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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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Sen. Jennifer Boysko claims the U.S. is the only developed nation without paid family leave. PolitiFactVA investigated that claim. -
Del. Kirk Cox has been leading Republican criticism that Virginia is off to a slow start in getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of citizens.
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Chase wrote, “Antifa is the culprit,” in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. She and other Republicans who have spread this myth have presented no evidence to back it up. There was an array of easily accessible information that refuted Chase’s claim at the time she made it. We rate Chase’s statement Pants on Fire.
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After a day of rioting and tumult, after a woman was fatally shot inside the Capitol, after senators and representatives were driven from their chambers, Congress in the early hours of Jan. 7 affirmed that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the duly elected president and vice president of the United States.
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The 2020 presidential election cycle is almost over. After the voting, the counting, the legal challenges, and the casting of the electoral college votes in December, a joint session of Congress will formally count the electoral votes for president at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6. The final margin — 306 for Joe Biden and 232 for Donald Trump — is already known.
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COVID-19 has struck all continents except Antarctica. As of Dec. 21, there have 77 million cases across the globe, and 1.7 million deaths. Does that qualify as affecting “a significant portion of the population,” as the definition requires? Merriam-Webster has no doubt; it cites COVID-19 as an example of a pandemic.
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We fact-checked Carter’s eye-popping claim that the U.S. imprisons more people than any nation in history and found that he’s wrong. Let’s take a look.
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State Sen. Amanda Chase, who calls herself “Donald Trump in heels,” recently failed to prove her claim that Virginia’s fall elections were rigged.
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In his bid to legalize pot in Virginia, Northam said, “People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”
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Tim Murtaugh, the director of communications for President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, wrongly told a Richmond radio audience that critical Pennsylvania ballots that helped tip the election to Democrat Joe Biden were secretly counted.
