by Lowell
Here are a few news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, New Year’s Day 2020.
- Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future
- Australia fires: nine dead and hundreds of properties destroyed, with worse to come
- Merkel vows Germany will do ‘everything humanly possible’ to fight climate change
- Prince William to offer multi-million prize to those who solve greatest climate crisis problems
- The Problem With a Host Country Failing to Protect Its Embassies (“As the storming of the U.S. embassy in Iraq has shown, diplomatic protection isn’t always a given.”)
- U.S. Troops Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Swarm Embassy in Iraq Again
- Trump threatens Iran will pay ‘a very big price’ over US embassy protests in Baghdad
- Trump tries to avoid his own Benghazi
- Esper says 750 troops to deploy ‘immediately’ in response to violent embassy protests in Iraq
- Is Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign blowing up in Iraq?
- At U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Trump’s Middle East Rhetoric Meets Reality
- Iran just outplayed the United States — again
- Trump Bid to Curb Iran Falters After Baghdad Embassy Attack
- North Korea Is No Longer Bound by Nuclear Test Moratorium, Kim Says
- Kim says world will soon witness ‘new strategic weapon’
- Twin foreign policy crises greet Trump as election year dawns
- Ghosn’s Escape Followed Weeks of Planning
- Carlos Ghosn’s Hero Glow Dims With Lebanon’s Growing Distaste for Elite
- Two trends to worry about in 2020
- Looking back at the tumultuous 2010s
- A look back at the biggest political events of 2019
- Pentagon expects to deploy troops to Mideast after Iraqi protesters assault US embassy, torch guardhouse to protest airstrikes
- Hanukkah Attack Suspect’s Lawyer: Cuccinelli Immigration Comments Are ‘a Disgrace’ (Correct.)
- DHS’s Cuccinelli Faces Backlash Over Deleted Tweet About Suspect In Hanukkah Stabbing (He has been and continues to be a disgrace to Virginia and to America.)
- The jig is up: Bolton and Mulvaney have no excuse for not testifying
- GOP Sen. Susan Collins criticizes McConnell, Democrats for pre-Trump trial comments
- How mainstream media outlets can defend the truth (“Five steps to defend objective reality”)
- We may have gotten down to the final five (“A former vice president, a Midwestern mayor or one of three senators will probably be the Democratic nominee.”)
- Ranking the Democrats: Who has best chance of winning nomination?
- Why Pete Buttigieg enrages the young left
- Warren confronts ghost of Howard Dean (“The Massachusetts senator delivered a major speech Tuesday aimed at regaining her momentum.”)
- The final sprint: will any of the Democratic candidates excite voters? (“Biden is too gaffe-prone; Sanders and Warren are too far left; Buttigieg, too young. But which one is capable of beating Trump?”)
- Tough love from Amy Klobuchar (“Democrats should take the senator’s message to heart.”)
- Democrats sharpen their differences as Iowa caucuses loom
- Trump is openly calling for his trial to be as corrupt as possible
- Chief Justice John Roberts warns about dangers of fake news
- Chief Justice John Roberts says Americans may ‘take democracy for granted’
- EPA’s scientific advisers warn its regulatory rollbacks clash with established science
- As 2019 Ends, I Have to Wonder Whether Everything I’ve Learned Is Wrong (“Optimism is not exactly something that’s just lying around on the floor, waiting to be picked up. It’s something we have to work for again. It’s a heavy lift, but a necessary one. All we have as we enter 2020 is, well, us. In 1979, I was just starting out in this racket and there was so much I didn’t know about anything. As 2019 ends, I have come to wonder if everything I’ve learned is wrong. An open question for the opening of the new year. Comfort and joy to you all from all of us.”)
- Things We Hope Will Die in 2020
- It’s the Definition of “Economy” and “Jobs,” Stupid.
- Video, Statement by Sen. Mark Warner: Cracking Down on Robocalls with Signature of the “TRACED Act”
- Shad Plank: Robocalls, Be Gone!, Warner says
- Joe Biden Names Fernando Mercado as Virginia State Director
- We can’t assume Virginia Democrats will keep their promise on redistricting reform (No need for a flawed constitutional amendment though, when we can do this via legislation.)
- Editorial: 20 questions for 2020
- Flores: Trump rollback of two safeguards increases threat of chemical disaster in Virginia
- Tornadoes, snow and the derecho: Here are Virginia’s defining weather events of the decade
- Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney talks about Navy Hill, housing and future political plans
- Loudoun County one of the fastest growing in the country
- Top 10 local stories of 2019 (“Last year was filled with historic elections and notable firsts. Fredericksburg hired its first black superintendent, Stafford students worked to improve road safety, Spotsylvania County officials approved plans for one of the largest solar facilities in the nation…”)
- The Peninsula hasn’t had its own federal judge for nearly 200 years. That could soon end.
- What to expect in Hampton Roads for 2020 and beyond
- The Peninsula hasn’t had its own federal judge for nearly 200 years. That could soon end.
- Still mild to start the new year; rainy at times Thursday night through Saturday
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