by Lowell
Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, May 31.
- World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts (“With the Trump administration withdrawing the welcome mat for promising researchers, America is at risk of losing its pre-eminence in the sciences.” Massive vandalism by Trump.)
- OPEC+ Agrees on Third Oil Supply Surge to Deepen Price Slump
- Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of doing ‘everything it can’ to sabotage peace talks
- An overreaching Putin refused to take yes for an answer (“The Russian president has a chance to escape his Ukraine disaster. He’s blowing it.”)
- In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
- How controversial US-Israeli backed Gaza aid plan turned to chaos
- Trump Says Chinese Students Are a Security Risk. Espionage Experts Are Skeptical. (“Some former spy-hunters see the State Department’s plan to revoke visas of some Chinese college students as heavy-handed and counterproductive.”)
Pete Hegseth calls on Asia to boost military spending in face of ‘imminent’ threat from China- Trump claims China has “totally violated” tariff pause deal
- Trump says China ‘violated’ agreement on trade talks and he’ll stop being ‘nice’
- UK forging ahead with US trade talks, despite court block on Trump’s tariffs
- Trump claimed ‘tariffs are easy’ – he’s learning the hard way that’s not the case
- Trump news at a glance: Surprise doubling of steel tariffs risks global market turmoil – again
- US to double tariffs on steel and aluminium imports to 50%, Trump says
- Trump says he plans to double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50%
- Trump tells US steelworkers he’s going to double tariffs on foreign steel to 50%
- Trump’s Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much
- Trump White House steps up attacks on courts after tariff ruling
- Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days
- Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apart (Noem is a puppy-murdering psycho.)
- How ICE Is Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations Through Courthouse Arrests
- Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler’s aides in chaotic day at NY fed building
- A court halted his deportation. The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later. (Defiance of the courts should lead to contempt, etc.)
- Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration, for Now, to End Biden-Era Migrant Program (This Supreme Court is appallingly bad.)
- Trump just threw one of his most powerful allies under the bus (“Maybe it’s unwise to pick a fight with the folks who control the Supreme Court?”)
- Vance’s Trump Force Two Campaign Plane Now Being Used for Deportation Flights
- CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
- Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids (Just do the opposite of anything batsh**-crazy RFK Jr. says.)
- The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man
- Trump’s War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement
- Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine (WTF???)
- STAT+: New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request
- 25 million cavities and $9.8 billion: Study estimates the costs of removing fluoride from water
- Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions (INSANE.)
- Wall Street warns Trump aides the GOP tax bill could jolt bond markets
- Team Trump is Poised to Kill a Critical Program It Likely Knows Nothing About (“Apparently unbeknownst to the administration, the Ecosystems Mission Area protects key health and economic interests.”)
- Trump administration to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans’ for federal jobs
- Trump nominee to lead Office of Special Counsel Paul Ingrassia suggested it’s “very based” to think women should not vote (“Ingrassia also said Nikki Haley ‘should be deported,’ but added, ‘I realize she’s — I guess she was born here’”)
- Trump picks right-wing lawyer and podcaster who promoted 2020 election lies as watchdog agency head (Wildly unacceptable.)
- Bono Schools Joe Rogan on ‘Evil’ Elon Musk Unleashed on the World
- DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches
- Musk bids goodbye to Washington — for now
- Elon Musk’s Drug Use Much Greater Than Previously Known: New York Times
- Insane moment Elon Musk ‘SHOVED’ Trump’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent during screaming match
- Trump’s mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules
- DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is ‘Really Not Leaving’ (UGH.)
- Oval and out: Musk and Trump’s farewell marred by disillusionment
- Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship (“The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close” Vomit.)
- Musk says black eye came from his son’s punch as he sports shiner during Oval Office meeting with Trump
- X Implodes After Trump Praises It as ‘Free Speech Platform’
- Trump’s Playbook to Cripple “60 Minutes” and the Press (“The veteran journalist Lesley Stahl on the pressures at CBS News, the history of Presidential attacks on the news media, and how journalists today should respond.”)
- ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Remembers When TV Had a Conscience, and a Spine (“A TV critic looks at George Clooney’s play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.”)
- PBS sues Trump over executive order targeting federal funding, following NPR
- Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery (Illegal, right?)
- Defending Medicaid Cuts, Ernst Tells Iowans, ‘We All Are Going to Die’
- Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy (Sick.)
- Donald Trump’s Pardon Spree Places MAGA Loyalists Above the Law
- Jake Tapper Tapped Out: Anti-Biden Book First Week Sales A Bust After Non Stop CNN Shilling (Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson represent everything wrong with journalism. NOBODY should buy their book, read their book, promote their book, etc.)
- Feckless MAGA Ben Cline claims we spent $32,000 on Australian breakdancing (“You’d think you’d have somebody look this stuff up before tweeting about it, wouldn’t you?”)
- Abigail Spanberger Marks 7 Years of Medicaid Expansion in Virginia, Says It’s “Unacceptable” That “Republicans in Congress are still trying to take away Virginians’ healthcare” (Vows: “I will always stand up to attempts to take healthcare coverage away from Virginia families.”)
- Unearthed Audio Exposes Winsome Earle-Sears’ Extreme Anti-Choice Views – “We need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after…You already made a choice” (Earle-Sears previously said she considers abortion to be “genocide”)
- Ad spending ramps up in race for Virginia governor (“With the election still five months away, Sabato warns not to get caught up in the numbers. ‘Doesn’t mean a thing,’ he said. ‘Both of them will spend tons of money, million and millions and millions.'”)
- House Republicans’ Medicaid cuts threaten Virginia’s rural hospitals (“An April 2025 report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform identified eight rural hospitals in Virginia at immediate risk of closing.”)
- Charlottesville added to federal list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’
- Virginia capital likely has 742 unmarked graves, some of Confederate soldiers, study finds
- Albemarle County: Youngkin vetoed $1.37M in funding for trail connector at Biscuit Run Park
- CWG Live updates: Cooler today with a gusty breeze and a few showers; warmer next week
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