The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.
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Crixell Matthews/VPM NewsLieutenant governor says landmark case was about school choice, not segregation. -
John C. Clark/APState Sen. Mark Obenshain recently claimed otherwise in a floor speech.
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Scott Elmquist/VPM NewsSeveral Virginia governors have seen their party lose General Assembly seats during their term.
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Crixell Matthews/VPM NewsState general fund collections have increased by 45% over the past four years.
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The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.
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Office of Congressman Robert Garcia/Wikimedia CommonsThe inaccurate statements date back to a mid-2022 claim from prominent Republican politicians.
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Crixell Matthews/Setting new standards for teaching history in Virginia public schools has opened raw wounds along political and racial lines.
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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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Speaker: Creigh DeedsStatement: Red-flag laws have been “shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms.”Date: June 11Setting: Radio interview State… -
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine says his effort to raise the age for buying tobacco products from 18 to 21 is aimed at lowering teen use of e-cigarettes. We fact-checked whether the battery-powered gadgets really have erased gains in cutting teen smoking.
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Gov. Ralph Northam says an investigation has “confirmed” he didn’t appear in a racist photo on his personal page in his 1984 medical school yearbook.
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During a recent radio interview, Del. Bob Thomas, R-Stafford, predicted abortion will be a major issue this fall.
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Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe says he won’t run for president in 2020 because final touches are needed on his recoloring of Virginia.“I’m going back. I started the mission in Virginia,” the Democrat said during an April 18 CNN interview. “It was a red state when I started. When I left, it was a blue state.” Did Virginia's red-to-blue changes start with McAuliffe, as the former governor likes to say?
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Emmett Hanger, co-chairman of the budget-writing Senate Finance Committee, is under fire in a Republican primary this spring for supporting tax increases. The criticism is coming from challenger Tina Freitas, a GOP activist in the 24th Senate District, stretching from Staunton to Culpeper.
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Speaker: Beto O’RourkeStatement: “Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America [are] greater today, in 2019 than in the year…
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On the brink of deciding whether he’ll seek the Democratic presidential nomination, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is being accused of flip-flopping on a bill that would have eased Virginia’s restrictions on late-term abortions.
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Delegate Kaye Kory recently claimed a significant increase in the numbers of women being incarcerated. PolitiFact Virginia looked into that claim.
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Former Governor Terry McAuliffe fails to account for inflation in his education funding claim.
