by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 21. Also see pages one and two of Nick Sandman’s statement.
- May Halts Cross-Party Talks, Pins Hopes on Tories: Brexit Update
- PM to try to break Brexit deadlock with EU concessions (Good luck with that…)
- China’s Annual Economic Growth Rate Is Slowest Since 1990
- Israeli military strikes Iranian targets inside Syria
- Report finds another undisclosed North Korea missile site, says there are 19 more
- We honor Martin Luther King Jr. not for his victories but for his vision
- We need Martin Luther King Jr.’s prophetic vision even more now
- A look back on two dismal years of the Trump administration
- Trump, Democrats Inch Closer Amid Personal Shutdown Sniping (“Democrats seek protection for Dreamers, reopened government”)
- Shutdown: Trump ‘amnesty’ hint angers right and fails to draw Democrats
- BuzzFeed editor and reporter defend scoop
- BuzzFeed News in Limbo Land
- Giuliani Says Talks for Trump Tower in Moscow Lasted Through 2016 Election
- Top D.C. lawyers couldn’t understand what Rudy was trying to achieve with today’s TV interview
- President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years (“The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year, almost triple the pace.”)
- Trump 2 years in: The dealmaker who can’t seem to make a deal (The entire concept that Trump is a good businessman, or good at cutting deals, is wrong.)
- Trump Rants About Pelosi, Crime, and Climate Change in Sunday Morning Twitter Blast (“Happy two-year anniversary of your inauguration, Mr. President.”)
- Giuliani says Trump might have talked to Cohen about testimony
- Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video Between Native American Man and Catholic Students
- Just in: Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School junior, about the event at the Lincoln Memorial
- Young man in D.C. march video denounces ‘outright lies’ about him (“The young man, Nick Sandmann, said he respected all races and was trying to defuse the incident at Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March.”)
- Teen accused of taunting Native American protesters in viral video says he’s receiving death threats (That’s totally unacceptable.)
- Nick Sandmann: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- The state of immigration, 2 years into Trump’s presidency
- Trump’s One Legislative ‘Win’ Is Actually a Failure (“The Trump tax cuts are of a piece with the endemic corruption that has tied the party’s political class to its buffoonish president. He has made his partners richer, at least temporarily. But by the public-facing standards set out for it, as opposed to the private venal reasons, the Trump tax cuts have failed as miserably as everything else.”)
- The Shutdown Shows the Weakness of the Resistance (“The grass-roots progressive activism of the past two years has been inspiring. But it’s still a shadow of what the country needs…The resistance has had virtually no effect on the politics of the shutdown — and a stronger movement could have a big effect.”)
- Four volunteers convicted for leaving life-saving supplies for immigrants in a deadly desert (That’s absurd.)
- Tulsi Gabbard says she has no regrets about meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Gabbard has shown terrible judgment over and over again. She is most definitely NOT on my list of people I’d consider for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Aloha!)
- Historian blisters Mike Pence for comparing Trump to MLK: A ‘perversion’ that ‘flies in the face of his memory’
- National wildlife refuge system, inspired and created by Theodore Roosevelt, imperiled by government shutdown
- Warner: ‘News To Me’ That Trump Tower Moscow Talks Went On Through Nov. 2016
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says It’s “Big News” that Trump Tower Moscow Talks Went Through Oct.-Nov. 2016
- In memoriam: The bills we hardly got to know
- ‘It’s been a long journey:’ Longtime push to lift age restrictions on autism coverage is before the General Assembly again
- For the 2nd Year in a Row, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Wants No Parts of Tribute to Confederate Superhero Robert E. Lee
- L. Scott Lingamfelter column: Leaders must stop procrastinating, make changes in Virginia’s tax system now (Tip to Dems in the General Assembly: do the opposite of anything Scott Lingamfelter wants you to do.)
- Video: Virginia Dem State Senators Asked Why They Didn’t “Stand” with Lt. Gov. Fairfax in His “Lee-Jackson Day” Protest
- America’s original tobacco state considers hiking the smoking and vaping age to 21
- Video: Sparks Fly Between Del. Lee Carter, Arlington County Board Chair Christian Dorsey, Sen. Adam Ebbin at Amazon Town Hall
- David Paylor: No Confidence, No Confirmation.
- On eve of holiday, hundreds gather to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
- Editorial: When King spoke in Lynchburg
- Richmond-area senator wants to restore pre-recession school staffing levels
- Legislation giving courts more discretion in ‘dangerous’ dog cases could save this dog’s life
- Frigid through Tuesday before midweek thaw with rain. Then turning cold again. (“The cold slowly eases through midweek when rain is expected.”)
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