by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 10.
- In tightly fought Israeli election, Netanayhu appears set to clinch fifth term in office (“With the vast majority of votes counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a slim lead over Benny Gantz but had a clear path to forming a coalition in parliament.”)
- After Tight Race, Netanyahu Appears Poised to Form Israel’s Next Government (Very, very unfortunate.)
- Weeks after mosque attacks that left 50 dead, New Zealand bans most semiautomatic weapons (“Lawmakers voted almost unanimously in favor of a bill that makes permanent temporary restrictions put in place after the shootings in Christchurch.” See, that wasn’t so hard. Now why can’t we do that?)
- For the sake of Britain, Theresa May must find a centrist consensus
- EU Set to Force U.K. Into Long Brexit Delay in Danger for Theresa May (“EU diplomats said to see Dec. or March as the new Brexit day”)
- Trump’s Incompetence Is Creating a Stephen Miller Hail Mary (“The president put Kirstjen Nielsen in an impossible position, then fired her when she failed to break the law. Can Miller, who orchestrated her downfall, survive his rise to power?”)
- Trump Mocks Climate Change. That’s a Key to Defeating Him. (“A Green Real Deal will put the president on the defensive in the next election.”)
- Inside the White House’s growing panic to contain the border crisis
- Mulvaney’s tax return stonewall is either misinformed — or sinister (“The president’s tax information is within Congress’s lawful reach.”)
- The Republican Party Will Do Anything to Camouflage That White Supremacy Is Part of Its Base (“House Republicans turned a hearing on white nationalist extremism into a particularly stupid CPAC breakout session.”)
- Republicans Turn White Nationalism Hearing Into a G.O.P. Pity Party
- Candace Owens’s presence turned a serious inquiry into a farce (“If the GOP was hoping to sabotage the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the rise of white nationalism, they got what they wanted.”)
- Congressional hearing on white nationalism goes off the rails (“Any nuance about the dangers of far-right extremism got lost in the chaos.”)
- Yes, Candace, the Southern Strategy is Real (“In an egregious statement of historical revisionism, right-wing controversialist Candace Owens denies some very basic facts.”)
- Candace Owens Fumes as Her Own Words on Hitler, Nationalism Are Played in Congress (Demented freak.)
- Lori Loughlin and 15 other parents face additional charges in college admissions scandal
- Who will Trump pick to succeed Nielsen at DHS?
- Dems worry race for ideological purity will fracture field
- Fox News’s Shep Smith fact-checks Trump saying Obama separated children from families at the border
- Lara Logan, late of CBS, joins Sinclair Broadcasting to cover U.S.-Mexico border (“Her one stumble was a flawed “60 Minutes” piece in 2013 about the terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012; she based the story on a supposed eyewitness to the attacks, whose account later turned out to be fabricated. Logan apologized for the story.”)
- Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain’s Fed nomination (“The resistance comes amid Senate GOP opposition to Trump’s DHS purge and potential auto tariffs.”)
- Inside Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon (“The 45th president — no student of history — marveled at the first president’s failure to name his historic compound after himself.” So embarrassing.)
- House puts off vote on spending caps deal; adopts ‘deeming’ resolution
- Kerry, Hagel rip Trump’s climate policies, and battle Republicans on House panel (“Are you serious? I mean this is really, a serious, happening here?”)
- Farce and loathing in Donald Trump’s Washington (“It might have been the day when Donald Trump’s Washington finally slipped the limits of credulity. The administration’s big guns — Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — got a hostile reception on Capitol Hill from Democrats eager to pull back a presidency they see as out of control.”)
- America isn’t full (“America is growing more slowly than at any time since the Great Depression.”)
- Can Congress force Trump to hand over his tax returns? I asked 11 legal experts. (“Probably, but it’s complicated.”)
- Trump picks Miller, setting up potential clash with Kushner on immigration
- William Barr uses misleading data on gun background checks in testimony to Congress (“The attorney general badly understated the size of a loophole that helped the Charleston church shooter buy his gun.”)
- Barr Forms Team to Review FBI’s Actions in Trump Probe (Yeah, Barr is a complete hack.)
- William Barr Gives Trump What He Wants, Forms Team to Investigate the F.B.I.
- Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday
- Flawed media coverage of Mueller’s findings underscores the importance of good headlines (“Headlines play a fundamental role in our understanding of the world around us, which is why journalists need to get it right the first time” But instead, they get it wrong, over and over and over again.)
- Fox News discussed the Green New Deal more often than CNN and MSNBC combined (“And Fox’s coverage of the plan was riddled with misinformation, mockery, and climate change skepticism” You expect this disgusting display by Fox, but CNN and MSNBC are worse in their own ways.)
- What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News (It’s tragic.)
- A new Senate bill would ban a ‘deceptive’ practice used by Facebook to get user data, such as phone and email contacts (“The bill, which Warner introduced with co-sponsor Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., bans online platforms with over 100 million monthly active users from using so-called ‘dark patterns.'”)
- Sen. Mark Warner warns that breaking up tech giants could open the door to Chinese firms
- Sen. Kaine introduces bill to protect LGBT kids from child abuse
- Abigail Spanberger went from keeping secrets in the CIA to holding the moderate line in Congress (The corporate media’s favorite word, “moderate,” along with “centrist” and “both sides.”)
- Spanberger leads bipartisan push for extending rural broadband
- New Poll Finds Virginia Dems Hold Small (43%-39%) Lead Heading Towards November Elections; Most Dems Don’t Want Northam, Fairfax or Herring to Resign
- McAuliffe does full flop on late-term abortion bill (TMac is not the sharpest tool in the shed…)
- Governor Northam Announces Launch of ConserveVirginia (Which is fine; the problem is that in the meantime, pipeline projects which are the equivalent of 45 new coal-fired power plants are still alive and kicking.)
- Gov. Northam to Attend First Campaign Event Since “Blackface” Scandal Broke?
- Video: At Acme Pies in Arlington, VA House Dem Leader Eileen Filler-Corn, Del. Marcus Simon Make Case for Winning Back House of Delegates, Reelecting Del. Alfonso Lopez (“If we have the majority, the work of a lifetime is the work of two afternoons.”)
- Virginia Secretary of Education tells Stafford school officials he wants to move away from ‘toxic’ standardized tests
- Virginia is pursuing universal broadband coverage, but Comcast and Verizon won’t say where the gaps are
- Who’s right in fight over carbon compliance costs? (“DEQ’s modeling shows a modest decrease (54 cents) in electric bills between 2020 and 2030…SCC staff relies on modeling that was conducted in private by Dominion, the state’s largest utility and one of the parties to be regulated by the proposed electricity sector cap.” So yeah, basically the SCC is completely full of crap.)
- Virginia’s barrier islands’ normal resilience to sea-level rise is hurt by climate change, VCU researchers find (Duh.)
- With funding plan approved, discussions start on I-81 priorities
- Foster: Rail would remove trucks from I-81
- Federal funds needed for port projects
- Banner: Revitalization of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Manufacturing Economy
- Williams: Richmond police officer’s threat to middle school students is a symptom of the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Victor Angry wins special election to fill Neabsco supervisor’s seat
- Spotsylvania supervisors approve one solar tract (“The supervisors voted 5–2 to approve at least one section of the 500 megawatt solar facility. Supervisors Paul Trampe and David Ross voted against the SUP. The board will take up two other special-use permits as part of the project at Thursday’s meeting.” Excellent!)
- Ousted councilman is one of 5 finalists being considered to fill vacant Virginia Beach seat (“A month after three judges removed Councilman David Nygaard from office, the City Council selected five people they think are qualified to fill the job.”)
- ‘A happy moment’ grips Charlottesville as national champs come home
- Beautiful skies today and cooler through tomorrow; shower chances return late Friday
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