by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 16.
- Despite the UAE-Israel deal, Trump will leave the Mideast a bigger mess than he found it (Very much so.)
- Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore (“More European producers are saying energy resources worth billions of dollars now might never be pumped out of the ground.” Bingo – stranded assets by the billions!)
- ‘Go hard, go early’ – now New Zealand goes back to the drawing board
- Lukashenko supporters rally in Belarus ahead of opposition protest
- Shifting Dynamics of the Mideast Pushed Israel and U.A.E. Together
- COVID-19 Has ‘Taken A Political Tone Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen,’ Warns Anthony Fauci (“He said Tucker Carlson’s treatment of him on Fox News ‘triggers some of the crazies in society to start threatening me.'”)
- Flu and Covid: winter could bring ‘double-barrel’ outbreak to US, experts say (“But the same measures that fight coronavirus are effective against the flu – and vaccines offer another weapon against it”)
- ‘It’s nerve-racking’ — Millions of Americans are still furloughed and unsure when they will return to work
- Former Attorney General Holder Suggests Postmaster General Should Be Prosecuted (Sure seems like it.)
- What Really Scares Voting Experts About the Postal Service (“No matter what Trump says, the USPS has the money and the capacity to handle a huge surge in mail-in ballots. But new restrictions could disrupt the election”)
- Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms
- Pelosi weighs bringing House back early to address Postal Service crisis
- Tracing Trump’s Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’
- Democrats Warn Of ‘Assault’ On The Postal Service As Election Nears
- Saliva-based coronavirus test funded by NBA, NBPA gets emergency authorization from FDA
- ‘No way to spin that,’ Romney says of virus deaths
- Trump says he is considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden (Snowden’s a traitor, obviously, and Trump is Putin’s puppet.)
- Tracing Trump’s grievance-fueled crusade against the USPS
- Pandemic denial: Why some people can’t accept Covid-19’s realities
- Media must keep up red-alert coverage of Trump’s attacks on Postal Service
- Kamala Harris exposes the GOP’s radicalism
- Trump’s Racist ‘Birther’ Attacks On Harris Are A Return To Familiar Territory
- The Week QAnon Went Mainstream
- Younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece dies at 71 (“Robert Trump said in 2016 that he supported his brother’s candidacy ‘one thousand percent’ but kept a low profile until this summer, when he led a lawsuit seeking to prevent niece Mary Trump from publishing a tell-all book about the family.”)
- Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida
- Here are the Trump battleground states that Harris can help Biden retake (“Analysis: A decline in Black turnout and Democratic support in the Midwest probably cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election. This time could be different.”)
- A big sign Trump is a weak candidate (“The fact that Biden’s lead is wider than the House Democrats’ edge is unusual. If it holds, it would be ahistoric.”)
- 2020 Election Live Updates: Democrats Prepare for an Unprecedented Convention
- Trump stokes fear. Biden and Harris can raise hope.
- Kanye West Is Trying to Get on the Ballot in Two More Purple States (One of them is Virginia.)
- The Most Incomprehensibly Thrilling Ad of the 2020 Election So Far (“Ed Markey is borrowing from AOC in an ad that also drips with American nostalgia.”)
- Coronavirus spread in Georgia is ‘widespread and expanding,’ says report on leaked WH warning
- Ahead of school reopenings, Sen. Warner meets with Central Virginia educators
- Thanks To Trump’s War on the US Postal Service, Tom Perriello’s 78-Year-Old Mom “hasn’t gotten her eye drops (protect against low-pressure glaucoma) in 23 days”
- Why Does VA07 GOP Nominee and Defense Contractor Nick Freitas Still Have a TikTok Account?
- With the Virginia General Assembly Special Session Starting Tuesday, Here Are the Worst, Craziest Bills Introduced So Far – All By Republicans, Of Course (Hydroxychloroquine, vaccinations, virtual learning, collective bargaining…)
- BREAKING: VA GOP, Which Hasn’t Won Statewide Election in 11 Years and Is Basically Broke, Elects Former Del. Rich Anderson as New Chair (Current chair ousted…finishes third out of three.)
- Virginia Republicans pick former Del. Rich Anderson to replace Jack Wilson as state party chair
- Saturday (8/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +912 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 105,750), +51 Hospitalizations (to 8,701), +11 Deaths (to 2,381) From Yesterday
- Editorial: Lawmakers’ caution, restraint will serve Virginia best
- Opinion/Editorial: Report alleging Parole Board errors was kept secret
- Virginia legislature reconvenes for special session on budget, pandemic, police reform
- Editorial: Student self-governance is not enough for a safe reopening of Virginia’s colleges and universities
- Virginians need care — not cops — in a mental-health crisis
- An enslaved person’s words provide painful context for mayor’s post about Biden picking ‘Aunt Jemima as his VP’
- Fredericksburg-area registrars prepare for surge in absentee voting
- Fredericksburg-area school divisions working to ensure all students have high-speed internet access
- What it will take for Thomas Jefferson High School to change (“For all intents and purposes, certainly in terms of the admissions process, TJ functions like an elite university, complete with a prep-center industry.”)
- A patchwork system: How COVID-19 testing works in the Charlottesville area
- Flooding threatens homes in Chesterfield with more rain in Sunday forecast
- Portsmouth could rename 3 schools, including Wilson High, because of namesakes’ racism
- Damp and gray for a not-so-sunny Sunday; warmer and brighter to start the work week
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