by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 23.
- India Election Results Live: Modi’s Party Set to Increase Its Grip on Power (“Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s B.J.P., a Hindu nationalist party, is on track to win back-to-back majorities, a first for any Indian political party since 1984.”)
- Modi promises inclusive India after stunning election win
- US officials: Plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast
- Senate committee rejects proposal to require congressional approval before US strike on Iran (“The Senate Foreign Relations committee on Wednesday rejected a Democratic proposal to require congressional approval before the United States takes any military action against Iran.”)
- Faced with relentless American pressure, Iran starts to hit back/a> (“Tehran is seeking to exact a cost for U.S. sanctions that have battered its economy, but it wants to avoid an all-out war.”)
- Full-Blown Trade War Is Quickly Shifting From Risk to ‘Baseline’
- Putin out-prepared Trump in key meeting, Rex Tillerson told House panel (Of course he did; Trump is lazy, ignorant and incompetent.)
- Pound Investors Are Bailing Out as May’s Fate Deepens Brexit Chaos
- U.S. Navy again sails through Taiwan Strait, angering China
- The Real Reason Trump Walked Out on Democrats (“The meeting wasn’t just called off because Pelosi hurt the president’s feelings on Wednesday morning. It’s because the president’s grand infrastructure vision wasn’t going anywhere, and he took the convenient off-ramp: that Democrats were too maniacal to work with constructively.”)
- Trump, Angered by ‘Phony’ Inquiries, Blows Up Meeting With Pelosi and Schumer (Petulant child.)
- Pelosi: Trump ‘cover-up’ could be ‘impeachable offense’
- Trump ‘is really coming unglued’: Conservative worries the president seems more ‘unhinged’ every day
- Trump’s Financial Secrets Move Two Steps Closer to Becoming Public (“A federal judge ruled against a request from President Trump to block Deutsche Bank from complying with congressional subpoenas seeking records.
And in Albany, New York State lawmakers approved a bill that would allow Congress to obtain Mr. Trump’s state tax returns.”) - Judges must move quickly to hold Trump accountable (“Another week, another empty witness chair.”)
- Judge says Deutsche Bank, Capital One can give Trump financial records to House Democrats
- Wells Fargo, TD Bank have already given Trump-related financial documents to Congress (“The disclosures come as a federal judge ruled Wednesday that two other banks — Deutsche Bank and Capital One — can give financial documents to Congress.”)
- Congress Will Likely Soon Have Its Hands on a Trove of Trump Financial Documents
- Don’t get it twisted. Trump is the one with the picket sign. (“He goes on strike in the Rose Garden, grinding the government to a halt to keep his own secrets”)
- Trump seems to be transparently mad (“His tantrum in the Rose Garden shows that he thinks the walls are closing in on him.”)
- Pelosi to Impatient Dems: We’ve Got Trump on the Ropes
- Why Pelosi is so good at infuriating Trump (“The speaker stands firm against the president like few others.”)
- Poll: 60 percent say Trump should not be reelected
- New York Passes Bill Giving Congress a Way to Get Trump’s State Tax Returns (“Tax officials would be authorized to hand over his state returns to any one of three congressional committees, opening a new front in a heated battle.”)
- Trump’s new message: Me first, America second (“Analysis: By saying the quiet part out loud again, Trump has owned the decision to make the next 18 months about him and not the American public.”)
- If 2020 Democrats Are Going to Be Serious About Climate, They Need to Cut Out Congress (“The next Climate Action Plan just would have to go bigger and come much earlier than a second term to begin making a deep dent in the country’s footprint.”)
- John Walker Lindh, The ‘American Taliban,’ Set To Be Released (“Lindh, now 38, is scheduled to be released from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., on Thursday after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence.”)
- Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says (Racist much?)
- Top GOP pollster finds overwhelming support for carbon tax by millennial Republicans (“A new survey finds Republicans under 40 support a carbon tax 7-to-1. And a remarkable 85% of Republican millennials are concerned that ‘the current Republican position on climate change is hurting the party with younger voters.'”)
- Harris readies a Phase 2 as she seeks to rejuvenate campaign
- Right-wing media’s anti-abortion misinformation playbook for 2020
- Documents detail how Jerry Falwell Jr. went into South Beach venture with ‘pool boy’
- Senior U.S. senator urges Canada to protest China’s abuse of Uyghur minority (“U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Warner says Western countries, including Canada, must speak out more forcefully against China’s crackdown on its Muslim Uyghur minority and use of ‘bone-chilling’ surveillance technology.”)
- Bill to Support Foster Children, Families Introduced by Tim Kaine
- Layne: Washington moves — federal debt, tariff — could whack Virginia
- Bobby Scott pushes for more accurate criminal history records
- EVMS probe could not determine whether Northam was in racist photo, but school knew about it for years
- Virginia Democratic leaders have little to say about findings in Northam investigation
- Virginia Adjutant General Appears to Confirm that Virginia Will Comply with Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
- Full McGuireWoods Report on Northam’s Med School Yearbook Photos; Video of Press Conference
- VIDEO: What Will the McGuireWoods Report on Ralph Northam’s Yearbook Say? [UPDATE: Inconclusive]
- Schapiro: Northam blackface report – some answers, more questions
- Probe inconclusive; EVMS president knew of racist photo on Northam’s page and said nothing
- The report on the Northam blackface scandal is a big fat shrug (“There is no verdict at all.” Agreed, this appears to have been a waste of time and money.)
- Editorial: It’s probably not Northam in that photo, but nobody looks good in Cullen’s report (“The best thing for Northam would have been if the report had identified who was in the photo. It did not…In a way, everyone comes out looking bad here. For an inconclusive report, that seems pretty conclusive.”))
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Advertising: Dominion Goes for the Green
- Chaz Nuttycombe Analyzes the “Toilet Seat District” (HD72): Del. Schuyler VanValkenburg (D) Should Win Reelection by 5-9 Pts.
- Sun Gazette endorses McKay for Fairfax Board of Supervisors
- Arlington Sun Gazette endorses Stamos in race for prosecutor
- Sen. Warner loops through Loudoun, hears concerns on safety and tariffs
- The Virginia Green New Deal: The Role of Farming and Rural Economies
- Officials warn residents to prepare for 15-week Metro shutdown that starts Saturday (“The closure of six stations south of Reagan National Airport will affect an estimated 17,000 riders daily.”)
- Video, Photos: SW Virginia Comes to Leesburg! Pipeline Fight Continues with History Lesson
- Hileman: MVP renders the law meaningless
- Hot today with severe storms possible; nice tomorrow before a summery holiday weekend
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