by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 12.
- Time’s Person of the Year is its youngest ever: Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist
- Polls open in ‘most important general election in a generation’
- Britain’s General Election Is Heavy On Brexit And Disinformation
- Election opinion polls tracker: gap between Labour and Tories narrows with result in balance
- Reach ‘peak meat’ by 2030 to tackle climate crisis, say scientists (Just ditch it.)
- Aramco Reaches Prince’s $2 Trillion Goal in Second-Day Surge (The murderer is happy that his planet-killing company is highly valued. Lovely.)
- Europe Has Its Own Green New Deal (“It would be the biggest environmental overhaul since the founding of the modern EU.”)
- NBC and ABC nightly news shows failed to cover the Afghanistan Papers
- Judiciary Panel Heads Toward Vote on Trump’s Impeachment
- Democrats seek leverage for trial (“Senate Democrats are quietly talking about asking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to hold articles of impeachment in the House until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) agrees to a fair rules package for a Senate trial.”)
- USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Impeach President Trump
- Prosecutors ask federal judge to revoke bail of Giuliani associate charged in campaign finance case
- Giuliani Ally Parnas Got $1 Million From Russia, U.S. Says
- Trump’s impeachment mood morphs from anger to mockery (“The president has started employing a joking, nonchalant public stance just as impeachment takes a more serious turn.”)
- William Barr is unfit to be attorney general (By former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who did a superb job by the way.)
- Our country is accepting the unacceptable (“The profound damage President Trump has inflicted on our liberties can be measured by widespread complacency in the face of his administration’s escalating attacks on the rule of law, our public servants and the truth itself.”)
- 2 GOP senators say McConnell will move to acquit Trump, not merely dismiss charges (Moscow Mitch!)
- Senate Republicans look to hold short impeachment trial despite Trump’s desire for an aggressive defense
- President Trump considering adding controversial lawyer Alan Dershowitz to impeachment legal team: Sources
- GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert publicly identifies person purported to be whistleblower
- Impeachment in the House Is the Victory (“Donald Trump and his supporters need to know that you can be punished for your actions.”)
- Hunter Biden Is the New Hillary Clinton Email Server (“The email scandal was not just a Fox News narrative. It dominated mainstream news coverage of Clinton’s campaign, because it was a real issue, albeit a small one. Mainstream reporters made a historic blunder by devoting far more attention to the email issue than it deserved, but this is an inevitable result of the incentive system in the mainstream press, which prioritizes critical coverage over passive transmission of a candidate’s chosen message.”)
- Pastor Who Says Jews Are Going To Hell Speaks At Trump’s Hanukkah Party (“Robert Jeffress has also made inflammatory comments about Muslims, Mormons and Hindus.” This guy is evil.)
- American Jews Are Terrified (“A deadly shooting at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey is the latest manifestation of anti-Semitic violence that doesn’t fit in a neat, ideological box.”)
- Trump’s Executive Order and the Rise of Anti-Semitism (“The president’s campus intervention ignores the bigger threat of anti-Semitism and threatens speech.”)
- Online posts tied to suspected New Jersey deli shooter pushed anti-Semitic conspiracies
- Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
- Does Julián Castro Have a Shot at the Ultimate American Dream?
- Seven Candidates Have Qualified For The December Democratic Debate
- Sinclair Broadcast Group drops Boris Epshteyn’s “must-run” segments
- Bevin pardons include convicted killer whose brother hosted campaign fundraiser for him
- Audio: On Trumpster Radio This Morning, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA06) Demonstrates Yet Again Why He’s Utterly Unfit to Serve in Congress
- These Democrats helped launch the impeachment inquiry. What’s their next move?
- Congress honors NASA Langley’s ‘Hidden Figures’
- Editorial: Virginia’s door is open (“As the Trump administration seeks to close the door to refugees seeking sanctuary in the United States, Virginia is right to say it will still be a safe harbor to those in need.”)
- Virginia Natural Gas received draft agenda item on Atlantic Coast Pipeline before it was public, emails show (“Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show how gas company staffers were trying to garner support for the controversial pipeline in the months before the meeting, and how the commission was willing to talk.”)
- “Strings Attached”: New Report Examines How Dominion, Other Utilities “Use Charitable Giving to Influence Politics and Increase Investor Profits”
- Video: Gov. Northam Announces Budget Priorities for Environment, Clean Energy
- Virginia GOP’s long journey out of the wilderness is going to get ugly
- Virginia Explained: The growing debate (and divide) on right to work
- Video: AG Mark Herring Hosting Virginia Cannabis Summit
- New cannabis caucus all in for marijuana legalization in Virginia
- 3 questions with Attorney General Mark Herring at his cannabis summit
- Northam proposes $733 million in environmental spending, with big chunk for Bay cleanup
- In sign of changing attitudes, Va. attorney general hosts ‘cannabis summit’
- More Schools Going Solar in Virginia
- Despite Democratic Control, Reigning in Predatory Lenders May Still Be Difficult
- Editorial: Tuition-free community college would help rural areas most
- Munley: Past time for water board to stop pipeline
- Metro cancels summer 2020 Green, Yellow Line shutdown
- EDITORIAL: Don’t count on more road funding
- The Gun Sanctuary Movement Is Exploding (David Toscano: “Jurisdictions that proclaim themselves sanctuaries for immigrants do not seek to violate the law; they simply refuse to engage local law enforcement in supporting actions that are federal responsibilities. They do not block the law, but simply insist that it should be enforced by those who have the responsibility to do so. For some proponents of so-called gun sanctuaries, however, the goal is to prevent enforcement of state law that the jurisdiction (not a court) deems unconstitutional.”)
- Caroline County supervisors declare county Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’
- Fredericksburg City Council commits to renewable energy switch
- Hanover supervisors OK measure saying county will oppose legislation that infringes on gun rights
- Police arrest Newport News man accused of threatening Northam (“A family member told law enforcement they believed he had the ‘ability and the motive’ to carry out the alleged threats.”)
- Martinsville City Council votes unanimously to begin process to revert to a town
- Wiley’s $2M ‘Rumors of War’ is an edition of three. Where will the other two go?
- Loudoun Board Holds Public Hearing Tonight on Gun Rules
- Editorial: Richmond City Council says yes to safety
- AP Source: Angels, Anthony Rendon reach $245M, 7-year deal (Bummer, but not a surprise I guess.)
- Chilly sunshine today, but then a wet start to the weekend
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