by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 22.
To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history. pic.twitter.com/2j0sPWP5O8
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 21, 2023
- Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists
- Heat, War and Export Bans: Global Food Threats Are On the Rise
- World’s biggest permafrost crater in Russia’s Far East thaws as planet warms
- G-20 Energy Ministers Meet as Extreme Heat Spurs Climate Focus
- The Financial Sector Is Failing to Estimate Climate Risk, Say Two Groups in the UK
- Deep-Sea Mining Authority Targets 2025 for Regulations
- Oil markets to face ‘serious problems’ as demand from China and India ramps up, says IEF
- Ukraine is now the world’s most mined country. It will take decades to it make safe. (“An area larger than Florida is now a wasteland of unexploded ordnance that could take hundreds of years and billions of dollars to undo.”)
- Ukraine wants ships to keep exporting its grain despite Russian attacks. Some are interested
- Russia pounds Ukraine’s grain, UN warns of hunger from price rises
- Pro-war Russian blogger who called Putin a ‘lowlife’ arrested in Moscow
- Ukraine Recap: Zelenskiy Says Offensive Ready to Gain Momentum
- Putin tightens grip on Africa after killing Black Sea grain deal
- In Belarus, the Protests Were Three Years Ago. The Crackdown Is Never-Ending.
- Polarised Spain eyes the hard-right ahead of election
- Spain’s far-right Vox party is on the brink of sharing power as a conservative kingmaker
- China’s missing foreign minister exposes Beijing’s secrecy under Xi
- US-China cultural exchange at low point after tensions and Covid, data shows
- The Race to Avert an Oil Spill That Could Cost $20 Billion to Fix (“A rusting tanker is threatening to break apart and spill more than a million barrels of oil into the fragile ecosystem off the coast of Yemen.”)
- Scientists say Florida Keys coral reefs are already bleaching as water temperatures hit record highs (“Some Florida Keys coral reefs are losing their color weeks earlier than normal this summer because of record-high water temperatures.”)
- How climate change could cause a home insurance meltdown
- Emergency Rooms Swamped as Record Heat Above 100F Wilts US South
- Interior Department to hold first-ever Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale (“Three lease areas with a total generation potential of 3.7 GW will be auctioned off in August”)
- Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for ‘much stronger’ than expected GDP growth
- The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
- Biden picks female admiral to lead Navy. She’d be first woman on Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Biden to keep Julie Su on indefinitely as Labor chief despite lack of Senate votes
- Trump’s trial date conjures GOP’s nightmare scenario
- Trump’s classified documents trial date is set. What to know about this complex case
- That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, and Throwing Up in a Mar-a-Lago Bathroom (“On the same day that word came down racketeering charges are likely to come out of the Fulton County probe, Judge Aileen Cannon set a date for the classified-documents trial for well before the 2024 election.”)
- Judge Cannon schedules Trump’s classified documents trial for May 2024, amid campaign season
- Little change in Americans’ views of Trump over the past year
- Michael Cohen Agrees to Settle Lawsuit With Trump Organization
- Christie calls Trump a ‘con artist’ amid legal battles: He’s ‘grifting off these people’
- “They’re hypocrites”: Republicans now funding the same voting methods they demonized under Trump
- Republicans rush to defend Jason Aldean and ‘Try That in a Small Town’ (Disgusting – and VERY revealing.)
- Republicans Will Turn Any Anodyne Bit of Congressional Business Into Performative Hatred (“Kevin McCarthy doesn’t give half a damn that he’s an empty suit in charge of the gates to Bedlam.”)
- In the House, it’s open season on LGBTQ Americans
- JFK’s Grandson Rails Against ‘Embarrassment’ RFK Jr.
- Texas’s governor put a barrier in the Rio Grande. DOJ just hit back.
- Justice Department planning legal action against Texas over floating border barrier
- Harris blasts Florida’s history standards’ claim slavery included ‘benefit’ to Black Americans
- Vice President Harris blasts Florida ‘extremists’ over education guidelines about slavery
- Ron DeSantis threatens Anheuser-Busch over Bud Light marketing campaign with Dylan Mulvaney (DeSantis is DeFascist.)
- Ron DeSantis Can’t Help Himself, Launches Inquiry Into Bud Light For Ad With Trans Actress (“If you thought Disney was enough to occupy the Florida governor, please think again.”)
- Democrats scramble to reach voters after Florida cancels mail-in ballot requests
- Harris, on DeSantis’s turf, blasts Florida curriculum on Black history
- DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History (“In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that ‘could be applied for their personal benefit.'” Absolute insanity.)
- Iowa poll shows Scott gaining on DeSantis; Trump with commanding lead
- Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene gave Joe Biden an early Christmas present
- Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images
- Joe Manchin Is Avoiding the Most Obvious Choice He Has
- Ahead of DeSantis’ visit to Utah, a new poll shows him losing ground to Trump among the state’s GOP voters
- Tony Bennett, enraged by racism, championed civil rights alongside MLK
- Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II. It changed him.
- Biden: ‘Tony Bennett’s life was legendary’
- Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail (Put Republicans in charge, THIS is what you’ll get!)
- Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor (Totally f’ed up situation.)
- Alabama lawmakers buck court order
- Alabama lawmakers clash over Black voters as redistricting deadline looms (“Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map that increased the number of Black voters in one of the state’s districts, but Democrats said the plan defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling”)
- Tucker Carlson Spread Lots of Climate Misinformation. His Replacement Isn’t Much Better
- Meta is still allowing misinformation and hate speech to proliferate on Threads (“A week after Meta released a statement admitting that the company is not extending its fact-checking program to the new platform, users have continued to flood Threads with racist and anti-LGBTQ hate speech and misinformation.”)
- Williams: On education, the Youngkin administration places ideology over problem-solving
- Virginia expects to return $1 billion of surplus under existing benefit
- Employment rate in Virginia at highest level since 2013 (Thank you Joe Biden!)
- Va. Gov. Youngkin urges budget deal as excess revenue hits $5 billion (“The Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate adopted a two-year budget in 2022 but didn’t reach agreement earlier this year on amendments.”)
- With Youngkin Now Pushing Early Voting, VA Sen. Ghazala Hashmi Reminds Everybody, “Republicans have worked relentlessly to stop early voting and to sow mistrust” (Hashmi also helps “draw attention to the Republican rightwing extremists’ efforts to ban books all across the country.”)
- I-95 express lane extension expected to reduce congestion between northern and southern Virginia
- Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall’s Report, Including “Next Steps,” on Leading a “delegation to Ghana to sign a new sister county MOU” (“One final note: The travel costs for both myself and my COS were covered by the Loudoun Economic Development Authority, meaning that no local taxpayer funding was used for our trip.”)
- Shooting victim’s mother asks to have Portsmouth commonwealth’s attorney removed as special prosecutor
- Schapiro: Judicial robe veils a struggle not easily seen
- Hanover grassroots group achieves ballot referendum (“On Election Day, Hanover voters will decide if school board members should be elected, not appointed.”)
- Virginia Beach couple were in midst of divorce when husband was shot dead, court documents say
- D.C.-area forecast: A mild, low-humidity weekend. Heat returns next week.
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