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Virginia News
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Lawmakers continue to push for the development of a legal retail marijuana market.
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Organizers say the effort is the nation’s largest school supply drive.
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Principal Nicholas Olson said the monthly meetups are an equitable way to hold clubs.
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Three more listening sessions will be held this week.
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The mayor spoke at VPM Media Corporation’s community block party in Historic Monroe Ward.
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Later, wearing a mask, the Alexandria-based runner told reporters he had COVID.
NPR News
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North Korea will send thousands to support reconstruction work in Russia's Kursk region. North Korea has already supplied combat troops and conventional weapons to back Russia's war against Ukraine.
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The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions, becoming the NHL's first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and '21 and the third team to do it this century.
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TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of "Worst Cooks in America," has died. Medical examiners are set to determine what caused her death.
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Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't successful until earlier this month.
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President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.
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?