by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 17.
- Tom Cotton pushes for conflict with Iran despite unanswered questions on tanker attack (“Tom Cotton is ready to get his war on.”)
- Pelosi: ‘We have absolutely no appetite for going to war’ with Iran
- Iran says it will break the uranium stockpile limit agreed under nuclear deal in 10 days
- Hong Kong police begin to clear streets of protesters
- Freed Hong Kong democracy activist joins mass calls for leader to quit
- Johnson gets boost in race for UK PM’s job as former rival backs him (Blech.)
- ‘Trump Heights’: Israeli settlement in Golan named after US president (Seriously?)
- Germany’s Far-Right Party Defeated In Closely Watched Mayoral Election
- Former First Lady Leads In 1st Round Of Voting In Guatemala Presidential Election
- Supreme Court decisions could affect makeup of Congress for years (“Redistricting, census questions among big-ticket items left on docket” I always expect bad news from this crazy Court.)
- Chief justice tries to assure the Supreme Court is apolitical, but term’s biggest cases present partisan challenges
- Leading national security figures avoid briefing Trump for fear he’ll leak to Russians — report (“Buried 20 paragraphs deep in the New York Times story Trump’s crying treason over, comes a concern from his intelligence leaders.”)
- Pollster shake-up casts shadow over Trump’s big 2020 launch (“Turmoil in the President’s campaign hits at alarming liabilities in his re-election bid”)
- Trump Campaign to Purge Pollsters After Leak of Dismal Results
- John Oliver Makes the Case for Impeaching Trump: ‘Nobody Is Above the Law’
- Airbus Wins Major 100-Plane Order Over Boeing
- Where does your plastic go? Global investigation reveals America’s dirty secret (“A Guardian report from 11 countries tracks how US waste makes its way across the world – and overwhelms the poorest nations”)
- Trump inherited America’s foreign policy riches. He’s frittering them away.
- GOP nervous that border wall fight could prompt year-end shutdown
- Juan Williams: Trump’s incredible shrinking GOP
- Trump Wants to Neutralize Democrats on Health Care. Republicans Say Let It Go.
- The One Percent Have Gotten $21 Trillion Richer Since 1989. The Bottom 50% Have Gotten Poorer. (There’s absolutely no good reason for this to be happening. Democrats need to turn it around if and when they take power.)
- Trump Suggests His Treatment in the Media Is Worse Than Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination (Actually, I’d argue that Trump’s treatment in the press isn’t nearly bad enough. For instance, just imagine how the media would have reacted if any ONE of the Trump administration’s scandals had happened in the Obama or Clinton administrations???)
- As price of insulin soars, Americans caravan to Canada for lifesaving medicine (Our health care system is so broken when stuff like this happens. Here in Virginia, if Democrats take back the legislature, we need to look into what we can do about this travesty.)
- Progressives’ predicament: Bring down Biden without attacking Obama (“‘People are very nostalgic for that time,’ one activist says of the risk of criticizing Biden’s time in the administration.”)
- Biden’s Campaign Approach: Run Like It’s a Primary of One
- Pete Buttigieg says it’s “almost certain” we’ve had gay presidents
- Pete Buttigieg raised staggering $7 million in April alone (“The Democrat equaled his first-quarter fundraising in one month, as he pushes for a huge haul to cement his top-tier status in the primary.”)
- Exclusive: Mayor Pete won’t reverse Trump’s Jerusalem move
- This Isn’t Going According to Plan for Kirsten Gillibrand (“The senator from New York is a battle-tested campaigner who thrives as the underdog. But 2020 is proving to be a much tougher challenge than she thought.”)
- Shaking hands is so 2008. This presidential primary has been ‘nationalized’. (“A changing media environment and new primary rules have made the Democratic primary contest so much bigger than the traditional early states.”)
- Liberals Want Trump Impeached, but Centrist Freshmen May Have the Final Say (“Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia swats away the question: ‘I’m focused on prescription drugs and infrastructure.'”)
- Can Elizabeth Warren Win Back Trump Country? (“Whoever takes the presidency after Trump will have to grapple with the political illusions he shattered about the right and the left and the vast number of economically liberal, socially conservative Americans who don’t fit comfortably into either camp. Can someone like Warren reach that group? Or will it be President Carlson instead?”)
- How Jennifer Wexton became the ‘patron saint of the transgender community’ (“And why some Republicans in Northern Virginia are irked by the congresswoman’s focus on the issue.”)
- Virginia primaries offer good stories but no big narrative (“Yasmine Taeb gave him a run for his (Dominion Energy) money. And that displeased the already acerbic Saslaw to no end. But thanks to spoiler candidate Karen Torrent, Saslaw gets to return to the Senate’s friendly confines and what he hopes will be a return to the majority leader’s post.”)
- The number one form of gun violence in Virginia isn’t homicide. It’s suicide.
- Why the last Democrat in the Va. legislature endorsed by the NRA says he now backs gun control efforts
- AG Mark Herring Calls for Decriminalization of Cannabis in Virginia
- Editorial: Fairfax is right; there ought to be a police investigation (That’s fine, except how would a police investigation, over a decade after the alleged incidents and with no physical evidence or witnesses, result in anything?)
- Annette Lewis to leave Roanoke School Board after 9 years
- “Your first reaction is a little disbelief”: Inside the Virginia Beach ER after the mass shooting
- One inmate dead, 7 sent to hospitals after suspected overdoses at Virginia prison (“One inmate died and seven others were hospitalized after suspected overdoses Saturday at Haynesville Correctional Center, a state prison in Richmond County, Va., authorities said Sunday.”)
- Enrollment surge after World War II taxed Virginia Tech’s infrastructure
- Steamy and stormy at times to start the week. Then a quieter weather pattern by Friday. (“Some storms Monday and Tuesday could produce heavy rain, strong winds, and flooding.”)
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