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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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Poltifiact Virginia: Is Virginia's lockdown date the latest in the nation? -
Some Virginia Democrats changed position on a proposed redistricting amendment that would take map-drawing power away from the General Assembly.
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Is there a slow pace of testing attributable to Pres. Obama? Is the US screening too few people? And, does the coronavirus test cost $3,200? PolitiFact VA editor Warren Fiske fact checks the coronavirus.
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House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, recently accused the newly-elected Democratic majorities in the General Assembly of undermining Virginia’s pro-business environment.
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U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-5th, recently accused the newly-elected Democratic majority in the General Assembly of embracing liberal policies that are out of sync with Virginia.
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A leading gun rights activist says Democratic lawmakers are trying to penalize law-abiding firearm owners for violence committed by gangs. We rated this statement false.
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PolitiFact examines General Assembly candidate Sheila Bynum-Coleman's statement regarding disproportionate drug arrest rates for African Americans.
