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RVA's Got Issues
Headwaters Down
Un-wine'd
Virginia News
NPR News
Virginia News
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NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in 2023. -
Virginia also lost $219 million in funding, which had already been allocated.
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County officials agreed to target investments toward infrastructure.
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Virginia Clean Economy Act, RGGI could face federal challenges.
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The Fredericksburg native uses sounds from nature to create folk music.
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Pennycuff has been the interim leader since August 2024.
NPR News
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Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.
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Do you have trouble remembering names or where you put your keys? Neurologist Charan Ranganath, author of Why We Remember, talks about the science of memory. Originally broadcast Feb. 24, 2024.
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U.S. employers added 139,000 jobs in May — a modest slowdown from the previous month. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, as the workforce shrank.
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President Trump and Elon Musk deal personal jabs in a public breakup that started over the "big, beautiful bill." And, the U.S. faces serious overcrowding at ICE detention centers.
Arts & Culture
- 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?
- Jefferson School bolsters history exhibit with Charlottesville student records
