by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, December 26.
- 9 breakthroughs this year that gave us hope for the future (“From climate to housing, these policy and science wins suggest that 2022 was full of progress.”)
- This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition (Maybe.)
- Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas
- World Economy Is Headed for a Recession in 2023, Researcher Says
- Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine towns (“The war on Ukraine did not pause for Christmas despite Russian President Vladimir Putin saying he was open to negotiations, with his forces launching more than 40 rocket attacks on Christmas Day, Ukraine’s military said on Monday.”)
- Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine (“Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.”)
- Russian State TV Hails Lauren Boebert For Refusing To Stand For War Hero Volodymyr Zelensky (Who the hell voted for Boebert?!?)
- Russia May Raise Crude Oil Exports if EU Ban Cuts Refining
- Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drone near airbase
- Ukraine war: Drone attack on Russian bomber base leaves three dead
- How Ukraine’s Zelenskyy went from comedian to wartime hero
- With ‘Zero Covid,’ China Proved It’s Good at Control. Governance Is Harder.
- Beijing roars to life a month after zero-Covid lockdowns fade, but China is not out of the woods yet
- China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant
- ‘The ICU is full’: frontline workers of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’
- S. Korea launches jets, fires shots after North flies drones
- Netanyahu rebukes far-right ally for anti-LGBTQ comments
- ‘No going back’ as Iran protests hit 100 days
- ‘Very weak’ Rohingya refugees land on Indonesia beach after weeks at sea
- At least 180 Rohingya feared dead after ‘unseaworthy’ boat goes missing
- Japan minister signs clean energy cooperation document during Saudi visit
- King Charles praises struggling workers amid cost-of-living crisis in his first Christmas address
- The 7 most spectacular images from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year (“The James Webb telescope captured some haunting and strange images of the universe in 2022, its inaugural year”)
- Extreme cold, travel chaos: Woes from deadly storm continue
- People killed by storm found in snowbanks, cars
- US offshore wind industry to hit major milestones in 2023 (“America is poised to meet the Biden administration’s goal of installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind farms by 2030, or enough to power more than 10 million homes for a year. Eleven states already have more than that amount in their combined project pipeline. For densely populated coastal regions, the ocean represents one of the few available areas for installing large amounts of renewable energy capacity.”)
- Wall Street and Fed Flopped in Trying to Predict 2022
- 2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold
- Baking Supplies Cost a Lot More This Year. But That Flat-Screen TV Got Cheaper.
- White House blames Abbott after migrants dropped outside VP’s home on a freezing Christmas Eve (Whatever else Abbott is, he’s NOT a follower of Christ’s teachings when it comes to migrants.)
- The Cynic’s Dilemma (“As 2022 comes to a close, I feel something unfamiliar, something I can’t entirely trust: optimism.”)
- Democrats, Feeling New Strength, Plan to Go on Offense on Voting Rights (“The party is looking at ways to expand voting access after retaining most of the governor’s offices it holds and capturing the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota. Some of the proposals include returning the franchise to felons released from prison and criminalizing election misinformation.”)
- GOP stumbles with independents contributed to midterm woes
- Trump Declares Himself ‘Clairvoyant’; Critics Wonder How He Got Election So Wrong (Just remember, everything Trump says is a lie.)
- Jamie Raskin Skewers Electoral College: It’s ‘Become A Danger’ (“We should elect the president the way we elect governors, senators, mayors, representatives, everybody else”)
- Republicans making moves toward entering 2024 primary against Trump
- 5 people have been arrested after a deadly shooting at Minnesota’s Mall of America
- 3 power substations vandalized in Washington state, over 14K lost power
- ‘I was throwing up with anxiety’: how Democrats fought back in America’s most gerrymandered state (“Ben Wikler, Wisconsin’s Democratic party chair, on midterm success that means ‘democracy is going to survive in our state’”)
- How wildlife experts battled the Chesapeake Bay’s ‘menace in the marsh’ (“A two-decade, multimillion dollar effort got rid of nutria, a pesky rodent, on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay. But there’s worry they could come back.”)
- Bravest Democrat of the Year: Elaine Luria (“The Virginian represented one of the swingiest House seats in the country but still staked her reelection on defending democracy and investigating what actually happened on January 6.”)
- What to Look For in Virginia Politics 2023
- Youngkin increasingly viewed as prospective 2024 presidential candidate (He’s at zero percent right now in polls of 2024 Republican voters.)
- Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage could soon be abolished
- A scandal rocked Virginia’s governor. Here’s what happened next
- Youngkin budget envisions 15-person team for revamped hemp oversight
- Should Virginia localities be able to require a license to own pets?
- A bird that shouldn’t be here has been spotted in the Shenandoah Valley
- D.C.-area forecast: A big thaw as we approach 2023 (“Temperatures probably hit the 60s by the weekend.”)
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