to answer for a long list of far-right views, toxic allegiances, and dangerous policy proposals.”)
- NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Endorses Governor Terry McAuliffe for Governor and Attorney General Mark Herring for Attorney General (NARAL endorsed Hala Ayala for LG back in May…)
- AG Mark Herring Hiring Virginia’s First Cannabis Attorney As Commonwealth “Moves Forward In Implementing Legal, Regulated Adult Use
- Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association “supports hospitals and health systems amending their existing vaccine policies to require COVID-19 vaccines for their health care employees”
- Amid a crisis at state mental hospitals, calls for private providers to step up
- ‘Epidemic’ of gun violence prompts call for Virginia to use federal dollars to curb shootings
- Monday (7/19) Virginia Data on COVID-19: Still Relatively Low, But…Highest 10-Day New COVID Cases (+3,338) Since 5/30
- Glenn Youngkin’s rookie mistake
- Extremist VA Del. Dave LaRock (R-HD33) Shared Content from 9/11 “Truther” Who Wrote Book on “12-foot-tall alien lizard people, many of whom just happen to be posing as Jews” (LaRock also falsely claimed that COVID-19 vaccines are made from “potentially harmful chemicals and tissue derived from unborn babies”)
- For Virginia, climate action is a matter of faith
- Why 2,500 Afghans and their families may soon arrive at Fort Lee
- Hampton Roads hospitals consider requiring employees to get coronavirus vaccine
- With Monday Vote, SW Virginia Stays Unrepresented on Redistricting Commission
- Virginia’s bluefish catch is shrinking — so is the state’s quota for commercial fisherman
- Recall seeks board member’s ouster over online classes (“The petition submitted Monday to the Fairfax County Circuit Court by the Open FCPS Coalition accuses Elaine Tholen of neglecting her duty when she and other board members opted against in-person learning for roughly 12 months during the pandemic.” Nope.)
- Roanoke City Council votes to rename Lee Plaza for Lacks, freedom
- Richmond officials: Shockoe Bottom plans aim to spur development, invest in historic justice
- Richmond School Board votes to collaborate with city on George Wythe, but on board’s terms
- ‘Born newsman’ Frosty Landon remembered for Roanoke career
- Roanoke County judge orders removal of Confederate monument
- Opinion/Editorial: GOP slap at Sabato fails credibility test (“The Republican Party once was the party of individual freedom. Now the Virginia version of the party has condemned University of Virginia professor and Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato for exercising that freedom.”)
- Fairfax school eyes a portion of a park for a parking lot. Community members say it should look elsewhere.
- D.C.-area forecast: Seasonally summery but sometimes smoky
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