by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 30.
- Sources: Russians discussed potentially ‘derogatory’ information about Trump and associates during campaign
- President of United States Waits Nearly Three Days to Condemn Racist Portland Murders
- Investigation Turns to Kushner’s Motives in Meeting With a Putin Ally
- Six things to watch as Trump faces his new reality (“Trump is back in the U.S. and back on Twitter — how will he cope with the spreading crises engulfing his presidency?”)
- Debt fight blindsides Congress (“Lawmakers aren’t ready for a bruising debt ceiling battle, but it may be coming sooner than expected.”)
- Four Senators to Watch in the Trump-Russia Investigation (“Susan Collins, James Lankford, Roy Blunt, Marco Rubio: Here’s why these members of the Senate Intelligence Committee matter and the effect they could have.”)
- Brooks: The Adventures of Jared Kushner
- Keeping Kushner would make Trump’s Russia nightmare permanent
- The Upcoming Votes Republicans Are Really Dreading (“In the next two months, Congress will have to raise the debt ceiling and pass a budget. GOP leaders don’t know how they’re going to do either of them.”)
- MSNBC host stunned when spy catcher insists Jared Kushner is ‘absolutely’ a Russian agent
- Black Voters Aren’t Turning Out For The Post-Obama Democratic Party (That’s very worrisome if true.)
- Texas legislature descends into chaos after GOP lawmaker sics immigration officers on protesters (OK, maybe the Virginia General Assembly isn’t so bad after all? LOL)
- Kushner’s proposal for secret communications with Russia alarms former intelligence officials; right-wing media shrug
(Again, just imagine if this crap were happening in an Obama or Clinton administration? How do you think the right wing would be reacting? Yeah,
exactly.) - In Va. governor’s race, Gillespie in a tight spot on immigration in Trump era
- Virginia Democrats face first battle in war for party’s soul (Ben Tribbett’s quotes are by far the best thing about this article: “It is really more a battle between the national wing of the Democratic Party versus the Virginia wing of the party…It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Democrats to create an organizational structure that we’ve never had…Older voters and the traditional voters will participate no matter what. The new voters that come in that add to your electorate tend to be younger voters. They tend to be people participating in a primary for the first time and they would be more open to a challenger to the establishment.”)
- Thankfully, Virginia and D.C. are taking climate policy into their own hands
- Virginia among states scrambling to comply with federal Real ID law
- UPDATED: Pat Mullins, former chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, dies in Hanover car crash
- Hundreds attend Mosby Court vigil for slain state trooper; funeral information released
- After federal review, Chesapeake addressing accessibility of polling places for people with disabilities
- 10 months after launch, has Norfolk’s bike lane loop defied the early critics?
- Cloudy with showers and storms today; 80s tomorrow
