by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, August 1.
- Conciliatory tone as top diplomats from United States and China meet
- Greenland’s Melting: Heat Waves Are Changing the Landscape Before Their Eyes (“The ice sheet is in the midst of one of its most extreme melts on record, with worrying consequences for Greenland’s people and the planet.”)
- Siberian Wildfires Prompt Russia to Declare a State of Emergency
- Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash ‘could pay for green transition’ (“Coal, oil and gas get more than $370bn (£305bn) a year in support, compared with $100bn for renewables, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) report found. Just 10-30% of the fossil fuel subsidies would pay for a global transition to clean energy, the IISD said.”)
- Fed cuts interest rates for first time since 2008 but sends confusing signals about what’s next (“Stocks fell sharply Wednesday, with the Dow losing 333 points”)
- Fed draws Trump rebuke after rate cut: ‘Powell let us down’
- Ben Carson’s Appearance in Baltimore Didn’t Go as Planned (“The housing secretary didn’t offer Trump the sort of full-throated defense that the president might have expected.”)
- Top moments from heated second night of Democratic debate
- Five takeaways from Democratic debate brawl (“No clear winner emerges after an ugly night…Candidates pile on Biden…Rivals chip away at Harris…Booker stands out with viral zingers…Democrats were united on health care in 2018; now they’re terribly divided”)
- Biden holds the center, but does little to pick up ground (“Analysis: The Democratic front-runner weathered attacks from his more progressive rivals, but two nights of debates did little to shift the outlines of the race.”)
- Biden Bears Slings And Arrows But Battles Through Another Democratic Debate
- Joe Biden stands his ground and resists rivals’ attacks in testy second debate
- Democrats pull no punches on second night of debate(“Biden and Harris bear the brunt of the attacks”)
- Winners and losers from Night 2 of the second Democratic debate
- Joe Biden, Kamala Harris muddle through confusing health policy in debate
- How Badly Did Kamala Harris Stumble at the Democratic Debate?
- Joe Biden Is Either Lucky Or Better Than We Thought (“The most important development of the debate is that Joe Biden recovered.”)
- Winners and losers from the Democratic debates in Detroit
- Biden was not that bad. . . and not that good (“For better or worse, the new Joe closely resembles the old Joe.”)
- Biden performed better in the second debate. CNN didn’t. (“Unfortunately, CNN seemed to learn nothing from its horrendous reviews for Tuesday night. The same time-wasting, overproduced 25 minutes of blather at the onset, the same rigid enforcement of time constraints on candidates, the same lack of attention to foreign policy and the same crudely provocative style of questions reinforced the conclusion that not only CNN but also all of the broadcast news outlets and the DNC need to rethink the format of these events. They are too long, too disjointed and too focused on creating made-for-TV conflict.”)
- Cory Booker Tests the Power of His Best Performance at the Democratic Debate
- Booker broke through. Biden struck back. Harris got put in the hot seat. (“The upshot? Biden will remain on top, closing off room for other middle-of-the-road candidates to emerge. Booker now bids to join the golden circle along with Harris. And Warren and Sanders will remain at the center of the action, with Warren emerging from Round Two at her strongest point since the campaign began.”)
- Biden bites back: Key moments from the second Dem debate (“Candidates found a foil in Biden and the former vice president came more prepared for the punches this go-around.”)
- Biden’s Foes Back Themselves Into a Corner (“Tonight’s lesson: Taking on the front-runner can backfire. And for the Democratic Party, so can a big, unwieldy debate.”)
- 4 winners and 3 losers from the second night of the July Democratic debates (“Winner: Joe Biden…Winner: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders…Winner: Cory Booker…Winner: single-payer activists…Loser: Kamala Harris…Loser: CNN, again…Loser: the DNC”)
- Cory Booker Exposed a Key Biden Weakness (“The senator from New Jersey finally got a clear shot to capture America’s attention tonight by going after the former vice president’s criminal-justice record.”)
- Biden Isn’t the Only One Trying to Have It Both Ways on Obama (“The candidates may praise the 44th president, but from health care to immigration, they have real policy differences with him.”)
- 2020 Democrats Try to Cut Down Presidential Front-Runner Biden
- The Democrats in These Debates Know What They’re Talking About (“Whether you like their answers or not, the candidates grasp the big policy questions. That’s refreshing.”)
- 5 takeaways from the second night of the Democratic presidential debate (“The Biden pile-on…Piercing Biden’s Obama shield on immigration…Harris wears a bigger target…Biden and Harris clash on health care…Booker breaks through”)
- Joe Biden Asked Kamala Harris to ‘Go Easy on Me.’ Neither She Nor Anyone Else Did. (“The former VP took some shots on the chin. But so did his closest competitor.”)
- Debate Disappointment: I Wanted So Much More From Joe Biden (“And I find myself fretting that none of these Democrats can beat Donald Trump.”)
- Joe Biden Did Fine, and That Might Have Been Enough
- Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate, Night 2
- Fight Night, er, Debate Night: Biden vs. the World
- Joe Biden’s Missed Opportunity
- 3 winners and 4 losers from Democrats’ two-night debate extravaganza (“Get ready for a Booker boomlet, but Biden’s still in command.”)
- Cory Booker’s big night: Harris hangs in there, Biden falters in second debate (“Second Democratic debate in Detroit was limper: Biden struggles, but Cory Booker proves he belongs in the top tier”)
- “Fire Pantaleo!”: the discussion of Eric Garner’s death at the Democratic debate, explained
- At the Democratic Debate, Joe Biden Defends the Party’s Past
- Joe Biden vs. Everybody (“In tonight’s debate, ganging up on the front-runner is the obvious strategy—but he’s demonstrated a virtually Trumpian ability to survive.”)
- Joe Biden Has Another Rough Night (“He stammered, evaded, and wilted. He allowed himself to get flummoxed by Bill de Blasio, which is like allowing your car to get bested by a Pinto. And he fumbled a kill shot against Kamala Harris. But the rest of the field didn’t perform much better.”)
- Joe Biden’s Climate Plan Melted During the Debate (“Mr. Vice President, your argument is not with me, it’s with science.”)
- Kirsten Gillibrand Has White Privilege and Knows How to Use It (“The senator explained this concept very well. It’s worth watching.” Agreed.)
- Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
- Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections (“Focusing on election interference from 2016 is backwards thinking, though, at least according to Virginia Senator Mark Warner. With 2020 just around the corner, he tells WIRED—in an exclusive interview—that the upcoming election is where both parties need to direct their attention right now.”)
- Kaine: immigration agencies need to cooperate to assure better detention conditions
- Senator Tim Kaine joins with other senators in proposing ban on death penalty legislation
- Cumberland County GOP Unanimously Passes No-Confidence Measure in Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05) for “Not Being Tougher on Immigration,” Officiating at Same-Sex Marriage
- Republican lawmaker disowned by county GOP after officiating same-sex wedding
- Breaking Down Barriers Will Help Virginia Build on Medicaid Expansion Milestone
- New Data On Medicaid Expansion Reveals Just How Cruel Virginia Republicans Were To Oppose It (“Electing Democrats literally saves lives.”)
- Virginia Republicans Attack Del. Ibraheem Samirah (“Ill Advised Little Bastard”), Leap to Defend the Corrupt, Authoritarian Republican Racist-in-Chief
- Republicans say protest of Trump shows Democrats are unpatriotic and in disarray (“Virginia Democrats grouse privately about Samirah’s action, but defend his stand against racism.”)
- Schapiro: History at Jamestown dwarfed by history-making Trump spat
- Editorial: 3 rights and 2 wrongs at Jamestown (Dumb as usual from the Roanoke Times editorial page.)
- Fairfax Plans Lawsuit Over Sex Assault Claims (“Lauren Burke, a spokeswoman for Fairfax said Wednesday that Tyson had 15 years to initiate a criminal complaint against Fairfax in Boston, but has allowed the statute of limitations to expire. Burke said that deadline prompted Fairfax to move to file a civil lawsuit against Tyson, and possibly Watson in the coming weeks.”)
- Arson, drugs and murder: Mapping 2018 crime trends in Virginia by city and county
- Virginia says it’s too late to add Republican legislator to the November ballot (“Missed deadlines may force Del. Nick Freitas to run as a write-in, posing a hurdle in a pivotal election year.”)
- Pipe coating is safe, Mountain Valley tells regulators (Yeah, because we totally believe the Mountain Valley Pipeline folks.)
- Hemp is legal. Marijuana isn’t. State forensic scientists say soon they’ll have tests to tell the two apart
- Parker: Good ideas, but they don’t solve the problem
- Typical summer heat and humidity with storm threats through the weekend
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