by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, May 15.
- A Decisive Year for the Fight Against Climate Change
- Skeptical U.S. Allies Resist Trump’s New Claims of Threats From Iran
- White House weighs responses to potential Iranian attacks, including troop increase (“Officials said the number of troops in the region could rise to more than 100,000 in the most dramatic scenario.”)
- We’re drifting toward war with Iran. Trump needs to take a diplomatic way out. (“The president has cornered himself into bad choices.”)
- Israel, Saudi Arabia and Trump aides want confrontation with Iran. Will Trump listen? (“Analysis: With North Korea, Trump first threatened and then sought a deal. But he has a more hardline White House team now, with fewer moderating voices.”)
- U.S. Embassy Staff to Leave Iraq as Iran Tensions Mount (“The U.S. ordered all its nonemergency staff to leave Iraq immediately, amid heightened tensions with Iran over recent attacks against oil tankers and facilities in the Persian Gulf region.”)
- Trade war’s pain for rural Americans raises tensions between Trump, GOP senators
- The Global Economy Was Improving. Then the Trade War Resumed. (“The escalating conflict between the United States and China is threatening growth in the rest of the world. Tit-for-tat tariffs raised the prospect that businesses and consumers would soon be paying higher prices.”)
- ‘I don’t see him crying uncle’: Trump believes China tariffs will help him win reelection
- You’ve Seen His Trade War. Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. (“Yes, we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria. But Iran is another thing”)
- Trump Jr. reaches deal to testify with Senate Intelligence
- House Panel Investigates Obstruction Claims Against Trump Lawyers
- Trump Administration ‘Censorship’ Erasing Affordable Care Act From Federal Websites (“A new report details an ongoing campaign to remove references to and information about the 2010 health care law from official web pages.”)
- The Supreme Court Just Threw the Concept of Precedent Down on the Floor and Danced on It (“You can expect this principle will extend to Roe v. Wade someday soon.”)
- Trump’s not claiming executive power. He’s going for divine right. (“It’s almost as if the president is goading Democrats to impeach him.”)
- Ala. lawmakers pass nation’s most restrictive abortion ban (“The measure, which makes no exceptions for victims of rape or incest, permits abortion only when necessary to save a mother’s life, setting up what Republicans hope will be a fight that goes to the Supreme Court.”)
- Alabama Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in the State
- San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained
- Trump’s resistance to congressional oversight had a very bad day in court (“Turns out, there are still some federal judges who care what the law says.”)
- The Memo: 2020 Dems line up for Maddow primary
- ‘Slow and steady’ strategy pays off for Biden
- Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Biden. G.O.P. Strategists Wish He Would.
- U.S. 2018 Births Fall to Lowest Level in 32 Years (Cue the brain-dead stories about how we need more babies. Hint: we absolutely don’t.)
- Romney breaks with GOP to oppose Trump’s judicial pick who called Obama ‘un-American impostor’ (“The Senate approved Truncale on a 49-to-46 vote, making him the 113th Trump-nominated judge to win confirmation.” Disgusting.)
- Alice Rivlin turned visions of Washington into reality (“She got an often rowdy group of self-interested D.C. pols to see things we never imagined and perform in ways we never expected.”)
- Doris Day wasn’t really a ‘que será, será’ kind of gal (“The actress used her celebrity to improve the lives of animals and create a better world for us all.”)
- Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say
- Barack Obama’s Vice President (!) Thinks the Republican Party Will Be Normal as Soon as Trump Leaves (“Objection, Joe Biden. Assumes facts not in evidence.”)
- U.S. News’ ‘Best States’ Rankings Don’t Smile on Red Ones (“Twelve of the 13 states at the bottom of the rankings were Trump Country in 2016”)
- Elizabeth Warren draws a line in the sand for the rest of the 2020 field: Fox News (“She called the network a ‘hate-for-profit’ enterprise, and vowed not to appear on their airwaves.”)
- Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Hate-For-Profit’ Label Might Just Stick to Fox News (“The 2020 Democrat announced she’d rejected a town hall invitation from the network on the back of her trip through Trump country.”)
- Trump Likes Fossil Fuels. Investors Don’t. (“Shares of sustainable-energy companies are soaring. Oil, gas and coal? Not so much.”)
- The World’s Last Coal Plant Will Soon Be Built (“More generators were closed last year than approved, for possibly the first time since the 19th century.” It’s literally insane to build a new coal-fired power plant. Same thing with a new fracked-gas pipeline.)
- Sens. Kaine and Warner: “Following Trump trade war, Virginia soybean exports to China decreased more than 83 percent”
- Video: 2013 Virginia GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee Rants that Pete Buttigieg is a “Marxist,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “can be a waitress,” Dems Want a “Homo-ocracy,” Bernie Sanders “was in love with the Soviet Union”
- Judge rescinds his own order allowing non-doctors to perform most abortions in Va. (“The federal judge decided that the matter should be taken up at trial.”)
- An anonymously circulated memo accused a Virginia politician of a quid pro quo. So he hired his own lawyer to investigate. (“Several board members said the memo’s claims would be concerning if true but added that they are wary of the way they have been shared…Board Chair Sharon Bulova (D-At Large), a McKay supporter, called the claims ‘really rotten.'”)
- WAMU Breaks Story, “Shadowy Allegations Of Corruption Crank Up The Heat In Fairfax County Election”
- Analysis of HD10, Perhaps the Most Crucial Seat Virginia House Dems Need to Defend in 2019
- Where’s all that Interstate 81 money going?
- Northern Virginia home sales hit 14-year high, and Amazon’s a factor
- Maryland and Virginia are among nation’s best states, survey says
- Northam signs executive order transferring Virginia Museum of Natural History to Secretary of Education
- Luria opens York County office to help constituents
- High stakes for JLARC as it takes on ‘robust’ work plan, including gambling study, before next General Assembly session
- Fairfax Dems’ Chair Urges Members to *NOT* Bullet Vote for At-Large School Board, Soil & Water Conservation District
- Stoney doesn’t rule out pursuing real estate tax increase again as he touts budget approved by City Council
- Mountain Valley agrees to pay $266,000 for pollution problems in W.Va.
- Scott Wyatt gets $100 fine for lack of disclosure on sign but escapes larger fine for phone call allegation
- Henrico authorities file charges against three high school students accused of racist graffiti
- Solar Energy Being Pushed Anew In Fairfax City
- After 19 years of conversion therapy, gay Virginia man finds acceptance | ‘God loves you the way you are’ (“Robert Rigby credits Baptist minister with saving his life by accepting his sexual orientation”)
- ‘Virginia’s a leader:’ Gov. Northam signs bill to make public schools tobacco-free
- Busting out into sunshine and 70s today as we enter a drier and warmer stretch
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