by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 1.
- Pacific Walruses Fight to Survive in the Rapidly Warming Arctic
- Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change (These people really deserve criminal charges.)
- Global Food Supply Risks Rise as Key Traders Leave Russia
- Evan Gershkovich Loved Russia, the Country That Turned on Him
- Russia assumes UN Security Council presidency despite Ukrainian anger (This is nuts.)
- Ukraine Latest: Top US General Doubts a Kyiv Victory This Year
- Mexican military accused of hindering probe of 43 missing students
- Violent White Nationalist Rob Rundo Arrested in Romania
- Andrew Tate and brother to be moved to house arrest
- ‘Heartbreaking’: eight bodies recovered from waters at US-Canada border (“Two more people found on Friday as authorities says dozens of Indian and Romanian migrants have been crossing through Mohawk territory”)
- Pope Francis leaves hospital; ‘Still alive,’ he quips
- Harris seeks billions for climate resilience in Africa
- Social Security Insolvency Seen Coming a Year Earlier Than Before
- Medicare Delays a Full Crackdown on Private Health Plans
- The number of uninsured Americans is about to jump dramatically for the first time in years (“Starting April 1, states will begin removing millions of people off Medicaid’s rolls as a pandemic-era program that kept them enrolled expires.”)
- Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds (“Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University who has written extensively about higher education, said he thought college was still worth pursuing for ‘A’ students in high school. He suggested ‘B’ students enroll only if they are willing to pursue fields such as economics or engineering because those majors have, on average, strong return on investment.”)
- Right-wing media ramped up anti-trans vitriol following Nashville shooting
- The Republican Party Says It Wants to ‘Protect Children,’ but Not All Children
- Trump’s historic criminal indictment all but clinches another GOP presidential nomination
- ‘Annoying’: Trump rivals hunker down for the indictment primary
- No One in the GOP Wants to Defend Trump, but Gosh Darn It, They Did It Anyway
- Trump’s Indictment Is Yet Another Stress Test for America (“His authoritarianism threatened the republic; this unprecedented case will place new pressure on the American system.”)
- The unhinged GOP defense of Trump is the real ‘test’ for our democracy
- The GOP response to Trump is one hell of an indictment
- Will Trump indictment make white evangelicals ditch ‘imperfect vessel’? (Short answer: no.)
- How Trump’s Indictment Could Affect The 2024 Election (So…it either will hurt Trump, help Trump or won’t matter. LOL)
- Inside the long and winding road to Trump’s historic indictment
- Trump Thought He Beat the Rap. Then the Indictment Hit
- The Far Right Is Calling For Bloody ‘Civil War’ After Trump’s Indictment
- Online threats of violence but few signs of far-right organizing around Trump indictment
- Secret Service tours N.Y. courthouse to prepare for Trump arraignment
- The Rule of Law Now Depends on Republicans
- DeSantis follows Trumpworld’s command with extradition statement (“Trump has permanently cucked the Republican ecosystem”)
- Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals, Shielding Him, Reveal Their 2024 Predicament
- Trump lashes out against New York judge who will hear his criminal case
- How Alvin Bragg Resurrected the Case Against Donald Trump
- Trump’s indictment has united the Republican Party in apocalyptic rage
- Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg inundated with racist emails, death threats amid Trump indictment; ‘We are everywhere and we have guns’ (This is what Trump stirs up in our country.)
- Adam Schiff: The GOP’s Control of the House Adds ‘New Danger’ to Trump Case
- Trump Indictment: “The Blows Are Coming from Everywhere, and He Is up Against Many Better Boxers”
- Judge undercuts key Fox News defense as he sends Dominion suit to trial (“In a $1.6 billion defamation case, a ‘disastrous’ ruling for Fox will send it in front of a jury with key questions already settled in an election-technology company’s favor”)
- Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Its Defamation Case
- Judge refuses to dismiss the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News
- Dominion wins rare judgment against Fox News on every legal issue but actual malice before blockbuster trial
- Report: Trump Was Basically One Step Away From Throwing a “No Indictment” Party
- Ron DeSantis Vows To Violate U.S. Constitution To Protect Accused Criminal Donald Trump
- DeSantis Came Out With a Big, Bold Stance on Trump Extradition That’s Mostly Wind
- News organizations reject Elon Musk’s demand of paying to keep checkmarks on Twitter
- Elon Musk wants to fill your Twitter feed with paid accounts (“It’s a broken version of the digital town square.”)
- Musk Chases $250 Billion Twitter Valuation With Old Banking Dream (“Behind the billionaire’s gamble to turn Twitter into a company worth more than 10 times its current valuation is an idea he has hung on to for more than two decades: digital banking.”)
- More Twitter chaos on the way
- Scoop: White House won’t pay for Twitter verification
- Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference in 2016 Presidential Race
- Trump supporter found guilty in 2016 Twitter scheme to undermine Hillary Clinton
- Lindsey Graham Suggests Trump ‘Punch A Cop’ On The Way To Tuesday’s Arraignment (Graham is a really f’ed-up person.)
- Fox News Pundits Are on the Verge of Tears Over Trump’s Indictment
- Donald Trump Jr. Likens His Father’s Indictment to the Murder of Tens of Millions of People (Don Jr. is pure evil.)
- Tensions Flare Inside NPR After Staff Layoffs and Town Halls (“NPR has held multiple all-hands meetings in the days since its layoffs, and some employees say they’ve lost trust in management”)
- Fetterman Checks Out of Hospital After Treatment for Depression
- Kentucky’s new anti-trans horror signals a need for blue-state havens
- Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Law That Restricts Drag Performances
- GOP Strategist and Epstein Fanboy Convicted of Teen Sex Trafficking (“Anton Lazzaro, a Ferrari-driving operative who boasted of his connections to Trump, sexually abused high school girls who he plied with alcohol, prosecutors said.”)
- Tornadoes strike Arkansas, Illinois; 7 dead, dozens injured
- How President Biden’s Investing-in-America Agenda Is Delivering for Virginia (“Unleashing a Private Investment Boom in Virginia,” “Rebuilding Virginia’s Infrastructure,” “Creating Clean-Energy Jobs and Combatting the Climate Crisis”)
- Spanberger helps reintroduce bill to codify Roe v. Wade, protect rights of Virginia women
- Virginia Republicans’ Unhinged Responses to Trump Indictment Show Why They Should NEVER Be Put in Charge (Just completely disgraceful by Youngkin, Miyares, Gilbert, Good, Cline, etc.)
- Youngkin blasts ‘manufactured’ Trump indictment, stirs partisan rancor
- Youngkin’s actions put the brakes on voting rights for former felons
- “This is beyond disrespectful, distasteful and embarrassing for our Commonwealth” (“Unbelievable…This is today’s unhinged, extreme VA GOP”)
- Utility regulation will be on the agenda for state lawmakers next month
- Gov. Youngkin appoints new leader of Virginia National Guard, defense force
- Sen. Hanger sends campaign-style mailing to new district but says he hasn’t decided whether to move yet (“The longtime Augusta County legislator has until April 6 to decide whether he will move into a new district, which would set up a contest for the Republican nomination with Del. Chris Head.”)
- New report looks at the challenges older adults in Northern Virginia face as aging population grows
- Fariss, who faces legal troubles, misses his party’s deadline to run for reelection
- Liberty University names new president
- Council considers studying decarbonization of Richmond Gas Works
- Portsmouth is considering returning land to residents of a historic Black neighborhood. Is it a blessing or a burden?
- High winds likely bring tree damage, power outages to Virginia on Saturday
- Roanoke County supervisor says school board remarks were false and unprofessional
- D.C.-area forecast: Damaging wind gusts, some storms possible today (“Showers and maybe some storms focus early and late day. Winds peak this afternoon and evening.”)
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