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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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Democrat Jennifer Carroll Foy said a key reason she’s running for governor is to rid Virginia's government of corruption. PolitiFact VA dug into her claim about FBI investigations of former governors. -
GOP gubernatorial candidate Pete Snyder says that despite having less restriction than Virginia, Florida saw the same amount of COVID-19 spread. PolitiFact VA dug into that claim.
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Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe claims Virginia teachers are paid worse, in comparison to their fellow Virginians, than those in any other state. PolitiFact VA dug into the numbers and found the gubernatorial candidate is on the mark.
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During a March 2 news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public.
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Republican Pete Snyder is focusing his gubernatorial campaign on building a movement to reopen Virginia schools that have been closed during the coronavirus pandemic. He's falsely claimed "all of the science and data" shows it's safe to reopen schools; PolitiFactVA dug into what the science really says.
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Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Arlington) argues states that abolished the death penalty have lower murder rates. PolitiFactVA dug into that claim.
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PolitiFact breaks down the claims from day one of President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
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During the final weeks of 2020, U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria accepted $34,000 in corporate PAC contributions to pay down debt from her recently successful reelection campaign.
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On Jan. 6, PolitiFact published an article about the storming of the U.S. Capitol and the baseless accusations about the presidential election results that led up to it. In the article, we asked whether it was accurate to call it a coup. But because the details of that day’s events were still emerging, we did not draw a firm conclusion. Now, an academic center that was the major resource for our analysis — the Coup D’etat Project at the University of Illinois’ Cline Center for Advanced Social Research— has made a determination that had not been made at the time we wrote our initial article.
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Several studies show the promise of sniffer dogs. But they also said it’s important to do more research and that detection dogs can be used as a complement to more reliable testing.
