by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 15.
- The Trump Tower Russian Collusion Meeting Gets Way More Suspicious
- Trump Family Values (“Amid revelations of Donald, Jr.,’s misguided meeting with two Russians, the President shows once again where his only loyalties lie.”)
- Don Jr. Meeting Came At A Seminal Moment In Russian Interference Story
- The White House just posted the emails of critics — without censoring sensitive personal information (“Some of the emails include not only full names but actual addresses and phone numbers.”)
- Insurers Oppose Cruz Amendment to Republican Health-Care Bill (“Insurers are ramping up their opposition to a new amendment in the Senate Republican health bill that would allow them to sell plans that don’t meet Affordable Care Act requirements, an effort that could add to the challenges faced by GOP leaders trying to shepherd the legislation.”)
- The Most Dangerous Game (“How long can Republicans risk everything to pretend Russia is no big deal?”)
- ‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News’s Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia (“The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling. And there are still people who are out there who believe we’re making it up. And one day they’re gonna realize we’re not and look around and go, Where are we, and why are we getting told all these lies?”)
- White House shakes up legal team as probe gathers steam
- Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room (“So far acknowledged in attendance: Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the meeting. A source familiar with the circumstances told CNN there were at least two other people in the room as well, a translator and a representative of the Russian family who had asked Goldstone to set up the meeting. The source did not provide the names.”)
- Americans put Trump in the Oval Office. What does that say about the country? (Nothing good.)
- The latest evidence of Trump’s unfitness may be the most revolting
- Donald Trump, the great uniter? (“The train-wreck presidency has galvanized civic action.”)
- Mr. Trump, the Climate Change Loner (“European leaders have tried, but so far no one has been able to shake him out of his denialism.”)
- Governors From Both Parties Denounce Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
- The GOP’s moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
- If Republicans Love Their Country, When Will They Show It? (“Impeachment is for times such as these”)
- New GOP health bill puts centrists in vise
- Insurers warn Cruz provision will ‘skyrocket’ premiums for sick people
- Trump badly lagging Obama, Bush, Clinton in political appointees
- GOP leaders plead with senators to hold their fire on Obamacare repeal (“Republicans are simply focused on finding the votes to begin debate, let alone pass their bill.”)
- U.S. officials probing Russian lobbyist who met Trump team
- McAuliffe jabs Pence over GOP healthcare bill (“McAuliffe, the NGA chairman, said at the Rhode Island meeting that Pence ‘showed true backbone himself in Indiana when he expanded Medicaid for his citizens'”)
- Trump mania continues to affect Virginia politics (“On the Republican side, state party bigwigs are pleading with their gubernatorial candidate, Ed Gillespie, to hire advisers who would make him nastier in a more Trumpian way. They are terrified because Corey A. Stewart, famous for baiting immigrants and trying to protect Confederate memorials, unexpectedly came close to knocking mild-mannered Gillespie off in last month’s primary.”)
- EDITORIAL: GOP should get crackin’ on Senate race (“Corey Stewart says he will run for the U.S. Senate next year. That loud ‘thwack!’ you just heard was the sound of a thousand responsible Republicans slamming their heads on their desks. Stewart nearly beat Ed Gillespie in this year’s GOP contest for governor. He would lose a general election by a landslide.”)
- Northam critiques Senate health plan, stresses need for Medicaid funding in Roanoke stop
- Women’s March organizers protest the NRA before 17-mile march to the Justice Department
- National study puts timeline on impact of sea-level rise in Maryland and Virginia
- Spare us another loathsome Corey Stewart campaign (“We hope the state GOP can come up with a more plausible, and honorable, challenger to Tim Kaine.”)
- Dominion required to perform water, soil and fish tissue testing at leaking Chesapeake coal ash ponds
- Va. panel to reconsider power line route that would uproot ex-slave’s descendants
- Metro fires supervisor for alleged pay fraud and says managers doubled salaries with overtime
- Voluntary pollinator protection plan goes into effect
- Federal authorities looking at vendor contracts in Bob McCabe investigation, sources say
- Trump Effect Encourages Virginia Democratic Candidates
- Alexandria considers pitch for Potomac Nationals after stadium impasse
- Editorial: Improvement in crime rate makes city a safer place (“THE CRIME RATE in Norfolk is falling, and that’s good news for the police, residents and visitors. Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone shared the statistics last week, and they showed significant decreases in the number of homicides, rapes, robberies and assaults.”)
- Holmberg: These guys drive all over Richmond giving out food and water to people in need
- D.C.-area forecast: Comparably temperate and tame through the weekend
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