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A Richmond Public Schools program aims to make every child English–Spanish fluent.
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He led the department during the Sept. 11 attacks and D.C. sniper shootings.
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Federal prosecutors accused the Isle of Wight County resident of being an anti-government extremist.
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VPM News gets a little bit curious in time for the year-end holidays.
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From Curious Commonwealth to RVA's Got Issues and VPM News Focal Point.
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The outgoing two-term leader says the city is in a “far better place” than it was 10 years ago.
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Gerard Van de Werken is a volunteer with Austin Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit housing organization. For our series, Here to Help, he discusses his decades-long history with the organization.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the government was arming factions in the Gaza Strip to combat Hamas, after accusations from an opposition politician.
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President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes Afghanistan. Since American troops left in August of 2021, many Afghans have already arrived in the U.S. but many more are still waiting.
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President Trump and his former adviser, Elon Musk, lashed out at each other on social media Thursday in a public feud that has ramped up since Musk left his role with the administration last week.
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ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.