by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 20. Also check out the victory speech by Hillary Clinton, who moved a big step closer to the Democratic presidential nomination and the White House last night. Go Hillary! 🙂
- Trump, Clinton win big in home state
- Former secretary of state closes in on Democratic nomination (“Winning the large, diverse state buoyed Hillary Clinton’s campaign after a string of losses to Sen. Bernie Sanders.”)
- Easy triumph gives the billionaire mogul a boost in the Republican race (“Donald Trump’s blowout victory positioned him for a hot streak in five East Coast primaries next week and brought him closer to securing the nomination with an outright majority of pledged delegates.”)
- New York Primary Takeaways: Trump and Clinton Wins Highlight Opponents’ Limits
- How Bernie lost New York (“Caught up in one distraction after another, Sanders never came close to the upset victory he once predicted.”)
- Exit Poll Shows NY Dems Energized By Nomination Contest, GOP Divided
- Flush North Carolina’s discriminatory bathroom law down the toilet
- Paul Ryan’s House of woes (“Almost six months into the job, the new speaker is struggling to advance an agenda.”)
- Paul Ryan is completely, utterly useless: The Zika virus, economic catastrophe & other stuff the House GOP is totally ignoring (“The Speaker of the House is burnishing his credentials for 2020 but doing what John Boehner did best: Nothing”)
- Lying is their business: Ari Rabin-Havt on the industry that’s grown to create and disseminate right-wing propaganda (“Author Ari Rabin-Havt explains how modern conservatism is built on an entire industry built to lie”)
- The Domestication of Donald Trump Has Begun (“The media fell all over themselves to praise Trump’s new ‘presidential’ tone.” The corporate media consists of a bunch of spineless, slobbering cowards. Oh, worthless too, did I mention worthless?))
- NOAA: Monthly Temperature Reports Are ‘Sounding Like A Broken Record’ (And, of course, the worthless corporate media mostly ignores the biggest threat to humanity by far.)
- Cruz’s Delegate Czar: ‘I Call BS’ On Trump Camp’s ‘Gestapo’ Bribery Claims (Yep, it’s our old pal Kookinelli defending his theocratic nutjob friend, Ted Cruz. Kinda warms one’s heart, eh?)
- State of Virginia begins Zika virus testing (“Division of Consolidated Labs granted permission to test blood samples for virus”)
- Attorney General Herring: McAuliffe death penalty secrecy plan is legal
- Schapiro: Governor, legislature – a clash of constitutional prerogatives (“That pattern is expected to endure today, when the legislature — controlled by Republicans, the most prominent and powerful of whom is Howell, now in his 13th year as Speaker of the House — takes up 32 vetoes by a Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe. Many of the rejected bills paint the brightest lines between the political parties by expanding access to firearms, restricting the freedoms of LGBT Virginians, denying taxpayer funding for abortions, and making it more difficult to register to vote.”)
- GOP lawmakers strike deal with McAuliffe over jobs program
- Advocates urge lawmakers to block McAuliffe bid for juvenile correctional center
- Federal appeals court sides with transgender teen, says bathroom case can go forward (Excellent news.)
- Danville reaches coal ash settlement with Duke Energy
- 5th District congressional candidates release election fund information<?a>
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Stop playing politics over executions (“Virginia lawmakers should know a devil’s bargain when they see one.”)
- Park says fire has continued to grow, has burned 3,000 acres
- Grant to Norfolk Southern kept jobs in Virginia, commerce secretary says
- State lawmakers begin examination of Jamycheal Mitchell’s death in jail
- Virginia Beach students, parents seek explanation on Landstown High principal’s abrupt removal
- Dialing up another delightful day ahead of late-week shower chance
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