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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, January 31.
- Global vaccine rollout meets division, delay and disarray
- Russian anti-corruption group founded by Navalny calls for Biden to sanction Putin allies in letter
- Russia detains over 1,000 at protests against jailing of Kremlin critic Navalny
- Exclusive: Foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond May deadline – NATO sources
- Fresh Anti-Putin Protests as Navalny Prison Sentence Looms
- Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown
- Saudi Arabia has been scrubbing its textbooks of anti-Semitic and misogynistic passages
- Dubai Alliance to Distribute 2 Billion Vaccine Doses Globally
- Faced With a Vaccine Emergency, the EU Made an Enemy of Everyone
- Op-Ed: Biden called to draw ‘red lines’ against Chinese authoritarianism
- Vaccines For Data: Israel’s Pfizer Deal Drives Quick Rollout — And Privacy Worrie
- A New Day for the Climate (“It remains to be seen whether Joe Biden’s sweeping climate directives can make a meaningful difference, but a critical threshold has been crossed.”)
- ‘It’s Still Getting Worse.’ Inside Britain’s Vicious Second Wave. (“One hundred thousand people dead. A new, more contagious variant. The toll is close to unbearable.”)
- Biden team scrambles to find 20m vaccine doses Trump reportedly failed to track
- 10 days of struggle: Inside Biden’s early coronavirus vaccine effort
- Daily Covid Toll in U.S. Remains Enormous, but Cases Are Falling
- CDC Issues Sweeping New Mask Mandate For U.S. Travelers, Extends Eviction Moratorium
- Virus mutations add urgency to vaccination effort as experts warn of long battle ahead
- First on CNN: Trump’s impeachment defense team leaves less than two weeks before trial
- Trump loses lead impeachment lawyers a week before trial
- Trump appears to be without a legal team as impeachment trial nears
- Trump’s environmental legacy suffers two major court losses (“Courts struck down Trump-era rules on ozone and what data can be used to make policy.”)
- Analysis: Ghosts of 2009 Drive Democrats’ Push for Robust Crisis Response
- ‘It’s endemic’: state-level Republican groups lead party’s drift to extremism (“Despite national failures at the ballot box, radicalised state parties are fighting for Trump’s election lies and defending QAnon followers”)
- FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence assault was coordinated (The people who coordinated it need to be charged as well.)
- Forcing out the fringe (“Can Republicans exile their most toxic supporters? They’ve done it before.”)
- After Record Turnout, Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote (Disgraceful and 100% unacceptable. Time to pass a strong federal voting rights bill!)
- How Trump’s Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention From the Far-Right Threat
- Woman charged in Capitol riot said she wanted to shoot Pelosi ‘in the friggin’ brain,’ FBI says
- Lawmakers are still struggling with the trauma of the Capitol riot. Pelosi is trying to help.
- Many of my fellow politicians won’t tell voters the truth. The result was Jan. 6. (That’s amazing coming from the former House Republican Leader, Eric Cantor.)
- Senate Republicans say Trump should be held accountable for riot — but not by them
- Republicans Are Over the Armed Insurrection of the Capitol. But We Can’t Be.
- For McCarthy and McConnell, Two Paths on Trumpian Crisis Management
- What the next editor of the Washington Post (or the New York Times) should tell reporters (“America’s three most important daily papers face a massive inflection point: It’s a chance to redeem journalism”)
- Democrats seek to make guns in the Capitol illegal — for everyone
- Republicans are no longer a political party. They’re a mob
- Can Marjorie Taylor Greene Be Expelled From Congress? (“Expulsion, however, requires a two-thirds vote of House members (Senate concurrence is not required). So in effect, any reckoning with Greene will require that the Republican Party and the House Republican Caucus decide they’ve had enough of her.”)
- How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans (Here we go with the weak word “baseless,” instead of “false.”)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene touts Trump call amid growing backlash
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Is ‘the Worst Enemy for Most Causes That She Supposedly Supports’
- In L.A., the Virus Is Pummeling Those Who Can Least Afford to Fall Ill
- Dodger Stadium’s COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance
- After Joe Biden’s inauguration, Newsmax personalities are distraught and enraged
- Unwelcome On Facebook, Twitter, QAnon Followers Flock To Fringe Sites
- Video: Democrats on House Education Committee Push Back HARD Against Misinformation About, “Massive Resistance” to “Governor’s Schools” Admissions Reform Bill
- Video: Sen. Scott Surovell Says It’s “Basically Going to Be Impossible to Redraw Virginia’s…Districts in Time For” the November 2021 Elections
- Saturday (1/30) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +4,309 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 502,221), +96 Hospitalizations (to 21,337), +70 Deaths (to 6,449)
- Stanley: A conservative viewpoint on ending the death penalty
- Northam stops by vaccination clinic for employees of Prince William County Schools
- Opinion: On vaccine, minority groups should choose hope over skepticism
- Editorial: Welcome signs of progress in Virginia’s vaccine rollout
- Opinion: Broad support exists for ending mandatory minimums in Virginia
- Editorial: 100 years ago, Virginia Republicans purged Black voters from their ranks
- The pandemic hit Virginia community colleges hard. Will things get better in 2021?
- Some public officials in Hampton Roads are getting vaccinated. Others are choosing not to.
- Thousands trek to Saturday’s vaccine clinics (“Three-large scale COVID-19 vaccination clinics held Saturday aimed to inject 13,000 arms by the end of the day.”)
- Long COVID: Fatigue, exhaustion, memory loss and more – some Richmond residents experience long-term effects of COVID-19
- Vaccine event at raceway draws thousands of seniors, who waited an hour or more for a shot (“An estimated 4,800 senior adults descended on Richmond Raceway on Saturday to get COVID-19 vaccine shots.”)
- Todd P. Haymore column: GO Virginia’s vision becoming a reality in central Virginia
- Chesterfield’s longest serving Black judge may have lost reappointment to the bench; critics say she’s too harsh on defendants of color
- EDITORIAL: Support regional transportation authority
- Williams: Harry F. Byrd Sr. was a racist. But if context counts, his statue belongs in Capitol Square. (“The statue of Byrd, a man devoted to oppression, should remain in Capitol Square as a reminder of old ways, changing times and the unfinished work in the best interest of all of the people of Virginia.”)
- Let it snow! A few inches likely to accumulate today; more tomorrow into Tuesday?
