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Virginia's conservative Black female lieutenant governor wants the state's top job.
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“This ordinance did not just ‘fall out of a coconut tree.’”
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Residents and elected officials raised several issues over Luck Stone's rezoning.
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An epidemiologist explains why officials recommend getting these three shots.
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City Council previously agreed to sell the land for $10.
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The grants will support programs from Rockbridge County to Newport News.
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President Trump warned that a "massive" war could break out in the Middle East over Iran's nuclear program, after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran wasn't complying with its nonproliferation duties.
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The last time the United States held a national military parade was in June 1991, timed to welcome returning veterans of the 100-day Persian Gulf War.
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Demonstrators take to the streets in Kenya's capitol over the suspicious death of a popular blogger in police custody — a flashpoint of outrage in a country still reeling from last year's deadly crackdown on anti-tax protests.
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GOP lawmakers on Thursday blasted Democratic immigration policies as coddling violent criminals. Democrats portrayed Trump's escalating migrant sweeps as a dangerous assault on civil liberties.
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Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.