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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, October 13.
- U.S. Edges Toward New Cold-War Era With China
- Al Gore on alarming U.N. climate report: ‘We have a global emergency’
- Al Gore calls Trump’s deregulation proposals ‘literally insane’
- Trump’s Not Innocent in the Stock Rout
- The Pope Ignores the Damage as Another Prelate Falls (“Others were more complicit in covering up priestly abuse, but Cardinal Donald Wuerl still committed serious mistakes.”)
- Trump administration considers a return to family separation on southwest border (“Hardliners within the administration see the policy as a deterrence.”)
- Donald Trump smears former adviser with one of his favorite tactics (“Time and again, Trump casts aspersions on critics or would-be critics by claiming that he has compromising stories he could tell.”)
- Cardinal Wuerl had to go. But not like this. (“He goes with a pontifical pat on the back, and a muddy message from Rome.”)
- The U.S. should never turn a blind eye to this sort of inhumanity (“Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman perhaps hopes that his connections to Trump might give him a pass.”)
- Trump is kissing Saudi backsides. He’s not alone. (“And the Trump administration has provided the royal family with rhetorical cover.”)
- Most media sponsors pull out of Saudi conference after journalist disappears
- Apple Watch worn by Saudi journalist may have transmitted evidence of his death, Turkish paper reports
- Bipartisan Hill anger with Saudis flares after Khashoggi
- How a Democratic House would check this erratic president (“The framers of the Constitution would be ashamed of this Congress.” I’d say they’d be horrified.)
- Trump’s Weak Khashoggi Response Tells Dictators They Can Get Away With Murder
- Joe Biden Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump: He’s ‘Trashing American Values’
- Trump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism (Trump Jr. is even more heinous than his father in some ways.)
- Donald Trump Jr. Peddles Tweet Linking Jamal Khashoggi To ‘Jihadists’
- Will you work for a murderer? That’s the question a host of ex-generals, diplomats and spies may soon face.
- A Fatal Abandonment of American Leadership (“The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi drives home the consequences of the Trump administration’s refusal to champion democratic values around the globe.”)
- Wilbur Ross Changes Story on Discussions of Citizenship Question for Census (Ross is a disgrace, like the rest of this administration from hell.)
- Will Trumponomics Collapse?
- Trump’s Base-Pandering May Be Hurting Republicans in Swing Districts
- Trump: ‘Robert E. Lee was a great general’
- ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash (“The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.”)
- Kanye West, Donald Trump, and the Reign of Human Clickbait
- Republican voters don’t care about Trump’s corruption — and here’s why (“Republicans have convinced themselves that Democrats are dirty, so they feel entitled to be even dirtier” Brilliant, eh?)
- Trump administration proposes tough rules on protests
- Republicans host founder of violent, far-right street brawler group
- The People Orchestrating This Policy Should Be in the Hague (“Yeah, they’re Americans. Send them to the International Criminal Court, and send the kids back to their families.”)
- It’s Time for Chuck Schumer to Go (“No matter what happens on Election Day, the Senate Democrats should have a new leader afterwards.” “On Thursday, he cut another ridiculous deal with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In exchange for an adjournment until after the election, so his members up for re-election could go home and campaign, Schumer agreed to fast-track 15 more Trump appointees to the federal courts, further guaranteeing that the cancer of this administration* will metastasize over decades until a lot of us are dead, and until a lot of us won’t be able to remember what the American government looked like before this president* was elected.”)
- The midterms minute: Sheldon Adelson showers cash on Republicans (“In today’s politics news: O’Rourke breaks fundraising record; a spiky video in Pennsylvania; Democrats down in Tennessee”)
- State Department revokes Hillary Clinton’s security clearance at her request
- More Americans disapprove of Kavanaugh’s confirmation than support it, new poll shows
- This Is The Race That Will Tell Democrats If They’re Headed For A House Majority (“A win for fighter pilot Amy McGrath in Kentucky’s 6th District could herald a Democratic wave on election night.”)
- Arizona journalists debunk edited video used by conservatives to smear Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema
- Senator Tim Kaine Surpasses $20 Million Raised This Cycle; Has More Than $5 Million On Hand for Campaign’s Final Weeks
- Virginia Democrats Rip VA GOP’s “Disgusting,” “Garbage” “Hates America” Facebook Post
- Va. GOP says Democrat running for Congress ‘hates America’ (In other words, the VA GOP is just as batshit-crazy, or worse if that’s possible, under its new chair Jack Wilson than it was under “anti-Semitic joke dude” John Whitbeck. Amazing.)
- Republican Jewish Coalition targets Democrat in Virginia congressional district
- Video: Heavy Rains Turn Pristine Streams to “River of Sediment” Thanks to Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Activities
- Flood carries a piece of the Mountain Valley Pipeline into the hands of opposing landowner (Almost beyond parody…if it weren’t so tragic.)
- Editorial: Stewart, Cockburn deserve a penalty box (Gotta love this idiocy from the Roanoke Times, equating the horrific Corey Stewart with a dumb/rapidly deleted tweet by the SPOUSE of a political candidate – not even the political candidate herself!)
- Schapiro: Va. politics more about voting against someone than for someone (Hmmmm…I know a lot of Democrats who will be enthusiastically voting FOR Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton, Tim Kaine, Babur Lateef, Matt de Ferranti, etc., etc.)
- Spending surges in Va.’s 7th District, as outside groups shift their gaze down state (“Far more independent cash flowed into the Brat-Spanberger race than the Comstock-Wexton contest.”)
- ‘It caught us by surprise’: Five dead and 500,000 powerless in Virginia (“Harrowing scenes played out across a wide swath of southern and central Virginia, as the storm’s power caught many off guard.”)
- Michael knocks out power, damages homes on the Peninsula
- Video shows Norfolk police officers in a harsh spotlight
- Norfolk teen who was pepper sprayed by officer will be charged with a crime, police tell family
- Cool this weekend, somewhat warmer Monday, then more fall reinforcements arrive
