by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 15.
- With Iranian Nuclear Deal In Limbo, Some Worry Inspectors Will Lose Access For Good
- U.S. and Iran warily circle each other over reactivating nuclear deal
- Myanmar military declares martial law in parts of largest city
- Chinese factories set on fire and at least 38 killed in Myanmar’s deadliest day since coup
- Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis (“Capitalism is facing three major crises. A pandemic-induced health crisis has rapidly ignited an economic crisis with yet unknown consequences for financial stability, and all of this is playing out against the backdrop of a climate crisis that cannot be addressed under the rubric of business as usual.”)
- Biden Vowed to Make Climate ‘Essential’ to Foreign Policy. The Reality Is Harder.
- Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale (“Guardian analysis of 44 studies finds nearly 40% of 9,000 products from restaurants, markets and fishmongers were mislabelled”)
- AstraZeneca Shot’s European Suspensions Could Delay Vaccination Goal
- Syria’s Civil War Started A Decade Ago. Here’s Where It Stands
- Analysis | Netanyahu’s Dream Government Is a Nightmare for Everyone Else
- Can Biden Help Stem Mexico’s Democratic Decline?
- AstraZeneca asserts no link between its vaccine and blood clots as more countries suspend use
- China’s Soaring Economic Activity Masks Uneven Recovery
- Gilead and Merck Join Forces to Develop Long-Acting HIV Treatment
- Fauci points to Covid surge in Europe as warning against lifting U.S. restrictions right now
- Biden Eyes First Major Tax Hike Since 1993 in Next Economic Plan (Wealth tax time.)
- Stimulus payments are already arriving. Americans say they really need them.
- House GOP Leader Heads To Southern Border As Democrats Ready Immigration Bills
- Republican AGs fight Biden rollback of Trump immigration agenda
- The growing number of children in custody on the US-Mexico border, explained
- Number of unaccompanied migrant kids in US custody up 25% since last week, administration facing unprecedented crisis
- For Voting Rights Advocates, a ‘Once in a Generation Moment’ Looms (“The federal voting bill includes a landmark national expansion of voting rights, an end to partisan gerrymandering and new transparency requirements. But after approval of the Democratic bill in the House, the campaign to pass it increasingly appears to be on a collision course with the filibuster.”)
- Stacey Abrams Slams GOP Push To Restrict Voting As ‘Jim Crow In A Suit And Tie’
- Stacy Abrams has a stark warning for Americans (“The Democrat says Georgia’s new election bill is racist. Her comments come amid a building showdown over GOP efforts to make voting harder in multiple states.”)
- Democrat Abrams urges lifting filibuster for U.S. election reform bill
- House Democrats draw the line: No bipartisan cooperation with Republicans who questioned the election
- Congress just brought the country closer to universal health-care coverage
- How Biden, Republicans and public health leaders are trying to convince GOP skeptics to get their Covid vaccinations
- Colleges Begin Mapping Out a More Normal Fall—With Caveats
- Stimulus Bill as a Political Weapon? Democrats Are Counting on It. (“The party is hoping that the $1.9 trillion package will restore a sense of normalcy by the 2022 elections, and that voters will defy history.”)
- Why You Should Still Pay Attention To Joe Biden’s Approval Rating (So FiveThirtyEight.com keeps getting clicks, of course. LOL)
- Here’s the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans (“One side throws Cuomo overboard; the other defends an insurrection.”)
- Yes, America, There Is (Some) Hope for the Environment (“Wildlife bridges, plastic-eating bacteria and drones that plant trees remind us that we are as good at repairing as we are at destroying.” Crank it up!)
- Vaccine brawl riles House (Why frame it as a “brawl” instead of “Republicans refusing to get vaccinated?”)
- Justice Breyer Should Retire Right Now (“If he doesn’t, Democrats run the very real risk that they would be unable to replace him.” Agreed.)
- Biden eyes Gene Sperling to serve as Covid rescue plan czar
- Grammy awards 2021: women rule as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé break records
- A Pro-Trump scam PAC returns with a vengeance (“The 45th president may be gone, but the groups making money off of him are not.”)
- Juan Williams: Trump’s jealous rants can’t hide his failures
- Officials located December recording of Trump call in a trash folder on Georgia investigator’s device
- Navy probe finds contractor charged in Capitol insurrection was well-known Nazi sympathizer
- New Arkansas abortion law a sign of the times
- Piers Morgan Can’t Wait to Bring the Worst of America Home
- Newsmax Ratings Are Collapsing—but Insiders Claim Victory (“Without Trump’s scraps to fight over anymore, Newsmax ratings have sunk and the network further resembles a cheap Fox knockoff. But insiders see a big win for the upstart channel.”)
- John Oliver Breaks Down Why Tucker Carlson Is a White Supremacist
- Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism
- Biden: Cuomo ‘investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us’
- New York’s vaccine czar called county officials to gauge their loyalty to Cuomo amid sexual harassment investigation
- As Cuomo Reels, Pleas for Political Support Come From His Vaccine Czar
- As Gov. Cuomo Faces Calls to Resign, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Treads Lightly
- What Do Domestic Extremists And ISIS Have In Common? A Social Media Strategy
- Video: Sen. Mark Warner Says Social Media Badly Needs “Guardrails,” Particularly After 1/6 Insurrection Was Largely “Planned and Developed Through Social Media” (Sen. Warner: “You’ve got a First Amendment…[right to] say stupid stuff, but you don’t have the right to have it amplified four billion times.”)
- Hunting for a shot: As vaccine eligibility expands, some Virginians are competing for doses
- Sunday (3/14) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,173 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 594,735), +35 Hospitalizations (to 25,297), +34 Deaths (to 10,019) (Even as the end is in sight thanks to vaccines, Virginia has now surpassed the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths from COVID-19. Lowest hospitalizations since 11/7.)
- Coronavirus update: Virus-related deaths in Virginia eclipse 10,000
- After 12 years in the wilderness, Virginia GOP’s miscues could torpedo a 2021 comeback (The article starts with absurd “both-sidesism,” but then gets interesting.)
- Video: 2018 VA GOP U.S. Senate Nominee Corey Stewart Rips Pete Snyder As “Anti-Trumper”; Tells Virginia Trump Supporters to Vote For Anybody BUT Snyder (Says Snyder is a “RINO” like Mitch McConnell, who gives in to pressure from the “woke mob”)
- Uniting behind the nominee is crucial for Virginia Republicans this November (Even if they do that, it almost certainly won’t be sufficient, given that there are a lot more Biden voters than Trump voters in Virginia.)
- SNAP expansion expected to bring more than $100 million in new food aid to Virginia
- Terry McAuliffe wants to be Virginia’s governor again. His opponents say it’s time to move on.
- Audio: PW County Supervisor Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Argues When You Build Apartments, “you’re not getting Joe Republican moving in” (Pete Candland: “and you wonder why the eastern end of the county has not just gone Democrat [sic], it’s gone solidly blue”)
- State to Study Impact of Corporate Tax Avoidance
- New Video by SD38 Special Election Republican Candidate Highlights Why It’s So Important For People to Vote for Democrat Laurie Buchwald in the Special Election on March 23
- Va. Parole Board scandal: ‘It appears that neither the rules nor the laws were followed’ in votes to release convicted killers, prosecutor says
- Funds from Mountain Valley Pipeline used to promote conservation, recreation (It’s called “greenwashing”)
- FBI’s Peninsula office in Newport News has a new leader, and more crimes to dig into
- Norfolk State draws Appalachian State in first NCAA tournament appearance in nearly a decade
- D.C.-area forecast: Chilly for much of the week, and damp and raw at times, too
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