by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 27.
- Trump Says North Korea Summit Plans ‘Moving Along’ After Surprise Moon-Kim Meeting
- Kim Jong-un Meets With South Korean Leader in Surprise Visit
- South Korea says North Korea committed to Trump summit and ‘complete’ denuclearization
- Key US allies ‘perplexed’ as Trump treats friends like enemies
- Trump’s Credibility Problem Is Now America’s
- Kristof: Trump’s Terrifying North Korea Roller Coaster
- Keeping Summit Hopes Alive Suggests Kim Jong-un May Need a Deal
- GOP-Trump trade fight boils over with threat to cars
- Outrage Grows as Horror of Policy to Split Children and Parents at Border Becomes Clear
- Trump Falsely Says Times Made Up Source in Report on Korea Summit Meeting (Newspapers should always say “falsely” right in the headline when something is demonstrably false.)
- Trump’s ‘phony’ source turns out to be White House official
- Trump’s sustained attacks on American rights (“Over the past 24 months, Trump has scorned judges, derided the American court system, and trampled on all manner of constitutional principles. Trump has especially ridiculed due process of law, the bedrock against government’s arbitrary denial of a person’s life, liberty or property. Critics warn that denunciations that once seemed so aberrational may be seeping into the American psyche and influencing how government operates.”)
- Trump Blames Democrats for His Most Horrifying Immigration Policy (More “gaslighting” by Trump. In fact, “The child-separation policy was implemented by Trump’s own attorney general, Jeff Sessions”)
- Woman Fatally Shot by Border Patrol Agent Came to U.S. Seeking Work, Family Says
- US lost track of 1,500 immigrant children, but says it’s not ‘legally responsible’ (To put it mildly, this is not acceptable.)
- Trump Versus Law Enforcement: A Confrontation With No Precedent (The bottom line is that Trump is attacking one of the absolute keys to America being America – the rule of law.)
- Here are 10 Incredibly fake facts Trump supporters believe are true (One of their biggest lies is that Trump has much to do with massive drops in the unemployment rate since the peak of the Great Recession. In fact, almost all that decline occurred under President Obama.)
- Retired English teacher corrects letter from Trump and sends it back to White House (“Yvonne Mason, an Atlanta resident who retired last year after teaching middle and high school students in South Carolina for 17 years, corrected grammatical mistakes in the letter bearing Trump’s signature, including 11 instances of improper capitalization of words like ‘president’ and ‘state.’ ‘If it had been written in middle school, I’d give it a C or C-plus,’ Mason told South Carolina’s Greenville News. ‘If it had been written in high school, I’d give it a D.'”)
- New York congressman compares NFL players protesting racism to Nazis (“Peter King calls players’ peaceful, kneeling protest ‘disgraceful.'”)
- Pro-hunting Trump officials take ax to wildlife protections (These people are evil.)
- Joshua Holt, American Held In Venezuela, Is Welcomed Home
- Scott Pruitt Tried to Give Men “Property Rights” Over Fetuses (“This was his bright idea when he was a state senator in Oklahoma.”)
- Kaine brings re-election campaign to Hampton Roads while waiting for his GOP opponent (“It is a campaign that in many ways is about who Virginia is and who Virginia isn’t.” Very true.)
- After Virginia police officer fatally shoots naked man, public demands answers
- CASEY: Del. Ben Cline talks about press freedom, bump stocks and more (Cline would make a terrible member of Congress and absolutely should not be elected.)
- Schapiro: Big loss looming for a Republican who usually wins (“Finally, there is the nuclear option, under Rule 51: Senators, by a majority vote of those present, bypass the Finance Committee and bring the budget directly to the floor, where all 19 Democrats and two to four Republicans would support Medicaid expansion, settling the issue with a bang not a whimper. And for which Norment, a supposed procedural purist, should not expect an apology.”)
- MERRICKS: The General Assembly needs to act
- Mark Obenshain: Virginia about to take a wrong turn on healthcare (Just remember, Obenshain put in a bill to criminalize miscarriages, so I’d pretty much ignore anything this loon has to say.)
- Editorial: Virginia and Canada pursue the same economic strategy
- Democrats vying to challenge Comstock debate liberal values in NAACP debate
- Rob Wittman: Many rural areas need access to high-speed internet (Yeah, so what has Wittman’s party done about this? Hmmm.)
- Editorial: Keep focus on needed reforms at regional jail
- A. Barton Hinkle column: At U.Va., the white supremacists have already won
- A photo emerges and a Va. school system’s use of seclusion comes under scrutiny (“Families and advocates are alarmed by what they view as harsh treatment of students.”)
- Another round of storms likely this afternoon into evening
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