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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 28.
- Myanmar security forces kill over 100 protesters in ‘horrifying’ day of bloodshed
- Myanmar’s Deadliest Day Since Coup Sparks International Outrage
- Myanmar junta is committing ‘mass murder,’ UN official alleges after 100-plus killed in one day
- What Canada’s carbon pricing ruling says about the global struggle against climate change
- New study says the Earth could see six month-long summers
- Climate talks will test Biden’s pledge to make global heating a priority (“Summit is designed to revive a US-convened forum of the world’s major economies that previous administrations had allowed to lapse”)
- The Bombs That Never Went Off (“The fall of the Soviet Union left behind a grim legacy of nuclear danger. After 30 years, the last weapons-grade uranium has been eliminated.”)
- Coronavirus live news: Moderna jab for under-50s in UK in April; Mexico death toll revised up by 60%
- A Collapse Foretold: How Brazil’s Covid-19 Outbreak Overwhelmed Hospitals
- ‘A Very Big Problem.’ Giant Ship in the Suez Remains Stuck.
- New Suez crisis: a global economy creaking under the strain
- Efforts to dislodge stranded Suez Canal container ship intensify as backlog grows
- Thousands Of Animals Packed On Ships In Suez Canal Backup: Reports (Animals should not be transported by ship, period.)
- Race To Free Giant Ship From Suez Canal Continues (“Efforts to refloat the Ever Given made “significant progress” Friday night, but low tides quashed authorities’ hopes of refloating the 1,300-foot vessel before the weekend.”)
- China, With $400 Billion Iran Deal, Could Deepen Influence in Mideast
- Biden’s Foreign Policy Crises Are Multiplying Fast (“So far, he seems like he’s the right person for the job, but it’s still a really hard job.”)
- Covid cases are rising and hospitalizations have plateaued even as vaccinations increase
- COVID-19 Is Different Now (“The coronavirus is changing. So is the disease it causes.”)
- The C.D.C.’s ex-director offers no evidence in favoring speculation that the coronavirus originated in a lab.
- Birx tells CNN most U.S. covid deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ after first 100,000
- Under Biden, Democrats Are Poised to Raise Taxes on Business and the Rich
- Get Ready for Biggest U.S. Jobs Surge in Months
- The Supreme Court’s coming war with Joe Biden, explained (“The Supreme Court is poised to give itself a veto power over much of the Biden administration’s authority.”)
- After two months in office, Kamala Harris is still living out of suitcases — and she’s getting frustrated with it
- Pay for Biden’s $3 trillion infrastructure plan with a carbon tax
- In Washington, Policy Revolves Around Joe Manchin. He Likes It That Way.
- Former Trump chief of staff calls ex-President’s Capitol riot claims ‘manifestly false’
- Biden is betting on bigger government. The pandemic may be helping him.
- Biden Doesn’t Need to Be FDR or LBJ to Change America
- Biden and the Blame Game at the Border (“The issues involved are nearly impossible to settle as long as policymakers regard decency as a political weakness rather than as a moral strength.”)
- Republican senator Ted Cruz mocked for documentary-style trip to US-Mexico border (Cruz is a bad, bad joke.)
- How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop
- Beto O’Rourke Says Ted Cruz Is ‘Looking For A Crisis To Cosplay Senator For’ (Cruz is a disgrace.)
- Georgia Voting Law Punished Secretary Of State For Defying Trump: Election Official (“The law strips Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of his role as chief elections officer.”)
- What Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd means for America
- The Bizarre Story of the Montana Governor Shooting a Wolf From Yellowstone (Gianforte is scum.)
- Montana Senator Mocked for Appearing to Wax Nostalgic About Days of “Homegrown” Meth (Bizarre.)
- On ‘S.N.L.’, Maya Rudolph Hosts a Unity Seder as Kamala Harris
- Luria helps with Great American Cleanup in Norfolk
- In Response to Unified Democratic Condemnation, Virginia Republicans Double Down on Far Right Extremism (“Every one of these candidates is either too extreme or too afraid of Donald Trump and Amanda Chase to condemn the blatant racism that plagues their party”)
- Trump the X-factor in Virginia governor race (“Democrats would want nothing more than a heavy Trump presence in this election”)
- Opinion: Snyder makes his pitch for GOP nomination
- Video: On MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” VA House Majority Leader Charniele Herring Says Republicans’ “Focus Is…On Giving Life to Jim Crow” and Keeping People FROM Voting (To the contrary, “we should WANT people to vote”)
- Saturday (3/27) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,912 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 613,974), +66 Hospitalizations (to 26,210), +24 Deaths (to 10,178) (Highest 10-day new COVID cases total since 3/6)
- Former parole board chair violated policy in releasing parolees from supervision, records show
- The death penalty ended sooner than expected in Virginia — and not soon enough
- Virginia Democratic campaign workers unionize in push to improve conditions
- Editorial: Beach shooting report leaves questions unanswered
- 2 killed — one by police — and 8 others shot in night of chaos at Virginia Beach Oceanfront
- Virginia Beach officer who shot a man to death did not activate his bodycam, police said
- William & Mary students push for change amid national racial reckoning
- 4 people are vying to be Norfolk’s chief prosecutor. Few other local offices will be contested this year. (“Ramin Fatehi, Makiba Gaines, Amina Matheny-Willard and Megan Zwisohn are vying for his seat, according to Charlie Stanton, chairman of the Democratic Party of Norfolk. Stanton has to review the materials submitted to him before confirming each candidate will appear on the primary ballot.”)
- Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker Responds to City Council Members Lloyd Snook, Heather Hill Comments on Her Post “that likened the City of Charlottesville to a rapist” (Snook and Hill call what Walker wrote “jarring and hurtful to victims of sexual assault and rape”; Walker responds, “Heather and Lloyd, maybe Dr. King and 1963 or Charlottesville and 2017 can remind you who you are and how unhelpful you will continue to be unless you CHANGE.”)
- ‘Heartbroken and devastated’: Henrico girl mourned as boy is charged with murder in her shooting
- Editorial: A passenger train to Bristol is closer than you think
- D.C.-area forecast: Mild today with early showers and strong to severe late-day storms
