by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, March 19.
- Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus
- China reports no new local cases as crisis shifts to U.S., Europe
- US-China relationship worsens over coronavirus
- World leaders rush in to shore up panic-hit global financial system
- The Leader of the Free World Gives a Speech, and She Nails It (“To Americans, Merkel’s appeals to democracy, and her sadness at having to use the full weight of her authority, come as a welcome shock”)
- China reports no domestic cases of coronavirus for first time since outbreak began (“China’s health commission says all of Wednesday’s new cases were recent overseas arrivals, as Australia and New Zealand close borders to foreign arrivals”)
- Its Coronavirus Cases Dwindling, China Turns Focus Outward
- Biggest Factory Shutdown Since World War II Hits U.S., Europe
- Oil Rollercoaster Has Crude Rebounding After Drop to 18-Year Low
- U.S. Stock Futures Falter Despite Central Banks’ Action
- All the stock market gains under Trump have been erased
- Americans should not have to choose between their health and democracy
- Is Donald Trump delusional or a gaslighter? Media should say clearly: It’s both
- President Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Aid Package (“Efforts are already underway to put together a third, larger relief measure that could total $1 trillion.”)
- Fed Facing Threat Like Never Before as Virus Petrifies Markets
- America is going into an economic coma. Here’s how we (eventually) wake up from it.
- Economic relief for households, markets on the way in U.S., Europe
- Will Markets Ever Adjust to the Coronavirus Era? (“More certainty about the disease’s course will provide much-needed clarity”)
- Coronavirus offers reprieve from air pollution (“But while the coronavirus pandemic could disrupt daily routines for months, experts say the drop in heat-trapping emissions, while beneficial, will likely amount to just a blip in trend lines that show the world is moving toward unsustainable levels of carbon emissions, sometimes referred to as CO2.”)
- There is no new Trump
- Trump is stoking xenophobic panic in a time of crisis
- The U.S. Can Still Curtail Coronavirus But Only With Better Testing
- Trump Pitches Wartime President for 2020 After Markets Fail Him
- US is preparing for pandemic to ‘include multiple waves of illness’
- Maryland GOP Governor: ‘No Question’ Donald Trump Made A Mistake With Coronavirus Response
- Coronavirus Bailouts Shouldn’t Reward Investors And CEOs, Democrats Say (“They want strings attached to any taxpayer dollars given to major industries suffering from the coronavirus-fueled economic crisis.”)
- You Cheered as He Fucked Up. No Take Backs, Trumpists. (“The virus doesn’t follow him on Twitter. It does what it does, and exploits time and complacency in its human hosts. Trump gave it a six-week pass.”)
- Focus on the Incompetence — The “Chinese Virus” is a test.
- The coronavirus shows how backward the United States has become
- Trump and McConnell can’t self-quarantine from the political fallout
- ‘It is not science fiction anymore’: Coronavirus exposes U.S. vulnerability to biowarfare (“For years, experts have warned that terrorists and hostile states could launch a biological attack against a United States that remains woefully underprepared.”)
- The Trump administration adds to its purge of professionals
- Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism
- The President vs. the Experts: How Trump Downplayed the Coronavirus
- GOP Senator Upbeat Coronavirus May Kill ‘No More Than 3.4 Percent of Our Population’ (How the hell does someone as stupid and crazy as Ron Johnson get elected to anything? What does that say about the people who voted for him?)
- Republicans refuse to stop using racist language as attacks against Asians rise
- Congress just passed a bill that will guarantee free coronavirus testing for all Americans (“It also expands paid sick days and paid leave for a subset of workers.”)
- Trump’s $1 trillion stimulus is a gamble for reelection — and a sea change for Republicans once opposed to bailouts
- This Is How Donald Trump Will Be Remembered (“Zero-sum politics doesn’t work in a pandemic”)
- This Is the Only Way to End the Coronavirus Financial Panic
- Diaz-Balart, McAdams are first members of Congress to report positive coronavirus test
- We Must Assist One Another or Die (“Let this crisis motivate us to see through the fog of fake individualism.”)
- Here Are the 8 Senators Who Voted Against the Coronavirus Relief Package on Wednesday
- What Joe Biden can be doing right now (“Act like the presumptive nominee that he is.”)
- Biden thrives without an audience. Trump withers.
- More than 80 national security professionals break with tradition and endorse a presidential candidate — Biden
- Campaign signals Sanders may be open to exit
- Bernie Sanders’ Hopes For Comeback Run Into Reality of A Pandemic
- Election Update: Biden’s Delegate Lead Is Now Nearly Insurmountable (“It might be a while before the next primary is held, but the race is all but over”)
- Bernie Sanders’s moment is calling him — in the U.S. Senate (“If Sanders really wants to shape the national debate, Capitol Hill is the place to do it.”)
- Drop Out, Bernie (“For public health, for party unity, and for his own political future, it’s time for Sanders to make a graceful exit.”)
- What If Trump Tried to Cancel the November Election? (“It would be very prudent for states (possibly with some encouragement and money from the Feds via Senator Ron Wyden’s bill) to move rapidly toward universal voting-by-mail opportunities. Otherwise we could experience a botched election and then a constitutional crisis, given our current national management.”)
- Biden and Sanders should work together now to protect the election
- A Deadly Coronavirus Mix in Florida: An Aging Population and Lots of Young Visitors
- NYSE to temporarily close floor, move to electronic trading after positive coronavirus tests
- Fox’s coronavirus coverage was a low point in the network’s shameful history. It should never live it down.
- Fox News’ terrible coronavirus coverage put its viewers and the public at risk. Here’s the proof.
- COVID-19 Exposes Deadly Gaps in Our Social Safety Net
- Kaine demands answers on virus test kits
- Senators Warner and Kaine Vote to Pass New Coronavirus Relief Legislation
- Rep. Don Beyer: We need a massive economic response to counter the threat of the coronavirus
- Spanberger: Let people buy ACA insurance during pandemic
- Nick Freitas’s Latest Endorser Has a History of Violent and Extreme Rhetoric
- Another ex-campaign staffer is charged in election scheme
- DNC, Former Gov. McAuliffe, etc. Call for Making Voting by Mail Universally Available…ASAP
- Gov. Northam Requests Statewide Economic Injury Disaster Loan Declaration from U.S. Small Business Administration
- Comparing VAPLAN 2020 Virginia Legislative Scores to Districts’ Partisan “Tilts” Leads to Some Interesting Findings
- Coronavirus: When Virginia Government Entities Do Things Right
- What we know (and what we don’t) about Va.’s medical infrastructure, a crucial part of its coronavirus response
- Unemployment claims spike as Virginia expands eligibility amid COVID-19 outbreak
- VA State Board of Elections: “Voters may choose reason ‘2A My disability or illness’ for Absentee voting in the May 20 elections due to COVID-19″
- Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 in Virginia Urge Governor Northam to Enact Specific Measures to Protect Their Physical and Financial Well Being
- Schapiro: COVID-19 nudges Va. government into the unknown
- Q&A: NRDC attorney on the legal issues behind Atlantic Coast Pipeline challenge
- Editorial: Clear the hurdles to cooperation on crisis
- Virginia Now Has Three Coronavirus Outbreak Zones
- Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act isn’t equipped for a crisis like this
- Christensen: Northam, please protect Virginians from predatory hospital practices
- Governor Says Coronavirus Cases Rise to 77, Blood Donors Needed
- University of Virginia Keeps Classes Online for the Rest of the Semester, Cancels Final Exercises
- Virginia Lawmaker Unable to Access COVID-19 Test Despite Symptoms
- With Schools Closed, Communities Pitch In to Feed Kids
- Virginia Hospital Center Partners with Arlington County to Open COVID-19 Sample Collection Site
- Bill Street column: America’s best river town needs to do its best for its river
- As coronavirus spreads, Virginia organizations seek volunteers
- VCU to keep classes online, postpone commencement, issue refunds and credits for housing and dining
- Coronavirus outbreak could overwhelm Hampton Roads hospitals even in a best-case scenario, Harvard data shows
- In uncertain times, Roanoke region’s parents are adapting to a new normal
- Unseasonably warm today and Friday before sudden cooling Saturday (“Highs in the 70s to near 80 today and tomorrow, drop into the 40s by Sunday.”)
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