by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 4.
Zelensky’s ability to tailor & deliver the right message to whatever group he is addressing is amazing. https://t.co/WWlXQMEN9j
— David Rothschild 🇺🇦 (@DavMicRot) April 4, 2022
- Investors are plowing money into clean energy funds as Ukraine war puts energy needs in spotlight
- China Variants and Omicron XE Put Fresh Focus on Covid Mutations
- Furor at Russia Amid Scenes of Dead Civilians (“Demands for Harsher Sanctions Grow”)
- Russia now synonymous with Bucha killings, says Zelenskiy
- ‘Such evil on Earth’: Zelensky accuses Russia of war crimes (“The bodies of at least 400 civilians were found in the Kyiv region after the departure of Russian forces, Ukraine says”)
- Biden Told the Truth: Putin Has to Go
- Retreating Russian troops leave behind harrowing evidence of atrocities
- Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with bodies
- ‘This Is True Barbarity’: Life and Death Under Russian Occupation
- Horrors of Bucha Push Europe Toward New Sanctions on Russia
- After weeks of street battles, Kyiv suburb of Irpin is scene of ruin
- The atrocities in Bucha are no aberration. This is the Russian way of war. (“There is no indication yet that Putin feels he has lost this war. That is why it is so essential Russia suffer a decisive defeat in the Donbas.”)
- Exiled oligarch calls on other Russian tycoons to break with Putin
- Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges
- Zelenskyy makes video appearance at Grammys (“‘Tell the truth about the war, on your social networks, on TV. Support us in any way you can, but not silence,’ the Ukrainian president said.”)
- Latest atrocities in Ukraine were inevitable and won’t be the last
- All Creatures Great and Small (“The country the Russians came to destroy, in fighting for its life, has become one that extends solidarity and love beyond its human citizens.”)
- Bucha’s Atrocities Are Not Russia’s First. They Must Be the Last
- Zelensky, entering new stage of war, faces political test
- Russian invasion of Ukraine ‘far from over,’ White House chief of staff says
- Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities
- Viktor Orban wins new term as Hungary’s prime minister (Kick Hungary out of the EU.)
- Victory for Hungary’s Orban means a headache for the EU
- Hungary’s PM criticises Zelensky as he wins vote (Orban is a disgrace.)
- Pro-Putin Leaders in Hungary and Serbia Set to Win Re-election
- Imran Khan’s surprise call for snap elections in Pakistan may just pay off
- Hong Kong leader Lam won’t seek new term after rocky 5 years
- Exclusive: Climate change could cost U.S. budget $2 trillion a year by the end of the century, White House says
- Biden’s economy is extraordinary. But inflation is still the Achilles’ heel of Democrats.
- Gap in Trump call logs on Jan. 6 ‘suspiciously tailored,’ Raskin says
- Collins’s lonely voice on Jackson shows how extreme the GOP has become
- Republican excuses for rejecting Ketanji Brown Jackson are absurd (They’re also racist.)
- Republicans’ KBJ Vote Could Come Back to Bite Them
- Ketanji Brown Jackson faces Senate panel vote ahead of expected confirmation
- Senate eyes historic week with a vote to put Jackson on Supreme Court
- Why Democrats hope Romney will support Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Democrats are expected to advance SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown to floor vote
- The “Putin Is Bad, But” Republicans
- Obama to return to White House to celebrate health care reform
- Hillary Clinton urges Democrats to ‘do a better job’ of telling voters of successes
- Biden privately said Trump should be prosecuted for January 6 riot and is frustrated with AG Garland for not taking ‘decisive action’: report
- Biden called Murdoch the ‘most dangerous man in the world,’ new book alleges (No question, Murdoch has done – and continues to do – ENORMOUS damage to the country and the world.)
- Dems plot spring sprint for party-line spending deal with Manchin (Here we go again…)
- Trump endorses Palin in Alaska House special election
- Betsy DeVos is back — and her family is flooding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with cash (What a horrible family.)
- Herschel Walker, the Worst Candidate, Trump-Approved
- Why Liz Cheney Can’t Rely On Democrats To Save Her In Wyoming’s Republican Primary
- John Fetterman skipped the first Pa. Senate debate. His rivals made it all about him anyway.
- California mass shooting: 6 dead, 12 injured in Sacramento
- California Gov Decries ‘Scourge’ Of Gun Violence After 6 Killed in Sacramento Shooting
- Republican governor blasts Trump as ‘crazy’ during Washington roast (“Chris Sununu of New Hampshire makes remarks at event noted for tradition of roasting politicians with cutting comedy speeches”)
- How Far Right Are the VA07 Republican Candidates? Who Might Be the Toughest/Weakest Opponent for Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) in November? (Also, who seems most likely to win the VA07 GOP nomination on 6/21?)
- General Assembly to reconvene Monday (“Lawmakers will have to finalize work on the state’s biennial budget after being summoned back to Richmond by Youngkin for a special session”)
- Virginia Gov. Youngkin signs 45 bills into law — we explain 5 of them
- Recreational marijuana still isn’t legal in Virginia and medical patients face access challenges
- Virginia scientists bring seagrass back to Virginia’s Eastern Shore
- A tough choice ahead for the secretary of the commonwealth on the Mattaponi tribe’s future
- Rappahannock Tribe celebrates return of Fones Cliffs acreage
- D.C.-area forecast: An unsettled week with frequent rain chances
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