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Capt. Dave Snowden was fired for loss of confidence in his ability to command.
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The waterway’s foundation hosts an annual event to celebrate progress, advocacy.
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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning Feb. 24.
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Mike Macans is one of an unknown number of Small Business Administration employees who were fired, unfired and fired again as part of the Trump administration's deep cuts to the federal workforce.
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The final day of regular session saw an adjournment, a continuation and a new start
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NPR News
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ESPN says its subscription plan will cost $29.99 a month. An analyst says that, combined with subscriptions to other streaming services, could drive the cost up to the price of cable packages.
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The rapper's Instagram account says his lungs collapsed after he was stabbed 14 times, but he is "in good spirits." Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
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This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.
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The agency is taking steps to remove prescription fluoride treatments that children swallow.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Col. Bree Fram, an openly transgender member of the U.S. Space Force, about the Supreme Court upholding Trump's ban on transgender military service members.
Arts & Culture
- Tara Roberts helps scuba divers uncover slave shipwrecks
- 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
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