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Both localities reported more than 70% turnout of registered voters.
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Tuesday's referendum passed with over 80% of the vote.
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Mull is a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and Lithuania
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The Northern Virginia congressman, 74, has represented Fairfax for decades.
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Name recognition and grassroots engagement were “the real key.”
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Israel's conflict with Iran is pushing its war in Gaza to the periphery. But Palestinians there are still being killed and are under a near-total blockade.
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North Korea sent 11,000 elite soldiers to support Russia. Their progress — especially in drone warfare — has implications not only for Russia's war on Ukraine but also peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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NPR speaks with a student from Myanmar who fears his plans to attend graduate school in the U.S. could be derailed by the administration's newest travel ban.
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The U.S. is no longer a player in the world of commercial shipbuilding. President Trump wants to change that.
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The Los Angeles Press Club says police officers repeatedly used "less-lethal" bullets and violated the constitutional rights of reporters covering anti-ICE protests.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad