by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, July 6. Also check out President Obama speaking yesterday for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina.
- “No Charges Are Appropriate In This Case”: Over A Year Of Errors, Mischaracterizations, and False Reporting About Hillary Clinton’s Email Use
- Conservative Media Have Been Baselessly Predicting Clinton Would Be Indicted Over Emails For Months
- Hillary Clinton Isn’t Getting Indicted. Here’s Why.
- Donald Trump’s Son-In-Law Gets Blasted in Open Letter (“I’m asking you as a human being: How do you allow this?”)
- Our Political Culture Doesn’t Know What to Do With Trump’s Explicit Prejudice (“Once-fraught ideas and symbols are now a routine matter of partisan combat. This is scary.”)
- GOP foreign policy elites flock to Clinton
- Clinton expands lead over Trump to 13 points: Reuters/Ipsos poll (“The July 1-5 poll included responses gathered mostly over the holiday weekend, before the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton over her use of private email servers and what it called her ‘extremely careless’ handling of classified information while she was U.S. secretary of state.”)
- Donald Trump Praises Saddam Hussein’s Approach to Terrorism — Again
- Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists ‘so good’ (This guy is utterly demented.)
- Baton Rouge police shooting of Alton Sterling fuels late-night protest
- Ex-DOJ Spox: Comey Broke Rules With ‘Outrageous’ Presser On Clinton Emails
- ‘Fired Up’ President Obama Tears Into Trump at Hillary Clinton Rally, ‘Don’t Boo, Vote’
- Donald Trump offers praise for Saddam Hussein at North Carolina rally – as it happened
- “Fucking Insane”: Conservative Journalists Criticize Trump’s Praise Of Saddam Hussein
- Kaine defends Clinton, talks Zika in Richmond
- Does Tim Kaine Want To Be VP? Watch What He’s Doing On Abortion. (“The Women’s Health Protection Act just got a new sponsor.”)
- In Virginia, A Battle To Give Former Felons The Right To Vote
- Raising Kaine’s national image
- Richmond City Council questions mayor’s proposal to raise taxes and increase debt ceiling
- Questions abound in death of Newport News woman at Central State Hospital
- Virginia gets federal grant to uncork I-95 corridor
- 5 reasons why a transportation megaproject in Northern Va. matters for Hampton Roads
- Memorial Bridge Repair Efforts Receive $90 Million Federal Grant
- Heat wave through Saturday, with heat indexes near or past 100
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