by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, August 16.
- ‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating
- Last month marked the world’s hottest July on record, US scientists say
- Exclusive: In shift, US backs global target to reduce plastic production, source says
- Ukraine’s Push Into Russia Met Early Success. Where Does It Go From Here?
- Ukraine orders evacuation of eastern city as Russian forces advance
- Ukraine’s Troops Are in Trouble on the Eastern Front
- Kursk incursion: how Ukraine turned the tables and struck back at Russia (“Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed”)
- U.S. officials say some progress made in first day of Gaza hostage-ceasefire talks (This falls into the “believe it when see it, and maybe not even then” category.)
- Hezbollah Weighs Risks of Backlash at Home in War With Israel
- Israel is redrawing the West Bank, cutting into a prospective Palestinian state
- One killed as Israeli settlers torch West Bank village (Wildly unacceptable!)
- Gaza Reduced to 42 Million Tonnes of Rubble. What Will It Take to Rebuild?
- India protests intensify over doctor’s rape and murder
- Australia lays ground for reaching 100 pct renewables with new engineering roadmap
- The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One (Sure, but both should be big scandals! So why isn’t the media all over these stories???)
- Paetongtarn Shinawatra speaks after being elected Thailand’s new PM (“Thailand’s Parliament elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the country’s new prime minister Friday.”)
- Thai heiress brings back divisive dynasty – but for how long?
- To protect rule of law, Congress must check Supreme Court overreach
- Biden and Harris celebrate landmark deal to lower medication prices (“President declares ‘we finally beat big pharma’ as he joins Harris on stage in Maryland for first time since exiting race”)
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces Big News: “Medicare has reached agreements on new, lower prices with the manufacturers of all 10 drugs selected for the first round of drug price negotiation” (This is a big f’ing deal, as Biden likes to say!)
- Fox News totally ignored new report showing violent crime is down — while running more than 4.5 hours of violent crime coverage (Pure disinformation; if you watch Fox “News,” you’re definitely worse informed than if you got no news at all.)
- How Second Amendment Radicals Are Attacking Laws Meant to Keep Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands
- Scoop: Biden marries Big Labor to Big Solar
- Experts warn “don’t be fooled” by Trump’s Project 2025 denials: His “fingerprints are all over it” (“Project 2025 is part of a larger network of right-wing groups gearing up for a second Trump term for years”)
- Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term
- A Trump official criticized the media for talking “about Project 2025, which has nothing to do with our campaign.” She worked on Project 2025.
- New hidden camera video reinforces Trump’s Project 2025 problem
- Walz Says He’ll Make Debate With JD Vance All About Project 2025
- Americans’ first impressions of Walz are positive, negative for Vance
- How Trump’s intimidation tactics have reshaped the Republican party
- Jack Smith Can Still Hurt Donald Trump (“Judge Chutkan still can — and, I believe, will — order an evidentiary hearing to enable Smith to air some of his most explosive evidence before voters head to the polls.”)
- FACT FOCUS: Trump blends falsehoods and exaggerations at rambling NJ press conference (It WAS “rambling,” but more importantly, it was completely unhinged, and the media should say so, right up front in the headlines!)
- Trump’s fury over Harris’ switch with Biden is increasingly driving his campaign (“Trump’s discombobulation was laid bare during his ranting news conference Thursday afternoon”)
- Trump’s new danger: Overexposure
- Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false claims at news conference
- Trump MUST Be Desperate if Corey Lewandowski’s Back on the Team
- Trump campaign brings Corey Lewandowski back on board (Disgusting.)
- Trump Is No Longer Even Pretending to Champion the Working Class
- Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, ‘Everybody Gets Health Care’
- Donald Trump, Surrounded by Groceries, Says He’s ‘Entitled to Personal Attacks’ on Kamala Harris
- Trump Will Try to Drag Kamala Into the Mud With Him
- Kamala Harris’s Best Campaign Surrogate Is Donald Trump (“The ex-President’s tired old show is a great advertisement for his new rival.”)
- LISTEN: Yet Another JD Vance Podcast Interview Featuring More Creepy Comments About Women (“Another day, another weird, creepy, unhinged interview featuring JD Vance”)
- JD Vance isn’t just out to get cat ladies — his weird plans target dog people and grandmas, too
- Trump VP pick JD Vance is seen posing with three female classmates at boys’ urinals in unearthed high school photo
- Fake electors from 2020 giving thousands to Trump-Vance campaign (“‘Trump and Vance are keeping extremist election-deniers in the fold to challenge the fall election,’ warns watchdog”)
- Harris looks to sharpen economic message with a focus on cutting costs
- Harris unveils an economic plan focused on housing and grocery prices
- Harris to Propose $25,000 Assistance for First-Time Homeowners
- Harris to endorse protections for renters and removal of key tax benefits for Wall St. investors buying homes
- Harris to Unveil Housing Initiatives Aimed at First-Time Buyers
- Harris brings her ad blitz to Fox News
- Kamala’s Campaign Is Bringing Good Vibes Only to the DNC
- Democrats feel the wind at their backs, but know how quickly it can shift
- Billy Graham’s granddaughter joins ‘Evangelicals for Harris,’ quotes Isaiah to blast Trump supporters
- 5 striking new poll numbers amid Harris’s rise
- Harris has opened up a second path to victory, according to The Post’s polling model
- Is It Morning in Kamala Harris’s America?
- Trump to resume outdoor rallies with bulletproof glass
- Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report
- Democrats Maintain Edge in New Senate Polls, As Nevada Moves Back to Lean Democrat
- Democratic fundraising spooks House Republicans
- New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library (Gee, where we have we seen crap like the previously…hmmm.)
- Kaine celebrates two-year anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act
- The UMWA endorses Senator Tim Kaine
- Review: Tim Kaine reminds us what’s possible in a political candidate
- Connolly Statement on Governor Youngkin’s Defense of Trump’s Plan to Upend Northern Virginia’s Economy
- Nearly 500,000 Virginians in Medicaid have been disenrolled (“Of the roughly 2 million Virginians who’d been enrolled in Medicaid before the COVID-19 pandemic, over 480,000 of them have been disenrolled as of this August.”)
- Draft policy would keep cell phones off and put away for the entire school day
- Virginia guidance suggests restricting phones from ‘bell to bell’ in schools
- Youngkin tax team delayed business tax refunds worth hundreds of millions (F’ing brilliant.)
- Youngkin says Trump’s plan is speculative. Trump’s campaign says it’s not
- Pope & Schapiro: Senate debates, Stoney on the offensive, and a big budget surplus
- New data shows a mixed bag in Virginia when it comes to job growth
- Youngkin wants comprehensive support for people leaving prison (Except for restoring their voting rights???)
- Proposed Senate spending plans include funding for projects in Southwest, Southside
- Richmond City Council could vote on City Center plan this fall
- Richmond’s public spending database no longer accessible
- Hanover historic group takes Wegmans lawsuit to state appeals court
- Father faces multiple charges after Virginia Beach abduction ended with 1-year-old’s death, 2 injured children (“The abduction of three young children from their Virginia Beach home ended in a multi-vehicle crash in Maryland that resulted in the death of the youngest child and the arrest of the man police say kidnapped them during a domestic dispute.” Horrible.)
- Hunter to serve jail time for killing Richmond’s beloved ‘Hollywood buck’ (Evil.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Near 90 again today as rain odds rise into the weekend
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