by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 13.
- World’s Top Economies Confront Inflation, Disease, War
- Scholz to Reinforce Consequences in Putin Talks: Ukraine Update
- Biden warns Putin of ‘swift and severe costs’ amid fears of imminent Ukraine invasion
- U.S. Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves
- Russians Have Already Started Hybrid War, Ukraine Says (“For Russia to create havoc in Ukraine, it may not need to launch an all-out invasion. Ukrainian officials say that Moscow is stepping up a destabilization campaign involving cyberattacks, economic disruption and, most recently, hundreds of false bomb threats.”)
- ‘Putin is a crazy old man’: Kyiv residents brush off invasion fears as daily life continues
- U.S. says diplomacy still open to end Ukraine standoff with Russia
- New detail about Russian “false flag” plan prompts U.S. to prepare for worst in Ukraine
- Thousands march in Kyiv to show unity against Russian threat
- U.S., NATO prepare to sharpen eastern defenses if Russia invades Ukraine
- Russia says it chased off a U.S. submarine from its far east waters
- Biden tells Putin that Ukraine invasion would cause “irrevocable damage”
- Blockades on Canada-US border continue as protests swell
- Canada truckers protest: After a police raid, what next?
- Protests grow across Canada as police struggle to reopen key bridge (“Police had early success in clearing Ambassador Bridge, but demonstrators still choke vital trade route”)
- US, Japan, South Korea meet in Hawaii to discuss North Korea
- Dry winter drains reservoirs, ruins crops in Spain, Portugal
- Science, not politics, should dictate school mask mandates
- “Trump will get his comeuppance”: Rep. Jamie Raskin promises consequences for Jan. 6 (“Maryland Democrat on his bestselling book, his unbearable personal loss and bringing Donald Trump to justice”)
- Flushed or just lost to history? Trump leaves hole in the record.
- Giuliani in Talks to Testify to House Jan. 6 Panel
- Inside McConnell’s Campaign to Take Back the Senate and Thwart Trump
- Democrats in a fury as Trump docs revive trauma of Clinton emails (The “trauma” is that the “mainstream media” actually made a huge deal of Clinton’s emails, far more so than they’re making of the 1,000-times-worse Trump situation, and also that it helped lead to the disastrous Trump presidency.)
- Selling Trump: A Profitable Post-Presidency Like No Other (So not only is there no justice, Trump’s cashing in. Greeeaaaat.)
- Rand Paul said he hopes trucker protests ‘clog up cities,’ including during Super Bowl and in DC (Rand Paul is a total nutjob, extremist, and a disgrace to the US Senate.)
- George F. Allen and Mark R. Warner column: Excellence in education requires a community of support
- Luria brings in nearly $200,000 from corporate PACs donations since dropping pledge to reject their money
- Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA: “While clearly the surge of cases is over, I think we are still a few weeks away from going back to life as normal” (CDC article looks at “effectiveness of mask use for preventing COVID”)
- Virginia to launch mobile COVID testing program after closing community testing sites
- Loudoun Dems Agree with Sen. Boysko’s, Del. Subramanyam’s “outrage and alarm at the conduct of [Jason] Miyares and his office” (LCDC writes that “the stench of a quid-pro-quo appears likely” involving Miyares and his “flunky assigned with the Loudoun probe”)
- Six books pulled for review because of ‘sexually explicit’ content will return to Virginia Beach schools, report says
- Fox students will go virtual starting Wednesday, RPS will look at moving them to other schools temporarily
- Fox Elementary, a Richmond institution since 1911, closed indefinitely after late-night fire
- After Devastating Fire at Fox Elementary in Richmond, VA, It’s Time to Support the Community and Help Rebuild
- Editorial: Love for Hampton Roads
- A new life in Southwest Virginia, much uncertainty, but hope after escape from Afghanistan
- D.C.-area forecast: Light snow or snow showers this morning as wintry chill returns
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