by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 24.
- Death Toll From Cyclone Idai Climbs To More Than 600
- Brexit Update: May Comes Under Party Pressure to Resign (“The prime minister is facing an open revolt over her withdrawal deal with the EU.”)
- March In London Demanding A Second Brexit Vote Draws Huge Crowds (“Organizers estimated that 1 million people turned out for the Put It to the People March, but that has not been confirmed independently.”)
- Trump Won’t Let U.S. Officials Come Between Him and Kim Jong-un
- Barr preparing a summary of Mueller report’s key conclusions
- As Mueller Report Lands, Prosecutorial Focus Moves to New York
- Pelosi tells Dems she’ll reject highly classified briefing on Mueller findings
- Mueller Report Expected Sunday, But How Much of It?
- Barr scours Trump-Russia report to see how much to open
- President Trump spends the first 24 hours after the Mueller probe ends in Twitter silence (“Someone must have taken his phone.”)
- Israel Lobby Convenes in Washington Amid Fraying Bipartisanship and Rising Tension (AIPAC does a great deal of damage, first and foremost to the U.S.-Israel relationship)
- Even Without Mueller’s Report, Congress Had All the Facts It Needed (“Everything lawmakers needed to know about Trump and Russia was in the public record.”)
- At Democratic Campaign Events, Mueller Report Is Barely Mentioned (“Democratic voters said they cared deeply about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election but weren’t quite sure what to make of the latest twist, exactly.”)
- Gillibrand Seeks to Rise Above Crowd With Rally Near Trump Hotel (“New York Senator has struggled to get attention, donations”)
- Harris and O’Rourke go straight for each other’s strongholds
- Beto O’Rourke Has One Setting: Loud and Earnest (“He’s still a bit short of the Obama ’08 inside straight. But he had the crowd here cheering.”)
- Recordings Show Oil Executives Love Having So Much Access to Trump and Officials
- Rafi Eitan, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead at 92
- Oh No, Barbra Streisand Has Weighed In on Michael Jackson’s Leaving Neverland Accusers
- Protests continue in Pittsburgh after officer acquitted in fatal shooting of Antwon Rose II
- Viking Cruises engine failure off Norway coast prompts rescue operation for 1,300 people on board
- Three years after Alison Parker’s death, her father takes on Google to quash spread of violent content
- Summoning the courage for redemption (“Rather than remaining in an ivory tower of privilege and meeting with powerful people who can donate large sums to campaign coffers, the governor must sit down with salt-of-the-Earth Virginians who season our land with a diverse array of histories and perspectives. He would have been well-served by attending a Tuesday evening meeting at Hampton University where historians offered perspectives on African-American migration during the Jim Crow era. His absence was yet another missed opportunity.”)
- Virginia Republicans see chance to bounce back amid Democratic scandals (One of what will undoubtedly be 20 gazillion corporate media stenographic “hot takes” on how Democrats are in disarray, Republicans are on the rebound, blah blah blah.)
- Schapiro: Fiction trumps (sorry!) fact in Va. politics
- Aubrey Layne column: Governor’s budget reflects his values, goals for Virginia
- Gibson: Virginia must teach all of its history
- Republican Appropriations chairman to run again in what is now a Democratic-leaning district
- Supreme Court Posts Audio, Transcript of 3/18 Arguments in Crucial Virginia House of Delegates “Racial Packing” Case
- America’s Failing Infrastructure: A Near-to-Home Example – the GW Parkway
- I was a refugee. Now I’m a mom and legislator fighting the radical right’s assault on women’s health (Del. Kathy Tran: “My legislation has been distorted by the radical right. My family has been threatened…I’m not backing down, but I need this community’s help.”)
- Gordon C. Morse: In 1st District, a legacy of sound leadership (Hahahaha. Nope.)
- Hiring test points to subtlety of LGBTQ bias in Virginia
- EDITORIAL: Rail system is congested, too (“Virginia taxpayers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to improve rail lines privately owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern so that passenger and commuter trains can share the tracks. State-supported passenger routes that currently run through Fredericksburg on CSX tracks include the Virginia Railway Express, which also receives local subsidies, and Amtrak’s intercity trains between Newport News and Washington.”)
- Fraser: Life after prison in Virginia
- Brenda Pogge, James City County delegate, announces retirement (“She’s the fifth Republican to retire from the General Assembly this year, and the second from the Peninsula to do so. Del. Gordon Helsel, R-Poquoson, announced his retirement earlier this year.”)
- Henrico County government has $50 million more to spend next year. Here’s what they want to do with it.
- Fairfax Co. gymnastics coach arrested for sexual relationship with teen
- Editorial: Some places in Virginia are, literally, dying (“Martinsville and Henry County are dying. That’s not a political or cultural observation; it’s a demographic one.”)
- Enjoyable spring Sunday, before some Monday showers and cooler weather through midweek
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