by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, May 2.
- N Korea’s Kim Jong Un appears in public amid health rumors
- Pete Buttigieg: China wants four more years of Trump (“The president claims he’s been tough. But our geopolitical rival has grown stronger on his watch.”)
- Global markets recoil as Trump threatens US-China trade war
- Canada bans assault-style weapons after its worst ever mass murder (“Assault-style weapons are banned in Canada effective immediately, the country’s prime minister said Friday.”)
- Spain Allows Outdoor Exercise; Singapore Easing: Virus Update
- Global: India Reports Its Biggest Single-Day Rise in Cases (“The Philippines freed nearly 10,000 inmates to stop the spread of infections. Here’s the latest.”)
- Trump values pomp more than the lives of the cadets he’s dragging back to West Point
- A Dismal Outlook for Oil Squeezes the Industry (Couldn’t have happened to a worse industry.)
- No leadership and no plan: is Trump about to fail the US on coronavirus testing? (“Declarations of false victory and a vacuum of federal leadership have undermined testing as experts warn reopening the US could result in disaster”)
- Remdesivir receives emergency approval as a Covid-19 treatment (“Recent studies showed mixed results about remdesivir’s effectiveness in treating the new coronavirus.”)
- Trump Gets Coronavirus Tests While Senators Wait
- White House blocks Fauci from testifying before House panel next week (Any good reason for this? Highly doubtful.)
- Stopping covid-19 behind bars was an achievable moral imperative. We failed.
- As Restrictions Ease, Economic Rebound Remains Elusive (“Workers and consumers have been slow to resume their pre-pandemic routines in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and other states where lockdowns are easing, data on local traffic and hours worked suggest”)
- Health official says US missed some chances to slow virus
- Trump’s gun-toting supporters are firing blanks
- Michael Cohen’s early prison release over coronavirus concerns was rescinded: Sources (This sounds suspicious – Trump involvement?)
- Protests spread, fueled by economic woes and Internet subcultures
- Trump Moves to Replace Watchdog Who Identified Critical Medical Shortages (Appalling and unacceptable.)
- Trump administration blocks public disclosure on coronavirus supplies
- The Wildness Beneath American Politics Is Close to the Surface Once Again
- Minutes after pledging to not lie, the new White House press secretary lied a whole bunch (There was at least one news report I heard which reported her pledge not to lie, but failed to report that she then proceeded to lie “a whole bunch.” That’s a classic failure of journalism.)
- Fact check: New White House press secretary makes false claims in first briefing
- 15 minutes after pledging not to lie, Trump’s new press secretary made an obviously false claim
- Donna Edwards: I will listen to Tara Reade. But I cannot square her charge with the Biden I know.
- No, the media isn’t fair. It gives Republicans a pass. (“The right-wing media, willfully ignoring the press investigations into Tara Reade’s accusations, insist that former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has not been treated similarly to accused conservative men”)
- Biden’s day of damage control
- Trump offers unsolicited advice for Biden in fending off assault claims (“Biden broke his silence on Friday when he emphatically denied the decades-old accusation by Tara Reade.”)
- What Joe Biden did right in rebutting Tara Reade’s claims
- Biden Statement: “I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true. This never happened.”
- What the Proponents of ‘Natural’ Herd Immunity Don’t Say (“Try to reach it without a vaccine, and millions will die.”)
- Mobile Phone Data Show More Americans Are Leaving Their Homes, Despite Orders
- How Profit And Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died At The VA (“Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers.”)
- Will the Coronavirus Create a More Progressive Society or a More Dystopian One?
- Believe Women…But Verify
- We Can’t Afford to Lose the Postal Service (“Republican leaders have long tried to kill the U.S.P.S. Now the coronavirus is helping.”)
- “The Workers Are Being Sacrificed”: As Cases Mounted, Meatpacker JBS Kept People on Crowded Factory Floors (“With coronavirus outbreaks at two-thirds of the company’s beef processing plants, employees are asking, ‘Why didn’t they help protect us?'”)
- Facebook says it’s removing content promoting false coronavirus preventatives and cures. These businesses are currently violating that policy.
- COVID-19 cases on rise in state that starts 1st phase of reopening (“Texas reported its highest daily number of COVID-19 deaths, just a day before Governor Abbott’s stay-at-home order expired and the state began reopening.” Dumbass, irresponsible Republican governor.)
- BREAKING: Georgia verifies 1K new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours (Definitely NOT ready to reopen.)
- Sudden vanishing of sports due to coronavirus will cost at least $12 billion, analysis says
- Harvard Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein After ’08 Conviction, Report Shows (“A university review found that the disgraced financier, who killed himself last year, visited Harvard more than 40 times after he was convicted of sex charges involving a minor in Florida.”)
- Sen. Kaine addresses Biden’s response to sexual assault allegations (“‘I think anyone who filed and has an allegation like this has to be taken seriously,’ Kaine tells Andrea Mitchell, ‘But I think he will be able to get by this in the minds of American voters.'”)
- Spanberger joins bipartisan plea for federal aid directly to small counties
- Increase in Virginia testing numbers mostly due to change in counting, health officials say
- Supply shortages and poor coordination delayed COVID-19 testing in Virginia for weeks
- COVID-19 Testing Numbers and Capacity Increase
- 311 dead: State lags in reporting deaths in long-term care, but shields facilities as ‘people’
- Testing increases in Virginia, but state remains thousands from 10,000 per day goal for reopening
- Senate proposal championed by Sen. Mark Warner would guarantee paychecks for workers
- Largest Solar Project in Eastern US Progresses Despite Market Uncertainty (“Lengthy permitting process for sPower’s 620MW Virginia project pushed tax equity talks into the middle of a pandemic.”)
- Northam announces expansion of coronavirus testing in Virginia, which has lagged other states
- Live Video, Highlights: Gov. Ralph Northam’s Friday (5/1) Virginia COVID-19 Briefing
- Friday (5/1) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,055 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 16,901), +94 Hospitalizations (to 2,416), +29 Deaths (to 581) From Yesterday
- Virginia now has enough supplies to test anyone with coronavirus symptoms, Northam says (“The number of tests given in Virginia surpassed 105,000 as of Friday morning, a huge daily jump thanks in part to a change in the way the state reports data.”)
- D.C., Maryland and Virginia pass 2,000 covid-19 deaths; disclose most infections in one day (“But the Washington region is also seeing hospitalizations trend in the right direction.”)
- UVa researchers hopeful after early remdesivir results released, FDA approval
- Arlington County Board adopts 2021 budget with no tax increase, projected revenue losses (“Officials anticipate $56 million in losses due to the effects of the pandemic.”)
- Arlington Democrats and County Ask Virginia Supreme Court to Extend County Board Special Election Date to Allow for Open Political Party Nomination
- Reopen economy — and soon — several Peninsula board members urge Northam (“Six members of the boards overseeing James City County, Williamsburg and York County are urging Gov. Ralph Northam to re-open the economy sooner rather than later.”)
- Arlington Planning Walk-Thru Coronavirus Testing Center
- Covering The Corridor ceasing publication (Local journalism in serious trouble.)
- D.C.-area forecast: Delightful today, and warm tomorrow with showers or storms a risk
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