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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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In a recent TV ad, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe says Glenn Youngkin, his Republican opponent, “called COVID relief ‘unnecessary,’” a charge the two candidates have been tussling over since June. We fact-checked the claim and found McAuliffe has taken liberty with Youngkin’s position on the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that sent $1,400 checks to many people and aid to state and local governments. -
Has Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin changed his position on axing Virginia’s personal income tax?
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says Virginia’s public education has suffered in recent years and puts some of the blame on Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, who led the state from 2014 to 2018.
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State Sen. David Suetterlein says the General Assembly recently handed Gov. Ralph Northam a “$1 billion blank check.” We fact-checked whether Northam has a free hand in spending the unappropriated money and found Suetterlein’s statement is highly exaggerated.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says critical race theory has become pervasive in Virginia schools and must be expunged.
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Rep. Bob Good has questioned the value of cloth masks in reducing the spread of COVID-19. PolitiFact VA reviewed the available evidence, and finds Good's conclusion is false.
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President Joe Biden recently lauded once and possibly future Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s record as a job creator when he led Virginia from 2014 to 2018.
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U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., is flipping the script, saying that all congressional Republicans voted to defund police this year when they opposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. PolitiFact VA breaks down his claim.
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Once and possible future Gov. Terry McAuliffe says in a web ad that his opponent this year, Republican Glenn Youngkin, was a “big fan” of McAuliffe’s governorship from 2014-2018. What's the story behind the ad?
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says recent Democratic governors have pushed Virginia into economic decline and people are moving out. PolitiFact found the economic impact largely came from the federal government and free market housing policies - not state leaders - but he's not wrong about people leaving the state.
