by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 20.
- Cleric Sadr meets Iraq PM Abadi, hinting at coalition
- South Korea, U.S. to work closely on summit after Pyongyang’s about-face
- Is the Korean spring now over and the Trump-Kim summit on hold? Maybe — and maybe not (“Trump’s hawkish advisers are clearly trying to scuttle peace talks. But China and North Korea may be ahead of them”)
- China Will ‘Significantly’ Boost U.S. Purchases. By How Much is the Question
- Mueller Probe Expands to Israeli Entrepreneur With U.A.E. Ties
- Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
- The Memo: Will Mueller play hardball with Trump?
- First lady returns to White House after kidney procedure
- Trump official on defensive as critics scoff at drug plan
- New U.S. Embassy Signals Israeli- Evangelical Alliance (Huge mistake.)
- As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Wed, a New Era Dawns (“An extraordinary ceremony with strong elements of African-American culture showed the couple’s determination to bring Britain’s royal family into the modern world.”)
- BBC uses Harry and Meghan’s big day to troll Trump’s inauguration crowd size
- What more do you need to know about Trump? (“Trump did it and he’s going down for a host of crimes, and some of them have nothing to do with Russia”)
- Santa Fe shooting: Texas town reels as names of 10 victims released
- A Sound Heard Too Often at Schools: Bang. Bang. Bang.
- Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died. (The problem, no matter how you slice it, study it, etc., is guns.)
- Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class, her mother says
- ‘The dishonest media is being dishonest’: Watch Eric and Donald Trump Jr on SNL’s Weekend Update
- ‘Mika has added two new exasperated groans to repertoire’: Watch SNL’s dead-on Morning Joe sketch
- WATCH: Mob boss Donald Trump gets a Sopranos sendoff on the season finale of Saturday Night Live
- Opinion/Letter: Criticizing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic (“I have gotten to know Leslie Cockburn fairly well over the past year. For anyone to claim that Leslie is anti-Semitic is just a transparent attempt to distract readers from her opponent’s meeting with Jason Kessler, organizer of last August’s Nazi demonstration, several months before the event.” Agreed, this line of criticism is assinine.)
- Jimmy Carter urges Liberty University graduates to care for others, live peacefully
- Schapiro: Warner’s centrist politics graft credibility to Russia probe (As usual, the corporate media completely misuses the word “centrist.” Voting for a really bad Trump nominee now puts you in the “center?” Of what?)
- Editorial: 49 Virginia localities should acknowledge their legacy (“Those are the 49 localities where African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1932.”)
- Gibson: Want to bet what Virginia will do about sports gambling?
- Message, turnout and luck: Six Democrats try to make their marks in the race to face Comstock (The bottom line is we need to beat Comstock in November, no matter who the Democratic nominee ends up being.)
- Live blog: Del. Ben Cline wins Republican nomination in 6th District
- Cline named Republican nominee for 6th District congressional seat (Let me praise the corporate media for a change: Roanoke Times reporter Amy Friedenberger did a superb job yesterday of covering the VA-06 convention, providing rapid and accurate updates, photos, video, etc. Nice job, and thank you!)
- State delegate Ben Cline wins GOP nomination in bid to succeed Goodlatte in western Va. congressional district (Republicans got the outcome they wanted in VA-06.)
- Delay tactics test patience (“State Senate is deliberately taking its time to pass a budget, meanwhile local governments and schools suffer” Again, how hard would it be to say “the Republican-controlled State Senate?” Also, the Daily Press makes a wild mistake when it writes, “the Democrat-controlled House of Delegates.” Uhhhh…last I checked, Republicans hold a 51-49 edge there. WTF is wrong with the corporate media?)
- EDITORIAL: No permanent fix for split precincts
- After six months of silence in Park Police killing, Bijan Ghaisar’s family protests at Justice Department
- Editorial: Release the findings about jailhouse deaths
- That was Richmond’s biggest rainstorm since Gaston, and our wettest week in 63 years
- No injuries reported in CSX freight train derailment in Alexandria
- Boy Killed in Apparent Accident at Virginia Elementary School (“Wesley Lipicky was in the gym at Franconia Elementary School on Beulah Street in Alexandria about 4:45 p.m. Friday, when he and a teacher both pressed a button to open a large, motorized room partition, police said. Lipicky was caught between the partition and a wall and suffered traumatic head injuries, police said.”)
- Worst of the wet is gone, but occasional shower chances linger into midweek
