by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, May 20.
- Krugman: Obama’s War on Inequality
- Ten Things Every Politician Who Endorses Donald Trump Should Be Forced to Defend (“An indictment.”)
- Bernie. Don’t Do This. (“With a scorched-earth campaign against Clinton, Sanders is risking his party’s nominee, its coalition, and his message.”)
- Sanders’s scorched-earth campaign is a gift to Trump (“If the Vermont senator isn’t careful, he could put the GOP back in the White House.” Not just “the GOP,” but Trump!)
- DNC to offer Sanders a convention concession
- CBS/NYT national poll: Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump narrows (Not good, but it’s still very early.)
- Fact-checking in a ‘post-fact world’ (“Donald Trump takes advantage of the public’s profound, social-media-fueled cynicism.”)
- Everyone calm the hell down: Take a deep breath, Democrats, and keep the primary in perspective (“The nomination is not being stolen by Hillary, and handwringing over Bernie damaging party unity is out of place”)
- Right-Wing Media Assail Expansion Of Overtime Pay Protections To Millions Of Workers
- Trump Leads Clinton in a New General Election Poll. You Still Don’t Have to Worry.
- Donald Trump’s map: The downside (“Republicans haven’t had to worry much about Arizona and Georgia in presidential elections. Until now.”)
- Trump’s Newest Enemy: Environmentalists (If you care in any way about the oceans, forests, animals…the planet, you absolutely must NOT support Trump!)
- EgyptAir plane wreckage found, military says
- House Descends Into Chaos As Republicans Whip Up Votes For LGBT Discrimination
- Virginia Democrats lose lawsuit over voter ID (The fact that Republicans are actually celebrating this voter suppression says a great deal about them.)
- Our view: Kaine continues push for war vote
- Virginia Press Association names new director
- Virginia has a school suspension ‘crisis,’ report says
- Metro releases significantly revised SafeTrack plan that addresses FTA concerns (“The new project schedule includes three partial rail shutdowns in a row starting in June”)
- Public wasn’t notified when inmate committed suicide in Hampton Roads Regional jail last year
- Fairfax fire chief reveals punishment amid cyberbullying inquiry
- Terrific today, but rain returns late tonight into Saturday
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