by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 22.
- Climate change: World mustn’t forget ‘deeper emergency’
- Brent Oil Drops to 21-Year Low, Spreading Pain Across the Globe
- Why Oil at Negative $100 Isn’t a Crazy Bet Anymore
- Oil prices went negative. Here’s what that means long-term.
- Coronavirus pandemic ‘will cause famine of biblical proportions’ (“Governments must act now to stop 265 million starving, warns World Food Programme boss”)
- The pandemic will transform us. Here’s how. (“Few aspects of life are untouched by coronavirus and resulting global lockdowns. From an emerging ‘quarantine state of mind’ to a new era of frugality to expanding how we vote, here’s what next.”)
- Don’t Celebrate Earth Day. Fight for It. (“The 1970 gathering ushered in significant achievements in protecting our environment. Now Trump is destroying them.”)
- Africa has so far been spared the worst of the coronavirus. That could soon change.
- China’s Coronavirus Diplomacy Has Finally Pushed Europe Too Far
- Why Some People Get Sicker Than Others (“COVID-19 is proving to be a disease of the immune system. This could, in theory, be controlled.”)
- Federal Documents: More Than 300,000 Likely To Die If Restrictions Are Lifted
- CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating (“We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time”)
- What Trump’s nonsensical immigration gambit shows (“Trump is losing, and he knows it.”)
- Trump’s immigration pause falls well short of full ban
- No, Mr. President, Your Immigration Powers Are Not Unlimited (“Freezing immigrant admissions won’t protect public health or save American jobs.”)
- ‘Xenophobe in Chief’: Trump Exec Order Not About COVID-19
- Trump says immigration order will apply only to green cards and will last 60 days
- Trump and his allies are using the pandemic to push an unrelated agenda
- U.S. is deporting infected migrants back to vulnerable countries (Evil.)
- Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Rent Relief (Massive conflict of interest.)
- The New Coronavirus Relief Bill Is a Disappointment (“For no good reason, it falls far short of what we need to prevent a depression.”)
- Once more, Nancy Pelosi makes a deal — and her point (“She stood firm and won.”)
- Senate passes $484 billion coronavirus deal after weeks of deadlock
- House Set to Vote on Stimulus With Plans to Dole Out Still More
- ‘Scary Time’ for American Middle Class as Office Jobs Disappear (“A tsunami of job losses, which began in restaurants, hotels and factories, is now reaching white-collar America.”)
- Trump says he will ask Harvard, big businesses to return coronavirus relief funds
- Trump’s false claims from Tuesday’s coronavirus briefing
- The Party of the Aggrieved (“The pandemic has revealed the animating forces of the Republican Party in the age of Trump”)
- Consoler-in-chief? Lacking empathy, Trump weighs the economic costs, not the human ones
- America Weighs Health Versus Economy, As Divide Grows On When To Reopen
- 3 takeaways from AP review of small-business loan program
- More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study (Yep, Trump wrong yet again!)
- Fox News Quietly Backs Away From Hyping Trump’s Coronavirus ‘Miracle Drug’
- Trump Dodges on Hydroxychloroquine After Study Raises Red Flags
- NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Promoted By Trump For COVID-19
- First Known Cases Came Weeks Earlier Than Thought, in California
- Battle heats up for phase-four coronavirus relief bill
- McConnell slams brakes on next round of coronavirus aid
- The government is all in on coronavirus: How it’s still not enough (“Every policy solution has been small in scope for the problem we face.”)
- Barr Threatens Legal Action Against Governors Over Lockdowns (Nutjob.)
- Barr calls stay-at-home orders ‘disturbingly close to house arrest’ (Yep, nutjob.)
- Trump’s Post-Virus 2020 Campaign Shaping Up as 2016 Deja Vu
- Trump Reaches Back Into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks (“The president wants 2020 to be a replay of 2016, thematically speaking. In that sense, the coronavirus has changed nothing.”)
- What Would Virtual Democratic And Republican Conventions Mean For The 2020 Presidential Race?
- ‘The map is bigger now’: Coronavirus rewires 2020 election
- Valerie Jarrett: ‘No chance’ Michelle Obama will be Biden’s VP
- Internal Biden campaign rift opens over how to compete with Trump online (“Senior leaders are split over whether to hire Hawkfish, a digital firm financed by Mike Bloomberg.”)
- Despite scattered protests, most Americans support shelter-in-place: Reuters/Ipsos poll
- How Trump allies have organized and promoted anti-lockdown protests
- Analysis: Pandemic fallout tracks nation’s political divide
- Southern governors create a Covid-19 coalition and experts fear a ‘perfect storm’
- What reopening will look like in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee
- Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination
- Anti-Vaxxers Are Forming an Unholy Alliance With Shelter-in-Place Protesters (“The rallies in state capitals are featuring lots of the same language and some of the same people involved in the movement to scare the public against vaccinations.”)
- The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests
- Senate Republicans Contradict Trump on Russian Interference
- Senate Intel Releases New Report on Intel Community Assessment of Russian Interference
- Michigan Gov. Says Trump’s Messaging Putting Public In ‘Greater Danger’ (“Gretchen Whitmer said President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend immigration is part of ‘inconsistent messages’ that spread fear and put the public in ‘greater danger.'”)
- Dan Patrick of Texas on State Reopening: ‘There Are More Important Things Than Living’ (“I don’t want to die. Nobody wants to die, but man we gotta take some risks and get back in the game and get this country back up and running.”)
- The protesters aren’t the only ones on the wrong side of lockdowns
- The N.Y. Times Can’t Stop Pretending Trump Is a Normal President (“From a crass tweet, a fantasy of ordinary politics emerges.”)
- Seven confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to Wisconsin’s April elections
- The Death of the Department Store: ‘Very Few Are Likely to Survive’
- Secret Recording Reveals NRA’s Legal Troubles Have Cost The Organization $100 Million
- Nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online
- USNS Comfort to leave New York and head back to Norfolk, Trump says
- More Broken Promises: Trump Fails to Deliver on Testing
- Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Statement on Senate Passage of Coronavirus Relief Legislation
- VA-05 GOP Primary Turns Nasty as Rep. Denver Riggleman Rips His Primary Opponent’s Tactics as “Vile and Disgusting”
- As General Assembly Prepares to Meet, VCU Poll Finds Strong Approval of Gov. Northam, Top Democratic Policy Priorities
- Virginia General Assembly returns for a strange session, altered by coronavirus (“Lawmakers wrestle with logistics to meet safely, freeze on the budget to handle pandemic.”)
- Editorial: Move elections to protect public health
- Tuesday (4/21) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +640 Confirmed Cases (to 9,630), +81 Hospitalizations (to 1,581), +24 Deaths (to 324) From Yesterday
- AG Mark Herring Leads National Effort To Get PPE Into the Hands Of Healthcare Workers
- “Eviction Lab” Ranks Most States, Including Virginia, Low When It Comes to Housing Policy During COVID-19 Crisis
- Law Prof Warns Prisons Will Become Viral Hot Spots
- Virginia’s ‘probable’ COVID-19 death counts don’t match the experience of funeral directors
- COVID-19 pandemic is another strain for rural EMS services
- Howell: Welcome to the New Dominion!
- Foy: Vote-by-mail offers no partisan advantage
- Editorial: Virginia’s conomic recovery depends on consumer confidence
- The Virginia Lottery is still operating, but March profits took a big hit
- Editorial: The virus and voting
- As Medicaid providers struggle to survive, Virginia proposes a ‘lifeline’
- COVID-19 Testing Sites for Minority Neighborhoods Open Tuesday
- A Majority Of Maryland And Virginia Restaurant Employees Are Out Of Work, Survey Says (“On average, Maryland restaurants witnessed a 75% decline in sales and Virginia eateries a 77% drop compared to this time last year.”)
- Virginia hits pause on plans for 3 large field hospitals
- Thousands expected for drive-in rally urging Gov. Northam to reopen Virginia
- Hampton Convention Center won’t be converted to a field hospital just yet
- Panel organized by Woodbridge delegate looks at reasons for racial disparity in COVID-19 cases
- Three residents, two staffers test positive for COVID-19 at Albemarle retirement home
- Holocaust survivor and Richmonder Alan Zimm, 99, was ‘tailor by trade and also in life.’ He died Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19 (“Perhaps the most amazing thing about Alan Zimm isn’t that he survived the torment and cruelty of being held in Nazi concentration camps when so many others didn’t, but that he lived the rest of his life not hating every creature that walked upright on two legs.”)
- Sunshine today but remaining cool through the weekend, with multiple chances of rain
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