by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 6.
- Sweeping arrests amid anti-Putin protests across Russia
- North Korea Denies U.S. Pressure Is Behind Denuclearization
- Rouhani says plans in place for any Trump decision on nuclear deal: TV
- APNewsBreak: Mueller team questions Trump friend Tom Barrack
- As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire. Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash.
- Giuliani: Trump is ‘committed to’ regime change in Iran
- Parkland survivor assails Trump as ‘professional liar’ after president’s NRA speech (“‘This is all spectacle,’ says teenager Cameron Kasky.”)
- How Trump’s Lawyer Built a Business Empire in the Shadows
- The Naked Truth About Trump
- How the FBI raid of Michael Cohen’s office changed everything (“After April 9, nothing was the same.”)
- Giuliani returned to Fox News for 8 minutes. It was a disaster again. (“The facts I’m still learning… I’m not an expert on the facts yet.” Then shut the f*** up???)
- McCain doesn’t want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House
- John McCain Regrets His Palin Pick for the Wrong Reasons (“… by and large, the GOP base adored Palin. Its loving embrace of such an unhinged figure was an early sign that the Republican Party was far more willing to tolerate qualities once thought to be disqualifying for public life than many people understood…it’s striking that, even at this late stage, McCain won’t admit that Palin represents the same variation of grievance politics he now abjures.”)
- An Ailing McCain Reflects With Friends at His Ranch
- Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal (“Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran” Appalling as always with the Trump administration.)
- ‘Trump’s going to be forced to resign’: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer predicts a fall (“Michael Avenatti tells the Guardian a ‘significant amount of evidence is going to come to light’ – and says the American public will be ‘disgusted’ by it”)
- Five legal headaches facing Trump (“Robert Mueller…Michael Cohen…Stormy Daniels…Summer Zervos…Emoluments”)
- Scott Pruitt’s Secret Science Plan Was Developed to Defend Tobacco and It Could Be Coming for Clean Air Rules
- Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary (“Establishment Republicans are fretting about a late surge by the convicted coal baron.”)
- Obama, Bush to give eulogies at McCain’s eventual funeral: report
- Upheaval at Pruitt’s EPA as departures mount
- EPA clamps down on document requests linked to Pruitt (Not acceptable.)
- Watch: Stormy Daniels appears on Saturday Night Live’s cold open as Cohen and Trump try to get their lies straight
- President Trump suggests government shutdown to get border wall
- Rhea Suh: Offshore drilling comes with too many risks for Virginia (Yep, as do fracked-gas pipelines.)
- Cockburn earns 5th district nomination in convention
- Cockburn receives 5th District nomination; GOP accuses her of anti-Semitism (Why should anyone care what the Virginia GOP says about anything? They have zero credibility. Also, has the Virginia GOP actually read her book, which she and her husband wrote almost three decades ago? I have, and while it’s certainly hard hitting on the U.S.-Israel relationship, I don’t see anything anti-Semitic in there. I’d also remind everyone that the current head of the VA GOP was busted for telling an anti-Semitic “joke” at a political rally.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine gives commencement address at Radford; oldest graduate had been angry at Kaine for years (The same guy says, “I’d be glad to look him in the eye and shake his hand now.”)
- Mark J. Rozell: Corey Stewart hurts the Virginia GOP (“Together, Stewart and Trump are normalizing racially charged speech that most leaders in public life had abandoned decades ago.” I love these euphemisms for racist and white supremacist, like “racially charged.” #FAIL)
- Protesters leaving tree-stands on Bent Mountain after being found in contempt of court
- ‘Frustration, anger, helplessness’: Virginia pipeline protesters on what drove them to live in the trees
- Opinion/Editorial: Library ban defensible, but raises deeper issues
- Editorial: Demographic trends pose a danger
- Is Virginia money worth the wager
- Penguins-Capitals Game 5: Washington wins, 6-3, and Caps have two chances to clinch series
- Occasional shower possible today; brighter and slightly warmer into midweek
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