by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 15.
- Heat waves, wildfires & drought: How this summer is a ‘preview’ of Earth’s coming climate crisis
- The U.N.’s Terrifying Climate Report (“Scientists predict hotter heat waves and worse flooding in the decades ahead, but the catastrophe is evident everywhere this summer.”)
- Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
- It’s now or never: Scientists warn time of reckoning has come for the planet
- Aramco Joins Group Building Giant Solar Plant in Saudi Arabia
- Global Supply Chains Are Being Battered by Fresh Covid Surges
- Delta Variant Wreaks Havoc From Vietnam to America: Virus Update
- Haiti earthquake latest: At least 304 people dead, more than 1,800 injured
- Quake kills hundreds in Haiti, worsening Caribbean nation’s plight
- Taliban capture key northern city, approach Afghan capital
- Taliban enters Kabul, putting Afghan government on brink of collapse
- Afghanistan’s rapid deterioration leaves allies questioning U.S. resolve on other fronts
- Statement by President Joe Biden on Afghanistan
- Biden administration scrambled as its orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan unraveled
- Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations
- Afghans Despair Over Long Visa Process as Taliban Close In on Kabul (“U.S. is airlifting visa holders out of the country every day, but tens of thousands of applicants in Afghanistan await processing”)
- Taliban surge exposes failure of U.S. efforts to build Afghan army
- Taliban enter Afghan capital as US diplomats evacuate by chopper
- Biden Orders 1,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan, Reiterates Drawdown Commitment
- From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
- Afghanistan on the brink of Taliban takeover
- Taliban Reaches Kabul, Says in Talks for Peaceful Transition
- Taliban fighters enter outskirts of Kabul as U.S. forces evacuate Western diplomats
- Pelosi ‘deeply concerned’ for women amid Taliban gains in Afghanistan
- Analysis: President Biden’s advisers were stunned by the Taliban’s rush through Afghanistan. They shouldn’t have been.
- When the Far Right Picks Fights With a Teen (“How Greta Thunberg became the target of a barrage of disinformation and conspiracies” Sick shit.)
- Canada is about to have an unnecessary, but very important, election. This is why.
- U.S. Vaccine Doses Rise to Almost 1 Million a Day Amid New Surge
- New Covid-19 Hospitalizations for 30- to 39-Year-Olds at Record Rate
- ‘This is starting to look really ominous in the South,’ expert says, as US is among nations with highest rate of new Covid-19 cases
- U.S. Daily Death Toll From Covid-19 Almost Doubles in Two Weeks
- As Children’s COVID Cases Surge, There’s Another Virus On The Rise (“Health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic say there is another concerning prospect looming: a surge in children diagnosed with a combination of COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus.”)
- Mask, vaccine mandates cause new divides as officials try to halt surge
- Trump or Obama: Whose legacy will reshape American politics for the years ahead? (“With Barack Obama, American history was trending toward a liberal partisan realignment — until the backlash” Except it really wasn’t after the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans romped.)
- News Analysis: How the Census Bureau Stood Up to Donald Trump’s Meddling
- Senate backlog of Biden nominees frustrates White House (“The Senate has confirmed just 144 of the 442 nominees submitted by Biden, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a group that works toward improving government effectiveness.” Crazy.)
- Nothing is more urgent than breaking the GOP voting rights blockade
- Biden must make the case for ending the filibuster to protect voting rights
- We once backed using the filibuster. Now it must be reformed.
- In Backlash to Racial Reckoning, Conservative Publishers See Gold (Gross.)
- The Texas GOP’s war on governing (“Republican lawmakers in Texas have put political ambition above public good amid statewide crises.”)
- How Ron DeSantis’s Covid response became the model of what not to do (Glenn Youngkin thinks DeSantis is amazing!)
- 3 Florida Educators Die Of COVID-19 Within 24 Hours As Schools Prepare To Reopen
- Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus (That’s what Glenn Youngkin would do if, god forbid, he ever became governor of Virginia.)
- Police Arrest Teen Accused of Helping GOP Strategist’s Underage Sex Trafficking
- Mississippi 8th Grader Dies With COVID Hours After Gov. Reeves Downplays Child Cases
- One person stabbed as COVID anti-vaxxers and counterdemonstrators clash in front of L.A. City Hall
- Opinion/Editorial: Spanberger bill directs aid to substance abuse recovery, prevention
- Glenn Youngkin and Virginia GOP Ticket Rally With Yet Another Attendee of Jan. 6th Insurrection
- Opinion: Net-zero emissions by 2050 are achievable, affordable in Va.
- Northam Mask Mandate Moves COVID Front and Center in Campaign
- Virginia is growing more diverse; population growth reserved for urban and suburban areas
- Editorial: Follow the money (“The General Assembly appropriated vast sums of federal relief money this week. Now lawmakers must make sure the money works are promised.”)
- ‘It can be a real game changer’: How Virginia families are using the new child tax credit for food, child care and more
- Surovell: How Democrats diversified the courts
- At this point, more than shots needed to slow coronavirus in Virginia, scientists say
- What the Park Police knew before they shot Bijan Ghaisar (“An unarmed young man was killed by officers aware he’d been struck in a fender-bender.”)
- Interstate expansion, highway upgrades and bike trails: Here’s the future of transportation in Hampton Roads
- UVa students — vaccinated and masked — return to Grounds this week
- ‘It’s taken the heart out of the community’: Mountain Valley Pipeline cuts through tiny village of Newport
- D.C.-area forecast: Mostly cloudy and not as hot today, with a few showers possible
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