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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning July 7.
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Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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Colonial Williamsburg's annual July 4 fireworks show draws thousands and requires a year of planning and agreeable weather to ensure safety.
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The full 2025 GOP ticket appeared together for the first time on Tuesday.
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A Henrico County judge issued a consent decree OKing the controversial practice.
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The justices are set to review lower court rulings in favor of trans students in Idaho and West Virginia.
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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales will join the King and Queen in granting Royal Warrants — a sort of "seal of approval" — on certain goods and services.
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Ukraine said it struck a Russian airbase on Saturday, while Russia continued to pound Ukraine with hundreds of drones overnight, dashing hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the war.
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Democrats feel that Trump's tax and spending bill gives them an opening ahead of the 2026 midterms. But if they want to win back the House, they're going to have to get their own house in order first.
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?