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The journalist unpacks how the ocean helped her discover her history.
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RTL helped popularize kids shows like Dragon Tales and Between the Lions.
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Updated: The cuts affect more than 150 people serving in the commonwealth.
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To account for immediate tariff impacts, the utility plans to increase customers' monthly energy bills by an average of 4 cents over the life of the project.
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The Henrico facility is part of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s $500M mental health initiative.
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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning May 5.
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Trump said this would boost U.S. exports of beef, ethanol and other goods — though details on food standards still need to be worked out. The 10% U.S. tariff on imports of most British goods remains.
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Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the department will consider bringing back some employees who took the government's deferred resignation offer.
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Dr. Janette Nesheiwat withdrew her nomination for Surgeon General after questions about her credentials. Dr. Casey Means has a medical degree from Stanford and a best-selling book on metabolic health.
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An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly electronics and save money on bills, consumer and environmental groups said.
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The immediate impact of the cargo decline affects virtually every business around the ports, but port officials say this downturn will soon be felt much more broadly.
Arts & Culture
- New Burying Ground honors enslaved labor at University of Richmond
- Museums, libraries and cultural groups grapple with federal humanities cuts
- ‘Idleness and boredom’: Virginia juvenile justice system strained by staffing shortages
- Shockoe Institute breaks ground for new center in Richmond