by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 4.
- Artificial intelligence can now design new antibiotics in a matter of days (“IBM’s new AI system could also help design treatments for Covid-19.”)
- Iran Rules Out Any Talks With U.S. in Vienna Unless Sanctions Go
- Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change
- World Economy Risks ‘Dangerously Diverging’ Even as Growth Booms
- Jordan’s Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’ (“The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics”)
- Jordan on Alert as Former Crown Prince Put Under House Arrest
- Jordanian military warns king’s half-brother to stop actions undermining stability
- Pope, in Easter message, slams weapons spending in time of pandemic
- Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy
- Fearful of political criticism, China won’t show the Oscars live
- The Next Electric-Car Battery Champion Could Be European
- Biden revokes Trump’s sanctions on International Criminal Court
- U.K. Says AstraZeneca Shot Safe Even After 7 Blood Clot Deaths
- Canada’s Virus Tally Passes 1 Million in Third Wave of Pandemic
- Australia Sets National Record for Virus Vaccinations in a Day
- These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says
- Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses
- U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
- Covid vaccinations hit another record, average now above 3 million daily (“On Saturday, the public-health agency reported a record 4.1 million new doses were given.”)
- CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging
- Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say (“Declining infection rates overall are masking a rise in more contagious forms of the virus, including some mutations that are more deadly.”)
- Joe Biden Picked a Good Time to Become President (“The opportunity for a competent administration to do something historic was helped by timing, weather, and, yes, Trump.”)
- White House: GOP has ‘struggled to articulate a reason’ to oppose infrastructure plan
- Biden’s Jobs Plan Is Also a Climate Plan. Will It Make a Difference? (“The Administration has an ambitious vision for combatting global warming, but it’s only a start.”)
- Fed Up With Remote Learning, Governors Make a Push to Reopen Schools
- Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising GOP victories in 2022 (“The American Culture Project looks like a community news site. Internal fundraising documents show the inner workings of a group whose activities are ordinarily veiled and illustrate how the Republican Party is straining to connect with the country’s political center.”)
- How Do We Stop the Parade of Gun Deaths?
- HP, Dow, Under Armour among nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states
- Culture wars strain once unshakeable bond between Republicans, corporate America (“‘Talking about corporate tax cuts and reducing burdensome regulations doesn’t do it for our new voters,’ one Republican lobbyist said.”)
- As Corporate America Comes Out for Voting Rights, Where’s Next?
- The States Following Georgia’s Lead on Voter Suppression
- U.S. companies face boycott threats, mounting pressure to take sides in America’s voting rights battle
- Republicans Rush to Cancel Baseball
- For Republicans, 2021 Is The Year To Target Trans Kids (“Dozens of states have introduced bills to limit medical care to transgender youth or keep trans kids from playing on school sports teams.”)
- The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root
- Asian-Americans Are Still Taking Shape as a Political Force (“Divided by generation, ethnicity and class, but currently galvanized by a surge of racially motivated attacks, Asian-Americans are growing rapidly as political players.”)
- Schumer: Senate will act on marijuana legalization with or without Biden
- Amazon Apologizes To Rep. Mark Pocan For Snarky (And Incorrect) Pee Bottles Tweet (“The corporate behemoth is still mum on its tweets about progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, however.”)
- Amazon apologizes for tweet dismissing lawmaker’s claim that workers urinate in bottles
- America’s Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable (“Parts of the nation with low social capital—places where people go bowling (or worshiping) alone—were more susceptible to Trumpism. “)
- Dominion: will one Canadian company bring down Trump’s empire of disinformation?
- Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It Did
- How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations (Trump should be in prison for SO many reasons. Why isn’t he?)
- Black families still reeling from verdicts in police brutality cases warn justice is not promised in Chauvin trial
- Derek Chauvin’s Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops. Here’s What The Videos Actually Show.
- One Republican’s Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation (That would be Denver Riggleman, succeeded in Congress by one of the most extreme, bigoted and bats*** people around.)
- Investigators focusing on Noah Green’s mental health in Capitol barricade attack (“Noah Green, who grew up in Covington, had been suffering from delusions, paranoia and suicidal thoughts, a U.S. official said Saturday.”)
- Teammates of former CNU football player say attack on Capitol police was “shocking.” News reports say recent behavior was disturbing
- Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants
- The Georgia political fallout of MLB’s decision to move the All-Star Game
- Georgia’s Black churches are horrified by Republican voter suppression – and ready to fight
- Trump and Carlson lead backlash as MLB pulls All-Star Game from Georgia (“Former president calls on fans to ‘boycott baseball’; Obama lauds MLB ‘for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights’”)
- Georgia’s Election Law, and Why Turnout Isn’t Easy to Turn Off (“Making voting convenient doesn’t necessarily translate into more votes, research shows.”)
- Arizona Republicans’ desperate crusade to find nonexistent voter fraud
- Former Gov. Mike Huckabee Grotesquely Mocks Asian Americans In Tweet Amid Racist Violence (“In an attempt at conservative humor, Huckabee appears to hit at identity politics, the backlash to Georgia’s voter suppression law, and the Stop Asian Hate movements.”)
- Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks (Evil, evil person.)
- SNL’s Pete Davidson Debuts His Creepy ‘Sex Pest’ Matt Gaetz
- The sleazy Matt Gaetz saga grows ever more disturbing
- The Party of Pervy Projection Hits a New Low With Matt Gaetz
- Video: Virginia Young Dems’ Gubernatorial Forum
- Word Clouds: What Are the Virginia Democratic and Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Talking About?
- General Assembly to consider Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposals to alter bills, budget
- Saturday (4/3) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,542 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 623,881), +60 Hospitalizations…
- Virginia expands vaccination workforce to keep up with expected demand surge
- Virginia works to boost its tracking of COVID-19 variants, key to thwarting problematic mutations
- ANALYSIS: Post-Farrell, Dominion’s power remains rooted in politics
- Virginia is the first southern state to ban the ‘trans panic’ defense that previously gave lighter sentences to assailants claiming to react to someone’s gender identity
- Editorial: Recovery blueprint holds promise to speed region’s growth (“A framework for recovery developed by the Hampton Roads business community offers a promising roadmap for economic growth and deserves strong regional support.”)
- University of Richmond faculty criticize rector, call for a vote of no confidence
- Henrico Co. administers 100,000th COVID-19 vaccine
- D.C.-area forecast: Spring returns with a solid stretch of seasonable warmth
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