by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, September 22.
- Kim reacts to Trump, says he will ‘tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire’ (“Trump unveiled new financial sanctions on North Korea aimed at forcing nations, foreign companies and individuals to choose whether to do business with the United States or Pyongyang.”)
- Krugman: Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies (“Graham-Cassidy, the health bill the Senate may vote on next week, is stunningly cruel. It’s also incompetently drafted: The bill’s sponsors clearly had no idea what they were doing when they put it together. Furthermore, their efforts to sell the bill involve obvious, blatant lies. Nonetheless, the bill could pass. And that says a lot about today’s Republican Party, none of it good.”)
- Facebook to Turn Over Russia-Linked Ads to Congress
- The GOP’s Relentless Health Care Lies (“Every attempt to repeal Obamacare has been built on lies. Graham-Cassidy is no different.”)
- This Republican health-care bill is the most monstrous yet
- White House plan for massive tax cuts gains momentum (“Senate Republicans reached a tentative deal this week to allow for as much as $1.5 trillion in tax reductions over 10 years, and there is a growing willingness within the GOP to embrace controversial estimates of the economic growth it could create.” This won’t work, of course. Also, so much for caring about the deficit/debt!)
- Sen. Mark Warner demands more information on SEC data breach by hackers
- U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign (“The surveillance came as part of a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference with presidential election”)
- Graham-Cassidy would start banning abortion coverage in Obamacare plans in 3 months
- Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote
- Why Trump’s tirades are losing their potency (“World leaders listen to President Trump speak at the General Assembly, but don’t take heed”)
- The key states that would lose funding under Graham-Cassidy
- Republicans Attempt to Buy Murkowski’s Vote in New Draft of Health Care Bill
- The Latest: Warner eyes social-media political-ad regulation
- Captain odious: Stephen Miller, White House “alt-right” survivor (“Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka are gone. Miller is more pernicious, more loyal and more effective than either”)
- Jimmy Kimmel Devotes a Third Night in a Row to Pointing Out How Trump Would Sign Anything to Get Rid of Obamacare
- WATCH: Seth Meyers blasts ‘savage and cruel’ GOP health bill Trump knows less about than the country he invented (“Trump seems consistently confused, Meyers explained. He invented the country Nambia during a speech at the UN on Wednesday.”)
- Pence uses fake Jefferson quote to dodge critical question about Trumpcare (“Unable to defend Graham-Cassidy, Pence made stuff up.” Yep, Ed Gillespie’s good friend.)
- Trump officials adopt ‘base’-first strategy on nuclear and coal (More like a “screw taxpayers – first” and “screw the planet – first” strategy.)
- The Memo: Mueller bears down on Manafort
- Last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill has ‘worst elements’ of earlier plans (“Republican senators face pressure to pass something — anything — before Sept. 30 deadline.”)
- Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times (“HHS secretary chartered flights even to cities with frequent, inexpensive commercial options.”)
- GOP gubernatorial candidate attacks rival with stolen photo of gang from El Salvador (“An attack ad by Republican candidate for Virginia governor Ed Gillespie that warns Virginia residents of the menacing threat of the MS-13 gang features a photograph taken from a Salvadoran news site without permission, and portrays members of a rival gang photographed inside a prison in El Salvador, not MS-13 members in Virginia. ThinkProgress confirmed that the photograph was originally published by the online digital newspaper, El Faro, which is headquartered in El Salvador’s capital of San Salvador, and that neither the news site nor the photographer gave Gillespie permission to use the photo.”)
- Is Hampton Roads the 2nd most vulnerable metro area for sea level? Probably not, but we’re still at risk.
- Virginia waits for answers from Congress on children’s health insurance
- Taking the political temperature with UMW’s new poll
- The state funded most of a $5M settlement in a lawsuit against Dominion Energy. It’s now the subject of a complaint against the Virginia AG’s office. (“Faced with a lawsuit over the death of a girl who drowned in Dominion Energy-owned Lake Anna, the monopoly filed papers in court saying the state government was responsible.”)
- McAuliffe hires private consultant to try to lure Amazon
- UVa-Wise to hold lottery for tickets to final gubernatorial debate (“The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will host the third and final gubernatorial debate Oct. 9.”)
- Prince William school board votes to censure its chairman over ethics (“After a lengthy closed-door discussion, the board voted 4-2 to censure Sawyers over claims that he violated the board’s ‘Code of Ethics’ when he made public in legal filings last week several email exchanges between board members and division counsel Mary McGowan.”)
- 28th District House candidates disagree on Medicaid expansion, but agree on transportation funding
- Riders endure slow commute as Metro and its union go at it over new safety lapse
- Williams: Is Richmond ready to commemorate Nat Turner?
- Additional tickets for Charlottesville concert set for Saturday release
- VDOT looking at adding four lanes, not two, to HRBT
- More warmth ahead as cloudier moments today will lead to lots of weekend sunshine
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