by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 13.
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, House Democrats chose to build a future where everybody has a shot, not just the already-powerful. pic.twitter.com/q83y98FMeu
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 12, 2022
- Ukrainian minister says Russia blocking access to medicines
- Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow warns US over diplomatic ‘point of no return’ (“Foreign ministry warns US not to place Russia on its list of state sponsors of terrorism”)
- US missiles credited as key in Ukraine fight with Russia
- Why is the world so worried about Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?
- Taiwan thanks U.S. for maintaining security in Taiwan Strait
- Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet
- This was a good week for inflation numbers, but whether it can last is the big question
- Dow closes up 400 points, S&P 500 rises for fourth straight week
- Joe Biden’s Best Week Ever (“His presidency is suddenly shaping up to be a resounding success”)
- Democrats Finally Passed Their Climate Bill. Here Are Six Political Lessons We Learned.
- U.S. House gives Biden a win with massive bill on climate change, drug prices
- Analysis: A Victory for Biden, and a Bet on America’s Future
- A Detailed Picture of What’s in the Democrats’ Climate and Health Bill
- How the climate package grew from idealism to necessity
- Yes, There Were Compromises. But the Climate Bill That Just Passed Is Still a Major Victory.
- Congress sends $740 billion tax, health and climate bill to Biden’s desk
- A victory for the IRS is a victory for America (“The GOP gutted the IRS as it waged war on the idea that everyone ought to pay their taxes. We finally have a chance to start putting things right.”)
- Scoop: GOP plans effort to sabotage Inflation Reduction Act
- House Dems Send Sweeping Spending Bill to Biden’s Desk
- House Sends Biden Landmark Tax, Climate, Health Bill to Sign
- Trump’s Week Just Went From Really Bad to “Sir, I Gotta Ask, Did You Take Any Nuclear Codes?” Bad
- The warrant authorizing the FBI search of Trump’s home is unsealed — and it’s alarming
- A Nuclear Week for Donald “Martyr” Trump
- Nuclear or not, classified or not, Mar-a-Lago files spell out jeopardy for Trump
- Responding to FBI search, Trump and allies return to his familiar strategy: flood the zone with nonsense
- Key lines from warrant and receipt for Mar-a-Lago (“Documents show the FBI’s search was an evidence-gathering step in a national security investigation about presidential records at Trump’s Florida home”)
- Read the Warrant FBI Investigators Used to Search Trump’s Estate
- Top-Secret Label in Warrant Hints at Sensitivity of Trump Papers
- FBI seized top secret documents in Trump estate search
- Trump’s Vault of Secrets
- Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act, warrant reveals
- Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant, property receipt show agents found trove of classified docs
- Seized Documents Were Part of an Inquiry Into Violation of the Espionage Act and Two Other Laws
- FBI Recovered Eleven Sets of Classified Documents in Trump Search, Inventory Shows
- As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, G.O.P. Splits Over Assailing F.B.I.
- Republicans went crazy over the Trump search. Now they look idiotic.
- After the Mar-a-Lago search, horrific violence follows reckless rhetoric
- Some Trump Allies Reportedly Are Trying To ‘Go Dark’ Amid Search Warrant Revelations
- House GOP Defends Trump, Saying Maybe Government Secrets Weren’t So Secret
- Republicans rally behind Trump after search warrant is unsealed (Totally insane.)
- Trump claims he declassified all the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Even if that’s true, it probably doesn’t matter.
- FBI search warrant shows Trump under investigation for potential obstruction of justice, Espionage Act violations
- Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families
- FBI investigating ‘unprecedented’ number of threats against bureau in wake of Mar-a-Lago search
- GOP contorts itself in defense of Trump as new FBI search details emerge
- Armed FBI attacker shot dead by police believed to be enraged Trump supporter
- The horror of people willing to die for Donald Trump
- Gunman in FBI attack was Navy veteran who had served on submarine
- Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’
- Obama did not keep classified documents, the National Archives confirms.
- The National Archives debunked Fox and Trump’s lies about Obama’s handling of classified documents
- National Archives counters Trump’s baseless claims about Obama records (And by “baseless,” the WaPo actually means FALSE.)
- Right-wing media minimized the FBI Mar-a-Lago search hours before bombshell revelations
- Republicans Have No Idea How to Respond to the Latest Reporting on the Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Will This Be An Asterisk* Election? — *It takes something unusual for the president’s party to do well in the midterms.
- Republicans are rallying around Trump following the FBI raid. That’s good news for Biden. (“The more Democratic voters are reminded of Trump, the better for Biden, lawmakers and operatives across the party spectrum say.”)
- Thomas Zimmer on His Disturbing Encounter with a “Fully Politicized,” Unhinged, Angry, Trump-Supporting “Elderly White Person” on a Beach While “chasing seagulls with my two little boys” (“People like me would love it to be a competition of who has the better arguments:..But it’s not the kind of conflict in which we find ourselves.”)
- Williams: Back the Blue? In America, that’s situational and political.
- Georgia DA Moves To Force Lindsey Graham Testimony Under Oath
- Southern Baptist Convention under federal investigation for sexual abuse scandal
- Five Years After Neo-Nazis Marched in Charlottesville: “We hold the line here, or we don’t. We fight now, or we don’t fight at all. It’s as simple as that.” (Kellen Squire: “I can only imagine how much more fun we’ll have now, especially in the wake of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, with the entire alt-right up and looking for blood.”)
- Liz Cheney’s demise was set in motion by her father
- Liz Cheney, the Republican From the State of Reality
- On Trump’s Truth Social, anti-FBI sentiment builds with little oversight (“The small social media platform backed by former President Trump’s media company was an echo chamber of anger leading up to an incident in Ohio that left one user dead.”)
- An attempted attack on an FBI office raises concerns about violent far-right rhetoric
- Breitbart Slammed for Doxxing FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Publisher of USA Today, Other Papers Axes Staff to Cut Costs
- California aims to score big in the race for offshore wind
- Wisconsin GOP Leader Fires the Bumbling Guy He Hand-Picked to Investigate Election Fraud
- Fetterman says he is ‘grateful’ to be alive in first Senate campaign rally since suffering a stroke
- Listen: Lauren Boebert’s neighbors’ 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox
- Salman Rushdie on Ventilator Hours After Being Stabbed in Western New York
- Who Is Hadi Matar? NJ Man Suspected in Salman Rushdie Attack Had Shia Extremist Sympathies
- The once-proud Maryland GOP marginalizes itself by parroting Trump’s lies (Same thing in Connecticut and New York and Pennsylvania and…)
- Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says
- Tim Kaine criticizes Trump, GOP’s ‘violent’ rhetoric after Mar-a-Lago search
- Sen. Kaine says Richmond community deserves answers on alleged July 4 mass shooting plot
- In Valley visit, Kaine touts local infrastructure projects
- In new 1st District, Jones sees opportunity; Wittman feels ‘home again’ (“Democratic challenger Herb Jones plans to attack the voting record of Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, in a bid to unseat the 15-year Republican incumbent in a redrawn congressional district with nearly 60% of the voters new to the district.”)
- After Winning Republican Primary in June, VA02 Nominee Jen Kiggans Scrubbed Virulently Anti-Choice/Anti-Trans Language From Her Website (As the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press said about Kiggans, “she apparently decided that the path to victory is the selling of her soul.”)
- Schapiro: The prosperous past catches up with Va.’s governor (It’s not an issue of Youngkin being “prosperous,” it’s an issue of him being a slimeball.)
- Virginia is overhauling its way of launching regulations
- Friday Virginia COVID-19 Stats: 10-Day New Cases at 28,784; Hospitalizations at 805 (Near Highest Level Since Early March)
- Barbara Favola column: Action is needed on gun safety
- Report finds failures in response to January Interstate 95 snowstorm
- Dulles solar farm would be the nation’s largest at an airport (“If built, Dulles International Airport would be among a growing number of airports nationwide to install solar arrays on otherwise undevelopable land”)
- The spotted lanternfly can ruin crops. It’s invading Loudoun County. (“The invasive insects are not poisonous and do not bite humans, but they excrete honeydew that can devastate fruit crops and kill grapevines”)
- Youngkin orders flags to be flown at half-staff for former Del. Joe Johnson
- D.C.-area forecast: Mainly splendid this weekend before a showery early week
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