by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 12.
- Ocean Warming Is Making Equatorial Waters Uninhabitable (We’ve got a MASSIVE problem, and we’d better fix it ASAP!)
- Dear Media, Let’s Treat the Climate Emergency Like the Pandemic Emergency
- India overtakes Brazil to become the second-worst hit country as Covid cases soar
- Chinese Covid-19 vaccine efficacy is “not high,” top health official admits
- Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens (Unacceptable.)
- ‘I’m so excited’ – England reopens with pints pulled, shopping sprees and hair cuts
- Iran says key Natanz nuclear facility hit by ‘sabotage’
- Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage
- Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S.
- ‘Mossad behind cyber attack against Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility’
- Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facility
- Myanmar’s Suu Kyi asks court to let her meet lawyers; activists urge New Year defiance
- The Memo: Biden’s five biggest foreign policy challenges
- Dr. Fauci: ‘We Very Well May Need to Get Booster Shots’ After A Year or So to Maintain Covid Immunity
- Don’t Look Now, But Over a Third of People in the US Have Gotten a Coronavirus Shot
- Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic
- Vaccine Refusal Will Come at a Cost—For All of Us (“People who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have higher health-care costs. The rest of us will foot the bill.”)
- Regeneron Drug Stops Symptomatic Covid-19 in Study
- It’s time to declare a national climate emergency
- Unleashing an American-led clean energy economy to reach net-zero emissions (“There has never been a more crucial time to act on climate. It’s incredible to think of the many challenges our nation can tackle at once by working to unleash an American-led clean energy economy, whether it’s through advancing renewable technologies or making our infrastructure more resilient.”)
- Powell says it’s ‘highly unlikely’ the Fed will raise rates this year, despite stronger economy
- Fed’s Powell says reopening economy too quickly could cause new coronavirus spike
- Facing GOP opposition, Biden seeks to redefine bipartisanship (Really dumb headline.)
- Democrats Prepare to Tackle Biden’s Sweeping Spending Package
- Democrats confront fragile majorities as Congress returns with big plans
- Energy secretary: ‘We don’t want to use past definitions of infrastructure’
- Businesses Aren’t Listening to Mitch McConnell’s Advice to ‘Stay Out of Politics’
- More than a hundred corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills
- Why corporate America is declaring independence from the GOP
- Biden faces pressure from Pelosi, Sanders over whether to double down on Obamacare or expand Medicare
- Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn’t legitimate (Completely deranged.)
- Democratic Values Are Still Under Attack — Even Without Trump In The White House
- Republicans got the Supreme Court they wanted: That will change America forever (“Author Ian Millhiser on how a party that can’t win elections is using the courts to drive a hard-right agenda”)
- Tucker Carlson and White Replacement (“This racist theory is rooted in white supremacist panic.”)
- Op-Ed: The media’s whitewashing of Stephen Miller’s white nationalism
- White House Convenes Summit To Address Supply Shortage Crippling Auto Plants
- Republicans made a foolish bet on the Biden agenda (“The GOP loses if the economy takes off and the covid-19 pandemic ends.”)
- Clyburn offers Manchin history lesson to clear Senate path for Biden reforms
- How Biden Can Free America From Its Zoning Straitjacket (“If a state wants funds for infrastructure, it should meet strict conditions about housing construction.”)
- Juan Williams: The GOP is now the party of grifters and kooks
- Biden administration plans to name former senior NSA officials to White House cyber position and head of CISA
- How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It
- Republicans are stuck with a Trump ball and chain
- Trump’s irate, lie-filled RNC speech shows tensions in GOP
- POLITICO Playbook: GOP donors privately pan Trump’s ‘horrible’ RNC speech (Politico and Politico Playbook suck, but…this is funny!)
- Crowd protests after police near Minneapolis shoot Black motorist (“Tensions in the area are very high as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a former police officer accused of killing George Floyd, enters its third week.”)
- Police and bystander accounts bolster Chauvin prosecution
- Biden pollster urges blunt tax talk
- ‘White Lives Matter’ rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up
- Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack (“A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.”)
- Trump’s early endorsements reveal GOP rift
- Embattled Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is denied a meeting with Trump
- ‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz
- State Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Updates Us On the Virginia GOP’s “Epidemic of Corruption”; Rips Pete Snyder Campaign, “Pusillanimous” VA GOP Chair Rich Anderson
- Gubernatorial candidates spent $90K in the last week on Facebook ads as the nomination battles heat up
- Virginia governor requests investigation of ‘disturbing’ police incident
- Town Fires Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Black Army Lieutenant During Traffic Stop
- UPDATED: Northam orders investigation of Windsor traffic stop, at town’s request, as Democratic outrage mounts
- Officer fired amid call from Va. governor for investigation into pepper-spraying of Black Army officer
- Gov. Northam announces state investigation into Windsor traffic stop. One of the police officers is fired.
- Sunday (4/11) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,227 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 635,552), +40 Hospitalizations (to 27,201), +14 Deaths (to 10,472)
- COVID-19 cases are growing among younger Virginians, worrying state health officials
- Audio: VA GOP House of Delegates Candidate Rants That Transgender Reassignment Surgery Is “gross and disgusting — and that makes you unfit for duty”
- D.C.-area forecast: Cooler this week with a chance of showers on most days (“Highs are mostly in the 60s.”)
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