by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, December 17.
- Hard-Line U.S. Tactics Will ‘Block’ Path to Denuclearization, North Korea Warns
- ‘All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy,’ Say Hungary Protesters (“Hundreds of police in riot gear shepherded what was one of the biggest demonstrations Viktor Orban has faced since he rose to power in 2010.”)
- Saudi Arabia denounces U.S. Senate resolutions on Khashoggi, Yemen
- Russia used every major social media platform to help elect, support Trump, report says (“The new report, prepared for the Senate and a draft of which was obtained by The Post, provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the Russian disinformation campaign around the 2016 election that leveraged nearly all social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.”)
- Silicon Valley may have done ‘bare minimum’ to help Russia investigation, Senate Intel Committee told
- A Shutdown Looms. Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote? (“House Republican leaders are also confronting a more mundane and awkward problem: Their vanquished and retiring members are sick and tired of Washington and don’t want to show up anymore to vote…In the final moments of complete Republican control of government before Democrats assume the House majority in January, Republicans find themselves once again trapped between Mr. Trump’s messaging and their own political reality.”)
- Guatemalan girl likely died of sepsis shock after crossing border, hospital officials said (“Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, had a 105.9-degree temperature and was revived twice by medical technicians before being life-flighted to a hospital.”)
- Giuliani: Trump interview with Mueller would happen ‘over my dead body’
- Rudy Giuliani Is Back With Another Round of Unhinged Interviews
- Giuliani melts down defending Trump lies about Cohen: ‘Unless you’re god, you’ll never know what the truth is’
- Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow ‘Up To November 2016’
- I Have Seen the Future of a Republican Party That Is No Longer Insane
- It’s the beginning of the end for the gun lobby’s power (“We are in a new and better world on guns — in part because 2018 voters changed the political calculus on the issue.”)
- Trump adds to his ruinous policies on pollution (“Trump’s legacy will not just be one of moral ruin in the White House. He and his agents are dramatically curtailing the federal government’s role in fighting pollution, changes that will take years to undo.”)
- GOP feels heat in wake of Obamacare ruling: ‘It’s all the downsides’
- Republicans Who Could Run Against Trump
- Here are the 6 most egregious lies in 2018 from outgoing Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- How Trump Went From ‘Tough On Crime’ To ‘Second Chance’ For Felons
- Beto O’Rourke poses growing threat to fellow Democrats with 2020 hopes
- GOP women are sounding the alarm after their crushing election losses. It’s unclear whether Republican men agree.
- SEE IT: White House adviser Stephen Miller’s sudden hair growth draws ridicule after morning show appearance
- Julián Castro and the Cordial Candidacy (“I’m listening for something enlightening, something arresting, a vision and a vocabulary that will rally and inspire. It never fully manifests.”)
- Stephen Miller uses white nationalist dogwhistle to push Trump’s border wall (“At stake is the question of whether or not the United States remains a sovereign country.”)
- Trump complains that negative coverage of him ‘can’t be legal’ and ‘should be tested in courts’ (“Is Trump complaining about his depiction on Saturday Night Live to distract from a difficult week?”)
- The closing of the conservative mind – and of The Weekly Standard (“President celebrates demise of the most anti-Trump right-wing magazine, calling it ‘pathetic and dishonest'”)
- Fox News Analyst Hits Trump’s Latest Tweet With A Blistering Fact-Check
- Anti-Dominion group claims customers pay too much for electricity (“Calling it a ‘Dominion Tax,’ the group Clean Virginia released a study Monday that attempts to quantify what consumers pay for electricity beyond the cost of generation, production and delivery.”)
- Opioid deaths projected to fall slightly in Virginia
- Report: Virginia’s economy looking good, but dependence on federal spending still problematic
- One state agency is trying to kill this invasive shrub. Another is planting it. (“Workers at Virginia’s state parks say they’re trying to kill Chinese bushclover, an invasive plant that grows in thick stands, choking out native flora. And they sounded just a bit frustrated during a meeting this week when they noted their colleagues at another state agency, the Virginia Department of Transportation, are still actively planting it on roadsides around the state.”)
- State health department wants extension of needle-exchange law
- Editorial: Democrats’ ‘Green New Deal’ leaves out Appalachia (Agree that the “Green New Deal” has to have a serious plan for rural America.)
- Is the Republican Candidate in the 12/18 Special Election in Virginia HD-24 Not Legitimately on the Ballot?
- Meeting regular says he used threat to get Roanoke City Council’s attention
- Birds, Limes on Fairfax streets? Leaders consider dockless scooter future in Fairfax Co.
- Welcome to Rosslyn, Team Trump. Here’s All You Need to Know.
- A dry and sunny stretch before another rainstorm Thursday and Friday
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