by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, April 10.
- Worldwide Toll of Confirmed Virus Deaths Nears 100,000 (“Public health officials from Paris to Los Angeles said the only way to keep the figure from growing faster was to extend lockdowns.In New York City, gravediggers excavated long trenches to bury hundreds of unclaimed bodies on Hart Island in the Bronx. More than 16 million U.S. workers have lost their jobs. A disaster loan plan for small businesses is unraveling. Here’s the latest.”)
- Coronavirus live news: deaths in Spain start falling again as Easter begins under lockdown (“Boris Johnson leaves intensive care; cases worldwide top 1.6m; UN chief says virus threatens global security”)
- EU Finance Ministers Reach $590 Billion Coronavirus Rescue Deal
- U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs to World’s Second Highest (“Cases top 1.6 million world-wide, while deaths approach 96,000”)
- Spain Deaths Slow; Italy Could Extend Curbs to May: Virus Update
- Global Oil Deal at Risk After Mexico Ditches Saudi-Russia Plan
- Hungary’s Far-Right Leader Continues A Power Grab During The Pandemic (Kick Hungary out of the EU and NATO?)
- WHO warned of transmission risk in January, despite Trump claims
- Coronavirus Finds Fuel in a World of Migrants
- CDC Director: ‘Very Aggressive’ Contact Tracing Needed For U.S. To Return To Normal
- Behind Trump’s Strange ‘Invisible Enemy’ Rhetoric (“By branding coronavirus as a hidden menace, he deftly absolves himself of responsibility for its spread.”)
- America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. (“A portrait of a vulnerable America.”)
- The Supreme Court Fails Us
- The G.O.P. Has Turned Voting in Person Into a Death Threat (“It should come as no surprise that Trump wants 50 Wisconsins on Election Day.”)
- American Democracy May Be Dying (“Authoritarian rule may be just around the corner.”)
- We’re Now Living the American Carnage Trump Promised Would End at His Inauguration (“Trump is not responsible for the virus itself, but he must be held accountable for his horrifying response to it.”)
- Pelosi warns Trump not to reopen country too soon
- Trump administration pushing to reopen much of the U.S. next month (Hmmmm…)
- Trump Keeps Talking. Some Republicans Don’t Like What They’re Hearing. (“Aides and allies increasingly believe the president’s daily briefings are hurting him more than helping, and are urging him to let his medical experts take center stage.”)
- Trump’s Sick Reality Show Is Built on Coronavirus Corpses (“While the factual updates at his daily briefings are often minimal, the drama is routine—and provides Fox with endless replay material.”)
- Trump is playing a disgusting political game with our lives
- CDC Extends ‘No Sail Order’ for All Cruise Ships by At Least 100 Days
- Obama to mayors on coronavirus: The biggest mistake leaders ‘can make in these situations is to misinform’
- PPE and Ventilators Becomes Patronage in Trump’s Hands
- McCarthy slams Democrats on funding for mail-in balloting (This guy is heinous.)
- Eugene Robinson: Trump might want to get a head start on packing his bags
- The dangerous conservative campaign against expertise
- It will be a long time before the economy recovers — and it won’t be the same
- It’s time to move past employer-based health insurance (“The coronavirus shows tying health insurance to jobs is a disaster. Let’s fix it.”)
- Trump’s case against mail-in voting has become increasingly desperate. His latest briefing showed it. (“Pressed to produce evidence of fraud, Trump cited a ‘pants on fire’ lie.”)
- Trump approval dips as Americans question his handling of coronavirus crisis (“After seeing a late-March spike as the pandemic ravaged the United States, his approval ratings have fallen back to the mid-40 percent range, where they were before the death toll and jobless claims exploded.”)
- Barr says Russia probe was started ‘without basis’ (Barr is a menace.)
- Pence, CDC Head Lay Out Virus Criteria to Reopen U.S. Economy
- Does Vote-by-Mail Favor Democrats? No. It’s a False Argument by Trump. (“Even some Republican officials, disagreeing with president, say that vote-by-mail has not hurt the Republican party in elections.”)
- Medical Supplies Free-for-All Has States Lashing Out at FEMA
- Pence’s office blocks public health officials from appearing on CNN (Typical authoritarian bullsh**)
- New round of stimulus talks face GOP roadblock
- Coronavirus death projections are down because of social distancing — which Fox hosts now want to roll back
- Fox News Set the Stage for America’s Poor Coronavirus Response (“The network has conditioned its viewers to hate experts and to trust miracle cures for 25 years.”)
- Most Americans Like How Their Governor Is Handling The Coronavirus Outbreak (“But Trump’s crisis approval ratings aren’t so great”)
- Exclusive: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, in solitary confinement
- Fox News’ Brit Hume Hits Donald Trump With The Painful Truth About His Coronavirus Briefings (“The conservative network’s senior political analyst slammed the president’s latest Twitter tantrum as ‘ridiculous.'”)
- Trump downplays need for widespread testing before reopening economy (Wildly irresponsible.)
- How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?
- I spent six days on a ventilator with covid-19. It saved me, but my life is not the same. (“David Lat is the founding editor of Above the Law, a website covering the legal profession, and a managing director at Lateral Link, a legal recruiting firm.”)
- Iowa Was Meaningless (The media’s obsession with it says a lot about the media, almost nothing good.)
- Florida governor falsely claims the coronavirus hasn’t killed anyone under 25 (Competing for the worst governor in America title?)
- Barack Obama wins the Democratic primary (“Released from his self-imposed neutrality, the former president will soon make the case for Biden that Biden has had trouble making himself.”)
- The Two States Where Trump’s COVID-19 Response Could Backfire in 2020 (“Voters in Michigan and Florida may be more likely than others to blame or credit him for how the outbreak unfolds.”)
- Steyer endorses Biden while prodding him on young voters
- Biden, Seeking Democratic Unity, Reaches Left Toward Sanders’s Ideas
- Biden makes his first big overture to Sanders voters
- Joe Biden Outlines New Steps to Ease Economic Burden on Working People
- Bernie Sanders Lost. But He Won. (“The greatest accomplishment of the Sanders campaign has less to do with moving good ideas out of the ‘radical’ category and into the mainstream and more to do with inspiring the people who will carry those ideas forward.”)
- Sanders — And The Media — Learned The Wrong Lessons From Trump In 2016 (” The media and campaign professionals spend endless amounts of time trying to draw ‘lessons’ from elections because they are so consequential, but you can’t escape the fact that presidential elections happen only once every four years. No matter how many lessons you might try to draw from any one example, you’re still dealing with a sample size of one. Rather, the history of the primaries — both in terms of how the media covers them and how campaigns wage them — is often one of fighting the last war and overcompensating for perceived mistakes from four years earlier.”)
- How Biden Is Trying to Win Over Bernie’s Supporters
- This Is Joe Biden’s Moment(“He doesn’t have much of a pitch or a plan. But in our horrifying world, amid our broken politics, the former vice president seems to have an odd trump card.”)
- America’s 2.3 million prisoners are sitting ducks for this virus. Here’s how to save them. (“The pandemic is raging through jails and prisons. Officials must act.”)
- Trump is wrong about the dangers of absentee ballots (“Mail-in balloting can and should play a greater role in November’s election, despite the president’s protestations.”)
- Biden Inches Toward Sanders on Health Care, Student Loans
- Bizarre background of Trump’s new favorite White House reporter exposed in wild tabloid investigation
- Spanberger leads colleagues to push for WiFi hotspots for students
Congresswoman Luria joins efforts to fund special education during coronavirus- Virginia COVID-19 death toll doubles since Monday due to delayed reporting
- Thursday (4/9) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +397 Cases (to 4,042), +70 Hospitalizations (to 685), +34 Deaths (to 109) From Yesterday (Worst single-day death total so far…)
- Another 149,758 Virginians File for Unemployment, On Top of Previous Week’s 112,497
- Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Urges Governor Northam to Retain and Sign Legislation Protecting Workers and Our Communities Without Further Delay
- Black Caucus urges Northam to sign wage increase despite pressure to hold off amid coronavirus crisis
- ACLU & Several Organizations Call for Statewide Action to Protect Inmates and Juveniles
- COVID-19 is hitting aircraft carriers and other Navy ships. What are the risks for Virginia sailors?
- Virginia medical providers want liability protections during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Virginia governor seeks more data on how COVID-19 affects minorities
- Northam, Nation’s Only Doctor Governor, Offers Sober Voice on Coronavirus (“Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he tries to treat the public as he would treat a patient”)
- EDITORIAL:Virginia’s Rainy Day is here
- Right-Wing Talk Radio Station WINC-AM in Winchester Refuses to Air 314 Action’s Ad Correctly Charactering Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity
- New “VA TV Classroom” Airs SOL Programs for Virginia Students
- Deaths at Virginia care facility with outbreak climb to 39
- UPDATE: ‘Absolutely devastating’: COVID death toll now up to 39 at Canterbury
- A rural corner of Virginia is starting to turn on Trump (“So far, Virginia’s Northern Neck peninsula has largely been spared from COVID-19, but its rural and working-class residents fear the worst is ahead.”)
- Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano Expands Reponse to COVID-19
- Fairfax County considers early release of jail inmates during pandemic
- 12 Northern Virginia ABC stores to close temporarily
- Hampton launches small business loan program, extensions on tax bills to those affected by coronavirus
- Some day cares are reopening — and new ones are starting — for the children of essential workers
- Editorial: When it comes to school funding, some Virginia counties would be better off in West Virginia (OK, Roanoke Times editorial board…)
- Wind-chilled today, but turning warmer and calmer this weekend
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