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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 8. Virginia polls open in under 72 hours…when and where are you voting? (if you don’t know, click here).
- Trump Calls Off Plan to Impose Tariffs on Mexico
- G20 financial heads to stay vague on trade, no progress seen in U.S.-China row
- U.S. hiring slows sharply as Trump’s trade war starts to bite
- The May jobs report is a big disappointment for workers and bad news for Trump (“The new jobs report shows that the US economy is continuing to expand, but without middle- and working-class families seeing much of the benefit.”)
- China Warns U.S. Firms Against Cooperating With Trump Tech Ban (“Chinese officials were said to have told several major companies that they could face consequences if they halted sales of key technology.”)
- Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul: Donald Trump’s rhetoric “serves Putin’s interests”
- Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Hungary’s Orbán to lament their “growing Muslim populations” (“This continues the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s fall from grace.”)
- White House blocked intelligence aide’s written testimony saying human-caused climate change could be ‘possibly catastrophic’
- The Climate Crisis Is Here. It’s Time We Started Acting Like It (“We can’t just wait for 2021 and hope the best.”)
- Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can’t fly pride flag on flagpoles (Nasty and bigoted as always.)
- Republicans don’t want to see the pride flag flying (“Trump and other Republicans push back on displaying pride flag”)
- FBI Loses Fight to Keep Portions of Comey-Trump Memos Secret
- Trump’s behavior in Europe was ‘unpresidented’ — and he isn’t getting any better (“His buffoonery overseas is an embarrassment.”)
- If someone like Trump had been president in 1944, D-Day never would have happened (“The president’s isolationism is unnerving the Western alliance.”)
- Trump Destroys American Greatness From Within (“From the Justice Department to the military, the president is corroding and destabilizing the institutions of democracy.”)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Census Case, Suggests 5-4 Supreme Court Rulings To Come (“The justice indicated that multiple close decisions could be handed down in June.”)
- New Election Security Bills Face a One-Man Roadblock: Mitch McConnell
- Trump: Screw the Moon, Mars Is Where It’s At (“For reasons unknown, the president appeared to trash his own directive to return to the moon by 2024.”)
- Trump just claimed the moon is a part of Mars in a bonkers tweet attacking NASA (Most ignorant “president” ever.)
- Some Real News About Fake News (“It’s not just making people believe false things—a new study suggests it’s also making them less likely to consume or accept information.”)
- Joe Biden asked for a pen. Then he reversed a position he’d held for four decades.
- Biden World shell-shocked amid Hyde furor (“Outside of Biden’s orbit, Democrats were left scratching their heads about what had happened — and pondering whether the former vice president had suffered any lasting political damage.”)
- Joe Biden’s Bad Week (“Former VP faces first tough stretch six weeks into campaign”)
- Warner, Kaine Introduce Legislation Direction Trump Admin. to Meet Standards Set by Paris Climate Accord
- Q&A: After Virginia Tech, survivors advocated for tighter gun laws. Instead they’ve gotten looser
- Governor Northam Sets July 9th for Date of Special Session to Address Emergency of Gun Violence in Virginia
- In wake of Virginia Beach shooting, Northam sets special session on gun laws for July 9
- A 45-person FBI team is working to reconstruct the Virginia Beach shooting — and find answers
- Issues of race and scandal pulse through Virginia primary contest (Hell no to Joe – go Dance!)
- Petersburg ‘ground zero’ as Joe Morrissey challenges Sen. Rosalyn Dance in primary Tuesday
- Some veteran Virginia lawmakers, including Sens. Saslaw and Hanger, face challengers in Tuesday’s primary
- Poll: The car is king in Washington despite worsening traffic, push for public transit (“A growing share of residents also are making trips using services such as Uber and Lyft, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.” And I see a ton of people riding scooters as well.)
- Lawyers for Park Police officers in Bijan Ghaisar shooting say charging decision coming soon (“The Justice Department has remained silent since the November 2017 slaying of the unarmed man.”)
- Virginia formally urges Metro board to release findings of Jack Evans ethics probe
- Virginia NAACP, 28 Members of the General Assembly, Center for Earth Ethics File Amicus Brief: Union Hill “deserves our protection and our respect”
- Primaries To Take Place Tuesday
- John Whitbeck’s Shady Consultant: Further Proof of the Depths to Which the Former VA GOP Chair Will Go in Loudoun County Chair Race
- When a Democratic Politician Sounds Like Donald Trump: Dick Saslaw on Clean Energy Options
- Marc Broklawski: Why I’m Endorsing Qasim Rashid for Virginia State Senate
- Brian Devine: Why I’m Voting for Nicole Merlene
- Sens. Chap Petersen, Jennifer Boysko; Dels. Patrick Hope, Kaye Kory to Introduce Legislation Limiting Campaign Contributions from Super PACs, etc.
- G. Gilmer Minor III and Dennis H. Treacy column: A year of great progress, and more work to do
- Cannabis companies battle it out in Henrico court over rights to open dispensary in Southwest Va.
- A Southwest Virginia primary streetfight mirrors Republican divisions statewide (“The Republican primary in the 4th has turned into a bruising struggle that can stand in for the divisions facing the GOP statewide.”)
- Northam comes to Salem to sign I-81 improvement legislation
- Charlottesville prosecutor orders removal of ‘Queen of Virginia’ machines
- Flash flood watch south of Roanoke until noon; intermittent rain through weekend
- Some peeks of sun today ahead of rainier conditions Sunday and beyond
