by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 16.
- Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine found to be nearly 95 percent effective in a preliminary analysis (“The United States could have two coronavirus vaccines available on a limited basis by year’s end”)
- Scientists link record-breaking hurricane season to climate crisis
- Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Everything, Lazard Reports (“We’re at a kind of crossover point right now, but if solar and wind continue to come down in cost while the others stay the same or get more expensive, there will be serious pressure to retire fossil and nuclear power plants early and scale up wind and solar power production even faster. Why pay more for electricity from old, dirty power plants when you can get it more cheaply from new, clean, green electricity?”)
- ‘A coup for China’: Analysts react to the world’s largest trade deal that excludes the U.S. (Trump has isolated the United States.)
- Israel Promotes Jerusalem Settlement Project, Bid Ends Two Days Before Biden Takes Office
- The President vs. the American Media (“After terrorist attacks, France’s leader accuses the English-language media of ‘legitimizing this violence.'”)
- Scoop: Trump plans last-minute China crackdown
- Trump Plans More Actions on China in Coming Weeks to Bind Biden
- Covid: Boris Johnson and Tory MPs forced to self-isolate after No 10 event
- As Trump’s efforts on Iran falter, Biden will face a more assertive Tehran
- Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
- Biden advisers to meet vaccine firms as Trump stalls handoff
- With 11 Million Cases in the U.S., Coronavirus Is Now Personal for Most
- U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week
- As a third covid-19 wave rises, Trump dawdles and Republicans hide
- Blue states and red states are both doing school reopenings wrong (“What Biden’s plan to reopen schools safely in the pandemic could look like, according to an epidemiologist.”)
- Trump faces pressure to start transition talks with Biden as Covid spreads (“Instead of mobilizing to tackle the worsening pandemic, Trump spent the weekend amplifying lies and misinformation about his election loss”)
- Biden administration will seek to restore stability at Pentagon, analysts say
- Will Trump Burn the Evidence? (“How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.”)
- President’s appointees help outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud (Appalling.)
- There Is No Trumpism Without Trump (Interesting, but I’d argue that it’s very possible for another right-wing populist to arise.)
- ‘Trumpism’ Without Trump Is an Inkblot Without Ink (“The word has become a Rorschach test of views about the Republican Party. But it’s really just a one-man brand.” We’re going to find out if that’s true.)
- Biden turns focus to U.S. economy as Trump vows more challenges to election outcome
- Trump, Trying to Cling to Power, Fans Unrest and Conspiracies
- Trump finally admitted that Biden won the election — then immediately walked it back
- Unpacking Giuliani’s fantasy parade of false voter-fraud claims
- Pelosi Faces Challenges of Slim Majority and Party Divisions
- House Returns With First Widespread COVID-19 Testing Program, Lame Duck Agenda
- Can Mitch McConnell do the right thing just once?
- Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented. Here are three scenarios.
- Trump campaign jettisons major parts of its legal challenge against Pennsylvania’s election results
- Controversial Fed Nominee Set To Prevail In Senate Confirmation Vote This Week (So stupid.)
- A Senate confirmation vote on Judy Shelton is a bad sign for the Fed — and Biden
- Trump’s Near-Concession Shows He Recognizes Defeat, Allies Say
- Obama Calls Trump’s Refusal To Concede Another ‘Breach Of Basic Democratic Norms’
- Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy
- Barack Obama on his book, President Trump, George Floyd, the divisions in the country, and more
- Barack Obama rules out role in Biden cabinet – ‘Michelle would leave me’ (“The former president vows to help Biden ‘in any ways that I can’ but details toll his position took on wife’s law career”)
- There’s a lot Biden can do for rural America. Red-state leaders should accept his help.
- ‘Joe’s a blue-collar guy’: After years of declining power, union leaders look to Biden
- America’s flawed democracy: the five key areas where it is failing (“The electoral college is one of the democratic flaws that stretch back to the birth of the nation, when it was devised with less than pure motivations…The main hope for change is the National Popular Vote compact whereby states collectively agree to pledge all their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins most votes nationwide. The movement gained a boost on election day when Colorado backed the idea, but it remains a distant prospect.”)
- The Hard-Knock Political Education of Ron Klain
- Trump Rushes Environmental Regulations That Could Handcuff Biden
- Juan Williams: Defeated Trump is in legal peril
- Fox News Anchor Thoroughly Debunks Trump’s Election Fraud Claims (“Eric Shawn delivered the fact check just hours after Fox News host Maria Bartiromo gave airtime to Trump lawyers pushing those claims.”)
- SpaceX launches 2nd crew, regular station crew flights begin
- Democrats look to sharpen message after Senate setback
- Biden Won the Battle—but Dems Are Losing the Social Media War (“Insular, impenetrable worlds are developing online that Democrats aren’t reaching or matching. It didn’t doom them in 2020. It could down the road.”)
- The Biden team’s tug-of-war over Facebook (“The president-elect has hired former Facebook executives even though some in his camp consider the company enemy No. 1.”)
- Georgia Recount Yields Few Changes in Vote Totals, Democrats Say (Recounts rarely make much difference…maybe a few dozen votes or whatever, one way or the other.)
- Newsmax CEO: ‘We Are Not Actively Selling,’ Have No Desire to Be ‘Trump TV’
- Photos From Yesterday’s March as “a radical hodgepodge of Proud Boys, QAnon fanatics, militia groups, and white supremacists proudly showcased their support for the President”
- Trump coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas urges Michigan to ‘rise up’ against new Covid-19 measures (Insane and irresponsible.)
- Gov. Whitmer closing high schools, colleges, in-person dining, casinos, movie theaters
- Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution
- Meet Rebekah Mercer, the deep-pocketed co-founder of Parler, a controversial conservative social network
- Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff
- Graphs: 2021 VA Gubernatorial Candidates’ Twitter, Facebook Followers
- Could a Biden White House be just the thing to break the Virginia GOP’s election drought?
- Axios Reports Former Gov. McAuliffe to Announce Candidacy “in the coming weeks”; What Do You Think About This? (Poll)
- Terry McAuliffe plans to run for governor of Virginia again
- Studies on School Segregation Highlight Challenges of Housing, Economics
- Sunday (11/15) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,161 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 201,950), +24 Hospitalizations (to 13,504), +1 Deaths (to 3,800)
- On Virginia’s far Atlantic flank, a cherished store of salt marshes is being lost
- Virginia designates Pulaski County as a solar-ready community
- Virginia Tech should aim for carbon neutrality by 2030, group tells board
- CHKD has treated 7 children for rare coronavirus-linked syndrome
- No Hampton school board member has voted “nay” since 2016. Now they’re split in two.
- D.C.-area forecast: Coldest air of the season arrives midweek, followed by a swift warm-up
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