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About 8% percent of plastic bottles are recycled in the commonwealth. -
Look at the year in Central Virginia news through our photojournalist's eyes.
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Jubilee was denied attendance to Longwood during Jim Crow in the 1960s.
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The Master Plan podcast examines Associate Justice Lewis Powell Jr. and ex-Gov. Bob McDonnell.
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Two moderate House Democrats with national security backgrounds came to Congress in the first Trump era. Now they're running for governor, in races that could be a referendum on Trump's second term.
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Beato Ortiz Hernández was born with the Mexican food staple.
NPR News
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The city of Glendale, Calif. is ending an agreement with ICE to temporarily hold migrant detainees in the local jail. NPR's A Martinez speaks with Mayor Ara Najarian about the decision.
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States argue that biological samples, DNA data, health-related traits and medical records are too sensitive to be sold without each person's express, informed consent.
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U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It's a welcome pivot for families and communities devastated by fentanyl.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., told NPR that the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles by President Trump is "an illegal act."
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President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
