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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 28.
- Iran says leaving nuclear treaty one of many options after U.S. sanctions move
- Japan and Russia Muscle Their Way Into the Trump-Kim Dialogue (“Putin is meeting with Kim, and Abe is meeting with Trump. But nobody’s quite sure who’s influencing whom.”)
- Spain Election: Divided Nation Holds 3rd National Vote Since 2015
- Authorities identify suspect in ‘hate crime’ synagogue shooting that left 1 dead, 3 injured (“Police said they are questioning the 19-year-old man who turned himself in shortly after the shooting. He had an assault rifle in his car, officials said. An apparent manifesto posted online under the suspect’s name praised the Pittsburgh and New Zealand attacks.”)
- Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect
- Suspect in deadly synagogue shooting near San Diego may have written hate manifesto
- Deadly synagogue shooting suspect in California linked to mosque arson
- The Republican War on Democracy (“If you can’t win playing by the rules, you change them.”)
- Trump ignores black #1 NFL pick to congratulate white player with history of racist tweets
- Biden holds a slight advantage in 2020 race, but Democrats are far from making a decision (“Sen. Bernie Sanders runs just behind former vice president Joe Biden, but more than half of all Democrats do not volunteer support for any candidate seeking the party’s nomination.”)
- Biden takes the Democrats’ early lead, with signs of a generational showdown (“17% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents back Biden, with 11% for Bernie Sanders, 5% for Pete Buttigieg, 4% apiece for Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Elizabeth Warren and 1 or 2% for Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and non-candidates Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.”)
- 2020 Candidates Begin Signing Unity Pledge, With Sanders Taking the Lead
- Kyler Murray, a Black Man, Was the Number One NFL Draft Pick. Trump Congratulated the Number Two Pick Instead
- Trump bashes news ‘fakers’ as journos gather for D.C. gala
- Samantha Bee taunts Trump, thanks media at ‘Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner’ (“The event featured a robotic Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Robert De Niro calling the president ‘a relentless, unrepentant scumbag.'”)
- NRA battles internal strife, external pressures as Oliver North steps down as president (“The drama comes as outside pressures mount on the organization, which is enmeshed in several lawsuits.” Psycho vs. Psycho)
- As NRA Leadership Fight Spills Into Public, N.Y. Attorney General Opens Investigation
- Oliver North is out as NRA president, following a leadership dispute with longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre
- Police: Man plowed his car into crowd because he thought they were Muslim (“A 13-year-old girl remains in critical condition in a coma.”)
- Nearly 20 states are on the verge of blocking Donald Trump from appearing on the 2020 ballot
- Pride vs. Pence: Gay Republicans grapple with Buttigieg breakout (“The 37-year-old mayor has climbed the ranks of the 2020 Democratic primary with help from a fundraising surge after launching barbs at the vice president, an icon among many Republicans.”)
- Facebook’s newest ‘fact checkers’ are Koch-funded climate deniers (Facebook is fatally flawed.)
- Kaine talks to UVA students about future education policies
- Ruling with no oversight (“The Virginia Supreme Court is yet again trying to tell people what information they can — and cannot — obtain as judges and their staffs go about performing the public’s business.”)
- Schapiro: The unbearable indigestibility of Va.’s political parties (Behind a paywall.)
- Opinion/Editorial: This time, Herring surprises partisans
- Revoking Revocation: It’s a Matter of Simple Justice
- Republican Party legislative 97th district committee meeting ends after chairman walks out
- Runion wins GOP primary in 25th House District (“He will face Democrat Jenni Kitchen on Nov. 5 in the race to replace Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, who is running for Augusta County clerk of court.”)
- Chris Runion Winner in the 25th Delegate district Republican primary
- BREAKING: Springfield District Dems Overwhelmingly Endorse Laura Jane Cohen for Fairfax County School Board
- Editorial: Race still an issue in Portsmouth
- Video: Candidates, Elected Officials, etc. Speak in Support of Saving Fairfax County’s Blake Lane Park, Green Space in General
- CASEY: Scandals rock northern Shenandoah Valley town (“Millions of taxpayer dollars are missing. Lawsuits have been filed, investigations are underway, accusations are flying, and now the FBI is involved. Welcome to Front Royal, the small Virginia town at the northern end of Shenandoah National Park.”)
- Rare, extinct-in-the-wild Guam kingfisher is hatched at Virginia facility (“About 140 of the birds are kept under human care.’)
- Virginia Men’s Basketball Will Not Go to the White House
- Still mild and breezy today, with a few passing showers
