by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 8.
- Putin’s Party Braces for Verdict of Angry Voters in Russia Polls (“Regional elections have turned into a referendum on the president.”)
- Boris Johnson Faces Open Rebellion in His Party (“Amber Rudd quit in a blaze of fury and other Tory MPs have criticized his strategy.” When are Republicans going to do the same??? Yeah, that was a rhetorical question; of course they won’t.)
- Boris Johnson Finds His Party Loyalists Aren’t as Loyal as Trump’s (“No matter what Republicans think of President Trump, they largely back his agenda. In Britain, rebels in the Conservative Party have staged an insurrection.”)
- High drama, low politics: can Johnson survive the chaos?
- Amber Rudd quits government over Johnson’s Brexit stance (“Amber Rudd has quit the cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip, saying not enough effort is going into getting a Brexit deal.”)
- French minister: EU won’t grant UK Brexit delay as things stand (“But UK chancellor says Boris Johnson wants a deal, not an extension.”)
- The U.S.-China trade war makes clear the folly of arms races
- Boris Johnson will do anything for Brexit. Even destroy his own party.
- Trump says he’s canceling Afghan peace talks, secret meeting with Taliban leaders
- Trump says he canceled secret meeting with Afghan president, Taliban at Camp David (“The abrupt disclosure appeared to deal a significant blow to the ongoing peace talks. The president accused the Taliban of perpetrating a deadly attack earlier this week to strengthen their negotiating hand.”)
- Hong Kong protesters appeal to Trump for help (Good luck with the dictator-loving, democracy-hating Trump.)
- ‘We have no food or water’: Hurricane Dorian survivors feel abandoned
- Iran’s nuclear chief: EU has failed to fulfill 2015 deal commitments
- Dorian makes landfall in Nova Scotia
- Top NOAA official warned staff against contradicting Trump
- NOAA’s support of Trump over its own scientists provokes uproar in weather community
- NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim
- Democracy in America is failing — here’s how we can still make it work (“Democracy is supposed to reflect the will of the people. That’s not happening now — but there are ways to fix it”)
- The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the GOP
- Democrats return to a battered Trump
- The Trump Administration Is Playing Dirty With Automakers
- South Carolina GOP appears to violate own rules in canceling primary for Trump
- Trump Lost #Sharpiegate the Moment He Took It Seriously
- We asked 100 New Hampshire insiders about the Democratic field. Here’s who they favor. (“A striking number of party activists said they were undecided as 19 presidential candidates delivered stump speeches over seven hours at the SNHU Arena, according to interviews with 100 delegates by POLITICO. Elizabeth Warren led the way among the surveyed delegates who had made up their minds, followed by Bernie Sanders in second and Biden in third.”)
- The Next Democratic Debate Offers a New Start for Second-Tier Candidates (“The shrinking calendar has those who are lagging behind the front-runners looking for new life in their campaigns amid hopes that Joe Biden will fade.”)
- Warren gains, Harris slips — and the room for movement is vast
- Biden ahead in Democratic race, with Sanders and Warren filling out the top tier (“Sen. Elizabeth Warren Warren gains ground since July, Sen. Bernie Sanders holds steady and Joe Biden benefits from perceptions of electability.” Biden 29%, Sanders 19%, Warren 18%, Harris 7%, Buttigieg 4%, O’Rourke 3%, Yang 3%)
- Warren and Clinton talk behind the scenes as 2020 race intensifies (“Analysis: Neither camp wants to talk about it, but the two women have recently grown closer.”)
- Kamala Harris apologizes for her response to a questioner’s offensive remark about Trump
- 2020 Democrats barnstorm New Hampshire, taking aim at Trump
- Editorial: Burden of Trump’s border promise falls squarely on military (Remember, Trump promised a million times that MEXICO would pay for his idiotic “wall.” Trump, as usual, lied.)
- Suffolk/Globe poll finds Kennedy leading Markey in possible Senate primary matchup
- Former MIT staffer says leadership tried to hide Epstein donations (“A former development associate at the school’s media lab says leadership made it clear Epstein’s donations were to be kept secret”)
- The USDA relocation to Kansas City is ripping apart the lives of its employees. Here are some of their stories.
- Video, Photos: Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Sen. Jennifer McClellan, Del. Sam Rasoul, Del. Kathy Tran Support Ghazala Hashmi for State Senate in District 10
- Video: Tonight, I Saw a Much Better Political Future for Virginia Flash Before My Eyes, and Her Name Is Sheila Bynum-Coleman (Yes, the title is a Bruce Springsteen reference. :))
- Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States (“Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.” Yep, so slavery existed in what would become the U.S. well before Jamestown.)
- Opinion/Commentary: Virginia shows signs of political shifts (“At the traditional Labor Day start of what could be an untraditional election year, it’s Republican cannibalism that has Democrats, who think they have shot at the Thomas seat, wondering whether there’s more than hostility for Trump that could hasten a take-back of the House and Virginia Senate.”)
- Editorial: Can the Appalachian Trail block pipelines? (“…the ACP would be the first time a pipeline has wanted to burrow under the trail on federal land.”)
- ‘Octoroon’, ‘Aryan’: Three Couples Sue Over Virginia Law Requiring Use of Racial Categories to Wed
- Christy Everett: Offshore drilling threatens region’s future (“Christy Everett is the Hampton Roads director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.”)
- Fairfax Co. urban search and rescue team gets to work in Bahamas
- Local immigrants from Guatemala seek asylum from poverty and food insecurity
- Video: Sully District (Fairfax County) Supervisor Kathy Smith Speaks at Campaign Office Opening (“Republicans ‘are looking to divide us; they are talking about busing…'”)
- Richmond School Board optimistic it can right the ship as some members skip retreat
- Political will: NRV localities deal with aging school infrastructure
- Practically perfect Sunday, then cloudy tomorrow with heat back by midweek
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