Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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Virginia News
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Virginia News
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State to prioritize investigation of reported self-immolations over death.
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The mayor says the water works is preparing for Winter Storm Cora.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed similar legislation in 2024.
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Nearby resident describes water rushing like a ‘river,’ smell
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The city's Department of Public Utilities raised alarm six hours after flooding began.
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Frustration as citywide water outage shuts down storefronts.
NPR News
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Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.
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The official focus of the parade was the commemoration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But critics say the president is using the military show of force to push a political agenda.
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Organizers are accusing the president of putting on the parade as a show of dominance. The protests were peaceful, but came against the backdrop of assassinations in Minnesota.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
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President Trump's approach to deportations is giving Democrats a unifying message in opposition to him. But the Democratic Party still lacks a common vision for what it would do differently.
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