by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 31.
- Euro zone GDP plunged by a record 12.1% in the second quarter
- Why Alarm Over Climate Change Is Not Alarmism (“New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now.”)
- Coastal flooding could hit nearly 20% of global GDP as climate change accelerates storms, sea level rise
- Hong Kong leader says key election postponed, blow to pro-democracy camp
- COVID-19 Hospital Data System That Bypasses CDC Plagued By Delays, Inaccuracies
- Grim, Optimistic, and Brutally Realistic Scenarios for America’s COVID-19 Future (“What would be terrifying is if we see a round of people getting it a second time and having a similar—or worse—severity”)
- 50,000 more people are dead, and there’s no end in sight. It didn’t have to be this way.
- The Federal Reserve and GDP news undercut Trump’s economic happy talk
- We won’t ignore the horrible economic numbers (“Trump once again shows his unfitness, but he cannot distract from his failures.”)
- Did a third of the economy really vanish in just three months? (“The second quarter GDP report confused many, but any way you slice it, the economy saw its worst quarter in at least 145 years.”)
- The Economy Shrank at a Record Pace This Spring. But That’s Not the Really Bad News. (“The Department of Labor reports that new claims for unemployment insurance actually increased last week for the second time in a row, and the share of Americans on state jobless rolls increased from 11.2 percent to 11.6 percent.”)
- Second-quarter GDP plunged by worst-ever 32.9% amid virus-induced shutdown
- $600-a-week unemployment benefits expire, posing fresh danger to Trump’s re-election
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Congress to Examine Trump’s Pandemic Response (“Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health officials will testify before a House panel on testing, vaccines and school reopening. There are strong signs that Native Americans have been hit hard by the virus.”)
- Congress Heads for Weekend With No Deal on Virus Relief in Sight
- The Economy Is in Record Decline, but Not for the Tech Giants
- The Risk That Students Could Arrive at School With the Coronavirus (“As schools grapple with how to reopen, new estimates show that large parts of the country would likely see infected students if classrooms opened now.”)
- EXCLUSIVE: Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs
- Biden slams Trump, McConnell for ‘political games’ with further coronavirus aid
- 2020 Election Live Updates: Republicans Reject Trump’s Suggestion to Delay Election, Something He Cannot Do
- Trump’s call to postpone elections is an outrageous break with American faith in democracy
- How Much Does Trump’s Threat To Delay The Election Matter? (“The country is facing several crises at once, and we have no idea how to process them.”)
- Does Trump Want to Save His Economy? (“The president is showing little urgency or strategy as the economic recovery stalls ahead of the November election.”)
- Trump Keeps Criticizing Universal Vote By Mail. But The Nation Isn’t Doing That
- Trump’s Two-Pronged Strategy to Demonize Voting By Mail
- Federalist Society co-founder calls Trump’s tweet about delaying election “fascistic”
- Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That’s Unconstitutional.
- Trump Defends ‘Delay the Election’ Tweet, Even Though He Can’t Do It
- Trump Attacks an Election He Is at Risk of Losing
- Trump’s suggestion to delay the election is the most anti-democratic thing any president ever said
- ‘He’s Terrified of Losing’—Trump Goes Into Hyperdrive to Delegitimize the Election
- Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle
- No, Trump can’t delay the election (“The law is very clear about this.”)
- Trump Is the Election Crisis He Is Warning About
- The Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue (“Trump is the kind of boss who can’t do the job — and won’t go away.”)
- Delaying the Election Would Be Grotesque and Un-American
- Trump Escalates His Election Doubts With Biden Lead Widening
- The Trump Administration*’s Powerful and Relentless Ratf*cking of the 2020 Election Is Underway (“A lot of it is aimed at the U.S. Postal Service.”)
- Trump’s Two-Pronged Strategy to Demonize Voting By Mail
- Three former presidents embrace the struggle for rights. The current one suggests delaying the election.
- Obama warns that Trump’s actions threaten US democracy
- “The faith of this democracy depends on how we use it”: Read Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis
- Obama: Senate Should Eliminate Filibuster To Protect Voting Rights
- Trump Doesn’t Know What Democracy Is. John Lewis Embodied It.
- Obama’s John Lewis Eulogy Is a Blueprint for the Next Fight for Democracy
- Obama hails John Lewis as founding father of ‘fuller, better’ US in eulogy
- This Was a Different Barack Obama. A Stick-Swinging, Old-Testament Obama. (“Direct, forceful, and utterly uncompromising, the former president took on the moral chaos roiling America in the true spirit of John Lewis.”)
- Mitch McConnell Could Rescue Millions. What Is He Waiting For?
- Trump campaign temporarily halts ad spending for review of messaging strategy
- How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” (Many/most things by Jared Kushner go “poof into thin air.”)
- McConnell’s proposed ban on virus lawsuits will hurt Black and Latinx workers most
- A federal judge blocked Trump’s rule creating a wealth test for immigrants
- Barack Obama: My Eulogy for Congressman John Lewis
- Right-wing media attack Barack Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis (Of course they do.)
- Trump (again) uses housing as a racial wedge
- Trump’s racist housing tweet is par for his family
- No one puts a better face on the GOP’s coronavirus ignorance than Louie Gohmert
- DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents (WTF???)
- Unsealed documents show Epstein, Maxwell correspondence in 2015
- Dems pour record cash into battleground state parties
- State Democrats mount big comeback in 2020 (“Democratic state party groups in traditional and emerging swing states are seeing a huge cash influx from donors looking to beat Trump.”)
- EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Supreme Court’s internal deliberations over Trump’s taxes
- Herman Cain, ex-presidential candidate who refused to wear mask, dies after COVID-19 diagnosis
- The Tragedy of Herman Cain (“The entrepreneur turned politician embodied some of America’s best traits—and some of its worst.”)
- Don’t count out Duckworth in Biden VP race
- So Is It Going to Be Kamala, or What?
- Postal Service backlog sparks worries that ballot delivery could be delayed in November (“The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing days-long backlogs of mail across the country after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures described as cost-cutting efforts” Outrageous and 100% unacceptable!)
- Census Door Knocking Cut A Month Short Amid Pressure To Finish Count (“The Census Bureau is cutting short critical door-knocking efforts for the 2020 census amid growing concerns among Democrats in Congress that the White House is pressuring the bureau to wrap up counting soon for political gain, NPR has learned.”)
- ‘If you can talk, you can breathe,’ Arkansas officer tells man who later dies in police custody
- GOP congressman admits to 11 ethics violations he denied just last year
- Republicans and White House at Odds Over Kansas Senate Race
- Fox helps Trump hide terrible economic news (“Fox spent just 1 minute discussing the worst quarterly economic plunge in United States history”)
- Virginia Elected Officials, Others React to Trump’s “Desperate” Attempt to “Usurp This Election” and “Destroy Our Democracy”
- Virginia Democrats Blast Nick Freitas’s Disastrous Health Care Record on Medicaid and Medicare’s 55th Anniversary
- New VCU Poll: Biden +11 Points in Virginia; Massive Racial, Partisan Differences on Confederate Monuments; Whether “Blacks are treated as fairly as Whites”
- Editorial: Virginia shows why Trump is wrong about vote-by-mail
- Thursday (7/30) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +911 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 88,904), +48 Hospitalizations (to 7,786), +16 Deaths (to 2,141) From Yesterday
- AG Mark Herring Again Successfully Defense Virginia’s COVID Safety Measures
- Graphics: Percentage of Emergency Room Visits Due to COVID-Like Illness Increasing in Eastern, SW Virginia; Mostly Flat or Declining in NoVa, NW and Central Virginia
- Black Virginians Are Facing a New Onslaught of Job Losses
- Northam faces 15-point approval drop as governors across the country face growing pandemic fatigue
- Audio: Denver Riggleman Says He’s Considering Run for Virginia Governor in 2021, Possibly As an Independent; Will Decide by September/October
- Northam asks Virginia’s Supreme Court for another evictions ban
- Editorial: With local CARES Act funding, time matters, too
- How Do You Defeat the Partisan Redistricting Referendum? “1 in 100” Campaigner Talks Underdog Strategy
- Richmond Police Chief Says Officers Lacked Training, Written Policies On Use Of ‘Non-Lethals’
- Allegations against parole board substantiated, but details are kept secret
- VMI to alter longstanding traditions tied to its Confederate history, but leave statues in place
- Arlington Dems’ Steering Committee Votes Overwhelmingly (79%-20%) to Urge *NO* Vote on Fatally Flawed Redistricting Amendment
- Radford University releases police report related to student’s jail death
- Roanoke jail sees a dozen cases of COVID-19 among staff in past 2 weeks
- A Virginia Beach prosecutor got the coronavirus. The entire office will close Friday for cleaning.
- A photo seemed to show wild time at Blacksburg bar; the truth is more complicated
- Editorial: Northern Neck needs essential broadband
- Stop Mountain Valley Pipeline from polluting Southwest Virginia’s water
- No longer in Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s path, landowners consider next steps
- ODU delays fall semester start, still plans some on-campus instruction (“Classes will now start Aug. 29 and include a combination of in-person, online and hybrid courses. The semester was previously expected to begin Aug. 15.”)
- Private Schools Prepare to Open In Person
- York County School Board opts for all-virtual beginning of school year
- Richmond police clear encampments around Lee statue on Monument Avenue, resulting in arrests
- Warrant issued for man accused of driving toward protesters in Virginia Beach
- Most Albemarle County students will start year all online
- Will Tropical Storm Isaias impact Hampton Roads and the Outer Banks? We’re in waiting mode.
- A wetter pattern increases patchy flooding chances, and helps keep temperatures down
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