by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 21.
- Controls On Vaccine Exports ‘Hold Back’ Pandemic Recovery, Warns Incoming WTO Head
- Pope Francis Removes Conservative African Cardinal From Vatican Post
- In a Russian court, Alexei Navalny loses again but still has the last word
- Only ‘language of power’ and sanctions can free Navalny, ally says
- Global Vaccines Top 202 Million; Italy Strategy: Virus Update
- Iran Says Ready for Talks With Arab States Without Preconditions
- Myanmar Protesters Plan Bigger Rallies After Deadly Clashes
- Climate change is upending Central America — the US must take action
- U.S. Deports Nazi Concentration Camp Guard To Germany (“A 95-year-old Tennessee man has been deported to Germany because he worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, the Justice Department announced Saturday.”)
- Israel Secretly Agrees to Fund Syria Vaccines as Part of Prisoner Swap (“To secure the release of an Israeli civilian, Israel agreed to finance a supply of Covid-19 vaccines for Damascus, an official said.”)
- Germany, Once a Model, Is Swamped Like Everyone Else by Pandemic’s Second Wave
- An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does it Matter?
- A Ripple Effect of Loss: U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000 (“Roughly one year since the first known death by the coronavirus in the United States, an unfathomable toll is nearing. No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic, with each loss leaving untold numbers of mourner”)
- Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US dip to lowest level since November
- Biden’s First Month of Covid-19 Response Marked by Larger Federal Role
- U.S. economy may have its best chance in years to break from era of subpar growth
- Blue-Collar Jobs Boom in Pandemic
- Biden’s polling is steadier than Trump’s
- Close to 70 dead in states with severe winter weather: report
- In stimulus push, Biden calls on Republicans to heed their constituents
- More teachers are asked to double up, instructing kids at school and at home simultaneously
- Merrick Garland says that as attorney general he will fight discrimination, domestic terrorism
- Merrick Garland Might Actually Get to Do This Job. It Looks Daunting.
- Garland Pledges to Prosecute ‘Heinous Attack’ on the Capitol
- The Tale of the Untamable Shrew (“Republicans are still trying to muzzle a smack-talking Trump”)
- Trump to speak at CPAC in first public appearance since leaving White House, while Pence declines invitation
- Trump to speak at CPAC next week (The guy tries to overthrow our democracy and conservatives are like, come to our event please!)
- Justice Dept. Is Said to Be Examining Stone’s Possible Ties to Capitol Rioters
- Biden visits ‘good friend’ Bob Dole following cancer diagnosis
- The jockeying to replace Neera Tanden has begun
- How Democrats Are Already Maneuvering to Shape Biden’s First Supreme Court Pick (“The president’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the court has set off efforts to champion candidates and convince the White House to forego the usual elite credentials.”)
- How Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster (“Texas has refused to join interstate electrical grids and railed against energy regulation. Now it’s having to answer to millions of residents who were left without power in last week’s snowstorm.” Anytime you hear some right winger going on about getting rid of crucial regulations, you should basically run screaming in the opposite direction.)
- Texas Blackouts Point to Coast-to-Coast Crises Waiting to Happen
- Biden declares major disaster in Texas, more than 14 million told to boil water after power failure
- AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico trip
- Chris Christie Has No Sympathy For Ted Cruz: ‘Ted Has Just Not Been A Very Likable Guy’
- His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752.
- Growing number of Republican donors aim to prise party from Trump influence
- Lindsey Graham said ‘Count me out’ after the Capitol riot. But he’s all in with Trump again. (A completely broken human being.)
- 4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels (How on earth is that constitutional?)
- United Airlines flight suffers engine failure, sending debris falling on neighborhoods outside Denver
- SNL’s Aidy Bryant Brutally Mocks Cancun Ted Cruz
- Rep. Rob Wittman Brags About Joining the HBCU Caucus; Qasim Rashid Rips Him For Having “praise[d] racists,” Demanded SCOTUS Toss Millions of Votes by Black Americans, Helped “[ignite] white supremacist-led insurrection”
- Editorial: Signs of progress in Virginia’s battle against the virus
- Gibson: What kind of Republican can win Virginia? (“With Trump at the party’s helm, Virginia Republicans may continue to find themselves in a shrinking rural box.”)
- Opinion: Fix state Medicaid reimbursement policy to address inequality
- Pandemic highlighted urgency to get Virginians broadband, and the General Assembly is investing
- Saturday (2/20) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,882 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 561,812), +67 Hospitalizations (to 23,436), +99 Deaths (to 7,197)
- Court rejects latest effort to stop Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Del. Mark Levine Completely Debunks “Partisan Hack Job” Editorial by Roanoke Times, Falsely Blaming *Democrats* (WTF?), Not *Republicans*, For Underfunding Public Education!
- Krawitz and Amatucci: It’s time to respect Virginia’s cannabis heritage and look to its equitable future
- What lessons are we teaching at George Mason University about justice?
- Carroll Foy returns home to Petersburg for her gubernatorial campaign
- Virginia NAACP Strongly Condemns Racist Dog Whistle Remarks of Senators Peterson and Saslaw And Demands An Apology to Virginia’s Black Students (Petersen, Saslaw “made disparaging remarks aligned with racist stereotypes of racial inferiority of Virginia’s Black students.”)
- Richmond-area employers ponder whether to require COVID-19 shots for workers
- Not as cold this afternoon, with a brief period of snow possible tomorrow; 50s by midweek
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