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Virginia News
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Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning Jan. 20.
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Possible federal funding cuts, state trigger law put coverage at risk
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Final Senate vote this session expected Tuesday
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President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office at noon followed by a presidential parade, signing ceremony and inaugural balls.
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President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to improving their communities."
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Take a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sitcom Cheers. He died this week at the age of 76.
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Trump's misleading video of a 'burial site' for white South African farmers reopened 'new wounds,' victim's son tells NPR.
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Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday in May, is a day to honor and mourn fallen military service members. NPR readers share stories of the loved ones they've lost.
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The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.