by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 20.
Two nurses, who have witnessed first hand the toll Covid is taking in Colorado, stood up and peacefully counter protested. Here is how they were treated. I had join them. pic.twitter.com/iJnNcqZxSv
— Marc Zenn (@MarcZenn) April 19, 2020
- RCMP officer among 17 confirmed dead in Nova Scotia killing spree
- Gunman in Nova Scotia killed at least 16 in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings
- Enduring the Climate and Coronavirus Crises: What Will It Take to Get Through Both?
- South Australia could reach stunning 87 per cent wind and solar in four years
- This Earth Day, We Should Repent (“It’s time to consider a new kind of declaration. A declaration of responsibility.”)
- The U.S. Tried to Teach China a Lesson About the Media. It Backfired.
- Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster
- Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies
- Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration
- New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet (She is very, very impressive, no doubt.)
- Oil Drops Past $15 in New York to 21-Year-Low
- Mnuchin, Democrats Close on Virus Aid Deal Nearing $500 Billion
- Trump administration, congressional leaders near deal on virus aid that includes major boost for small businesses
- Even Trump’s best lackey can’t defend him
- Trump’s war on pragmatism
- Trump’s Two Horrifying Plans for Dealing With the Coronavirus (“If he can’t confine the suffering to his opponents, he is prepared to incite a culture war to distract his supporters”)
- Trump Escalates Culture War as Virus Response Hits Campaign
- The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE
- CNN INVESTIGATES Trump pledged that anybody could get tested. Here’s why that didn’t happen
- Coronavirus Testing Hampered by Disarray, Shortages, Backlogs
- Stop Airing Trump’s Briefings! (“The media is allowing disinformation to appear as news.”)
- Trump won’t say whether he will pardon Manafort and Stone, calls FBI investigators ‘human scum’ (Can you even imagine if Clinton or Obama had said anything like this?)
- More Americans Fear Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions Too Soon, WSJ/NBC Poll Says
- Protests Against Stay-at-Home Orders Grow, Encouraged by Trump (“The U.S. has the highest number of detected coronavirus cases in the world and at least 36,000 deaths. But some Americans are demanding an end to social limits, urged on by President Trump. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington said that “to have an American president to encourage people to violate the law” was something he had never witnessed. Here’s the latest.”)
- Bernie Sanders: The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us
- Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests (“A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.”)
- Protesting for the Right to Catch the Coronavirus (And give it to others!)
- Piers Morgan says his friend President Trump is ‘failing the American people’
- Fact check: On Sunday, Trump takes no break from repeating false virus claims
- Trump plays misleading clips of ‘support’ from Cuomo at coronavirus briefing (“US president accused of going into campaign mode after showing selectively edited videos containing praise by one of his most trenchant critics”)
- Hold these Republicans accountable for deaths caused by recklessness
- Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures
- Residents protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders in 5 states
- Trump Defends Right-Wing Protesters Fighting Coronavirus Restrictions: ‘These Are Great People’ (“The president’s enabling response to the anti-safety protesters echoed his handling of the 2017 violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.”)
- Scoop: Klobuchar to appear on Biden podcast amid VP rumors
- Trump Often Picks Fights With Governors, But Americans Like Them More
- Barr Is the Enforcer of Trump’s Push to Undermine the States’ Coronavirus Response
- Coronavirus: Trump says some governors ‘have gone too far’ on lockdown measures
- Exclusive: Neiman Marcus to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week – sources
- Democrats’ momentum puts Senate majority in play (“Republicans are still favorites to keep the chamber, but Democrats’ possible path to flipping the Senate is clearer now.”)
- Some Americans Are Misinformed About The Coronavirus. How Responsible Is The Media? (“One study found that people who named Fox News as their primary news source were actually more likely to hold misinformed views. In other words, although studies have also found that those who pay less attention to the news are generally more misinformed, in this case more attention to Fox News also meant a higher level of misinformation.”)
- Biden’s VP prospects break along Dem fault lines (“Biden understands the critical role he is poised to play in shaping the party’s identity for years to come.”)
- ActBlue sees $533M small-donor bonanza in first quarter
- Video: On CNN, Gov. Northam Pushes Back on Trump’s “LIBERATE VIRGINIA” Tweet (Northam: Trump “unable to deliver on tests…has chosen to focus on protests…this is not the time for [protests and] divisiveness.”)
- Northam says ‘divisiveness’ not needed after Trump slams Virginia governor over guns
- Virginia has paid out $328M in unemployment benefits, but some workers are still waiting for checks
- Social distancing brings big changes to upcoming elections (“Leaders encourage voters to cast ballots by mail in upcoming primaries.”)
- Md., Va. governors blast Trump over protests and lack of testing
- Video: VA01 Dem Candidates Vangie Williams, Qasim Rashid Debate Their Positions on the Issues, Why They’d Be the Strongest to Defeat Rep. Rob Wittman (R) in November
- “Literally everything Trump just said about Virginia’s new gun reform laws at #PressConference is a complete lie”
- Sunday (4/19) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +484 Confirmed Cases (to 8,537), +126 Hospitalizations (to 1,422), +19 Deaths (to 277) From Yesterday
- Timely COVID-19 information is vital, but Va.’s state government is falling short (“Yet even in the face of a crisis that has turned nursing homes into charnel houses, refrigerator trucks into makeshift overflow morgues and made mass graves dug by backhoes a reality, the state’s leaders are delaying and denying requests for essential statewide data, citing a specious and selective interpretation of a state law.”)
- The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is looking like a riskier investment every day (“If scarce capital must be allocated, investing in renewable energy and modernizing the grid would reduce risks and give more reliable returns than investing in the ACP. Projects of this type would serve customers better and re-align the interests of the shareholders with those of the ratepayers.”)
- Northam Wants to Speed Up Timeline for Predatory Lending Protections
- A Henrico facility’s outbreak was among nation’s deadliest at a nursing home. Experts say others are just as vulnerable.
- Private day schools in Virginia continue to educate students during school closures. Some aren’t getting paid.
- Richmond and Henrico officials at odds over housing strategies as emergency funds to shelter homeless dry up
- There’s a spike of new coronavirus cases in Isle of Wight — but where?
- Virginia Beach couple with COVID-19 spent weeks in hospital, separated by one floor
- An unsettled week with frequent chances of rain
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