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The General Assembly agreed on a nonbinding definition of the term, but couldn’t compromise on hate crime legislation.
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Crixell Matthews/The day after a mass shooting in Chesapeake, Del. Cliff Hayes Jr. said the nation must discuss firearm homicides. -
The claim that rape is unlikely to lead to pregnancy has “no biological plausibility.”
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Crixell Matthews/Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney is downplaying the role he may have played in the recent resignation of city police Chief Gerald Smith.
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Crixell Matthews/Republicans voted for two earlier coronavirus relief bills that also, among many things, allowed coronavirus relief checks to go to imprisoned people.
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McCarthy will appear with Vega at an Oct. 18 fundraiser in McLean.
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Crixell Matthews/Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently gave his blessings to an “Election Integrity Unit” to investigate and prosecute violations of Virginia’s election laws.
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At issue is a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would set a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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Crixell Matthews/Abigail Spanberger, seeking a third term in Congress this fall, is running against Republican Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor.
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Greg Nash/AP/Pool The HillCline’s comparison is based on his faulty premise that the law will provide $80 billion to “double the size of the IRS, adding an army of 87,000 new enforcement agents.”
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Crixell Matthews/Good says Democrats all but declared war on the middle class by supporting a tax and spending bill that will expand the Internal Revenue Service.
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President Joe Biden won’t be on ballots this fall, but his name will loom in Virginia’s closely-watched 7th Congressional District race between incumbent Democrat Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Republican Yesli Vega. -
Virginia allows abortions through the first two trimesters of pregnancy — about a 26-week timeframe.
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Good is urging Republicans to reject Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to strike a compromise with Democrats that would ban most Virginia abortions at 15 weeks.
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Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney recently lashed out at State Health Commissioner Colin Greene for dismissing racism as a public health issue and characterizing gun violence as a “Democratic talking point.”
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The United States is backtracking on integrating public schools, according to Rep. Bobby Scott.
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Until May, Petersen publicly supported the NFL franchise locating in Virginia.
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Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears recently said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland “sicced police” on parents who spoke out at school board meetings.
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The Republican Party of Virginia recently held a weekend bash at a Dulles hotel to celebrate its sweep in the statewide elections last fall and discuss its agenda. High among its goals is to repeal the state’s Clean Economy Act, a law that commits Virginia to joining a regional cap-and-trade program and achieving 100% carbon-free power by 2050.
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Rep. Don Beyer of Northern Virginia is among the many Democrats disappointed by a draft opinion showing the U.S. Supreme Court has tentatively voted to strike down its 49-year-old Roe v. Wade decision establishing a right to an abortion.
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U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman recently mischaracterized a government tool being used to track people entering the country illegally as a smartphone giveaway.
