by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, May 4.
- Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials
- Stocks fall as U.S./China tensions threaten rebound
- The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump
- Trump’s “America First” Mentality May Hamper Global Race For Coronavirus Vaccine (“America’s go-it-alone strategy does not bode well for international cooperation to end the pandemic that has killed more than 240,000 people around the world.”)
- The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? (In short, we don’t really know.)
- IS extremists step up as Iraq, Syria, grapple with virus
- Top Israeli court hears challenge to Netanyahu forming government
- Coronavirus and the Sweden Myth (“The country’s approach to the pandemic sets a seductive example. But the United States shouldn’t copy it.”)
- DHS report accuses China of hiding coronavirus info so it could hoard supplies
- Pompeo says there’s “enormous evidence” coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab (Uh huh…)
- Trump can’t blame China for his own coronavirus failures
- US coronavirus data is at odds with Trump’s push to get the economy back up and running (“Don’t be fooled: Despite Trump’s reopening hype, new coronavirus cases are on the rise.”)
- Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing (“A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend”)
- Trump says up to 100,000 Americans may die from coronavirus
- Trump, offering support to lockdown protesters, says it’s safe for states to reopen (“He also projected that the U.S. death toll may be as high as 100,000, scaling up his earlier estimate of 65,000.”)
- Trump Presses to Reopen U.S. With Risk of Promising Too Much
- Trump Offers Lie After Lie Under Lincoln’s Unblinking Gaze (“As the 16th president stared down at the 45th president’s socially distant town hall, Trump rolled out a series of astounding falsehoods.”)
- Lincoln got better press treatment, Trump claims, as he ups pandemic death estimate (He’s insane.)
- Why you shouldn’t hold your breath for the next coronavirus stimulus bill
- Judges must not kill Congress’s power to investigate the president
- The housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgage payments come due (“Aggressive intervention has prevented a surge in evictions and foreclosures, but the ability of millions of Americans to stay in their homes is under threat even if the pandemic eases.”)
- Trump wants to replace FBI director Wray but may restrain himself during election year
- Supreme Court Arguments Resume — But With A Twist
- Mitch McConnell should not use this crisis to advance his ‘tort reform’ agenda
- Donald Trump’s four-step plan to reopen the US economy – and why it will be lethal
- The pre-coronavirus status quo is not good enough
- Larry Kudlow gets testy after CNN airs video of him saying in February that the coronavirus was ‘contained’
- Trump responds to Bush’s call for bipartisan unity with tweets attacking his enemies (“He also sent out a bizarre tweet talking about coronavirus like it was a biblical plague”)
- Trump Bashes George W. Bush’s Call For Unity During COVID-19 Crisis (“What unity?”)
- Can Republicans bet on a comeback? (“Trump may finally have blown it”)
- Covid-19’s Race and Class Warfare (“This crisis is exposing the savagery of American democracy.”)
- Without child care, the economy won’t restart
- Michael R. Bloomberg and Gina McCarthy: How Trump’s EPA Is Making Covid-19 More Deadly
- Seeking relief from coronavirus lockdowns, people head outside across U.S. (“There are ‘certain times of day and certain places where it doesn’t seem like social distancing is even a thing,’ a beach patrol officer in Texas said.”)
- Pence: ‘I Should Have Worn A Mask’ When Visiting The Mayo Clinic (Ya think?)
- Indivisible, the progressive group never keen on Biden, endorses the former VP (“The apparent Democratic nominee is ‘Abraham Lincoln compared to Donald Trump.'”)
- What Joe Biden Needs to Do to Beat Trump (David Axelrod and David Plouffe: “To win, he has to find a way to get beyond the basement tapes and project himself into our ever more digital world.”)
- Biden, Warren: There’s no oversight of coronavirus relief — because that’s what Trump wants
- CBS News poll: Elizabeth Warren tops Democrats’ wish list for Biden’s vice president
- Why Biden’s Choice of Running Mate Has Momentous Implications (“Joe Biden has hinted that he might serve only one term if he wins. That would set up a woman as the front-runner for 2024 and perhaps define the Democratic agenda for the next decade.”)
- How Trump has broken the polls (“The polls clearly show that Biden is ahead and by a larger margin than Hillary Clinton was on the eve of the 2016 election. You might think that would make people believe that Biden is more likely to win, even if it were far from a certainty. Yet, the evidence suggests that Trump’s surprising 2016 victory has warped people into believing that Trump has some magic up his sleeve. They don’t believe he will lose.”)
- How a New Breed of Union Activists Is Changing the Rules (and Newsrooms)
- In one week, at least four Sinclair news segments pushing coronavirus misinformation aired on dozens of local TV stations across the country (Continued reminder not to watch Sinclair “news,” including WJLA-7 in Northern Virginia.)
- The Pandemic Has People Rethinking Their Relationship With Food, Especially Meat (Ditch it, permanently.)
- US Congressman Morgan Griffith calls on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to reopen churches (Northam didn’t close churches.)
- Fredericksburg, King George, Stafford County Dems Issue Statement About Vangie Williams’ Refusal to Participate in Their VA-01 Campaign Forum (Also, see the Rashid campaign’s response and check out the (excellent, relevant, appropriate) questions that will be asked at the forum.)
- Feds, Northam spar over Virginia stay-at-home order’s impact on churches (“At issue is whether stay-at-home orders about religious institutions violate the Constitution.”)
- Business leaders ask Kaine for legislative fixes
- Risking it all: Small business, the backbone of the Va. economy, fights to survive COVID-19
- Sunday (5/3) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +940 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 18,671), +108 Hospitalizations (to 2,627), +44 Deaths (to 660) From Yesterday
- Regulators refuse to reconsider denial of Dominion’s smart meter plan
- Some State Lawmakers Want to Make it Easier for Long-Term Care Facilities to Share Case Information
- Appalachian solar advocates continue efforts despite setbacks, pandemic
- Report of pipeline slips in West Virginia under investigation, raises concern (Building new pipelines is about the stupidest thing we can do at this point.)
- Video, Live Blog: Arlington Democratic Candidates for County Board Special Election Debate (The candidates are Chanda Choun, Barbara Kanninen, Takis Karantonis, Nicole Merlene)
- A muted homecoming for USNS Comfort in Norfolk after coronavirus work in New York (“Returning sailors will be quarantined for 14 days.”)
- May’s first week feels more like March with much below-normal temperatures
