by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 20.
- Brazil passes 1 million coronavirus cases with no end in sight
- China Votes to Join Global Arms Sales Treaty Scorned by Trump
- Powerful US attorney who investigated Trump associates refuses to step down after Barr tries to push him out
- ‘I have not resigned’: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fires back at Barr, who says he’s leaving
- U.S. Attorney Who Investigated Trump Associates Is Abruptly Replaced
- Trump administration in standoff with Manhattan U.S. attorney (“Attorney General William P. Barr said late Friday that he is replacing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. But Geoffrey Berman insisted in a blistering public statement that he is not going anywhere and vowed to continue investigations involving the president and his political campaign.” More lawlessness by Barr, Trump et al.)
- Roberts to Trump: Don’t Take the Supreme Court for Granted
- Asked repeatedly to say ‘Black lives matter,’ Mike Pence says ‘all lives matter’
- We figured out when the MAGA crowd thought America was great (“They aren’t living in the 21st century. Or the 20th, for that matter.”)
- Trump Wonders if John Bolton Will Go to Jail
- Mueller raised possibility Trump lied to him, newly unsealed report reveals
- Roger Stone Told Trump In Advance Wikileaks Would Release Documents Harmful To Clinton Campaign, Aides Claimed
- As We Mark Juneteenth 2020, the Confederates’ Free Ride Has Finally Ended
- Leaked document makes Trump campaign’s use of Nazi-era symbol look worse
- Trump: Esper, Milley “should be proud” of Lafayette Square walk
- Tulsa Prepares for Unrest as Protesters March Nationwide
- Top members of coronavirus task force advised against Trump’s Tulsa rally
- Trump: Expect “wild evening” in Tulsa, mask optional
- Donald Trump’s campaign manager didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016
- ‘The Status Quo’s Not Working’: A Conversation With Kamala Harris
- Biden Proves an Elusive Target, Adding to Trump’s Frustration
- Trumpworld Fears Its ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Is Coming True (“The president’s team had been relieved that he wasn’t slipping below 40 percent in the polls. Well. Now he is.”)
- The Navy Is Blaming the Captain It Fired for Accurate COVID-19 Warning
- Parent of toddler in ‘manipulated’ Trump video forces Facebook and Twitter to remove it
- Social Media Giants Support Racial Justice. Their Products Undermine It.
- Juneteenth observed across the country with new interest, urgency
- Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom (“Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.”)
- Protesters topple Confederate general statue in Washington DC and set it on fire (“Demonstrators pull down statue of Albert Pike and set it ablaze on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the US”)
- oh brother Rep. Matt Gaetz insists he’s “not gay” after revealing his 19-year-old “son” who he “loves very much”
- Right message, wrong messenger: NYT’s Peter Baker decries the ‘normalization’ of Trump’s presidency
- Trump’s Tulsa Rally Is Still On, Pandemic and Reason Be Damned
- Trump Will Stand Atop a Land of Tragedies (“When thousands gather in Tulsa, they will crowd onto ground soaked in racial violence.”)
- Black leaders in Tulsa are outraged by Trump’s rally during a pandemic
- White House announces plans for July 4th celebration
- Senator Kaine discusses race and discrimination with Boys and Girls club members (“Kaine said he is also introducing legislation to reform the criminal justice system, reduce disparities in health care and education”)
- Republicans to decide Warner opponent Tuesday as Virginians vote in congressional primaries
- Three GOP Newcomers Fight to Take on Sen. Warner
- VA-05 Increasingly at Risk for Republicans? “Riggleman says he’s not ruling out filing a legal challenge, or running as a third-party candidate” (And who knows if the GOP’s nominee, Bob Good, will even be on the ballot?!?)
- Could Riggleman Win the Fifth?
- Failed Congressman Turned Failed Senatorial Candidate Turned Retread Congressional Candidate Tries to Claim Trump Endorsement, Still Waiting for Call Back… [UPDATED with Trump endorsement of Taylor]
- 3 Republicans vying to challenge Rep. Elaine Luria in Tuesday’s primary election
- Trump endorses Scott Taylor for Congress in Virginia
- Video: Watch the Democratic Party of Virginia’s 2020 State Convention
- Friday (6/19) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +555 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 56,793), +53 Hospitalizations (to 5,797), +16 Deaths (to 1,602) From Yesterday
- Reversing course on disclosure, Virginia officials reveal which nursing homes face outbreaks
- Governor Northam Announces $246 Million to Support Response to COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Governor Northam Proclaims June 19, 2020 Juneteenth Freedom Day
- Five JMHS graduates at Monday ceremony have virus
- Rallies commemorate Juneteenth across region
- Sims: Virginia’s Emergency Education Relief Funds Must Address COVID-19 Fueled Achievement Gaps
- Amanda Chase Spent the Week Doubling Down on Racism
- Virginia lawmakers take up national policing reforms
- VEC investigating 12,000 unemployment claimants for refusing to return to work
- Kilgore: Virginians should set Virginia energy policy
- The DMV postponed nearly 6,000 appointments Friday. Not everyone got the memo.
- Two-thirds of region’s COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities
- The Second Battle of Richmond: Dispatches from the Liberation of Lee Circle (“Liberation, Hope, Brutalization, Resurrection in the Capital of the Neo-Confederacy”)
- Photos, Video: Richmond Friday Night as Juneteenth 2020 Winds Down
- Hundreds turn out for peaceful Juneteenth demonstration at Lee monument organized by Trey Songz (“Upward of 500 people gathered beneath the Robert E. Lee statue Friday night for a peaceful demonstration and celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.”)
- Richmond unrest curfew-only violators say their charges aren’t being dropped
- After riots, Richmond Police issue reminder of unlawful assembly declaration
- Fairfax County police further decrease cooperation with ICE on non-criminal deportations
- BREAKING: Nearly 500 Coronavirus Cases, Dozens of Deaths at Arlington Long-Term Care Facilities (“Nearly three-quarters of coronavirus deaths in Arlington are attributable to long-term care facilities, new data from the Virginia Dept. of Health shows.”)
- Community leaders speak out against racism, violence in meeting with Spotsylvania supervisors
- Fredericksburg protesters re-enact sit-ins of the 1960s
- Fairfax County police limit assistance to ICE in noncriminal deportations
- “The most generous guy you’d ever meet.” Friends mourn loss of Virginia Beach boat captain who died trying to save a sea turtle
- Change the name of the Washington NFL team. Now. (“NFL — needs to get on the right side of history.”)
- Showers and storms are around again today, then it’s something of a break Sunday
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