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Virginia News
NPR News
Virginia News
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Virginia remains one of at least 20 states without a major league sports team.
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The former Richmond resident, who turned 24 last month while in captivity, has spent 200-plus days in captivity.
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The county will soon start construction on a five-mile portion of the multi-use trail.
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Frances W. McClenney’s daughter said she faced threats for working at the school.
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The two-term Richmond mayor says he’s instead running for lieutenant governor.
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Youngkin pitched the changes to Virginia’s two-year spending bill as a "Common Ground Budget."
NPR News
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Tillis was one of only two Senate Republicans, along with Rand Paul, Ky., who voted against a motion to start debate on Republicans' massive tax and spending bill.
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS that Iran had a "a very vast ambitious" nuclear program.
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A young shop manager living alone in Iran's capital was panicking during the war with Israel. Her family wasn't nearby. Her therapist had fled. So she turned to an AI chat bot.
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Amid a wave of national security measures, immigrants from China must prove they've given up their household registration in China by June 30. Many are Chinese women married to men from Taiwan.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, about how U.S. strikes on Iran could impact nuclear proliferation globally.
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?