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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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Although former Gov. Terry McAuliffe did turn around a bad financial situation, it's not true that he inherited a large deficit from his GOP predecessor. -
Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says that Terry McAuliffe, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, wants to restrict Virginia schools from teaching about the 4th of July and the Pledge of Allegiance.
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“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church,” Winsome Sears said during a May 13 interview on Fox News. Her historical claim was new to us, and we decided to fact check it.
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Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for governor, says there’s nothing new about his recent proclamations that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected to the office. PolitiFact says that's not quite true.
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Former and perhaps future Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently said that student performance in Peterburg, one of Virginia’s most financially troubled cities, vastly improved when he led the state from 2014 to 2018.
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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) claimed last month the Green New Deal will cost the average American household about $75,000 each year.
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No Republican in the General Assembly voted for a coming law on July 1 that will legalize possession of an ounce of marijuana in Virginia. Beyond the legalization, their list of objections includes what they say are light penalties for people possessing much more than an ounce of the drug.
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McAuliffe: “I restored felons’ rights - 173,000 - more than any governor in the history of America.”Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he restored voting rights to more people convicted of a felony than any governor in history. Is he right?
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People who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should seek medical assistance if they experience severe headaches, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath within three weeks of receiving the shot. Otherwise, there’s little reason for concern about what federal officials said is a very rare reaction involving blood clots.
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State Sen Amanda Chase threatened to bolt the Republican party and run for governor as an independent last December, a threat she later rescinded. PolitiFactVA examines whether Chase has changed her position.
