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by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 30.
- The Kremlin is trying to kill Alexei Navalny. It should free him. (It should, but it definitely won’t, sad to say.)
- ‘Stop Deceiving the Population’: Russia’s Mercenary Boss Threatens Full-Blown Mutiny (“What kind of army are we if we couldn’t even manage with itty bitty Ukraine?”)
- ‘We’ll show just how weak they are’: Ukraine primed for crucial offensive (“With concern among allies seemingly growing, there is a lot riding on an imminent counter-assault on the Russians in the south”)
- They Refused to Fight for Russia. The Law Did Not Treat Them Kindly.
- Key nations sit out U.S. standoff with Russia and China, leaks show
- Ron DeTedious: DeSantis underwhelms Britain’s business chiefs
- Biden, India’s Modi to meet Pacific island leaders, Papua New Guinea PM says
- Sudan former PM warns of civil war that would be ‘nightmare for the world’ (“Abdalla Hamdok, who resigned in January last year, says conflict could spiral into bigger crisis than Syria, Yemen or Libya”)
- Sudan crisis: Air strikes and fighting in Khartoum as truce collapses
- Sudan’s Neighbors Pay the Price as Rival Forces Vie for Power
- US-Protected Sudan Convoy Evacuates Citizens to Port on Red Sea
- Defaulting on the national debt is much closer than anyone realizes
- Kevin McCarthy Shores Up GOP Lines as Debt-Ceiling Battle Looms
- Danger and deja vu: what 2011 can tell us about the US debt ceiling crisis (“Congress appears to be facing its biggest debt standoff in years – and the consequences of default could be disastrous”)
- FDIC Asks Banks for Final First Republic Bids Due Sunday
- Key Takeaways From a Better-Than-Feared Start to Earnings Season
- Surgeon General: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That.
- How John Roberts Saved the GOP (and Sparked Its Civil War) (“The chief justice helped keep the abortion pill legal and spare Republicans another polling disaster. But the fight on the right has only just begun.”)
- Dismantling the Supreme Court’s ‘misdirection’ about its own ethics
- How the Trump Years Weakened the Media
- Democrats reconstruct blue wall in lead-up to 2024
- Trump ups competition with DeSantis in planning trip to Iowa
- Trump claims he’s under ‘total assault’ because of his lead in the polls
- Biden jokes about his age at annual press event
- At White House correspondents’ dinner, Biden vows to fight for Americans detained overseas
- ‘Journalism is not a crime’: Biden salutes press, stresses freedoms at WHCD (“The president urged the release of journalists held around the world, including Evan Gershkovich.”)
- Joe Biden Takes Swipes At Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, Ron DeSantis’ War With Disney & Himself At WHCD; POTUS Promises To Bring Imprisoned Evan Gershkovich & Austin Rice Home
- Biden Gets a Chance to Mock Fox News, and Gleefully Takes It (“At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, President Biden also teased CNN and made light of his age.”)
- ‘They say I’m ancient’: Biden speech to White House media proves to be one for the ages
- A Sinister New Page in the Republican Playbook
- The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024 (Manchin is toast.)
- Neighbors asked a man to stop firing a rifle outside. He then opened fire on them, killing 5 people, a Texas sheriff says
- Gunman killed neighbors, child with AR-15-style rifle, sheriff says (Horrible. Also note, this type of thing only happens in the United States, because of the proliferation of assault weapons, which is not the case in any other country.)
- Top Fox Hosts Are Telling Friends They Could Be the Next to Go
- Trump, Fox News have a new point of tension: Tucker Carlson
- Tucker Carlson and the Right (“The big question for the G.O.P. during the Biden era is whether the legacy of Carlson’s culture wars adds up to a viable platform for a major political party.”)
- Can Bluesky Be Twitter Without Twitter?
- Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk’s leadership at Twitter: ‘It all went south’ (The fact that Dorsey couldn’t figure that out in the first place doesn’t reflect well on him – at all.)
- Giuliani admits using ‘dirty trick’ to suppress Hispanic vote in mayoral race (Giuliani has been a scumbag for a long time.)
- This Is What the Right-Wing Takeover of a Progressive College Looks Like
- Despite Pleas From Nonbinary Son, Montana Governor Signs Anti-Trans Bill Banning Care
- Raising a trans kid in Missouri has become a ‘dystopian nightmare’ for families
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders “stomped” Arkansas’ poorest during the “worst session ever” (“Arkansas’ new governor — infamous from the Trump White House — bids for national stage with old-school GOP meanness” She is NASTY.)
- VA House Dems Leader Don Scott Rips Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) for Voting “against her constituents,” “to deny resources to hardworking Virginians”
- Nearly 400,000 Virginians risk losing Medicaid, starting Monday (“An estimated 140,000 Virginia children will no longer be covered by Medicaid as pandemic-era protections expire.”)
- Virginia AAPI Caucus, Legislative Black Caucus, Latino Caucus All Call For Resignation Of Youngkin’s Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Martin D. Brown (“Youngkin and his Administration have a deeply troubling record of ignoring, denying, and covering up the Commonwealth’s inequities.”)
- Black Va. lawmakers, NAACP demand ouster of Youngkin’s diversity chief
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative at risk of losing funding
- Currently, There Are Just Nine Women in the VA Senate. After November, There Could Be As Few as 4-5 Or As Many As 20 Female VA Senators
- Why the Virginia primary is often referred to as the General Election
- Republicans to choose House 41st District nominee on Thursday (“Republicans will decide at a mass meeting to be held Thursday whether they want Blacksburg resident Chris Obenshain or Riner’s Lowell Bowman as their candidate.”)
- How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Supreme Court (“George Mason University’s law school cultivated ties to justices, with generous pay and unusual perks. In turn, it gained prestige, donations and influence.”)
- Opinion: Richmond stadium proposal raises more questions than answers
- Black history of Pocahontas Island loses its greatest champion.
- Alexandria, steeped in history, seeks to recover its Black community’s past
- D.C.-area forecast: Soggy Sunday before a cool and often cloudy week with spotty showers
