by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 27.
I was just detained by Richmond Police officers while trying to leave Monroe Park. Officers were clearing the area, but before I could get to the street I was grabbed and put in handcuffs. They released me on the grounds that I do not return to the park tonight. Last vid I took: pic.twitter.com/IjkQbsYaLa
— Andrew Ringle (@aeringle) July 27, 2020
- New Outbreaks Emerge From China to Spain
- India’s Coronavirus Epidemic is Now the World’s Fastest Growing
- Coronavirus Is Back With a Vengeance in Places Where It Had All but Vanished
- How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected (That reason alone means everyone HAS TO vote for Joe Biden.)
- Beijing Takes Over U.S. Chengdu Consulate After Forced Closure
- America’s global standing is at a low point. The pandemic made it worse.
- Jihadist plots used to be U.S. and Europe’s biggest terrorist threat. Now it’s the far right. (“An increasing percentage of plans and attacks in the U.S. are linked to far-right activity, said Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.”)
- Fed Outlook Turns Gloomier as Virus Spreads
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Testing Results Take Too Long, U.S. Official Concedes
- US records more than 1,000 Covid deaths a day as Republicans mull relief
- Trump’s team steps up its blame of the states (“As Trump’s aides say rising coronavirus cases aren’t his fault, Americans face looming cuts to jobless aid”)
- GOP Climate Change Denial Set The Stage For Trump’s Coronavirus Conspiracies (“The right has perfected the art of misinformation and science skepticism over the years.”)
- McConnell’s Release of GOP Relief Plan Starts Gun for Talks
- In just one month, Trump commits a new set of potentially impeachable offenses
- Trump’s Nakedly Political Pandemic Pivot (He counts on many in the political press falling for it, and…they do!)
- Trump backs out of throwing first pitch at Yankees game
- Why progressives should welcome anti-Trump Republicans
- Republicans’ pandemic blunders keep piling higher
- Schools are moving toward closing for the fall. That is not their fault.
- 100 days out, parties fear chaotic election
- Trump, Biden build legal armies for electoral battlefield
- Senate Republicans grow weary with White House over stimulus bill
- Trump plans to aggressively promote vaccine and therapeutic news at coronavirus briefings
- CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: Trump up one in Ohio as Biden leads Michigan
- Trump is behind in a state no Republican has won the presidency without in 96 years
- How to minimize 2020 election chaos
- Hill Republicans begin jockeying for power in a possible post-Trump world
- Biden has a long list of things to fix if he wins the White House
- Pro-Trump super PAC losing the money race to Democrats (“The president’s advisers and donors have been growing increasingly concerned by the relative absence of an outside defense against Biden as Trump’s poll numbers have sunk.”)
- John Lewis, civil rights giant, crosses Selma bridge on way to Montgomery one final time
- Why 2020 Is Not Just Another 2016 (“The polls weren’t off that much in 2016, and it’s less likely they are this time around…Biden’s polling leads are larger and more stable than Clinton’s were…The minor-party vote is likely to be down a lot…Trump is the incumbent in 2020 in a bad year for incumbency…Trump’s act has grown old…We probably won’t know who won the morning after Election Day”)
- Sen. Hawley lays down new antiabortion marker for Supreme Court nominees (The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people ‘the necessary evil upon which the union was built'”)
- Tom Cotton calls slavery ‘necessary evil’ in attack on New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Video: 100 Days from Election Day, Michelle Obama Calls on Americans to Get Registered and Ready to Vote
- Maria Bartiromo asks why DHS can’t “just arrest the leadership in Portland” for “ignoring what’s really happening” (Wow.)
- During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Virginia Dems Show How to Campaign Safely; Republicans…Not So Much (Good going Qasim Rashid (D-VA01), Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02), Cameron Webb (D-VA05), Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA07) and Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA10))
- Here’s Something to Use to Rally Democrats to VOTE NO on the “Worse Than Nothing” Redistricting Amendment
- Sunday (7/26) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +958 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 84,567), +23 Hospitalizations (to 7,593), +3 Deaths (to 2,078) From Yesterday
- Criminal Justice Reforms: Should Lawmakers Ban Nighttime Warrants?
- Suetterlein: Special Session Must Act on Public Education (“At the special session, the General Assembly should pass legislation providing increased funding for school districts to help them safely reopen and expand health services; immunity for school districts from COVID-19 lawsuits so that they aren’t making decisions based on a fear of lawsuits; additional paid leave for teachers and staff for COVID-19 related issues; increased funding for teacher salaries; additional funding for at-risk schools; and resources for robust virtual education options for families that choose them.”)
- Roughly a third of Virginia’s health districts are seeing a surge in COVID-19, sounding the alarm for public health experts
- In Virginia, records detailing police misconduct and use of force are effectively secret
- In a rare alignment with labor, Dr. Northam prescribes bitter medicine for business as part of his pandemic treatment (Strange headline.)
- Former Local Journalist, Del. Danica Roem on the Collapse of Local Journalism and the “Giant Void for Vetted Facts Across the Country”
- Northam Hints At New Safety Measures As Cases Rise In Hampton Roads, Eastern Shore
- Video: Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, Police Chief Gerald Smith Hold Press Conference, Condemn Last Night’s Violence, Say Protest Flyer Originated “Outside of Richmond”
- Police chief believes Antifa, Boogaloo boys were at Richmond riot
- A Liberal Town Built Around Confederate Generals Rethinks Its Identity (“In Lexington, Va., where Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried, people are reassessing the town’s ties to a legacy that symbolizes slavery and oppression.”)
- Falls Church Public Schools Summer Daycare Sent Home 5 Children Out of 50 In Just Two Weeks; 25% of Custodial Staff COVID-19 Positive or Quarantined This Summer
- ShutDownDC rallies in Alexandria at the home of acting secretary of Homeland Security
- King George puts in more money to hasten high-speed internet service for rural residents
- Searing heat through Tuesday, when late storms may offer modest relief
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