by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 5.
P.S. Thanks to Memeorandum for today’s cover image as well as for being very helpful in producing these clips every day!
- Climate crisis: rich nations undermining work to help poor countries, research suggests
- A Major Showdown Is Brewing Over What Counts as a Carbon Credit (“The United Nations is in the process of defining global carbon markets for decades to come, and it could make or break the fledging carbon removal industry.”)
- COP28: Climate Talks Should Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout (Yep, and as rapidly as possible.)
- With oil prices slumping, OPEC+ producers weigh more production cuts
- Oil prices rise after Saudi Arabia pledges more voluntary production cuts
- Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, Kyiv says Moscow spreads lies
- Ukraine has cultivated and given drones to agents in Russia, sources say
- Russia claims it thwarted Ukrainian attacks in provinces annexed by Moscow
- China Faces Uphill Battle as It Tries to Instill ‘Pro-Birth’ Culture
- China and U.S. defense chiefs compete for influence in the Asia Pacific
- US releases video showing close-call in Taiwan Strait with Chinese destroyer
- Immense Crowds Protest Poland’s Governing Conservative Party
- Netanyahu’s New Media Adviser Called Biden ‘Unfit,’ Echoed Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims (Disgusting.)
- Le Pen’s far right served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report (Of course it did…)
- ‘I am haunted by it’: Survivors of deadly train crash in India recount trauma
- Biden Debt-Bill Signing Set to Unleash Tsunami of US Debt Sales
- With debt limit deal behind him, Biden returns to ‘previously scheduled programming’
- Americans are waiting longer and longer to get married (“The share of U.S. adults who are married by age 21 sank from about one-third in 1980 to 6 percent in 2021, Pew Research reports. The share who tie the knot by 25 plunged from nearly two-thirds to 22 percent.”)
- How Parking Ruined Everything (“America has paid a steep price for devoting too much space to storing cars.”)
- Untapped solar potential awaits atop warehouse roofs (“As online commerce expands, and as tensions rise over renewable energy displacing farmland, large rooftops are a growing — if often challenging — space on which to install solar panels.”)
- Colossal data centers are taking over the US countryside: ‘We’re mowed over’
- Supreme Court Wetlands Ruling Defies “Scientific Understanding” (“It excludes bodies of water federal law ‘has always been interpreted to cover.'”)
- How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud (Youngkin did the same in Virginia.)
- Biden has a theory of MAGA that just might be working
- McCarthy ally: The speaker’s ‘position is absolutely safe’
- McCarthy’s biggest victory yet comes with political price
- Trump’s smoking gun recording gives Jack Smith all he needs
- Trump’s GOP skeptics worry as primary field grows
- Analysis: A crowded 2024 Republican race helps clear the way for a Trump nomination
- The Georgia Trump election investigation keeps getting bigger (“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could pursue charges using the state’s RICO law.”)
- Trump critics warn of ‘deep decline of rule of law’ if he wins second term (“Former DoJ prosecutors say Trump will pack government agencies with sympathizers in effort to ‘secure his autocratic power’”)
- The ‘Minnesota Miracle’ should serve as a model for Democrats
- Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania
- Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to health care
- Ron DeSantis is dry and dull — yet still more dangerous than Donald Trump
- Showtime Pulls ‘Vice’ Episode on Ron DeSantis (“An installment delving into the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate’s time as a U.S. Navy JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay was quietly shelved without explanation.” WTF?)
- Migrants’ trip to Sacramento aboard private jet appears to have been arranged by state of Florida, officials say
- Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’ and being replaced by Kristen Welker (Unfortunately, Chuck Todd never did what’s needed in this job. Instead, he was mostly “both sides”/false equivalence, also didn’t really challenge right-wing lies, election denial, etc.)
- Chuck Todd Announces Departure From NBC’s Meet the Press After Nearly a Decade (“Todd will be replaced by the network’s chief White House correspondent Kristen Welker in September.”)
- Can Chris Licht Survive at CNN?
- The press cluelessly fan the flames of fascism (“They can’t even call it what it is” The political press in this country is pathetic.)
- Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN? He Seems to Think So.
- Hours After SpaceX Postponed a Liftoff, Elon Musk Boosted a Transphobic Tweet (“And it wasn’t the first time this Pride month.”)
- Takeaways from CNN’s town hall with Nikki Haley (Did anyone watch this crap?)
- Abortion Is Already Tripping Up The 2024 Republican Candidates
- Manchin says Democrats miscalculated on waiting to negotiate debt deal (Manchin’s a corrupt slimeball.)
- F-16s cause sonic boom in D.C. area as they intercept Cessna that later crashed (“Three people with knowledge of the event said the military did not shoot the plane down and there is no indication that the military caused the crash.”)
- Loud boom heard across region from fighter jet intercepting unresponsive plane, crashes in Va. mountains
- No survivors found at site of plane crash in Blue Ridge
- Experts, politicians weigh in on Laufer-Squire race (“The race, they said, has become a ‘s–tshow.'”)
- Virginia Shifted 18 Points “Blue” Between the 2000 and 2020 Presidential Elections, as the Big, Diverse Suburban/Urban Jurisdictions Went Strongly “Blue” (Meanwhile, the less-densely-populated and less-diverse areas shifted strongly “red”)
- In 2021, Glenn Youngkin Said Ron DeSantis Was His Role-Model Governor; Now, Youngkin’s Emulating DeSantis, Including by Trashing UVA (Youngkin appointees (including the horrendous Bert Ellis) on the UVa Board of Visitors “[float] tracking student, faculty political ideology”)
- How an end to “prison gerrymandering” will impact Virginia elections
- LLCs are big donors to Democrats as well as Republicans in Virginia
- After Buckingham, more Virginia registrars find themselves on chopping block
- In primary between legendary Virginia Democrats, ‘the loser goes home’ (“After redistricting, Democratic Sens. L. Louise Lucas and Lionell Spruill Sr. are flooding Tidewater Virginia with billboards, mailers and scorched-earth TV ads.”)
- With no Republican opponent, Democratic primary for District 21 likely a battle for Senate seat (Angelia Williams Graves vs. Andria McClellan)
- Two voters in Bedford County don’t have a secret ballot. The Virginia Supreme Court could fix that.
- How Danville has drastically reduced its crime rate since 2016
- Loudoun Pride Festival held in Sterling amidst anti-LGBTQ backlash
- Animal Rescue Staff Charged With Animal Cruelty in Loudoun Co.
- D.C.-area forecast: An amazing week of weather, but needed rain is missing
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