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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, October 18.
- Italy Readies New Virus Measures With London, Paris Under Curbs
- Why the US election could decide battle against climate change
- Acting on climate change can get us out of recession. There are no excuses left (“The IMF says we can increase economic growth over the next 15 years and decrease emissions to net zero by 2050”)
- Earth’s New Gilded Era (“The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger.”)
- Armenia, Azerbaijan Cease-Fire Is Again Broken Within Hours
- Ardern Landslide Is a Vote for Covid Competence (“It appears we really do want our governments to tackle the coronavirus. Who knew?”)
- Global Coronavirus Cases Rise By One-Day Record Of 400,000
- The Next COVID-19 Surge Is Here
- China Warns U.S. It May Detain Americans in Response to Prosecutions of Chinese Scholars
- America needs to reinforce the message to Putin that killing your critics is wrong (Trump apparently thinks it’s fine.)
- As the Coronavirus Surges, a New Culprit Emerges: Pandemic Fatigue
- U.S. is staring down a ‘substantial third wave’ of coronavirus cases. Here are the numbers
- Far more people have died from the pandemic than the virus death toll indicates, VCU study says
- As coronavirus surges across the US, only 2 states are trending in the right direction (“The US is averaging more than 55,000 new cases a day — up more than 60% since a mid-September dip — and experts say the country is in the midst of the dreaded fall surge. On Friday, the US reported the most infections in the single day since July. And as of Saturday, more than 8.1 million cases of the virus have been reported in the US and 219,286 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.”)
- As pandemic surges and economy stalls, Trump fails to live up to dealmaker image in face of partisan gridlock (It’s not “partisan gridlock” – how stupid. As for Trump’s “dealmaker image,” that was always complete nonsense. This headline is really the media at its worst.)
- Pelosi, Mnuchin Talk on Stimulus as McConnell Sets Up Vote
- Senate to vote this week on ‘skinny’ pandemic relief bill, PPP funds (The Republicans’ cheap-ass “skinny” bill is a really bad, pathetic joke…not even CLOSE to adequate.)
- There’s a Word for Why We Wear Masks, and Liberals Should Say It (“It’s high time Democrats played some philosophical offense on the concept of ‘freedom.'” While we’re at it, how about anyone who’s not a Trumpster take back the word “patriotic?”)
- Trump continues bizarre appeals to suburban women (“The President continues to mock women he perceives as opponents in sexist and misogynistic language — a tactic that does not go over well in either party”)
- Even after being impeached for it, Trump is still leveraging his office to bolster his mud-slinging (In the end, impeachment accomplished…what?)
- A tabloid got a trove of data on Hunter Biden from Rudy Giuliani. Now, the FBI is probing a possible disinformation campaign
- Rudy: Only ‘50/50’ Chance I Worked With a ‘Russian Spy’ to Dig Dirt on Bidens and Ukraine (Yeah, we’ll take that as 100% that Rudy’s a Russian agent or dupe.)
- Flush With Cash, Biden Eclipses Trump in the War for the Airwaves
- A 2009 Supreme Court ruling may require Barrett to recuse herself from 2020 election cases
- Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of “unconscionable cruelty” in teen rape case
- Trump slams Republican critic who warned of November ‘bloodbath’
- Trump Is Taking Down Names as Republicans Begin Jumping Ship on His ‘Totally Off the Rails’ Campaign
- How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest
- Why These Voters Rejected Hillary Clinton but Are Backing Joe Biden (Bizarre.)
- Trump Says He Might Leave the Country If He Loses. Does He Mean It?
- The cowards’ comeuppance: It’s too late for a radical reinvention of the Trump GOP
- The Memo: Trump’s second term chances fade
- Trump draws thousands, many without masks, to Janesville as cases of coronavirus soar in Wisconsin (Wildly irresponsible.)
- The threats against Democratic governors prove Trump’s rhetoric encourages violence
- Whitmer Rebukes Trump After ‘Lock Her Up’ Chants at Rally
- Can Biden compete in Trump’s rural strongholds? Democrats hope so.
- In 2017, women marched against Trump. Now they’re marching to get rid of him.
- Facebook says it rejected 2.2m ads seeking to obstruct voting in US election
- Women’s March in D.C. draws thousands in protest of Supreme Court nominee, Trump
- Democratic donors fuel record-breaking fundraising in Senate races
- On election coverage, CBS is falling for the same trap it did four years ago (“CBS’ decision to question Joe Biden about suspect NY Post stories irresponsibly amplifies a right-wing-media-fueled pseudo-scandal” Utterly disgraceful by CBS.)
- Republican incumbents should be cast out, and open seats awarded to Democrats
- One of Kentucky’s largest newspapers endorses McConnell’s challenger
- Texas is the most intriguing political state in the country this fall
- The upset of 2020? Jaime Harrison push to oust Lindsey Graham central to US Senate battle (“The race for the White House is gaining most attention, but a remarkable Senate race in South Carolina could be historic”)
- Trump’s hopes fade in Wisconsin as ‘greatest economy’ boast unravels (To the extent the economy was ever the “greatest,” it was inherited from Obama/Biden.)
- Georgia State Rep. Crowd-Surfs Over Maskless Trump Supporters At President’s Rally (Insane.)
- Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places (That’s called VOTER SUPPRESSION.)
- ‘SNL’ takes on the dueling town halls between Trump and Biden
- When Did Major Virginia Jurisdictions “Tip” to “Blue” in Presidential and U.S. Senate Elections, and What Might They Do in 2020?
- Photos: With 17 Days to Go Until the Most Important Election of Our Lives, Virginia Dems Work to GOTV
- Election 2020 and the 4th Congressional District: A Q&A with Donald McEachin
- Election 2020 and the 1st Congressional District: A Q&A with Qasim Rashid
- Election 2020 and the 7th Congressional District: A Q&A with Nick Freitas
- Election 2020 and the 7th Congressional District: A Q&A with Abigail Spanberger
- Election 2020 and the 4th Congressional District: A Q&A with Leon Benjamin
- Saturday (10/17) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,114 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 165,238), +51 Hospitalizations (to 11,831), +14 Deaths (to 3,422)
- VA House GOP “Recklessly Full of It” on Jury Sentencing Bill; Gets Called Out for “Ridiculous Fearmongering” on Bill That “puts Virginia in line with 48 other states”
- VA House GOP Goes on Unhinged Twitter Rant to Prove It Doesn’t Understand the Constitution
- Editorial: Amendment 1 deserves voters’ support (Virginia’s newspaper editorial boards have done a major disservice to the public on this one…and continue to do so.)
- Brouillette: Southwestern Virginia coal industry has key role in American’s energy future (Coal actually has no future, if we want to have a habitable planet.)
- Loudoun NAACP Leads March Against Voter Suppression In Leesburg (“The March to the Polls event, sponsored by the Loudoun NAACP, attracted nearly 200 people Saturday, including dozens of young people.”)
- Don’t expect results on election night in Hampton Roads, registrars say
- Opinion: Toll relief should be part of any tunnel contract deal
- SCC considers the ups and downs of Appalachian Power’s rates
- Candidates for 3 seats on Roanoke City Council answer questions on issues ahead of Nov. 3 election
- At VMI, Black cadets endure lynching threats, Klan memories and Confederacy veneration (Absolutely unacceptable on all counts.)
- 5 hurt – including 3 JMU students – in blast at Harrisonburg shopping center near 10-mile race
- Monument Fund, other plaintiffs rebuff city’s statues appeal
- Crowd gathers in Fredericksburg for ‘We the People’ rally (“The afternoon’s ‘lessons’ included a spirited address from Dr. David E. Martin. Martin, who gained notoriety from his contributions to the faux-documentary film ‘Plandemic 2,’ reassured rallygoers that ‘not a single person in this room [sic], not one of you is a pathogen carrier. You are not sick.'” Yikes.)
- Neighbors Fight To Save George Washington’s Historic River Farm, Hit Financially By Pandemic
- Outstanding October weather continues as we warm into midweek
