Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• Liberal Democrats introduced their “Green New Deal,” a sweeping resolution intended to redefine the national debate on climate change. The plan presents a grand strategy to eliminate carbon emissions, create jobs and combat economic inequality, though its legislative prospects are bleak in the foreseeable future.

• The political tumult in Virginia widened, as the State Senate’s top Republican faced questions about racist photographs and slurs in a college yearbook he helped oversee, transforming the nearly week-old crisis into a bipartisan reckoning over personal conduct.

• A year before the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, privately threatened to use “a bullet” on him if he did not return to the kingdom and end his criticism of the Saudi government.