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Virginia News
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One person said the protest was the only way to make their 'case heard'
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State Sen. John McGuire retained a roughly 300-vote lead on Friday.
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State Sen. Suhas Subramanyam’s candidacy is historic. He'll face Republican Mike Clancy in the general.
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The Democrat defeated attorney Jeremiah “Jake” Denton IV for the party's nomination.
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The House of Delegates meets June 28. Virginia’s next budget starts July 1.
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Residents, activists and a Southwest Virginia congressman want more info.
NPR News
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Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.
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For weeks, federal prosecutors have laid out their case against Sean Combs in a Manhattan courtroom. His attorneys should begin presenting their defense on Tuesday. They aren't expected to take long.
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Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. The Committee to Protect Journalists warns his case represents an "erosion" of freedom of speech.
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President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on Monday. But despite separate statements from the two countries saying they agreed to a truce, reports persisted of further airstrikes.
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NPR's Michel Martin asks the Atlantic Council's Jonathan Panikoff whether a ceasefire agreement will stick between two countries that have spent decades antagonizing each other, Israel and Iran.
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