Justin Fairfax denied wrongdoing but found his political standing in a free-fall by Friday night.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/politics/virginia-justin-fairfax.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Second Woman Accuses Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia of Sexual Assault
The new allegation follows one by a California professor, Vanessa Tyson, who says Mr. Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004.
Virginia, Jeff Bezos, Grammys: Your Friday Evening Briefing
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/briefing/virginia-jeff-bezos-grammys.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
News Analysis: In Surprise Abortion Vote, Roberts Avoids ‘Jolt to the Legal System’
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
Trilobites: Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser Is Gushing at a Record Pace
It’s the talk of the national park these days, erupting a record 32 times last year and keeping up its showstopping pace this winter.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/science/steamboat-geyser-yellowstone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Anti-Abortion Activists Still See Their Best Chance in Years to Chip Away at Roe v. Wade
The movement has advanced a long-term and wide-ranging strategy to control state legislatures and governorships, in order to chip away at abortion rights.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/anti-abortion-activists-roe-v-wade.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Matthew Whitaker Says He Has Not Interfered in the Mueller Investigation
In an often contentious Judiciary Committee hearing, the acting attorney general also said he had provided no inside information to President Trump.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/politics/matthew-whitaker-hearing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Death Penalty Sought for Man Charged With Killing 5 in a Florida Bank Shooting
Zephen Xaver, 21, was charged last month with five counts of first-degree murder. A customer and four bank employees were killed in the shooting in Sebring, Fla.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/zephen-xaver-florida-bank-shooting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
House Democrats, Newly Empowered, Turn Their Investigations on Veterans Affairs
The new Democratic leadership of a House committee will investigate the influence exerted by three members of President Trump’s beach club on veterans policy.
Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies
A freedom fighter to some and a terrorist to others, she became a fugitive after she was charged in connection with a deadly botched robbery in 1981.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/obituaries/nehanda-abiodun-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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