by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, December 8.
- Johnson Leads Polls as Election Enters Final Days: U.K. Votes (Yes, but will the Conservatives have a majority or not? We’ll see.)
- Israel Sees Bombing Iran as Last Option on Table
- Will Ukraine’s Zelenskiy and Russia’s Putin give peace a chance? (“A breakthrough in talks would lead to an end of the war in eastern Ukraine, which has claimed more than 13,000 lives since it began six years ago.”)
Greta Thunberg says school strikes have achieved nothing (“Activist says 4% greenhouse gas emissions rise since 2015 shows action is insufficient”)- Johnson pledges transformative Brexit as nerves are rattled by UK polls
- North Korea Conducts ‘Important’ Test, Says Denuclearization is Off the Table
- China’s Unexpected Export Drop Shows Why It Wants a Trade Deal
- Ukrainians Are Sick of Trump, Impeachment and Being Talked About
- Hong Kong: mammoth rally marks six months of pro-democracy protests
- American Student Xiyue Wang Freed In U.S.-Iran Prisoner Swap
- Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine ‘Investigation’ Stars Some of Kyiv’s Most Dubious Characters
- Trump: Giuliani will report to Justice Department, Congress on his investigations in Ukraine
- For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis (“Before issuing his own condolences, the president channeled the Saudi king’s, and avoided any discussion of the hard questions about why the U.S. is training Saudi officers.”)
- Official: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack
- Tweet purportedly from gunman in Pensacola Navy base shooting suggests al Qaeda inspiration
- To Drain the Swamp, Start With Rudy Giuliani (“MAGA nation should be outraged about President Trump’s personal attorney.”)
- House Intelligence report on Trump is scathing — but who cares? The election is what matters (“Impeachment is inevitable, but you know he’ll escape. For the Democrats to beat Trump next year, they need clarity”)
- House Democrats refresh Nixon-era report for Trump (“The report outlines the committee’s standard for what constitutes an impeachable offense.”)
- Trump impeachment inquiry: House judiciary committee releases report (“Nadler: constitutional situation is ‘Framers’ worst nightmare’”)
- Trump tells Jewish group they’ll vote for him to protect their wealth (Stereotype much?)
- Navy base shootings in Pensacola and Pearl Harbor revive debate — and myths — about guns (“Reducing the frequency of tragedies like these requires nothing revolutionary. And flooding military bases with unregulated weaponry is certainly not the answer.”)
- Katie Hill: It’s Not Over After All (“I overcame the desperation I felt after stepping down from Congress, and I’m still in the fight.”)
- Mike Huckabee’s outrageous campaign to silence a Florida critic (Huckabee’s a thug.)
- Bloomberg’s money buys him a very different kind of campaign. And it’s a big one.
- Democrats’ Baffling 2020 Mess (“Four white front-runners, three of them 70 or older. What is this primary telling us?”)
- In SNL cold open, world leaders gossip about Trump like schoolchildren in the NATO cafeteria
- Cool kids at ‘SNL’ are mean to Trump at NATO lunch
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Address Virginia Dems, Lays Out Priorities for 2020 (Keep Virginia Blue!)
- Virginia AFL-CIO Shares “Great” Letter to the Editor Blasting Gov. Northam for “Shameful” Opposition to Repealing Anti-Union, Anti-Worker “Right-to-Work” Laws
- Virginia Enviro Groups Lay Out Ambitious 2020 Policy Agenda
- Virginia Republicans look for a way out of the woods (“House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah), who in January will be demoted to minority leader, sternly warned party activists that things could get worse if they don’t move past petty infighting and learn how to appeal to suburban voters who have left the party in droves since the election of President Trump.”)
- “Are you ready to start winning again?” After more losses, Virginia Republicans come together for annual event (Gotta love how they call it an “Advance,” when they are in full retreat. As the DPVA spokesperson put it, “Bless their hearts.”)
- Editorial: Virginia’s great gamble
- Big Energy Front Group Launches Push for Troubled Atlantic Coast Pipeline (“The group argued that building the pipeline would save North Carolinians money by bringing more natural gas into the non-drilling state, characterizing that as an ‘energy justice’ issue.”)
- Regional coalition wants to grow its trail network to nearly 900 miles (“The groups are pushing a billion dollars’ worth of projects they say will connect communities and lead to healthier lifestyles and economic benefits in the Washington region.”)
- Moment in the sun: Aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy christened at Newport News Shipbuilding
- Spotsylvania next to consider Second Amendment sanctuary status
- With final report due in two weeks, citizen commission wrestling with $1.5B Navy Hill proposal
- Still cool but dry today; warmer with showers at times tomorrow and Tuesday
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