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Virginia News
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The city would use the site for a preschool, schools offices; UVA would expand program offerings.
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They resemble slot machines, and their legality is hotly contested.
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The GOP nominee says a social media account containing explicit photos is part of a campaign to force him out of the race.
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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning April 28.
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The planned amendment would outlaw new tobacco or hemp retail across most of the entire city.
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Teodoro Dominguez-Rodriguez and Pablo Aparicio-Marcelino were arrested Tuesday.
NPR News
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the U.S., about the violent conflict between India and Pakistan.
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Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.
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President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.
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A federal judge in San Francisco issued a two-week restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government. Her order applies to 20 agencies.
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The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.
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