by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 28.
- Global coal demand is set to return to its all-time high in 2022 (“Despite a slowing global economy and lockdowns in China, soaring natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are propping up the world’s use of coal this year” UGH.)
- Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
- NASA Will Launch 2 More Helicopters To Mars To Help Get Rock Samples Back To Earth
- The Strong Dollar Is Wreaking Havoc Globally — And It’s Just Getting Started
- Russia Launches Massive Missile Strikes On Kyiv, Chernihiv Regions Of Ukraine
- Can the West muster the will to face down Russia?
- Russian-occupied Kherson cut off as Ukraine counter-attacks – Britain
- U.S. makes Griner release offer; strikes reported outside Kyiv, other regions
- Ukraine Pushes to Retake Ground as Russia Reinforces Southern Front
- ‘New Cold War’: Russia and West vie for influence in Africa
- Russia steps up strikes on Ukraine amid counterattacks
- A hero of the Trump right shows his true colors: Whites only (That would be Hungary’s fascist prime minister Viktor Orban)
- While China has long used combative language, some worry new threats over Pelosi’s Taiwan trip aren’t empty
- Pelosi should go to Taiwan — when the time is right
- What Biden and Xi’s Past Calls Say About How This One Will Go
- Biden looks to tamp down Taiwan tension during China Xi call
- US Carrier Group Enters South China Sea Amid Taiwan Tensions
- Kim Jong-un says North Korea ready to mobilise nuclear forces
- Companies Flocked to China for Boom Times. Now They’re Thinking Twice.
- Powell: No recession right now, but anything’s possible
- Federal Reserve raises interest rates; Powell warns of labor market slowdown
- US economy likely grew modestly, if at all, last quarter
- Fed Watchers Say Markets Got It All Wrong on Powell ‘Pivot’
- Analysis: After another jumbo Fed hike, some investors see glimmers of hope
- Powell Signals More Fed Hikes Coming, Leaves Out Details This Time
- Falling gas prices blunt Republican campaign attacks
- Dark money group funded by oil and gas industry falsely blames Democrats for gas prices (“The American Action Network makes no mention of its fossil fuel donors in a barrage of attack ads against Democratic House incumbents.”)
- Did Manchin and Schumer Just Play Mitch McConnell?
- Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Surprise Reconciliation Deal (“The Kentucky Republican said the Senate wouldn’t pass a computer chip bill if Democrats pursued budget reconciliation, but it did and they are.”)
- U-turn as Manchin agrees deal with Democrats on major tax and climate bill (“Biden notes ‘extraordinary effort it took to reach this result’ and urges Congress to pass measure”)
- Biden pledge to tax wealthy, companies revived with Manchin-led bill
- Manchin’s agreement on energy and health care bill represents notable flip
- What’s in, and out, of Democrats’ inflation-fighting package
- Biden’s agenda is, in fact, back
- In a major boost to Democrats, Manchin and Schumer announce deal for energy and health care bill
- Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Surprise Reconciliation Deal
- Manchin says he has reached deal with Schumer on climate, health-care costs (“The spending package aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate change and reduce the federal deficit, and marks a massive potential breakthrough for President Biden’s long-stalled economic agenda.”)
- Climate Deal Would Be Most Ambitious of Its Kind Undertaken by U.S.
- Biden’s Presidency Is Back From the Dead (“Joe Manchin has agreed to a wide-ranging deal after all”)
- Manchin’s latest shocker: A $700B deal
- Manchin, in Reversal, Agrees to Quick Action on Climate and Tax Plan
- Manchin Supports Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Senate passes bipartisan bill investing $52 billion in US semiconductor production
- Senate passes massive package to boost U.S. computer chip production
- Backers of same-sex marriage legislation hopeful they’ll pick up the needed GOP votes
- Republicans have a nonsensical argument against the same-sex marriage bill (“They’re glossing over a very real threat these protections could face.”)
- It Sure Looks Like the DOJ Is Closing its Net Around Trump (“It’s turning into the cliffhanger of the century.”)
- Justice department gets warrant to search Trump lawyer’s phone (“John Eastman spoke at a rally before the Capitol attack and claimed Mike Pence could halt certification of Biden’s election win”)
- When it rains on Donald Trump, it pours. And the deluge is just beginning. (“The former president might be held accountable after all.”)
- Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson cooperating with DOJ probe
- Another Jan. 6 committee achievement: A feistier Biden
- Malcolm Nance: ‘The Republican party is an insurgent party’
- Trump Just Told Us His Master Plan (“If he gets in next time, he won’t be dislodged by any means.”)
- Explosive revelations about Trump’s coup plot demand a quick response
- Trump is in growing legal and political jeopardy after a whirlwind week
- Dems fear red states banning abortion will zero in on birth control next
- The math is clear: Forced-birth laws will kill more women (“They are certainly not ‘pro-life.'”)
- Two ex-officers who restrained George Floyd sentenced to 3 years and 3.5 years in federal prison
- Trump threatens CNN with lawsuit over ‘defamatory’ reporting (Hahahahaha.)
- Jared Kushner alleges chief of staff shoved Ivanka Trump at White House (“In a forthcoming memoir, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former presidential adviser, portrays John F. Kelly as having a bullying, ‘Jekyll-and-Hyde’ demeanor. Kelly denies the allegations.”)
- Clarence Thomas won’t teach GW Law seminar (Thomas shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court.)
- “Alito Was Using Phrases We Had Invented as Bumper-Sticker Slogans in a Supreme Court Decision”
- Gun Makers Too Busy Raking in Cash to Figure Out What All This Death is About
- A gun industry insider’s powerful testimony is cause for despair (“America has been flooded with AR-15s, and gun advocates say that very fact gives them legal protection.”)
- MAGA Doesn’t Care About Cops
- Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal ban on gay sex
- Kamala Harris’s Blue Suit (“The vice president sought to accommodate the blind by stating what, to the sighted, was obvious. Social-media confusion ensued.”)
- Mandela Barnes gets open path to take on Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson
- A new Georgia voting law reduced ballot drop box access in places that used them most
- Exclusive: Former Republicans and Democrats to form new third U.S. political party (Completely asinine.)
- Doug Mastriano Faces Criticism Over His Backing From Antisemitic Ally
- Gab CEO Andrew Torba on Jews: We’re “done” being “told what we’re allowed to do in our own country by a 2% minority”
- Reality crashes down on Meta
- Highland Park parade mass shooting suspect indicted on 117 charges by Illinois grand jury (“The additional charges returned Wednesday include counts of attempted murder for every person wounded by a bullet or shrapnel in the Fourth of July attack.”)
- Mainstream media follows right-wing framing in Lee Zeldin keychain incident (“National outlets reflexively foreground a supposedly tough-on-crime approach. Criminal justice advocates are nowhere to be found.”)
- Elon Musk Wanted to Buy Twitter. Or Did He? (“In private, he’s sought legal outs from the deal he signed. In public, he has often seemed determined to present himself as an unacceptable custodian of the ‘digital town square.'”)
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Passage of “CHIPS” Bill a “Sputnik Moment” for USA; Favors “targeted [student loan] debt relief”; Says “having Medicare negotiate for drug prices is a huge deal” (Also: “Sen. Manchin is my friend, but has moved away from rolling back some of the Trump tax cuts. Frankly, raising taxes on the top 1% of Americans or having them pay a little more fair share actually is ANTI-inflationary.”)
- Audio: Extremist/Insurrectionist Rep. Bob Good (R-VA05) Calls For Cameras in Kids’ Classrooms and People Being Able to “dial in any time and see what’s happening in the classroom” (VA05 Dem nominee Josh Throneburg: “this is a HUGE privacy and safety violation.”)
- Warner says he’s in ‘active conversations’ about siting semiconductor plants in Virginia
- Youngkin Says He’ll Support All Virginia Republican Candidates. But Will He Stand Behind Vega’s Comments Doubting Pregnancy After Rape? (Youngkin returns to his safe space, Fox “News,” to spew out right-wing talking points and to urge Trump to hold off until after the midterms. LOL)
- Bipartisanship and cooperation make Virginia opioid settlement distribution a national model
- Miyares adds state to suit over USDA school meals policy aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ students (Miyares is a f’ing disgrace.)
- Editorial: Beagles headed home
- Buchanan County flooding reignites debate over Virginia’s RGGI membership
- Where can public sector employees collectively bargain in Virginia?
- Virginia 10-Day New COVID-19 Cases Down 82% Compared to 1/19; Hospitalizations Down to 797 From ~4,000 in January; But at Highest Level Since Early March
- Stoney: FBI hasn’t contacted him about origins of Fairfax allegations
- FBI asking about source of sex-assault claims against former Va. Lt. Gov. (This was first reported days ago by The Intercept. The WaPo’s just catching up.)
- Roanoke’s Victor Cardwell is first Black president of Virginia Bar Association
- Richmond police have arrested dozens based on list of potential ‘shooters’
- Opinion/Editorial: Ellis won’t resign so marginalize him
- Stoney stands by not releasing alleged July Fourth shooting plot documents
- Hanover School Board’s Redd draws backlash over ‘angry African American’ comment (This guy is a disaster.)
- Norfolk mayor, council members took an unannounced trip to a Texas arena with ties to Pharrell’s Military Circle proposal
- Preliminary damage assessments of Buchanan County flooding to be completed Friday
- D.C.-area forecast: Steamy skies spawn late-day storms today and Friday
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