Wednesday News: “Tim Kaine Lets Loose on the Campaign Trail, With Music, Beer and Fun”; Sexual Predator Ailes Joins Trump Campaign

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 17.

• A World at War (“We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.” A must read by the great Bill McKibben.)
• We Just Lived Through The Hottest Month In Recorded History (“2016 is still on track for the hottest year ever.”)
• Trump shakes up campaign, demotes top adviser
• Disgraced Ex-Fox Head Roger Ailes Will Reportedly Advise Donald Trump (“Trump Has Defended Ailes, Who Left Fox Following Sexual Harassment Allegations”)
• Interrupting Trump’s strut is only a start: Journalists shouldn’t normalize the GOP candidate
• Trump’s Muslim ban would also hurt students
• Trump taking advisor with Russian state TV ties to first classified briefing
• Trump’s shrinking electoral map “In polls, he trails Clinton in all battleground states and some, like Virginia and Colorado, seem already beyond his reach.”)
• Tim Kaine Steps Up Attacks on Trump Military Policy
• Virginia: Emblematic of Trump’s disaster
• Tim Kaine Lets Loose on the Campaign Trail, With Music, Beer and Fun
• Trump accuses Clinton of ‘bigotry’ toward African-Americans (Uhhhhhhhh….no.)
• What we know about the health of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (Clinton “‘is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States,’ wrote Dr. Lisa Bardack, an internist and chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at the 500-doctor CareMount Medical group practice in New York.”)
• The Trump Files: Donald and Melania’s Creepy, Sex-Filled Interview With Howard Stern (“She is actually naked. It’s a thing of beauty.”)
• Memo: Aetna Pulled Back From Obamacare Because DOJ Opposed Merger With Humana (Disgusting.)
• McAuliffe delegation in Colombia on agricultural trade mission
• Is Virginia still a presidential battleground state?
• Shingles: McAuliffe shills for Dominion Resources
• Editorial: McAuliffe’s gripe about the court
• Schapiro: In anti-court rant, McAuliffe supremely stumbles over the facts
• Editorial: McAuliffe goes Solo, shows poor sportsmanship
• Jury can hear the joke a Norfolk officer made a month after killing a mentally ill man
• Cordasco is GOP candidate for the 93rd House race (“She will face Democrat Mike Mullin, a Newport News resident who works as a prosecutor in Suffolk, in a special election Nov. 8.”)
• King George adopts strict regulations regarding fracking
• Students continue to improve on Virginia’s statewide tests
• Warner touts Southern Virginia as leader in development of driverless vehicles
• Morrissey comes to Berry’s defense in debate over access to Democrat voter data (Should be “DemocratIC.”)
• Online possibilities wow Warner in South Boston visit
• Chesapeake officers justified in shooting mentally ill man who shot at them first, commonwealth’s attorney says
• A beloved mayor. An alleged meth-for-sex scheme. And a secret life exposed. (Click bait from the Washington Post…)
• Storms possible this afternoon and evening; weak cold front delivers minor heat relief in days ahead.