by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 10. Virginia polls open in under 24 hours…when and where are you voting? (if you don’t know, click here).
- Hong Kong pushes bill allowing extraditions to China despite biggest protest since handover
- Democrats Hold Out on USMCA as Trump Walks Back Mexico Tariffs
- Trump’s string of foreign policy bankruptcies (“Maybe the president will get lucky and these ticking bombs will defuse themselves.”)
- Trump defends deal with Mexico that critics say will do little to curb migrant crisis (The art of the really, really bad deal!)
- Trump’s Bullying Won’t Fix the Migrant Crisis (“The problems in Central America won’t go away, and Mexico will struggle to sustain a crackdown.”)
- Trump caved to Republican pressure on Mexico tariff threat: Democratic lawmaker
- Dem, GOP senators want to check Trump’s power to sell arms to Saudis
- ‘All I have done, no credit!’ Enraged Trump defends US-Mexico migrant deal (Is Trump every *not* enraged?)
- Democrats don’t get everything right on climate. But they’re the only party trying. (“Voters are getting substantive, detailed proposals to consider, with the presidential candidates agreeing on many of the essentials.”)
- Black Democrats push abortion rights over impeachment as 2020 heats up (“As lawmakers debate whether to impeach Trump, Democrats at Atlanta’s I Will Vote gala held reproductive rights and voting above other issues”)
- House Contempt Vote Against The Attorney General: What You Need To Know (“Lawmakers are expected to vote Tuesday after months of political and legal disputes with the executive branch. Here’s how we got here, what it means and what’s coming next”)
- Give Trump an ultimatum on his stonewalling (“Democrats should publicly time-limit their forbearance.”)
- Brett Kavanaugh Gets Kudos From Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Hiring All-Female Clerks
- Juan Williams: Cloud of illegitimacy hangs over Trump
- Key Nixon Accuser Returns To Capitol With Sights Set On Another President
- Company part-owned by Jared Kushner got $90m from unknown offshore investors since 2017 (“Overseas investment flowed to Cadre while Trump’s son-in-law works as US envoy, raising conflict of interest questions”)
- Migrants in Custody Are Treated Like Felons, Doctors Say (“Migrants taken to community hospitals are often shackled to beds, kept from the bathroom and watched by agents during private procedures. Doctors are pushing back against the government, and even their own hospitals, to challenge security measures that they say are harming patients.”)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations
- Latino leaders sound alarms over Trump reelection in 2020 (“Operatives and organizers warn that Democrats are doing little to mobilize a key constituency that the president is targeting aggressively.”)
- Democrats hope some presidential candidates drop out — and run for Senate
- Warren, Booker stand out on chaotic Iowa stage(“The sprawling Democratic field, nearly all of whom attended the Hall of Fame dinner, sought to make a splash.”)
- Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says (“The journalists who create that content deserve a cut of that $4.7 billion, said David Chavern, the president and chief executive of the alliance, which represents more than 2,000 newspapers across the country, including The New York Times.”)
- Journalists can’t repeat their Watergate-hero act. The reasons should make us grieve.
- CNN Iowa Poll: Abortion, climate change, guns top list of must-have issues for likely caucusgoers (“Support for abortion rights is tops, with about 8 in 10 calling it a must have regardless of how they plan to participate. Recognition of climate change as the greatest threat to humanity stands narrowly behind, a must-have for about three-quarters.”)
- Chao created special path for McConnell’s favored projects (“A top Transportation official helped coordinate grant applications by McConnell’s political allies.” Corrupt.)
- Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz shot in the back in the Dominican Republic
- Here’s what the state Senate candidates say about guns and gun control
- Why Gun Bills in Virginia Always Die (“Guest: Chris Hurst, delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates for the state’s 12th District.”)
- Primary Day in Virginia: What You Need to Know for Tuesday
- Virginia city to divest budget funds from fossil fuels (“Officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, have voted to divest the city’s operating budget investments from any entity involved in the production of fossil fuels or weapons.” Every jurisdiction in Virginia, plus the Commonwealth overall, should do this ASAP.)
- How Much Further Could Virginia Republicans Lurch to the Extreme Right on Tuesday?
- Is there a way past gun gridlock?
- Virginia Tech chooses site closer to Amazon’s new headquarters for Innovation Campus (“The university exits the Oakville Triangle site for Potomac Yard in search of more room for growth.”)
- Editorial: Battleground Virginia and election security
- Endorsement: Vote Emmett Hanger in the 24th Senate District
- Special session on guns could test Virginia Beach delegation
- Top Fairfax County Officials Take on Comstock Companies Over Its “Shocking Conduct at the Reston Station Plaza” (“If you are a Hunter Mill District Democrat, make sure you vote for anyone *but* Comstock’s Maggie Parker this Tuesday!”)
- More Washingtonians say drivers are bad than say the same of cyclists, walkers, scooter riders, poll finds (“I am more afraid of the roadways now than I have ever been, and I have been driving for 36 years.”)
- The Colortree Layoff Offers Labor Discovery Learning
- We need more housing. Local governments are standing in the way.
- This Virginia city is rooted in tobacco, but its revival is drawing power from solar(“Danville, Virginia, is in the midst of an economic and civic revival that’s powered in part by new solar projects.”)
- Nationals make MLB history with four consecutive home runs in win over Padres
- Rainy today, with more storminess possible Thursday and Sunday but heat stays away
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