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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 8.
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- China challenges U.S. to cut nuclear arsenal to matching level
- WHO confirms there’s ’emerging evidence’ of airborne transmission of coronavirus
- Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19 after months of dismissing the seriousness of the virus
- Trudeau Won’t Visit Trump. Most Canadians Don’t Want To Cross The Border Either
- US General confident Iraqis will ask American troops to remain in Iraq (“Gen. McKenzie met with new Iraqi Prime Minister in Baghdad”)
- U.S. has seen more than 3 million coronavirus cases (“More than 46,500 new cases were recorded across the country on Tuesday.”)
- Nine out of 10 Americans say racism and police brutality are problems, poll finds
- Trump’s attacks on voting by mail could backfire, GOP strategists fear
- Trump leans into old failures in push to reopen schools as virus roars
- U.S. Plans a Testing Surge as Latest Virus Data Hints at Shift
- Trump’s Drive On Division And Fear May Not Be A Winning Strategy Come November
- Donald Trump Listens to His Gut. And It’s the Gut of a Racist.
- US anti-abortion groups received millions in federal Covid-19 aid (“Planned Parenthood also received funding from Paycheck Protection Program, which some lawmakers demanded it return”)
- Recession Forces Spending Cuts on States, Cities Hit by Coronavirus (“Education takes the brunt of reductions; governments have cut 1.5 million jobs since March, with more expected”)
- Trump Pledges To ‘Pressure’ Governors To Reopen Schools Despite Health Concerns
- Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring his head in a fall
- Climate Activists See ‘New Era’ After Three Major Oil and Gas Pipeline Defeats
- Donald Trump’s Lost Cause (“The president rode to power by exploiting racial grievance—and now the backlash against his inflammatory acts may doom his reelection chances.”)
- The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir (“President Trump’s niece was a family outcast. Her new book casts a cold light on the relatives she describes as dysfunctional.”)
- Mary Trump somehow manages to make President Trump look even worse
- The Strangest and Most Upsetting Details From Mary Trump’s Upcoming Book
- Mary Trump’s Book Accuses the President of Embracing ‘Cheating as a Way of Life’
- Mary Trump Book Claims Trump Praised Her Breasts and His Own Sister Called Him a Clown
- Psychological disorders and family squabbles: 9 details from the book by Donald Trump’s niece
- Mary Trump says uncle Donald may have ‘undiagnosed learning disability’ in new book
- Trump’s attacks on mail voting are turning Republicans off absentee ballots
- DeVos rejects part-time reopening for schools amid pandemic
- They Can’t Stomach Trump. They’re Sufficiently Comfortable With Biden.
- Biden coasts to victory in New Jersey, Delaware primaries, NBC News projects
- At least 5 Republican senators say they will not attend GOP convention
- Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless (“Here are two conditions the Democrat should set.”)
- Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ Reaction Is Swift.
- Could Dumping Pence Be a Last-Minute Game Changer for Trump?
- It’s Tough Times for the Extraction Industries. Judges Keep Bringing Down the Hammer.
- New Hampshire’s GOP governor defends Trump’s rally — but isn’t attending
- Kanye West Says He No Longer Supports Trump: Report (“The rapper says he plans to run for president as an independent, Forbes reported.” He’s 100% a tool of Trump.)
- Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg Disappoint Once Again
- Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott
- Facebook ad boycott organizers met with Zuckerberg. It didn’t go well (“Civil rights and activist groups blasted Facebook’s leadership on Tuesday after meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives to discuss the demands of a large advertiser boycott that now includes hundreds of brands.”)
- Trump veterans flock to K Street despite ‘drain the swamp’ vow (Of course they do, because “drain the swamp” was always complete horse manure.)
- Let’s not mince words. Trump is racist. (“Mealy-mouthed language enables Trump to keep going.”)
- Republicans’ latest excuse for Trump
- Florida invited the nation to its reopening — then it became a new coronavirus epicenter
- Tucker Carlson calls Purple Heart recipient, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a “coward” and a “fraud” (This guy is completely deranged)
- Tucker Carlson Accused Of Echoing White Supremacist Talking Points On Fox News
- Trump uses the coronavirus to impede immigration. His aim at foreign students is a new low.
- Cuccinelli says rule forcing international students to return home will ‘encourage schools to reopen’ (This guy is just beyond words, really…)
- Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Shows Massive, Bipartisan Support for Clean Energy; Big Partisan Differences in Climate Science Knowledge, Concern
- Sen. Kaine explains evolving stance on removing Confederate statues
- BREAKING: By 2-1 Vote, Virginia State Board of Elections Approves Requests for Filing Deadline Extensions by Republicans Bob Good (VA05), Nick Freitas (VA07)
- Virginia gives Freitas, Good and others a pass on campaign filing error (I mean, why even have rules if you’re not going to enforce and follow them?)
- Congressional candidates get names on November ballot after board grants extension on paperwork deadline
- Del. Kaye Kory, Fairfax NAACP Send Open Letter to Gov. Northam Calling for “Suspension or Elimination” of School Resource Officer Programs
- Editorial: Is Amanda Chase trying to poison the Republican Party? (More drivel – “both sidesism” and a wild whitewash of the Republican Party, which is filled with people who think and talk like Chase, starting at the top with Donald Trump – from the Roanoke Times editorial board.)
- Mountain Valley Pipeline’s ‘uphill climb’ gets a little easier (This headline is wildly misleading. In fact, the article says “Mountain Valley still lacks approval from the U.S. Forest Service to pass through the Jefferson National Forest and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect endangered species” and “the ruling did little to curb the jubilation of pipeline opponents, who saw the demise of Atlantic Coast as evidence that the same thing could happen again.”)
- With ACP canceled, will Dominion deliver on clean energy?
- Editorial: Virginia’s move to green energy takes on added urgency
- Gas to nuclear? Dominion looks beyond pipeline’s demise
- Tuesday (7/7) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +638 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 66,740), +77 Hospitalizations (to 6,512), +28 Deaths (to 1,881) From Yesterday
- Jury Sentencing: Ending Virginia’s Game of Russian Roulette
- Governor Northam Launches “Clean Energy Virginia” Initiative to Drive Investment in Renewable Energy, Support Jobs of the Future
- Students could be closer together under Virginia’s revised guidance for reopening schools
- Northam urges education leaders to remove Confederate names from schools
- Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy Calls on Gov. Northam to Ensure Greater Outreach Amid Disparate COVID-19 Outcomes for Latinx Communities
- Complacency in Northern Virginia is giving covid-19 another opening
- BREAKING: Democrat Takis Karantonis Projected to Win the Special Election for Arlington County Board
- Democrat wins Arlington race to fill empty seat on county board (“Takis Karantonis will succeed Erik Gutshall, who died of brain cancer.”)
- As other Virginia school systems act, one is still clinging to its racist Confederate names (“Hanover County leaders continue clinging to racist history by blatantly ignoring thousands of residents urging them, for years now, to rename Lee-Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School.”)
- Hundreds of Roanoke, NRV businesses and nonprofits received PPP, government says
- A Taco Bell franchisee, a builder, and military contractors among those to get COVID-19 loans worth at least $5 million in Hampton Roads
- Fairfax County Schools Giving Families More Time to Decide Back-To-School Plans
- Parents In Fairfax County Must Decide Between Two Options For Reopening Schools By July 15
- Loudoun County Board Votes to Remove Confederate Statue
- Gen. Robert E. Lee is the only Confederate icon still standing on a Richmond avenue forever changed (“Workers removed a monument to Gen. J.E.B. Stuart Tuesday, the last of four statues taken down on city-owned land.”)
- “You don’t have to be Frodo… You can be Sam.” A Citizen’s Praxis by the Former Lee Circle
- Council delays CRB decision; Walker spars with board member
- Fundraising Effort to ‘Move the Monuments’ in Richmond
- Hot and humid today and tomorrow with an isolated storm; tricky forecast for Friday
