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Virginia News
- State Police obtained Facebook records of Va. lawmaker who held campaign raffle
- Kaine talks infrastructure bill at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
- Virginia no longer ranked ‘worst for workers’
- Northam grants posthumous pardons to the Martinsville Seven, Black men executed in 1951 for rape
- As drug overdoses spike in Virginia, vigil at McShin campus remembers those who died
- Mayor, Richmond City Council members walk away from talk on policing after their lawyer says the meeting must be public
- Virginia Tech doesn’t enroll 134 students due to vaccination non-compliance
- Federal prosecutors in Virginia tackle violent crime
- Albemarle mask policy keeps some students with disabilities out of buildings
- UPDATE: Ida could bring floods and tornadoes to Va. on Wednesday. Here’s how the risk varies by region.
- A tornado scare in Blacksburg as remnants of Hurricane Ida roll through on Tuesday evening
National News
- Supreme Court allows Texas’ 6-week abortion ban to take effect
- Biden declares end to war, defends exit
- ‘Spiral into crisis’: The U.S.-China military hotline is dangerously broken
- Okla. congressman threatened embassy staff as he tried to enter Afghanistan, officials say
- New Orleans Aches for Electricity to Return After Ida
- ‘It could’ve been worse’: Utah governor wrestles with Covid compromises
- Airline employees took on new mission in Afghanistan conflict’s final days: Getting evacuees to the U.S.
- Biden’s top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA
- Man charged with $25M extortion scheme promising pardon for Rep. Matt Gaetz
- Jeffrey Epstein accuser asks Supreme Court to uphold victims’ rights
