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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 25.
- World’s Ice And Oceans Under Dire Threat, Shocking UN Report Warns (“Hundreds of millions of people in coastal areas would be threatened if climate change continues unabated, the UN’s climate body warned.”)
- Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It’s Accelerating (This has to be stopped and reversed, ASAP.)
- Major Climate Report Warns of Severe Damage to Oceans (“Climate change is straining the world’s oceans, creating profound risks for coastal cities and food supplies, a U.N. report found.” This alone is disastrous; if the oceans die, we die.)
- Tuesday was a turning point on both sides of the Atlantic
- Boris Johnson’s Brexit Gamble Is Failing
- Trump’s UN Speech Was a Glimpse of How He Views the World. It Was, Of Course, Insane. (“It was also the rhetorical equivalent of a tranquilizer dart. Just ask Wilbur Ross.”)
- Iran ready to accept nuclear deal changes if U.S. returns, lifts sanctions: spokesman
- Johnson to Address Commons Amid Political Storm: Brexit Update
- Global Stocks Drop on Trade and Political Concerns
- Trump to meet Ukraine’s Zelensky at UN amid impeachment frenzy
- Pelosi Impeachment Gambit Brings Peril for Trump – And Democrats
- Nancy Pelosi Has Had Enough
- ‘No One Is Above the Law’ (“The House opens its impeachment inquiry, and there’s no telling where it will lead.’)
- Trump’s ‘transcript’ of Ukraine call unlikely to be verbatim
- Giuliani pursued shadow Ukraine agenda as key foreign policy officials were sidelined (“Lock him up!”
- White House preparing to release whistleblower complaint to Congress
- U.S. Ambassador Roped Into Rudy’s Quest to Smear Biden
- Why an Impeachment Inquiry Now? Democrats Cite the Clarity of the Case
- Inside Trumpworld, public defiance vs. private anxiety over impeachment
- Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry, says Trump’s courting of foreign political help is a ‘betrayal of national security’
- Even Senate Republicans want the White House to share a whistleblower report on Trump
- What the Law Says About Impeachment and Trump’s Ukraine Phone Call
- Trump sets out to undercut Pelosi’s impeachment gamble
- Trump and House Democrats are ‘crossing the Rubicon’ with impeachment showdown, and nobody knows where it will lead
- Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Announcement Was a Moment of Constitutional Leadership (“The dam has broken. The House of Representatives has moved to conduct a formal impeachment inquiry”)
- Donald Trump’s Ukraine Business Is the Beginning of the End (“Something has shifted in the political tectonics.”)
- Today may be the most important day of Trump’s tenure
- Mainstream media’s misleading headlines are helping the Trump administration spread propaganda about his Ukraine scandal
- Trump Is Being Impeached Because He Will Not Stop Cheating (“Trump refuses to respect any boundary between his property and the government he serves”)
- The Impeachment Process Explained: What Happens to Trump Now?
- If we legitimize Trump’s behavior, it’ll be open season on our politics
- On impeachment, the worm has turned
- How an Impeachment Process Inquiry Works
- The Ukraine scandal makes a stronger case for impeachment than the Mueller probe did (“I used to be on the fence about impeaching Trump. Not anymore.” Same here.)
- Impeaching Trump On Russia Was Unpopular. Will Ukraine Be Different?
- Senate GOP vows to quash impeachment articles (Of course they do.)
- Trump legal team steps into a battle like none before
- This isn’t just another spat. Trump compromised our security for his gain.
- Warren Continues To Climb While Biden Slips Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Democratic Primary Is Neck And Neck (“In the August national poll, Biden received 32 percent, Warren had 19 percent, Sanders got 15 percent, Harris had 7 percent, and Buttigieg got 5 percent.”)
- Biden nosedives in early-state polls
- Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine, Chronicler of the Highbrow and Lowbrow
- It’s the Environment, Stupid (“There is a winning campaign theme that progressives can use against Trump, and it isn’t ‘Medicare for all.'”)
- JUST IN: Beyer Now Supports Articles of Impeachment
- Seven Freshmen House Dems, Including Reps. Luria and Spanberger: Trump’s “Flagrant Disregard For the Law Cannot Stand”; Time for Impeachment Hearings
- Reps. McEachin and Scott join growing calls for Trump impeachment proceedings
- Va. House Democrats unanimously back impeachment inquiry
- Virginia congresswoman reiterates call for Ben Carson’s resignation (“Jennifer Wexton denounces HUD Secretary’s anti-trans comments, and accuses him of lying to Congress under oath”)
- Top GOP Digital Firm Purchased Domains for Amanda Chase, Nick Freitas, & John Mcguire for Congress
- Governor Northam Announces $20 Million Electric School Bus Initiative
- #VADemsChat: Questions and Answers on Health Care, Gun Violence, Education, the Climate Crisis, the ERA, Choice, etc.
- Virginia tax refund checks are in the mail. Don’t toss out this envelope.
- Virginia Democrats say 2017 was about convincing people state races are important; 2019 is about beating GOP gerrymandering (Actually, I’d argue that 2019 is about “convincing people state races are important,” and that 2017 was all about anti-Trump backlash in a gubernatorial election year.)
- Select Tweets from Prince William County Republican Chairman Candidate John Gray: “African Americans would stop ‘rioting’ and take a knee if someone played the national anthem.”
- DPVA Demands Prince William County Republicans Call on John Gray to Drop Out of PWC Board Chair Race After Revelation of Racist, Homophobic and Threatening Tweets
- Since the WaPo Failed to Publish Them, Here’s a Sampling of Prince William County Republican Chairman Candidate John Gray’s Offensive Tweets
- Millions of dollars are missing. The sheriff is dead. A small town wants answers. (“The scandal surrounding a Warren County economic development authority deal in Front Royal, Va., has led to multiple arrests and civil lawsuits.”)
- Motive of shooter in Virginia Beach rampage remains a mystery, investigators say
- Hostile Environment For Black Workers Probed In Virginia Beach Shooting Investigation
- Norfolk City Council approves casino land deal
- Fairfax County approves purchase of 1,210 police body cameras
- Deal them in: Nats sweep Phillies in doubleheader, clinch NL wild-card spot
- Back and forth from beautifully warm to rather hot
