by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, December 6.
- How Trump could cost U.S. companies a climate bonanza (“Pulling out of the Paris climate pact may leave U.S. businesses outside the trading regimes worth hundreds of billions of dollars.”)
- A Key Climate Justice Question at COP25: What Role Should Carbon Markets Play in Meeting Paris Goals? (“Environmental justice advocates and indigenous groups argue that emissions trading leaves the poor bearing the brunt of pollution.”)
- Could Iran’s Revolution Unravel Over a Four-Cent Price Hike?
- ‘Dotage of a dotard’: North Korea renews attack on Donald Trump (It was such a beautiful bromance…while it lasted. OK, yeah, it totally wasn’t. Heh.)
- In Brexit Britain, Labour Party risks losing its ‘Red Wall’ industrial heartlands (“Voters in Hartlepool feel they have missed out on the economic growth of the last few decades — and they’re taking it out on politicians.”)
- Indian police kill four men suspected of gang rape, murder; draw cheers
- Russia cannot be allowed to send killers to Germany — or anywhere else
- Jane Fonda: The Climate Emergency Is a Political Emergency (“I don’t want to look back and wonder what more I could have done to save our planet.”)
- OPEC and Russia seek to ratify deeper oil production cuts
- U.S. lawmakers work to settle on articles of impeachment against Trump
- Trump is so much closer to impeachment
- Vulnerable Democrats in U.S. Congress eager to move beyond impeachment
- Doubts Surface Over Giuliani-White House Budget Office Calls
- ‘The president gave us no choice’: Pelosi resisted Trump’s impeachment, now she’s the public face
- Nancy Pelosi to reporter: ‘Don’t mess with me’ (Go Nancy Pelosi!)
- Colbert Mocks Reporter Who Got ‘Balls’ Taken by Pelosi (“As a fellow Catholic, the ‘Late Show’ host took the House Speaker’s side in her fight with a former Fox News reporter.” Oh, that guy was from Fox? That explains it!)
- Phone logs in impeachment report renew concern about security of Trump communications
- Rudy’s New Ukraine Jaunt Is Freaking Out Trump’s Lieutenants—and He Doesn’t Care
- Pressure builds for Giuliani as associate enters talks over potential plea deal
- Nancy Pelosi and that four-letter word
- Pelosi’s Leap on Impeachment: From No Go to No Choice
- This moment was made for Nancy Pelosi
- Brett Kavanaugh Wrote That Hiding Evidence From Congress Is an Impeachable Offense
- Donald Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger to the 2020 Election (“Who gets to pick the next president of the United States — President Trump, Russia or us?”)
- Top Judiciary Republican Says White House Should Participate In Inquiry, With Caveats
- The Republicans’ Star Impeachment Scholar Is a Shameless Hack (Yep.)
- Why the ‘Wokest’ Candidates Are the Weakest (“If the fantasy that Democrats are all zealots was reality, the primary campaign would have turned out quite differently.”)
- Devin Nunes’ blind allegiance to Trump is the real danger to the republic
- When Pete Buttigieg Was One of McKinsey’s ‘Whiz Kids’
- Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence
- Vultures pick over remains of Harris campaign
- Why Did Democratic Candidates Get Stampeded Into Endorsing Berniecare? (“Anatomy of a political debacle”)
- The Senate Just Confirmed a Trump Judge With No Real Trial or Litigation Experience (“Sarah Pitlyk will serve for life.” Democrats are going to need to expand the judiciary big time.)
- Ethics Committee urges Duncan Hunter to stop voting in House after guilty plea
- Inside the Cell Where a Sick 16-Year-Old Boy Died in Border Patrol Care (“Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol’s account of his death.”)
- A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump’s Negligence
- Why Lisa Page has been such an intense and constant target of Trump’s ire (“She’s both a career public servant and a woman who dared to stand up to the president.”)
- WV employees suspended after photo emerges of correctional officers’ Nazi salute
- Another California GOP lawmaker is leaving the Republican Party. Here’s why
- Uber discloses 3,000 reports of sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year in its long-awaited safety report
- North Carolina’s New House Map Hands Democrats Two Seats — But It Still Leans Republican (“… instead of 10 pretty safe Republican districts and three pretty safe Democratic ones, North Carolina now has eight fairly Republican-leaning districts and five fairly Democratic-leaning ones.”)
- New Biden ad shows world leaders mocking Trump
- ‘You’re a damn liar, man’: Biden lashes out at Iowan over Hunter claim
- Elizabeth Warren Goes After Pete Buttigieg’s Private Fundraisers (“‘Those doors shouldn’t be closed,’ the senator said of her 2020 presidential rival.”)
- Buttigieg camp courts black support in Congress
- Democrats woo Bullock for Senate. They’re over Beto.
- If Matt Bevin Had Not Lost the Election, He Would Have Won It (“The departing Kentucky governor laments his inability stop people from voting against him.”)
- Georgia ready for unpredictable Senate race
- Mainstream journalists need to stop falling for bad faith nonsense like conservatives’ feigned outraged over the mention of Barron Trump
- A 5-year-old boy’s entire kindergarten class showed up for his adoption hearing
- Top McCarthy ally becomes 21st House Republican to announce retirement
- Democratic victories may keep tens of thousands on Medicaid
- 4 killed in shootout following theft of UPS truck in Florida: Police
- Sens. Kaine, Cruz settle World Series bet over lunch (Yuck.)
- News outlet seeks dismissal of lieutenant governor’s lawsuit
- Editorial: Bloomberg makes Virginia (and other Super Tuesday states) matter (Silly editorial.)
- Congressman McEachin’s Effort to Get More Young People Enrolled in Health Insurance
- Audio: Dem Political Consultant Ben Tribbett Predicts 2020 Nominee Will NOT Come From Current Field of Candidates (“Also comments on VA GOP possibly going with “Never Trumper”; on “Gun Sanctuary” counties; and on House of Delegates committee assignments”)
- Fairfax Co. projects up to 90% turnout for 2020 election
- Gov. Northam Plans to Purge Racist Language from Virginia Law (“A task force assembled by the governor recommended removing nearly 100 overtly discriminatory and racist laws that were still on the books.”)
- Governor Northam Commits to Repealing Racially Discriminatory Language in Virginia Law
- Virginia looks at scrapping defunct, racist laws still on the books
- From poll taxes to segregated train cars, Virginia panel recommends repealing 98 Jim Crow-era laws
- Commission releases report on ‘deeply troubling’ racism in defunct Virginia law
- Can a Coal Town Reinvent Itself? (“A coal town in southwestern Virginia has been trying for years. Hope is running thin.”)
- S&P Global Market Intelligence Article Demolishes Corrupt, Dishonest Dominion Energy
- Dominion suspends plan to add 1.5 GW of peaking capacity as Virginia faces gas glut
- Virginia gun rights groups are pushing “Second Amendment sanctuaries.” But what does that mean?
- More Fairfax Connector routes disrupted as bus workers go on strike
- How The Fairfax Connector Worker Strike Impacts Route 1 Corridor
- Fairfax Connector strike illustrates widening rift over privatization of public services
- An 8-year-old girl was strip searched at a Virginia prison. She was told it was the only way to see her dad. (WTF?)
- Virginia once feared some cities would run out of groundwater. But conservation efforts are working.
- PW County Supervisor-Elect Andrea Bailey Picks Edwin Santana as Chief of Staff, Will Smith as Deputy Chief of Staff
- Faison Plans Changes Following VPM Investigation Into Staff Concerns About Student Seclusion Use, Reporting
- Colleagues remember Richmond firefighter killed in Hopewell shooting: ‘She was the best of us’
- ‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum
- Mild with clouds today, but tonight’s cold front brings a sunnier and chilly weekend
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