by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 8.
- Dozens killed in apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians in eastern Ghouta — rescue workers (We should have taken much more aggressive actions against Assad when he first did this a few years ago. Big mistake.)
- U.S. Calls for Response After Alleged Syria Chemical Attack
- ‘When you lose that power’: How John Kelly faded as White House disciplinarian
- Will We Stop Trump
Before It’s Too Late? (Madeleine Albright: “Fascism poses a more serious threat now than
at any time since the end of World War II.”) - Mark Zuckerberg’s Apology Tour (“Even after Cambridge Analytica, Facebook is still professing neutrality. But, as its C.E.O. readies to testify to Congress, the public isn’t buying it”)
- How Democracy Became the Enemy (In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to be the promised land. Not anymore.”)
- Is Trump lying about the hush money?
- Republicans Are a No Show Across the Country for Town Halls on Gun Action
- Trump Thinks He’s Wildly Popular (Rasmussen is a complete joke; check the FiveThirtyEight.com polling average, which has Trump at 40.0%-54.0%)
- Security for EPA chief comes at a steep cost to taxpayers
- Retiring GOP lawmakers cut loose on Trump
- In His Haste to Roll Back Rules, Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief, Risks His Agenda
- SNL’s Trump admits why he hates Jeff Bezos: ‘He’s way richer than me and he admits to being bald’
- ‘America, look at me in my shark eyes’: Watch SNL’s brutal Mark Zuckerberg sketch
- Watch: Al Gore tells Van Jones ‘our democracy was hacked before Vladimir Putin’
- The Myth of Scott Pruitt’s EPA Rollback (“His ethics woes are overshadowing the central fact of his tenure: He hasn’t done much.”)
- Ivanka Trump’s clothing company will be spared from tariffs, thanks to her dad (“A convenient omission from the administration’s threat of costly new tariffs.”)
- Trump administration planning to ‘monitor’ journalists and bloggers (“DHS spokesman dismisses ‘tinfoil hat wearing’ reporters who question the government’s motives.”)
- Congressman Pulls Out Loaded Gun at Constituent Meeting: “I’m Not Going to Be a Gabby Giffords” (Nutjob.)
- Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming.
- James Comey treads fine line as book set to turn up heat on Trump (“The former FBI director’s book tour to promote A Higher Loyalty is likely to fuel claims that the president obstructed justice but will also put his own actions under scrutiny”)
- Tribalism put Scott Pruitt in power. It may not be enough to save him. (“He is pure Trumpism, but that doesn’t mean Trump will spare him.”)
- Forget Kevin Williamson’s Firing. The Free Press Is in Actual Peril. (“Another conservative victim emerges where real ones ought to be in the spotlight.”)
- Senator Tim Kaine finishes campaign tour in Charlottesville (“Senator Tim Kaine completed his six day campaign here in Charlottesville, after traveling to over 20 events across Virginia…Khizr Khan, father of war hero Humayun Khan who was killed in Iraq, said that Kaine is the only man right for the job.”)
- Surprises in Loudoun County (Comstock 196-Hill 152; Freitas 179-Stewart 103-Jackson 42)
- Editorial: Potomac’s ‘B’ grade a key accomplishment
- Thomas Brostrom: Virginia should go all-in on wind energy
- Schapiro: The Macker readies for a second act (“Three months after leaving the Virginia governorship, the perquisites of which included a lumbering black SUV driven by a state trooper, McAuliffe is considering a second act: the presidency.” No thanks.)
- Fidget spinners, cookies and puppies: Billionaire has a plan to replicate Virginia’s blue wave in midterms
- Neo-Nazi group agrees to court order prohibiting it returning to Charlottesville as an armed group
- CASEY: How would Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s immigrant ancestor have fared under immigration reform? (“It appears that Carl Mentzendorff, the congressman’s Russian-born great grandfather, could easily have been denied entry to the United States under legislation that Goodlatte’s sponsoring today.”)
- First responders in Northern Virginia push for higher pay
- Editorial: GO Virginia reports suggests some novel ways to plug the brain drain
- Richmond, Hanover school boards to discuss Confederate school names next week
- After Parkland tragedy, opinions range on how to make Hampton Roads schools safer
- Editorial: Virginia Beach must plot its course
- Politics or efficiency? Two years after clerk controversy, board targets two other elected officers
- Cold and breezy today despite sunshine; one more chance at a few snowflakes early Monday
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