by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, May 23.
- War Plus Climate Change Equals a Perfect Storm
- World faces big challenges over Covid, monkeypox and wars – WHO
- HSBC suspends head of responsible investing who called climate warnings ‘shrill’ (To the contrary, those warnings are completely accurate, if anything not loud enough!)
- Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending
- New global poll: Trust rises in West
- To Quit Putin’s Gas, Europe Must Tack With the North Sea Wind
- Pentagon Weighs Deploying Special Forces to Guard Kyiv Embassy
- A grasp at diplomacy as fighting grinds on in Ukraine
- Russian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin’s war
- Russian soldier sentenced to life at Kyiv war crimes trial (1 down, hundreds more to go…)
- Ukraine says it holds off latest Russian assault in east
- Zelenskyy urges ‘maximum’ sanctions on Russia in Davos talk
- Zelenskiy Calls For Sanctions on Russian Oil, Tech: Davos Update
- ‘We had too much to do to be scared’: the couple who fled Irpin with 19 dogs (“Anastasiya Tikha and her husband, Arthur Lee, fought their way through bombs and gunfire to save the array of animals in their care” Heroes.)
- A Whole Age of Warfare Sank With the Moskva (“A fierce debate is raging within the U.S. Marine Corps about what comes next.”)
- Biden launches Indo-Pacific trade deal, warns over inflation
- U.S. announces major Asia economic deal in effort to boost profile, counter China
- Biden said US would respond ‘militarily’ if China attacked Taiwan, but insisted it was not a policy change. China is angry
- Biden to Begin New Asia-Pacific Economic Bloc With a Dozen Allies
- Biden: US would intervene with military to defend Taiwan
- Kushner’s and Mnuchin’s Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf (Massively corrupt.)
- Saudi Arabia signals support for Russia’s role in Opec+ as sanctions pressure mounts(Yet another reason for us to get off of oil; so we can ditch Saudi Arabia.)
- Women, climate and culture wars: 10 lessons from Australia’s election rout
- Australia Voted for Climate Action. Here’s How Elections Impact Carbon Cuts
- Fossil fuel industry loses its grip over Australia’s climate and energy policies (Bye bye!)
- Labor must move quickly on climate and energy: Here’s a list of things to do
- Civilian killings soar as Russian mercenaries join fight in West Africa (“Documents, imagery and witness accounts point to a heightened Russian presence in Mali, where the military government is locked in a bloody war with extremists. Profits from the Wagner Group flow back to Moscow, helping prop up Vladimir Putin’s government at at time of growing economic isolation over its war in Ukraine.”)
- Welcome to the Next COVID Wave (“It won’t be as bad as the last one, but there are still plenty of ways it can go wrong”)
- Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Ever End? (“If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer.” Uh, it’s not “if”; many/most Americans already decided that. Big mistake.)
- 78,000 pounds of infant formula arrives in US
- Abbott CEO: We’re sorry about the formula shortage. Here’s what we’re doing to fix it. (“The closed plant is on track to open the first week of June. By the end of June, we will be supplying more formula to Americans than we were in January before the recall.”)
- ‘Megadrought’ threatens water and power supplies to millions in US
- Why Shale Drillers Are Pumping Out Dividends Instead of More Oil and Gas (“Compensation plans that once paid executives to boost output now encourage cost cuts and shareholder returns, despite the jump in energy prices”)
- Trump under fire for sharing post ‘calling for civil war’ over US inflation
- Trump Shares Post Suggesting ‘Civil War’ (“‘Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now?’ GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said of the incendiary post.”)
- More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak — CBS News poll
- Why racism is bad for White people (“Racism is immoral and has, again and again, led to deadly violence toward our fellow human beings. It is also a dysfunctional force in our polity. It has been used to divide those who should be allies. It casts politics as a zero-sum struggle. It blocks us from seizing shared opportunities. Racism advantages demagoguery over thoughtfulness and hostility over empathy.”)
- My Lunch With President Biden
- Report: State Legislatures Have Become a Linchpin of Trump’s Attack on Free and Fair Elections
- Trump considered a military coup: Would he have gotten away with it? (“Some Trump allies urged him to declare martial law. Brennan Center expert on the nightmare scenario after that”)
- Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings as it aims to show how Trump broke law
- Juan Williams: The Supreme Court is on the brink of disaster (“Mr. Chief Justice, please save this country from the consequences of the Supreme Court becoming just another extremist political player. “)
- It’s Not Paranoid to Worry That Birth Control Could Be Next
- Bombshell 400-page report finds Southern Baptist leaders routinely silenced sexual abuse survivors
- Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, kept secret database, report says
- This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse (“The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined”)
- Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled clergy sex abuse victims (“Leaders of America’s largest Protestant denomination impeded and denigrated survivors, an investigation commissioned by the church has found.”)
- Pence, Tiptoeing Away From Trump, Lays Groundwork for ’24 Run (Yuuuuck.)
- 11 Primaries To Watch In Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota And Texas
- GOP Candidates Embrace Hard-Line Rhetoric on Abortion (That includes Bob Good in VA05 and Hung Cao in VA10, both of whom the Republicans nominated on Saturday, and both of whom would completely ban abortion in ALL CASES, from moment of conception.)
- In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump (Of course not. Pathetic.)
- Democrats look to defy political headwinds in Georgia (The “headwinds” should be against extremist, anti-democracy Republicans, and the media should make that clear in every article and every headline.)
- Georgia’s GOP Attorney General Primary Is The Next ‘Big Lie’ Battleground (“John Gordon has staked his primary challenge against Attorney General Chris Carr on the conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.” Now THIS is a good headline.)
- Donald Trump Is Desperate for Vindication in Georgia
- Inside the Republican push to stop Trump’s ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia
- Lara Logan, Once a Star at CBS News, Is Now One for the Far Right
- Dem-allied groups drop an A-bomb on Mastriano to start Pa. gov race (“A $6 million campaign will target the GOP candidate’s position on abortion.”)
- VA10 Republicans Nominate Hung Cao, Who Backs “Off-Label Alternatives” to Treating COVID, Is 100% Anti-Reproductive Freedom, Rails Against “Insidious Grooming…of Students” by “government-backed organizations,” etc. to Take on Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10)
- Hung Cao Wins 10th District Nomination – Full Results & Analysis
- Opinion/Editorial: Good proves the darling of extreme fringe (It’s interesting that this is in the opinion section, when it’s actually straight-up objective/factual and could easily be in the news section.)
- Virginia budget negotiators signal they are close to a deal (“Details on what’s in the compromise being hashed out by a handful of senators and delegates remain a closely guarded secret, since the General Assembly is in a special session, with most legislators back home in their districts instead of Richmond, where the dealmaking is underway.”)
- Federal solar import investigation slows Virginia projects (“Dominion, Appalachian Power say they don’t expect significant financial or project timeline impacts”)
- Editorial: Virginia is for book censors?
- Development and poaching erasing years of work to protect wood turtles in Virginia (UGH.)
- Opinion/Column: Northam found redemption with minority focus (Weird headline, but yes, Northam found redemption by focusing on getting a TON of things done when it comes to addressing racial discrimination in Virginia.)
- Breaking: U.S. Judge Bars Envigo From Breeding, Selling Dogs in Groundbreaking Order (“The ruling sheds light on federal investigators’ findings this week at the Cumberland, Va. site.”)
- Hampton Roads seafood businesses want to remove caps on needed visa workers, leaders say
- Liberty University faces continued legal troubles
- Va. lawmakers voted to dissolve a troubled town. Can residents save it? (“The town of Pound, Va., is a worst-case scenario of local government gone wrong. Now the town stands to lose its charter unless local leaders can put aside differences and work together.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: The heat is gone, and cool, showery weather takes over
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