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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, November 27.
- ‘It’s Like the Second World War.’ Covid-19 Is Tearing Into the Parts of Europe That Lack Doctors
- The U.S. has ensured its supplies of coronavirus vaccine. Now it must help provide them to poor nations.
- Trump remains in a battle of wills with Iran
- Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts (“To come out of this pandemic better than we went in, we must let ourselves be touched by others’ pain.”)
- The Virus Won’t Stop Evolving When the Vaccine Arrives (“The coronavirus is not a shape shifter like the flu, but it could become vaccine resistant over time.”)
- Biden faces challenges, opportunities in Middle East
- A Thanksgiving marked by surging covid-19 cases and questions about a leading vaccine candidate (“Confusion persisted about the vaccine AstraZeneca is developing with the University of Oxford.”)
- Climate crisis making autumn leaves fall earlier, study finds
- US records 2,300 COVID-19 deaths as pandemic rises with holidays
- Government Model Suggests U.S. COVID-19 Cases Could Be Approaching 100 Million (“The model, created by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, calculated that the true number of infections is about 8 times the reported number, which includes only the cases confirmed by a laboratory test.”)
- U.S. Hospitalizations Surpass 90,000 for the First Time
- Explainer: Can Trump pardon his associates — or himself? (“Crucially, a pardon only applies to federal crimes. That means pardons would not, for example, protect Trump associates from the criminal investigation being conducted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a state prosecutor.”)
- Trump commits to stepping down if electoral college votes for Biden (That’s SO gracious of him! LOL)
- Unthankful Trump Refuses To Say If He Will Attend Biden Inauguration
- ‘Don’t Ever Talk to the President That Way’: Trump Snaps at ‘Lightweight’ Reporter During Wild Thanksgiving Press Conference (Pathetic loser.)
- Trump’s continued rhetoric over election hampers recovery as Americans face heightened economic and health fears
- ‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table (“#DiaperDon trends on Twitter after outgoing president’s furniture steals limelight”)
- Jake Tapper Hits Donald Trump With A Blunt Reminder After President’s Rant At Reporter
- Cuomo Attacks Supreme Court, but Virus Ruling Is Warning to Governors
- Cuomo calls U.S. Supreme Court’s religious gatherings ruling ‘irrelevant’
- Midnight Ruling Exposes Rifts at a Supreme Court Transformed by Trump
- Trump’s imprint on Supreme Court shows conservative effect in key coronavirus ruling
- Here Are the Various Ways Donald Trump Could Be Prosecuted (“Tax fraud and obstruction of justice are just the start.”)
- ‘Loser’: How a Lifelong Fear Bookended Trump’s Presidency
- Here’s What Lame-Duck Trump Might Do (“Pardon his cronies and the connected…Attack Iran’s main nuclear site…Bring back firing squads…Make it easier to pollute…Preserve Confederate monuments…Make it even harder to claim asylum”)
- The Memo: Biden faces tough road on pledge to heal nation
- Biden tries to spread calm, as some Democrats worry over his willingness to fight
- Census Gives Trump a Final Supreme Court Showdown on Immigration
- The Rotting of the Republican Mind (“When one party becomes detached from reality.”)
- Donor In Trump’s Election ‘Fraud’ Fight Sues To Snatch Back His $2.5 Million Contribution
- Barack Obama breaks record with massive sales of his new book
- Obama’s raw recollections on race in ‘A Promised Land’
- Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Trump? (“To the dismay of Democrats, the president’s strategy of ignoring the pandemic mostly worked for Republicans.”)
- Horse-race political analysis is important — and flawed. We need more moral journalism.
- Social Media’s Liability Shield Is Under Assault
- Trump’s conspiracies have MAGA world talking Georgia boycott (“It’s hard to tell if the online chatter reflects wider voter sentiment, but some Republicans have expressed concern.”)
- Ex-Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell files lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia (Why is she allowed to keep filing frivolous lawsuits?)
- “Let’s Buy Trump Off So He Shuts the F–K Up”: Will Rupert Murdoch Spring For a Post-Presidential Fox Gig? (“With efforts to undermine democracy failing, and Mar-a-Lago renovations underway, Trump’s future points more to a media gig than a second term. He’s feuding with Fox over election coverage, but a $100 million book-and-TV deal might smooth things over.”)
- Angry Trump promises rally in battleground state of Georgia
- “How Many of These People Are Just Batshit Crazy?”: CNN’s Jake Tapper on Politics and Media in the Trump Era (“The network’s chief Washington correspondent sees a world in which Trump’s power diminishes, but may not disappear completely. The real question, though, is how America contends with a faction that no longer believes in facts—and how culpable Republicans are in the crippling of democracy.”)
- Editorial: On Black Friday, remember those in need
- Wyoming’s governor has resisted calls for a mask mandate. Now he has the coronavirus.
- What I’m Grateful For: the Silver Lining in a 38-Day Quarantine (“Senator Tim Kaine says it was most uninterrupted one-on-one time he’s had with his wife of 36 years.”)
- What hunting Bigfoot taught a Republican congressman about politics (“Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) doesn’t believe in Bigfoot. But he learned a lot by immersing himself in the world of those who do.”)
- Thursday (11/26) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +2,600 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 228,900), +105 Hospitalizations (to 14,417), +21 Deaths (to 4,029) (Second-highest 10-day total of new cases since pandemic began)
- Three years is too long for justice in Bijan Ghaisar’s death
- Editorial: Nats’ pass on Richmond is the next notch on The Diamond’s future
- Editorial: Richmond’s recent rent concessions are missing the real issue
- Norfolk wipes out laws against fornication and adultery, the latest in a push to modernize city code
- After stern warnings on COVID-19 rules, Tech, RU issue few suspensions
- Man was Tasered, shot to death after officers barged into Newport News home without warrant, prosecutors say
- D.C.-area forecast: Temperatures continue to cool slightly this weekend, but sunshine increases
