by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, July 16.
Chris Cuomo is all of us. pic.twitter.com/N2ci97A3ah
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 16, 2020
- Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists (“Letter also signed by Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to act immediately on global heating”)
- Hong Kong Wave Turns Worse; Sweden Defends Policy: Virus Update
- The international community must guarantee equal global access to a covid-19 vaccine
- China’s Rebounding Economy Now Hinges on Global Recovery
- China Is First Major Economy to Return to Growth Since Coronavirus Pandemic (“China says economy grew 3.2% from a year earlier in the second quarter”)
- Israel’s second coronavirus wave is threatening Netanyahu’s hold on power (“The public is losing faith in the prime minister’s ability to manage the pandemic and economic crisis.”)
- In an upset to Big Pharma, the most promising coronavirus vaccine comes from the public sector (“The pharmaceutical industry is salivating over the prospect of a coronavirus vaccine. Oxford may beat them to it”)
- The growing scientific evidence for masks to fight Covid-19, explained (“It’s true the evidence for masks was weak before. That’s changed.”)
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Dire Numbers Prompt Mask Orders in U.S.
- Hospitals are running out of staff, supplies, and beds for Covid-19 patients — and this time could be worse
- A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming (“given the policy choices that state and federal officials have made, the virus has done exactly what public-health experts expected. When states reopened in late April and May with plenty of infected people within their borders, cases began to grow. COVID-19 is highly transmissible, makes a large subset of people who catch it seriously ill, and kills many more people than the flu or any other infectious disease circulating in the country.”)
- ‘I think you can trust me’: Fauci stands firm as Trump works to undermine him (“Top expert hits back after White House’s series of attacks – but observers say president’s barrage comes as little surprise”)
- Fauci calls White House criticism of him bizarre, says ‘let’s stop this nonsense’ and fight coronavirus
- As Trump refuses to lead, America tries to save itself (“As the pandemic worsens, major retailers, grocery stores, and city and state leaders are making the tough decisions that the President has shirked”)
- Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
- Public health groups denounce new Trump move sidelining CDC
- Mary Trump Describes Abusive Trump Family Home, Says She Will Vote For Biden
- White House officials sent document to Pentagon criticizing Vindman after impeachment testimony
- Trump is playing defense — and doing a rotten job of it
- The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come.
- The bill is coming due for those who sold their souls to Trump
- Drunk Uncle Trump Is Melting Down, Live on Television (“This isn’t a presidential campaign ready to suddenly emerge with a cadre of competent adults in the room. It isn’t a campaign ready to convert from distress to comeback.”)
- Hospital officials, experts say new federal rules for covid-19 reporting will add burdens during pandemic
- Hundreds of Trump appointees face a preelection test
- With Trump, invective obscures his policy messages
- ‘Trump-y politics’ leave permanent imprint on GOP(“Even as he struggles in his own reelection bid, Donald Trump continues to remake the Republican Party at every level.”)
- White House attempts to discredit Fauci ‘absolutely outrageous’: Gov. Larry Hogan
- Trump can’t land a blow on Biden, and it’s driving him crazy
- Biden’s Green Plans Put the Best Ideas of His Rivals to Work
- Joe Biden unveils an ambitious climate plan — and it signals a major global shift (“Biden’s dramatic climate pivot follows an extraordinary six weeks of global decisions: The world is changing fast”)
- Joe Biden gives a big, bold, normal speech on climate change
- Media is covering this election all wrong — the real question is whether Trump can steal it (“Horse-race journalism was never good — and it’s useless when dead-end fascists are trying to subvert democracy”)
- How to read Biden’s massive lead in the polls
- Biden leads Trump by 15 points in latest Quinnipiac poll
- Biden opens up 11-point national lead over Trump in NBC News/WSJ poll
- Trump Replaces Brad Parscale as Campaign Manager, Elevating Bill Stepien
- Trump shakes up campaign leadership as he struggles in latest polls
- Trump Campaign Chief Was Edged Out ‘Weeks Ago.’ Now He’s Officially Demoted
- ‘Nervously optimistic’: Democrats eye blue wave but 2016 memories are fresh (“Joe Biden is polling well ahead of Donald Trump, potentially putting more states in play – but complacency has been banished”)
- Trump Slashed a Major Environmental Rule. That’s Just the Beginning. (“If they meet their schedule, virtually every big ticket item will be across the finish line.”)
- This is Facebook’s chance to hit the reset button
- Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack
- Twitter Accounts for Biden, Gates, Musk and Others Are Hacked
- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Explicitly Bans Localities From Ordering People To Wear Masks (Just a reminder that Stacey Abrams should have been governor, but scumbag Kemp and his allies stole it via massive voter suppression.)
- Ivanka Trump defends Goya post that watchdogs call unethical
- NPR Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic Ends Listeners’ Commutes (“The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020.”)
- Kanye West Is Officially on the Ballot in Oklahoma
- Democrat Dr. Cameron Webb Posts Dominant Q2 Fundraising Haul, Trouncing Opponent Bob Good
- U.S. Supreme Court allows second federal execution in 17 years to proceed
- Virginia Mid-Year Campaign Finance Numbers Coming In…Here Are Some Highlights
- Virginia Republicans *Wildly* Out of Touch with Public Opinion on Reopening Schools
- Renewable Energy Is the New Growth Driver for Dominion Energy
- Wednesday (7/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,084 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 73,527), +88 Hospitalizations (to 6,905), +15 Deaths (to 1,992) From Yesterday
- Local Teachers Express Fears And Doubt As D.C.-Area Schools Prepare For The Fall
- Virginia becomes first state to adopt COVID-19 worker safety rules
- Labor groups warn of loophole in Virginia’s COVID-19 workplace safety rules
- Virginia Teachers Push for Remote Learning in the Fall
- A Look at the Virginia Cultural Institutions that Received PPP Help
- Editorial: No mask, no service
- Virginia State Police investigating 2019 traffic stop involving Black driver
- Virginia Adopts First-in-the-Nation Workplace Safety Standards for COVID-19 Pandemic
- Jennifer McClellan for Governor Campaign Announces 14 New Endorsements from Virginia Leaders
- Green New Deal Virginia Delivers Petition Criticizing Reckless Plan to Invite 4,000 Out of State Mountain Valley Pipeline Workers Into Virginia During a Pandemic
- At VHSL meeting, plan to delay high school sports until at least December garners support
- Virginia High School League plans for a fall without football
- Ibraheem S. Samirah column: Zoning for abundant housing is a racial justice issue
- Virginia Celebrates First Mission Using New Payload Processing Facility After Successful Rocket Launch from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
- Former Fairfax County School Board Member Ryan McElveen: “Schools must open virtually this fall”
- Unfortunately, It Doesn’t Appear that Confederate-Monument-Loving Judge’s Extreme Views Have Moderated Over the Past 40 Years
- Richmond police spent at least $1.9 million responding to protests; total cost to city unclear
- Liberty University sues The New York Times for defamation over coronavirus coverage
- Editorial: All eyes on Hampton Roads amid COVID surge
- Norfolk students won’t likely be in the classroom this fall, school leaders say
- Commission backs measures to ease regulations on child care facilities
- More than 100 Loudoun County residents have now died due to COVID-19
- 5 things to know about Roanoke’s school reopening plan
- Peter’s Take: Does Arlington’s Form of Government Equitably Serve All of Its Residents? (Definitely ranked-choice voting, definitely NOT a two-term limit, also not simultaneous election of all Board members…)
- Roanoke County School Board OKs proposed reopening plan, but pledges to work to send even more students back to classroom
- Buzz grows of a looming report about the Washington franchise
- Seasonably toasty today, but will we hit 90? Hotter and muggier into the weekend.
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