by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, June 30.
- Flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China
- United States not on EU’s ‘safe’ travel list, diplomats say
- China Passes Hong Kong Security Law Aimed at Crushing Protests
- A Question That Won’t Go Away: Why Does Trump Love Putin So Much? (“Following the news that Russia put a bounty on US troops, this old puzzle takes on new significance.”)
- Oil major Shell to write down up to $22 billion of assets in second quarter
- Trump Stirs New Alarm Over Russia by Dismissing Bounty Claims
- The report of Russia putting bounties on U.S. soldiers is disturbing. Trump’s response is stupefying.
- Republicans once again face questions about why Trump isn’t tougher on Russia
- Trump is out of excuses
- AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
- From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump’s phone calls alarm US officials
- Intelligence on Russian bounty plot was included in the President’s Daily Brief earlier this year, source says
- Lawmakers Press for Answers on Russian Bounty Offers to Taliban to Kill U.S. Troops
- Senate Republicans squeeze Trump over Russian bounties
- Biden says Trump has “cozied up” to Putin, calls for “more data” on bounty allegations
- Local Lockdowns Spread as WHO Warns Worst Covid-19 Still to Come
- Reopenings grind to a halt as Sun Belt states witness surge in hospitalizations
- Millions track the pandemic on Johns Hopkins’s dashboard. Those who built it say some miss the real story. (“Case counts are consistently inconsistent. Reporting practices differ from country to country, state to state, even county to county. If authorities fail to contextualize the virus with other factors — such as Zip codes, race or Medicaid usage — the hardest-hit communities can go unseen.”)
- CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country
- Coronavirus reality is clobbering Trump
- Trump’s F*cked. That Means America Is Too Until November. (Actually, America is f**ed until January and beyond.)
- Trump’s diminished moral capacity is on full display
- As Coronavirus Surges, How Much Testing Does Your State Need To Subdue The Virus? (Virginia now needs 22,422 tests per day for mitigation and 81,741 tests per day for suppression. We’re not even close to either of those.)
- This Is Trump’s Plague Now
- Fauci doubts effectiveness of coronavirus vaccine in US due to anti-vaxxers
- Trump’s ‘white power’ retweet set off ‘five alarm fire’ in White House
- Trump deleted but has not condemned his ‘white power’ tweet
- Trump ‘white power’ tweet set off a scramble inside the White House — but no clear condemnation
- Introducing the Trump Vincibility Watch: Do White Power and Potential Treason Make for a Good Campaign Pitch?
- Trump ignores Covid-19 risk in renewed attack on ‘corrupt’ mail-in voting (Wildly irresponsible. Get this guy the hell outta there.)
- I Don’t Mean to Shock You, But It Appears Brett Kavanaugh Is a Truthless Scoundrel
- John Roberts Is No Pro-Choice Hero (“The latest Supreme Court decision sets the stage for further attacks on abortion rights.”)
- Why conservative Chief Justice Roberts just struck down an anti-abortion law (“Roberts didn’t save abortion rights, he told future litigants how to bury them.”)
- A huge defeat for pro-lifers — and for Trump
- Roberts Isn’t a Liberal. He’s a Perfectionist Who Wants to Win. (“The chief justice knows exactly what he’s doing.”)
- Susan Collins still into Brett Kavanaugh, defends his precedent-shattering anti-choice vote
- How John Roberts left the door open to more state limits on abortion
- Right-wing media are furious that the Supreme Court just struck down an anti-abortion law
- John Roberts Was Already Chief Justice. But Now It’s His Court.
- Abortion Rises as a Pivotal Issue for At-Risk Senate Republicans
- House Democrats push through first bill in a decade expanding Affordable Care Act (“Monday’s vote symbolized that House Democrats have a path to make health insurance and treatment more accessible at a moment when the novel coronavirus — and the jobs the pandemic has cost — has strained the U.S. health system, robbed millions of Americans of health benefits and caused nearly 125,000 deaths nationwide.”)
- Obamacare Versus the G.O.P. Zombies (“Ten years of failed promises to come up with something better.”)
- Hickenlooper, Huntsman and House races: 5 things to watch in Tuesday’s primaries
- Facebook Sees Growing Ad Boycott in Protest Against Handling of Speech
- YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech
- Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
- Reddit Is Done Pretending The Donald Is Fine
- It’s Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Time to Bend (“The ad boycott over Facebook’s content policies reflects new and lasting societal, political and regulatory crosscurrents. Meaningful change is required.” Either that, or shut it down.)
- Three Months In, Many Americans See Exaggeration, Conspiracy Theories and Partisanship in COVID-19 News
- ‘The only thing that stopped the crowd was my rifle’ | Interview with man who pulled out gun amid protest (Why were these two not arrested?)
- Fox News is making Russia bounty story into Trump vs. The New York Times (“Also: It’s the intelligence community’s fault.”)
- Arizona orders bars and gyms to close, joining other states in reversing reopening
- ‘Our Luck May Have Run Out’: California’s Case Count Explodes
- 9 things Republicans trashed Obama for but are fine with under Trump (“Republicans slammed Obama for golfing, signing executive orders, and going on vacation, but are mostly silent when Trump does the exact same things.”)
- DCCC Adds Dr. Cameron Webb To Red To Blue Program
- Virginia sees historic Medicaid enrollment during COVID-19 pandemic
- Governor Northam Launches Rent and Mortgage Relief Program to Assist Virginians Facing Eviction or Foreclosure
- Editorial: Allowing evictions to resume will harm vulnerable Virginians (“The Virginia Supreme Court ruling to allow evictions to resume comes too soon, when the pandemic is still inflicting widespread economic harm on Virginians.”)
- AG Mark Herring Continues Fight to Recognize ERA as Part of U.S. Constitution
- Monday (6/29) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +453 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 62,189), +28 Hospitalizations (to 6,164), +8 Deaths (to 1,740) From Yesterday
- Editorial: Virginia’s Phase 3 reopening process will require real discipline
- Editorial : Wear your face mask
- Judge denies injunction in lawsuit challenging Northam’s mask mandate
- New Virginia laws on guns, gambling, statues, weed possession start Wednesday
- Post-Unite the Right rules for Richmond’s Lee statue now enforced against Black Lives Matter events
- Governor Northam Launches Rent and Mortgage Relief Program to Assist Virginians Facing Eviction or Foreclosure
- As evictions resume in Virginia, $50 million in help is on the way. Advocates say it’s not enough.
- Governor Northam Signs Monumental Offshore Wind Legislation, Tours First Offshore Wind Project in Federal Waters
- Major Clean Energy Milestone: Virginia’s First Offshore Wind Installed
- Virginia DEQ Assesses Fines for Ongoing MVP Violations, But the Agency Waited Many Months to Act
- Shannon Taylor Announces a Police Integrity and Compliance Position in the Henrico County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office
- SCC Order on “Header Injustice Project” Clearly Shows Why Virginia Needs a Moratorium on New Fossil Fuel Projects
- Environmental regulators seek more fines against Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Over strong opposition, Water Control Board allows Chickahominy Power to tap into Potomac aquifer (The whole idea of building new fossil fuel infrastructure when 99% of climate scientists say we have to slash our greenhouse gas emissions ASAP is utter folly…wildly irresponsible and reckless.)
- Editorial: Nursing home deaths, arts funding, gerrymandering and the last Confederate statue
- Richmond School Board could be leaning toward modest in-person instruction for fall
- Judge to rule ‘promptly’ after hearing arguments about police use of chemical irritants to disperse peaceful protesters
- Coronavirus Cases Spike At Virginia ICE Detention Facility After Transfers From Hotspots
- Roanoke-area COVID-19 cases on the rise as rate falls elsewhere in Virginia
- Recount confirms Woodbury victory in Newport News City Council election, shows little change in results (“A recount of a May City Council election confirmed incumbent Councilwoman Pat Woodbury’s victory in a race decided by less than 60 votes.”)
- Ex-Fairfax police officer under FBI investigation, made racially motivated traffic stops, prosecutor says
- Prince William County votes to rename schools honoring Stonewall Jackson
- Fairfax officials: Be on lookout for destructive beetle
- Alexandria plans to review police practices amid wave of protests
- Rockies’ Ian Desmond opting out of playing in 2020, citing high risk amid pandemic
- More summer sunshine today, with a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow
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