by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 9.
- Theresa May Faces Crisis Over Brexit After Key Ministers Quit (“Just nine months before Britain is set to leave the European Union — and 15 weeks before a deal is meant to be signed — Brexit Secretary David Davis and his deputy resigned in protest against May’s plan to keep the U.K. closely tied to the bloc after the divorce.”)
- Trump set to name supreme court pick in biggest decision of his presidency
- Democratic Senators Issue Last-Minute Warnings About Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
- 5 things to watch as Trump heads to NATO summit
- Trump’s Retreat From the West (“A month ago, the die was cast for a go-it-alone American foreign policy with deference to Russia and China.”)
- British Woman Dies After Exposure To Nerve Agent, Authorities Say (“Dawn Sturgess, 44, died of the same Novichok toxin used on a former Russian spy four months ago.”)
- Thai Cave Rescue Live Updates: More Boys Are on Their Way Out
- Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? (“A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.”)
- White House close to refusing interview with Russia investigation (“Robert Mueller’s investigating team is ‘most corrupt I’ve ever seen’, says Rudy Giuliani”)
- Trump court battle imperils Senate Dems, House GOP
- This Is No Time for Liberal Despair (“It’s time for a bottom-up progressive movement to counter a conservative Supreme Court.”)
- The ‘McConnell Rule’ is law, and Senate Democrats should sue to enforce it
- Juan Williams: American democracy in peril
- Beto-mania Sweeps Texas (“Ted Cruz’s long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds. Is it enough?”)
- Trump Reeks of Fear (“I can smell Donald Trump’s fear from here. His panic. His anxiety… Trump contends that there’s no there there. If not, why is he acting like there is?”
- Republicans and Democrats Face Leadership Struggles as House Returns
- The Trump administration made trade threats to Ecuador over … breastfeeding (“The US got Ecuador to back down from a breastfeeding resolution by threatening trade retaliation and pulling military aid…It appears the Trump administration sided with corporate interests — in this case, the $70-billion infant formula industry — over the health and well-being of kids around the globe. The baby food industry is primarily based in the US and Europe.”)
- U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials (It’s completely corrupt.)
- Latest ICE Data Details Increasingly Indiscriminate Arrests (“Under Trump, the agency is returning to a pattern abandoned by the Obama administration.”)
- Annexing Crimea was egregious. Why does Trump disagree?
- The Republican Party is no longer the party of conservatism. It’s the party of fear. (And of white panic.)
- GOP attacks on Cockburn alleging anti-Semitism called ‘outrageous and bizarre’ (“According to Melvin Leffler, a professor at UVa and a historian who specializes in U.S. foreign policy, the book contains no evidence that Cockburn is anti-Semitic.” Right, that’s exactly what David Jonas and I found as well. I strongly encourage everyone to read the book for themselves and decide what they think of the “outrageous and bizarre” right-wing attacks on Cockburn.)
- Kaine, Cockburn ‘market’ issues in South Boston stop
- Editorial: How Virginians came to be taught propaganda (“More accurately, several generations of Virginians have effectively been brainwashed into believing a fake version of history. Those are strong words, but their strength stands on actual facts — detailed recently in a remarkable story in The Richmond Times-Dispatch by reporter Rex Springston…Springston’s story details just how those textbooks were produced: They were state-sponsored propaganda intended to indoctrinate Virginia students into opposing the civil rights movement.”)
- Franklin County wants pipeline company to reimburse it for public safety costs
- CASEY: Still clucking about the to-do at The Red Hen
- Guess How Much Money Virginia Paid The Bachelorette to Film There
- One Dead After a Helicopter Crashes Into a Virginia Residence
- Humidity to slowly return this week, but no extreme heat and low rain chances
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