by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, October 12.
- ISIS Rears Its Head, Adding to Chaos as Turkey Battles Kurds
- Turkish invasion of Syria stops fight against Islamic State
- Pentagon Says U.S. Troop Position In Syria Came Under Fire From Turkish Incursion (Trump’s fault.)
- Turkish forces bomb Syria for third day as 100,000 seek refuge (This is Trump’s responsibility…and disgrace.)
- Trump Orders Troops and Weapons to Saudi Arabia in Message of Deterrence to Iran (So let’s get this straight- Trump pulls our troops OUT of Syria because he claims he wants to get out of these fights, then sends troops to Saudi Arabia because…oh forget it.)
- Abiy Ahmed’s Nobel Peace Prize is deserved, but he still has work to do in his country
- China Trade Deal Yields Plenty of Questions — and Critics
- Former World Leaders: The Trade War Threatens the World’s Economy (“Despite an interim deal, global peace and prosperity remain at risk if the United States and China do not fully resolve their conflict.”)
- Trump announces partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes that tensions could ease
- U.S. foreign policy is for sale. Who else is buying?
- Who’s the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani’s Pals? We Found Some Clues.
- Giuliani Is Said to Be Under Investigation for Ukraine Work
- Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash
- Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch, says official (“Lutsenko is the Ukrainian official who prosecutors say urged 2 Giuliani associates to push for the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador.”)
- Ukrainian Andrey Kukushkin, Linked To Giuliani Associates, Arrested In San Francisco On Campaign Finance Violations
- Rudy Giuliani’s relationship with arrested men is subject of criminal investigation: Sources
- Trump’s losses mount in stunning day of setbacks
- The bully in chief loses his secret weapon: Fear (“The irrational fear of Trump and his attack dogs only works for so long, however. As soon as one or two brave souls step out of line and live to fight another day, the spell of intimidation is lost. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has endorsed the legitimacy of the impeachment inquiry and condemned the use of foreign governments to influence our elections. Who looks worse — Romney or Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who cannot bear to state that soliciting foreign help to win an election is wrong and illegal? It is not even close.”)
- Donald Trump, corrupted absolutely (“President Trump has proved to the 21st century that Lord Acton’s 19th-century maxim still holds: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”)
- Trump’s Attempts at Collusion Aren’t Jokes (“Republicans say he’s kidding when he openly solicits crimes. He’s not.”)
- Trump tells reporters he doesn’t know if Giuliani is still his attorney
- Raw, angry, uncensored: Welcome to Trump’s impeachment-era campaign
- Evangelicals See Trump Impeachment as an Attack on Their Values (Uh huh. And what conceivable “values” would those be?)
- Pompeo’s State Department Reels as Impeachment Inquiry Sinks Morale
- “Holy f**k”: Ex-Deutsche Bank exec says bank may have “destroyed” copies of Trump’s tax returns (“Banking giant that lent Trump hundreds of millions ‘apparently got rid of’ its copies of his tax returns”)
- All the President’s Henchmen (“Mr. Trump has assembled a colorful cast of characters who are having trouble keeping their stories straight.”)
- James Comey Would Like to Help (“The former F.B.I. director wants an end to the Trump presidency. And yes, he knows you might think he caused it.”)
- Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Tells Congress Trump Removed Her Over ‘False Claims’ (“U.S. diplomat Marie Yovanovitch told impeachment investigators she was attacked ‘by people with clearly questionable motives.'”)
- The Latest Hero Exposing Trump’s Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not F*cking Around (“Marie Yovanovitch was the ambassador to Ukraine, and now she’s a problem for the president*”)
- The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think
- Kevin McAleenan Is Out as Acting Homeland Security Secretary
- Why Trump’s Fourth Secretary of Homeland Security Just Resigned
- Trump and Pence plan 11th-hour mission to save Kentucky governor (Evil wants to save evil.)
- White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again
- Retrofitting busy highways helps keep wildlife from dying on the roads (“More states are installing specially designed crossings at highways to prevent animal-vehicle collisions, with studies showing that the fencing and tunnels lower mortality rates by as much as 90 percent.” Hello, Virginia?)
- Chris Wallace: For All the GOP Criticisms of Whistleblower, ‘The Basic Allegation Has Been Largely Confirmed’
- It is wrong — and corrosive — to conflate ‘unfavorable news’ and ‘fake news’
- Shepard Smith leaves Fox News, and takes the facts with him (Fox=Fake News)
- Why Shep Smith finally walked out of Fox News for good (One of a very small handful of people at Fox who actually reported the facts and had integrity.)
- Ronan Farrow Depicts a Chilling Cover-up at NBC
- Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena
- This Is Going to Be the Worst, Most Racist Presidential Campaign Since 1868 (“At last night’s wankfest in Minneapolis, the president* whipped up the goobers with a slanderous attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar.”)
- As Warren paints herself as a scrappy fighter, critics see a lecturing elitist
- Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook’s ad policy — with a Facebook ad
- Warren’s same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her
- Beto O’Rourke Doesn’t Know Much About the Constitution (“As tempting as it might be to punish anti-gay churches, O’Rourke’s proposal goes too far.”)
- Who’s Got the Biggest 2020 Ground Game in the Early States (“Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are dominant, with more campaign offices in the first four states than any other 2020 Democrat.”)
- Virginia GOP, Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA02) Received $$$ from Rudy Giuilani Associates Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman
- AG Mark Herring Wins Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump/Cuccinelli Attack on Legal Immigrants
- Rep. Wexton visits Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter for roundtable
- Congresswoman Luria highlights environmental priorities with Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board
- Requiring Virginia marriage license applicants to disclose race is unconstitutional, judge rules
- Everytown for Gun Safety Announces Nearly $700k Direct Mail Campaign in 15 GOP-Held Virginia House, Senate Districts
- Video: Ghazala Hashmi Releases New Ad Holding GOP Opponent Accountable for His Voting Record (“Sturtevant voted in lockstep with his Republican colleagues to oppose Medicaid expansion”)
- MPV, LLC to Pay More than $2 Million, Submit to Court-Ordered Compliance and Enhanced, Independent, Third-Party Environmental Monitoring
- BREAKING: Fourth Circuit Grants Stay in Endangered Species Act Case (“Permits are Required Before MVP Can Proceed with Construction”)
- Mountain Valley Pipeline to pay $2.15 million in lawsuit over environmental problems
- Federal appeals court delivers another major roadblock for the Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Williams: The Virginia NAACP is fighting a Dominion Energy pipeline. It’s also pocketing Dominion Energy money.
- Flip-A-District Friday: Don Scott (D-HD80); Delegates Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-HD2), Paul Krizek (D-HD44), Luke Torian (D-HD52)
- Two key House races test western Henrico as a shifting political battleground
- Gun Control Is Front And Center In Virginia Races
- Redistricting left Speaker Kirk Cox’s district up for grabs. Can his Democratic opponent capitalize?
- The race in the 99th House of Delegates a rematch of battle two years ago
- Virginia prison ‘restrictive housing’ report shows its use is in decline
- Video: Does Anyone Know What the Hell Far-Right Fairfax School Board Member’s Babbling About Now? (She’s supposedly “bullied mercilessly”; also something about the Holocaust, a Muslim kid in biology class…wuuuut?)
- Fairfax County teacher charged with sex crimes after trying to flee country, police say
- Extent of rat, roach, mold problems being hidden, teachers at Norfolk school say
- Aníbal Sánchez shuts down Cardinals, puts Nationals in command of NLCS
- Drought advisory declared for Virginia as dry conditions creep into Hampton Roads
- Warm today until a mainly dry front passes, cooler Sunday, then warm again Monday
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