by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 21.
- Those menacingly high sea levels may come sooner than we think
- The Latest: Israeli official troubled by US-Saudi arms deal
- How Rollbacks at Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas (This is literally insane when you understand stuff like this)
- Kristof: The President vs. Women’s Health (And everyone else’s health.)
- North Korea fires ballistic missile
- House Inquiry Turns Attention to Trump Campaign Worker With Russia Ties
- ‘Who’s a pretty princess now, b*tches’: Internet ridicules Trump for ‘curtsy’ before Saudi king
- Melania scours media to protect Trump
- Comey’s father: Trump was ‘scared to death’ of FBI director
- It’s becoming increasingly clear that Jared Kushner is part of Trump’s Russia problem
- Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master’s thesis on homeland security
- Republicans fearing for their safety as anger, threats mount (Anger is fine, threats are TOTALLY unacceptable!)
- Five things to watch in Trump’s speech to the Muslim world (“Will Trump say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ during his speech?…Will the president bring up human rights issues?”)
- The Memo: Trump base shows signs of cracking (“A new Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll, released Friday afternoon, showed the president with a job approval rating of 75 percent among Republicans. Political professionals generally view it as worrying for any commander-in-chief if his approval ratings with his own party dip below 85 percent — and downright alarming if they go below 80 percent.”)
- Baldwin’s Trump sings ‘Hallelujah’ with White House advisers for ‘SNL’ season finale
- Schapiro: Two Democrats and the roads not taken (“…the national narrative that is dominating the campaign — that the gubernatorial election in Clinton-carried Virginia will be viewed outside its borders as a referendum on Trump — neatly complements Perriello’s leitmotif: No matter the concerns of state voters, they invariably are affected by the president’s controversial practices and policies.”)
- Dirty Dominion Pushes Fracked Gas and Super-Expensive Nuclear While Offshore Wind Costs Plummet. Brilliant!
- Democratic Women Lining Up to Take on Rep. Dave Brat (Far-Far-Right “R”) in VA-07 Next Year
- Waking Up: How I Came to the Decision to Run for Delegate (Part 1)
- Editorial: Proper care for our national parks
- Siobhan Dunnavant Withdraws Reeves Endorsement for LG
- Toscano canvases voters ahead of June primary
- Political strife leads Blacksburg to again ask: Can town go it alone?
- Still cloudy, cool and comfortable today; warmer with showers likely tonight into tomorrow
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