Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
Spotlight on VPM Original Content
Virginia News
NPR News
Virginia News
-
Lawmakers continue to push for the development of a legal retail marijuana market.
-
Organizers say the effort is the nation’s largest school supply drive.
-
Principal Nicholas Olson said the monthly meetups are an equitable way to hold clubs.
-
Three more listening sessions will be held this week.
-
The mayor spoke at VPM Media Corporation’s community block party in Historic Monroe Ward.
-
Later, wearing a mask, the Alexandria-based runner told reporters he had COVID.
NPR News
-
An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.
-
From British royalty and billionaire antics to the latest in U.S. news, this week's quiz will make you feel smart and savvy at the dinner table.
-
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told Morning Edition that "in all likelihood" President Trump exaggerated the damage U.S. bombs made to Iran's nuclear enrichment program.
-
A U.S. Marine veteran and son of a man whose violent arrest went viral, said his father always prioritized he and his two Marine brothers' well-being so that they could "give back to this country."
-
In 2003 George W. Bush set up the global health initiative PEPFAR in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Over the last couple of decades, it's saved millions of lives for relatively little money. But cuts under the Trump administration have gutted the program. An estimated 70,000 people have died already due to the cutbacks. We speak to journalist Jon Cohen who visited Eswatini and Lesotho to learn about the suspended program's effects on the ground.
Arts & Culture
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad
- How did Chesterfield County’s charter get lost so many times?