by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 23.
- As coronavirus surges, a frantic Europe scrambles for hospital beds, ventilators, supplies
- Live updates: Coronavirus cases top 341,000 globally
- Japan’s Abe Admits Tokyo Olympics Might Be Postponed
- Stocks, Oil Fall as Rescue Package Stalls in Senate
- U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus
- With Iran Ravaged by Virus, U.S. Is Pressured to Ease Sanctions
- Nigeria records chloroquine poisoning after Trump endorses it for coronavirus treatment
- Stocks Drop With U.S. Futures; Treasuries Advance
- Markets slump as US Senate deadlocked over Covid-19 stimulus
- Democrats Should Vote Down Trump’s Corrupt Stimulus Slush Fund
- A scientist-turned-journalist’s thoughts on how ‘we’re in trouble as a species’
- The stimulus should focus on Americans who need the most help
- NYC Mayor Hammers Trump’s Coronavirus Response: “People Will Die Who Could Have Lived Otherwise”
- AOC: Trump Is “Going to Cost Lives” If He Doesn’t Use the Defense Production Act
- The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say
- Trump Bets Business Will Answer Call to Fight Virus, but Strategy Bewilders Firms
- Trump’s most dangerous flim-flam: False hope and quack advice (“Hasn’t he done enough damage? Now Trump is giving fake medical advice from the White House, based on ‘a feeling'”)
- Trump Responds to News Mitt Romney Is in Self-Quarantine: “Gee, That’s Too Bad” (Classy, as always.)
- This Stimulus Bill Will Not Save the Economy From Collapse
- Treasury’s power over $500 billion loan program becomes key sticking point in coronavirus aid bill
- ‘I’m going to keep pushing.’ Anthony Fauci tries to make the White House listen to facts of the pandemic
- Pelosi pushes forward with her own emergency coronavirus package
- Senate falls far short of votes needed to advance coronavirus bill as clash between Republicans and Democrats intensifies
- Senate GOP ramps up pressure on Democrats over coronavirus stimulus package with Monday vote
- Washington Is About to Pick Which Companies Survive
- The Coronavirus Could Cause a Social Recession (“Economic slowdowns are easy to measure, but the lingering damage to communal bonds may be no less harmful.”)
- Trump orders National Guard to build medical facilities in NY, Calif., Wash.
- Rand Paul’s coronavirus diagnosis sends shockwaves through Senate
- Trump Declines To Promise That His Own Company Won’t Get Coronavirus Bailout Money
- Democrats Block Senate Coronavirus Bill, Calling It A ‘Corporate Bailout’ (“They’re calling for more funding to hospitals and health care workers.”)
- Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake. (The Murdoch family has arguably done more damage to the world as any other family.)
- How Trump Is Worsening the Virus Now (“Medical shortages are his responsibility.”)
- Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear For Their Safety (“As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the ‘Chinese virus,’ many Chinese-Americans are terrified of what could come next.”)
- How coronavirus is rewiring the Republican and Democratic parties (“The pandemic could alter politics for a generation — or even longer.”)
- White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says
- Biden Addresses a Visibility Question: ‘How Do We Get More of You?’ (“As President Trump appears at daily briefings, the Democratic front-runner faces the challenge of raising his profile in a presidential race that has moved almost entirely into the digital realm.”)
- Could Biden’s Weakness With Young Voters Hurt Him In The General Election? (“… boosting young enthusiasm and turnout should be a major goal of the Biden campaign”)
- Harvey Weinstein Tests Positive For Coronavirus In NY State Prison; Convicted Producer In Isolation
- Urgent national call for sacrifice by seclusion is met with Generation Z battle cry: ‘Party On!’
- Rep. Spanberger Calls for Direct Payments to American Workers, Strong Support for Central Virginia Small Businesses in Upcoming Coronavirus Emergency Economic Relief Package
- Rep. Wexton Gives Blood at Inova, Encourages All Virginians to Donate Blood
- ‘Our workers are scared to death’: Metro union calls for more cuts during coronavirus crisis
- Hundreds Of Laid-Off Airport Workers Hope For Relief From Airline Bailout (“At least 50 workers at Ronald Reagan Washington National already have been laid off, 78 at Baltimore-Washington International and 310 from Dulles International Airports.”)
- Video: Gov. Northam’s Sunday AM Briefing on the Coronavirus Situation
- Grading the region’s coronavirus response: Hogan 1st, Northam last, and Bowser in the middle (“Northam, a pediatric- neurologist-turned-politician, has consistently been slower than Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to order measures to compel social distancing — the principal way to delay the virus’s spread.”)
- Video: Sen. Barbara Favola, Del. Rip Sullivan, Del. Patrick Hope Discuss Virginia Coronavirus Response, Budget, Possible Special Session, Redistricting Amendment, etc.
- State Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax), Del. Lee Carter (D-Manassas) Advocate Very Different Approaches to Fighting COVID-19
- Editorial: Assembly puts funding behind Chesapeake Bay cleanup
- Editorial: So who should be honored at the Capitol?
- Video: Virginia Delegate, Pastor Luke Torian Urges People to Worship Virtually
- Kelsey Crane column: Virginians deserve better and cleaner transportation options
- No cases of COVID-19 in Virginia prisons, officials say — but no inmates have been tested
- Virginia’s top emergency manager told agency COVID-19 crisis could ‘run into the summer’
- Shoppers stock up on distilled spirits amid fears Virginia ABC stores might close
- UPDATE: Three more deaths reported in Virginia on Sunday, bringing statewide total to six
- Coronavirus cases jump in Washington region as testing capacity ramps up
- Three new coronavirus deaths reported on the Peninsula; health district does not know source of spread
- Coronavirus in schools: How students, teachers and parents in Hampton Roads are coping with the shutdown
- Local court clerks’ offices improvise to maintain services, for now
- Food bank operations in the Richmond region upended by coronavirus concerns
- Rain today, and likely again Wednesday and Friday. Nice days in between.
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