University of Virginia professor Jalane Schmidt led the child-friendly walk on Friday.
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The vetoes come a day after the conclusion of a $2 billion arena deal Youngkin championed.
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When the General Assembly reconvenes April 17, it will consider Youngkin's proposal.
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It's a more definitive end to the proposal than the General Assembly's legislative stonewalling.
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The governor also amended six bills and signed two others.
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The General Assembly has granted nine localities the necessary power on a case-by-case basis.
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Most of the rejected legislation affected policing, prosecution and incarceration.
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In 2003 George W. Bush set up the global health initiative PEPFAR in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Over the last couple of decades, it's saved millions of lives for relatively little money. But cuts under the Trump administration have gutted the program. An estimated 70,000 people have died already due to the cutbacks. We speak to journalist Jon Cohen who visited Eswatini and Lesotho to learn about the suspended program's effects on the ground.
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Anna Wintour is leaving her post as American Vogue's editor-in-chief after 37 years — but she's not retiring. She will remain a global force at Condé Nast as a new era begins for the magazine.
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Chad Machado and his son, Xavier, live in Kekaha — a small town on Hawaii's western island of Kaua'i. Xavier never took to school, but had been obsessed with cooking from a young age. So when Chad lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, they decided to take a risk and open up a pizza shop.
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The announcement on Canada follows a flurry of updates around trade talks and a suggestion by President Trump that the upcoming July 8 deadline for countries to make deals with the U.S. is moveable.
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Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the "Twitter killer," was sentenced to death in 2020 for the killings in 2017 of the nine victims, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media.
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