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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, February 10.
- China’s Xi Appears in Public; Death Toll Hits 910: Virus Update
- Merkel Succession Collapses Blowing Open Race to Run Germany (“Kramp-Karrenbauer to give up party leadership later this year”)
- 66 new coronavirus cases detected on quarantined cruise ship in Japan
- App Used by Netanyahu’s Party Leaks Personal Data of Over 6 Million Israelis
- Man carrying knife arrested outside White House after threat
- Trump weaponizes the Presidency after impeachment victory
- Trump budget plan would fail to eliminate deficit over 10 years, briefing document shows
- Trump to Propose $4.8 Trillion Budget With Big Safety-Net Cuts
- Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget likely to get thumbs-down from Congress
- Sacred Native American burial sites are being blown up for Trump’s border wall, lawmaker says
- The two battles that will define the New Hampshire primary (“One is the urgent effort by the party’s moderate and center-left voters to find a candidate who can defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The other is a desperate fight for their allegiance among the candidates vying to become that person. Thus the struggle in the final hours among former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.). The question is whether they do so much damage to one another that they clear Sanders’s path to victory.”)
- New Hampshire may answer these five key questions
- Democrats grow gloomy over unwieldy party battle to take on Trump (“The stage is set for a Democratic primary that is nasty, brutish and long.”)
- The Question All Democrats Need to Ask Themselves (“If your preferred candidate doesn’t win the nomination, will you still do everything you can to deny Trump a second term?”)
- Sheldon Adelson to donate $100m to Trump and Republicans, fundraisers say (“Billionaire casino magnate, a staunchly pro-Israel conservative, expected to give to Super Pacs and ‘dark money’ groups”)
- Are Black Voters Quietly Turning to Mike Bloomberg? (“His belated and convenient stop-and-frisk mea culpa might be good enough for voters concerned with beating Trump, and protecting the fraught gains of the past half-century.”)
- Klobuchar Rises to Third in New Hampshire Days Before Primary
- A major hurdle for Warren, Biden in New Hampshire (“The grim question facing the two candidates is not whether they can win the state’s primary, strategists say, but how low they will finish — and what that would mean for their candidacies.”)
- How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats
- Iowa Democrats: Buttigieg edges Sanders for delegates
- Pete Buttigieg calls for deficit reduction, swiping Bernie Sanders
- Buttigieg launches digital ad buy in Super Tuesday states
- Joe Biden Is Preparing For The Worst In New Hampshire
- Full Sanders: ‘I am in good health’ won’t release additional medical records
- Biden faces competition for black vote in his SC ‘firewall’
- Lying Dog-Faced What??? Joe Biden Mystifies With Bonkers Joke Insult At Voter
- 6 winners and 5 losers from the 2020 Oscars
- ‘Parasite’ dominated the Oscars on a historic night
- Here are all the 2020 Oscar winners
- Trump hits top analyst Larry Sabato: He ‘never came close to understanding the Trump voter’
- Trump bizarrely proclaims leading political scientist is wrong when he says he will remain president
- Editorial: The EPA should do its job and help the bay
- Senate Commerce & Labor Committee Reports Out Virginia Clean Economy Act, “Balance Billing” Fixes, Vaping Prohibition, Electric School Buses, etc.
- It’s almost halfway time in Richmond. Here’s what lawmakers have done — and what they’re still debating. (“The deadline for each chamber to send bills to the other is Tuesday. Changes on voting and marijuana are sailing through; divides remain on guns and labor laws.”)
- Does It Really Cost $72,630 to Repeal the Death Penalty, and $25 Million to Repeal “Right to Work?”
- At Senate panel, a clash over the costs of shifting away from carbon
- Virginia lawmakers advance tenant-friendly laws to cap late fees, force repairs
- Marijuana Decriminalization Likely to Take Step Forward Monday
- After legislature’s leftward lurch, conservatives pitch ‘Vexit’ to rural Virginia localities (“Leftward lurch?” More like “centrist lurch.” Typical corporate media bullshit framing)
- Virginia Grassroots Coalition Calls for Removal of “Biomass-Fired Facilities” from Renewable Portfolio Standard
- Virginia Senate Commerce and Labor Committee Meets in Rare Sunday Session to Deal with Wide Variety of Important Issues
- Sea level rise continues to accelerate; Hampton Roads should prepare for 1.7 foot increase by 2050, report says
- Northern Virginia’s new marketing effort aims to lure and retain young tech talent
- Town hall attendees question Hudson on consequences of legislation
- 10 Chesterfield jail workers said an inmate’s hidden drugs made them ill. The drugs were a prescribed antihistamine and antidepressant.
- Redskins seek sports betting license in Virginia even as they lobby for one in Maryland
- Mostly mild and wet, not white, for a second straight February week
