by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 1.
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- George Floyd: protests take place in cities around the world
- China Halts Some U.S. Farm Imports, Threatening Trade Deal
- How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus (“The country didn’t just manage to flatten the curve; it virtually eliminated it.”)
- World alarmed by violence in US; thousands march in London
- Wuhan’s Mass Testing May Have Eradicated the Coronavirus (That’s what we should be doing?)
- ‘Lemon’ or not, Trump is stuck with Phase 1 China trade deal
- New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says
- ‘He is a destroyer’: how the George Floyd protests left Donald Trump exposed
- While Trump shelters in the White House, America cries out for leadership
- Trump envisioned ‘American carnage.’ Now, he’s got it. (He played a large role in bringing it on.)
- As cities burned, Trump stayed silent — other than tweeting fuel on the fire
- As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back (“The president spent Sunday out of sight, berating opponents on Twitter, even as some of his campaign advisers were recommending that he deliver a televised address to an anxious nation.”)
- Trump privately scolded, warned by allies
- Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged
- America is at a low ebb, shaken by multiple blows, and Trump adds to the distress
- Trump’s May days: A month of distractions and grievances as nation marks bleak coronavirus milestone
- Trump Is Out of Control and Capable of Anything (“He is so morally unfit to be president. If he were president of a bank, he’d have been fired ages ago. School principal—fired. Partner of a law firm—fired.”)
- Despite widespread economic toll, most Americans still favor controlling outbreak over restarting economy, Post-ABC poll finds (“In the starkest split, 57 percent of Americans overall and 81 percent of Democrats say trying to control the spread of the coronavirus is most important right now, even if it hurts the economy. A far smaller 27 percent of Republicans agree, while 66 percent of them say restarting the economy is more important, even if it hurts efforts to control the virus. Nearly 6 in 10 independents say their priority is trying to control the virus’s spread.”)
- Trump Is Terrified of Protest
- Trump Plays Macho Man as America Burns (Trump is a pathetic cowards and loser.)
George Floyd: curfews fail to deter a new wave of protests across US- Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: Overnight Mayhem Follows Peaceful Rallies
- Protests Hammer U.S. Cities Still Recovering From Lockdown
- White House divided on Trump addressing racial tensions
- Rage and anguish: how the US papers have covered the George Floyd protests (“Angry editorials call for change and accountability and accuse Donald Trump of being ‘exactly the wrong leader for the times’”)
- Trump’s ‘ANTIFA’ Threat Is Total Bullshit—And Totally Dangerous (“It’s not a real organization, ‘ANTIFA.’ And even if it were, there is no such thing as a domestic federal terror designation.”)
- Many Claim Extremists Are Sparking Protest Violence. But Which Extremists?(“Amid a rush to assign blame for violence and vandalism, accusations that extremists or outside agitators were behind the destruction ricocheted online and on the airwaves.”)
- Trump quote-tweeted a QAnon account that is linked to a far-right militia group
- Destructive Power of Despair (“The protests are not necessarily about Floyd’s killing in particular, but about the savagery and carnage that his death represents.”)
- Biden’s in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began
- Protests pose a challenge for Biden: Appealing to older and younger black voters
- Trump Seems Likely To Use Law And Order As A Wedge Issue After George Floyd’s Killing
- Will Urban Uprisings Help Trump? Actually, They Could Be His Undoing.
- An American Uprising (“Who, really, is the agitator here?”)
- Biden Visits George Floyd Protest Site, Urges Americans To Turn ‘Anguish Into Purpose’
- Trump Killed Obama’s Police Reforms. Now He’s Getting What He Asked For.
- The Memo: Strife turns up heat on Trump
- Juan Williams: Bush could strike blow for Biden
- Officials see extremist groups, disinformation in protests (“Megan Squire, an Elon University computer science professor who tracks online extremism, saw images of at least four members of the far-right Proud Boys group on the periphery of a protest Saturday night in Raleigh, North Carolina.”)
- Trump Doesn’t Believe in Law and Order (“He supports cops who target people of color. He attacks those who target him and his friends.”)
- George Floyd died in agony and a police station burns: This is Donald Trump’s America
- Minnesota attorney general to take over prosecutions in George Floyd’s death
- In Trump’s campaign against antifa, observers see an attempt to distract from protesters’ genuine outrage
- Anti-Trump Republican group attacks Trump on race in new ad
- Record Ratings and Record Chaos on Cable News
- Republican senators, it’s not too late to help save your country (But they won’t, because they suck.)
- Joe Biden had it right from the start. It’s a battle for the soul of the nation.
- How Accurate Have Senate Polls Been, And What Could That Mean For November?
- Williams: America is battling two lethal adversaries, COVID-19 and racism. One is deadlier.
- Cities ‘could generate hundreds of times more solar power than they do today’ (And they should absolutely do so!)
- Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction Over Trump (Zuckerberg is a disgrace.)
- VA-05 Dem Candidate John Lesinski: “Black Lives Matter,” White Americans Need to Listen and Speak Up
- Congresswoman Luria issues statement on death of George Floyd and recent protests
- Hospital testing sheds some light on extent of asymptomatic COVID-19 in Virginia
- UVA to Lead Study of How Big Data Can Battle Future Pandemics
- Sunday (5/31) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +996 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 44,607), +72 Hospitalizations (to 4,643), +5 Deaths (to 1,375 From Yesterday)
- Video, Photos from Last Night’s Protests in Richmond, Roanoke, Manassas, Norfolk, etc
- AG Mark Herring: “We need to move quickly to reassure Virginians that black lives matter in Virginia”
- Vangie Williams: “I drove through Manassas…If you want to know what an angry black woman sounds like, this is it.”
- BREAKING: Governor Northam Declares State of Emergency and Authorizes Assistance to Localities
- Statements of VA House Speaker Filler-Corn, Majority Leader Herring, State Senate Democratic Caucus
- “When we vandalize and loot small businesses in our communities (many owned by People of Color), we are not helping the cause.”
- Arlington County Board Member Christian Dorsey: “People must look inward and seriously examine why they are so afraid of black and brown people”
- Video: Alexandria, Arlington Police Chiefs Weigh In George Floyd Murder, “Systemic” Problems, Why the Other Three Officers Didn’t Intervene, etc. (“What I saw in that video…is not only unacceptable, it’s criminal…Those people shouldn’t be wearing a badge”)
- Police sweep Richmond streets on third night of protests
- In the wreckage of Richmond, one small miracle — and anticipation of more protests
- Approximately 2 dozen demonstrators detained after 9 p.m. Sunday night in Richmond
- Video: Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney Requests National Guard, Curfew, Says “Enough Is Enough…This Must Stop” (Stoney says violence “an insult to the cause…bad actors are hijacking the cause”)
- Roanoke police say about a half-dozen people arrested after Saturday’s protests
- Peaceful rallies in Fredericksburg region give way to confrontation, arrests
- Virginia Beach police deploy tear gas during protest at Oceanfront
- ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Protest Packs Downtown Leesburg
- Roanoke’s good air quality rises a notch during lockdown
- Gorgeous weather today before midweek surge of heat
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