by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 15.
- Brexit Time Runs Short as Both Sides See Crucial Week Ahead
- Asia Pacific Nations Sign the World’s Biggest Trade Deal (“RCEP trade pact comes after nearly a decade of negotiations; 15 nations including China, Japan and Australia are on board”)
- Asia forms world’s biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.
- Putin’s biggest fear is to be held accountable for his regime’s crimes
- The coronavirus’s origins are still a mystery. We need a full investigation.
- Israel, at behest of U.S., killed al-Qaeda’s deputy in a drive-by attack in Iran
- Brazilians Go to Polls in Test to Bolsonaro’s Kingmaking Power
- OPEC’s Got to Play the Coronavirus Waiting Game
- False reports claim election servers were seized in Germany
- Fauci Says Pfizer Vaccine’s Trial Success May Boost Acceptance
- Crucial Vaccine and Treatment Data Only Days Away
- Worsening coronavirus crisis pushes leaders to take new measures
- This Coronavirus Surge Does Not Have to Be So Horrific
- The pandemic doesn’t care about your personal freedom
- Doctors Plead With Americans to Take Virus Surge Seriously
- It’s Time to Hunker Down (“A devastating surge is here. Unless Americans act aggressively, it will get much larger, very quickly.”)
- Trump and his White House minimize pandemic surge as he focuses on denying election loss
- Trump ignores deepening Covid-19 crisis (“The President is blocking any meaningful exchange of coronavirus information to Biden’s transition team — a dangerous move during a national crisis”)
- A Nightmare COVID Winter Could Force a GOP Awakening on Stimulus
- Trump greets thousands of supporters gathered in D.C. to falsely claim he won election (Utterly insane.)
- ‘Million MAGA March’ Falls More Than 900,000 Short of a Full Deck (“The takeaway from the day was pretty simple: There is no way to make these people believe that they’ve lost, because they don’t believe in democracy.”)
- Clashes Between Protest Groups Break Out After Thousands Rally for Trump in DC
- Million Maga March: Trump fans rage against dying of the light
- Trump Is Going Out Like He Came In: With His Press Secretary Lying About Crowd Size
- The Million MAGA March Hashtag Has Been Taken Over by Images of Pancakes
- Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension
- Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign’s well-laid legal plans
- Trump’s far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart (“The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections. Then along came the former New York City mayor.”)
- Trump lost at the ballot box. His legal challenges aren’t going any better.
- In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term
- I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America (Barack Obama: “I wrote my book for young people—as an invitation to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.”)
- Trump’s purges are spreading, and it’s dangerous
- Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?
- Trump still refusing to concede to Biden, inflaming supporters and delaying transition
- We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore. Now we agree: Biden won.
- Joe Biden administration: president-elect assembles a diverse cabinet (“Susan Rice is being considered for secretary of state and Michele Flournoy is reportedly top choice for defence secretary”)
- Biden is bringing back the daily briefing. Here’s who is likely to be at the podium. (“Kate Bedingfield and Symone Sanders are in line for major communications roles in the new administration.”)
- There Was No Knockout, So Democrats and G.O.P. Regroup for Next Round (“In an election that broke records for voter turnout and campaign spending, neither Democrats nor Republicans have achieved a dominant upper hand. Both camps are acknowledging that voters seem to have issued not a mandate for the left or the right but a muddled plea to move on from Trump-style chaos.”)
- GOP Leaders In 4 States Quash Dubious Trump Scheme On Electors (“Lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have all said they won’t intervene in selecting electors.”)
- 3 scholars say Trump isn’t staging a coup — but he still poses a threat to democracy (“Trump’s destabalizing rhetoric, which calls into question the integrity of the presidential election, could erode the strength of American institutions.”)
- Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House
- Trump Family Business Faces Post-Election Reckoning (“When President Trump leaves the White House in January, he will face some of the deepest financial and legal challenges in his family business empire in decades”)
- Why so sour, Justice Alito? Your side in the Supreme Court is winning.
- Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter
- ‘Walked a fine line’: how Fox News found itself in an existential crisis
- How Western media would cover the U.S. election if it happened in another country
- The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for COVID-19
- Minnesota GOP sent virus alert only to its side of the aisle
- Let’s not leave Metro high and dry (by Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair Jeff McKay)
- “Seldom does one see a group of leading citizens and officials gathered to urge deposing a duly elected President-elect of the United States, but that’s exactly what happened today in Staunton” (“Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06), two Republican delegates spew dangerous conspiracy theories…”)
- Opinion: Virginia elections serve as a strategic “gambit”
- UVA COVID-19 Model’s Latest Update: “In Virginia, 25 of 35 local health districts are in growth trajectories, including eight in surge trajectories”
- Saturday (11/14) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,537 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 200,799), +72 Hospitalizations (to 13,480), +14 Deaths (to 3,799)
- Del. Lee Carter (D-HD50), a Self-Described Socialist, Says He is “Strongly Considering Running” for Virginia Governor in 2021
- VCU study: School segregation worsening in Virginia
- After confusion on election night, Virginia officials consider changes to how the state reports results
- Editorial: Eligibility standard could undermine redistricting commission (“New legislation which intends to keep the voter-approved redistricting commission free from politics may make it impossible to function.”)
- Davis: Virginia leads the way on police reform
- New law pushes Appalachian Power toward more renewable energy (It’s about f’ing time!)
- Push for change at Virginia Military Institute had been building for months
- Jessee-Wallace: Envisioning a new day in Southwest Virginia
- Coronavirus slowly grows in Virginia’s Eastern region headed into holidays
- Richmond schools use long-term suspensions far more often than neighboring counties. New policies aim to change that.
- D.C.-area forecast: Milder today with gusty late-day showers and storms, then seasonably cool through midweek
