by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 23.
- Experts Are Losing Hope That the Coronavirus Can Be Contained
- Coronavirus outbreak edges closer to pandemic status
- Third Cruise Passenger Dies; Over 100 Italy Cases: Virus Update
- U.S. Caves to Europe Over Broaching Climate Change at G-20
- What Three Years of Trump Ravaging the Earth Looks Like
- Trump loves a big crowd. He’ll get one of his biggest in India.
- Al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups are working together in West Africa to grab large swaths of territory
- Trump doesn’t want to hear about Russian election interference. So Congress must step up. (No, it’s not about “Congress” generically, it’s about Moscow Mitch and his merry band of Trump enablers in the Senate refusing to do their job and uphold their oaths of office.)
- Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration
- We have entered the Trump Unbound era — and journalists need to step it up. (Unfortunately, if they haven’t stepped up by now – and most haven’t – that means they are incapable of and/or unwilling to do so)
- National Security Adviser O’Brien says “no intelligence behind” claims of Russian interference in 2020 elections (Uh huh…)
- America’s Parasite (“Frankly, Trump doesn’t give a damn.”)
- Voters Really Care About Climate Change (“For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll”)
- The Democratic Establishment Is Broken
- Bernie Sanders decisively wins Nevada caucuses (“Incomplete results suggested a distant second-place finish for Biden, who has repeatedly predicted he would do well in states with more nonwhite voters. It would be Biden’s strongest showing to date, but it would hardly prove his assertion that he can win states with a large share of minorities.”)
- How Bernie Sanders Dominated in Nevada
- Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada — Putting Him In The Driver’s Seat To Win The Nomination
- As Sanders’s momentum builds, down-ballot Democrats move to distance themselves
- 3 winners and 2 losers from the Nevada caucuses (“Winner: Bernie Sanders…Loser: The race for second place…Winner: Ranked-choice voting…Loser: Culinary Union Local 226…Winner: Medicare-for-all”)
- Trump tells ‘Crazy Bernie’ Sanders: ‘don’t let them take it away from you!’ (Trump is, of course, a troll.)
- Buoyed by Latino voters in Nevada, Sanders cements his frontrunner status
- This Is the Only Move That Will Stop Sanders Now
- Mainstream Democrats shouldn’t fear Bernie Sanders (“He’d be a strong nominee and a solid president.”)
- 5 takeaways from the Nevada caucuses (“Sanders has a diverse coalition that could carry him to the nomination…Rivals have an uphill climb in stopping Sanders after decisive Nevada victory…Democrats are enthusiastic and turning out in record numbers…The anti-Sanders crowd is in full blown panic mode…It will get nastier from here as desperation sets in ahead of Super Tuesday.”)
- Sanders eviscerates the conventional wisdom about why he can’t win (“In Nevada, he exposed his main rivals as weak, divided, and grasping at increasingly tenuous arguments about their viability.”)
- Democrats Have No Plan to Stop Bernie Sanders (“Tonight he took Nevada. In 10 days, a broadening coalition could hand him the nomination.”)
- Pete Buttigieg warns against nominating Sanders as Vermont senator gains momentum (Too little, too late?)
- De Blasio to Buttigieg: ‘Try to not be so smug when you just got your ass kicked’
- It’s not just bros: Sanders wins with a diverse coalition
- Bernie Sanders Won Nevada. In 10 Days, He Could Make It Very Hard For Anyone To Catch Up.
- With help from Latino voters, Bernie Sanders hits the Nevada jackpot
- Bernie Sanders’s Biggest Win Yet (“The Vermont senator’s dominant victory in Nevada solidifies his standing as the Democratic front-runner and gives a boost to the party’s progressive wing.”)
- Bloomberg needs to take down Sanders — immediately
- Clint Eastwood Ditches Donald Trump for Mike Bloomberg in 2020 Election
- Gov. Phil Murphy has tumor on kidney, likely cancer (“Gov. Phil Murphy disclosed Saturday he has a tumor on his kidney that is 90 percent likely to be cancerous and will soon undergo surgery”)
- Progress, Not Perfection: Democratic Legislature Is Getting the People’s Business Done
- Audio: Chesapeake Climate Action Network, VA Sierra Club, Del. Rip Sullivan Conference Call on Virginia Clean Economy Act (“This is the best first step that any state in America has taken on climate change”)
- At session’s midpoint, unprecedented progress on climate, clean energy
- EDITORIAL: State-based exchange should expand options
- Will Virginia Change a Law to Reduce Deaths from Drug Overdose?
- Virginia lawmakers want to freeze college tuition again, but with a slant
- Editorial: Democrats balk on redistricting reform (The Daily Press and Virginian-Pilot are just ridiculous on this.)
- Gordon C. Morse: A tangled redistricting web woven proves difficult to unknot (And then there’s this former Dominion lobbyist, who most certainly is not a friend to Democrats, progressives, etc.)
- Man charged with threatening to shoot Gov. Northam, burn his house down
- Arlington board member, under fire for donation, steps down from 2nd transit panel
- Video: Arlington County Board Chair Libby Garvey Reads Statement About Christian Dorsey, Who Apologizes and Resigns from NOVA Transportation Commission
- Carjacking suspect leads Arlington police on 100 mph chase
- Mostly sunny and even milder today; showers possible later tomorrow
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