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Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia gathered with top donors on Thursday and Friday as the rising GOP star mulls a potential 2024 White House bid

A diminishing Ian is expected to bring heavy rains across parts of the eastern U.S. as residents continue to assess the damage in Florida and South Carolina.

Sugar Land Police Department announced they have named a new police chief on Friday.

The USS Gerald R. Ford leaves the world's largest Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, Monday along with destroyers and other warships, the U.S. Navy said in a statement Thursday. The carrier strike group will join ships in the Atlantic Ocean from countries that include France, Germany and Sweden for various exercises, including anti-submarine warfare. “The Atlantic is an area of strategic interest,” Vice Admiral Daniel Dwyer said in a statement.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin predicts that Republican gains in the 2022 midterms would be a reset on the economy and may help curb recession woes.

Millions of Floridians were under evacuation orders as wind and rain from the massive storm, which has left Cuba in the dark, started lashing the state.

Students streamed out of their classrooms to decry the model policies unveiled earlier this month.

The Fed's Charles Evans said he remains "cautiously optimistic" that the U.S. economy can avoid a recession provided there are no further external shocks.

The Central Intelligence Agency museum in Virginia will add new spy exhibits such as newly declassified artifacts from the CIA’s most storied operations.

An endangered giraffe named Imara gave birth to her daughter Tisa in front of visitors at The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk earlier this month. Both animals are Masai giraffes.

Andrew Grady explained after that he had an issue with Davey Callihan's driving and blamed him for a wreck during one of the qualifying races.

Johnny Depp has a new romance with attorney Joelle Rich, a London-based mother of two who represented him in his U.K. defamation trial against a British newspaper.

A class-action lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, is challenging VA's implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

The Virginia screamo heroes return with their first album in 20 years.

The singer-songwriter has a record release party at Comet Ping Pong on Sept. 23.

The revamped rules explicitly state that students must only use bathrooms and locker rooms associated with the sex assigned to them at birth. Similar restrictions apply to sports and other activities.

Virginia police say that they are searching for two men who allegedly walked into the home of two elderly people and held them at gunpoint.

Two women, one Black and the other White, connected through slavery, share intimate moments about how they were able to forge a remarkable friendship despite their family’s painful history

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares explains why Latinos are turning away from Democrats and looking to Republicans ahead of the November midterms.

Malvo, one of the two men involved in the terrifying D.C.-area sniper killing spree, has been denied parole as a Virginia board has ruled he is still a risk to the community.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected the DOJ's request to allow the department to continue to review classified documents for its investigation.

Virginia has denied parole to convicted Washington, D.

Virginia has denied parole to convicted sniper killer Lee Boyd Malvo, ruling that he is still a risk to the community two decades after he and his partner terrorized the Washington, D.C., region with a series of random shootings. Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span in October 2002. Malvo was convicted of capital murder in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But a series of Supreme Court rulings and a change in Virginia law gave Malvo the opportunity to seek parole after serving nearly 20 years in custody.

Parent advocacy groups gathered outside a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Virginia on Tuesday to protest against critical race theory in schools.

Authorities in Virginia are investigating a deadly crash involving three Houstonians that happened on Thursday night.

Sen. Mark Warner, Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, British Ambassador to the United States Karen Pierce, and more, will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

School districts around the country are working to beef up security measures. This school year, safety of students is top of mind more than ever. That's why school systems like Roanoke City are having to rethink the way they do things.

In Virginia police officers are now working with mental health clinicians to reduce deadly encounters between police and the mentally ill.

A law enforcement official told the San Diego Union-Tribune that there were signs Leonard Francis "was planning this out, that's for sure."

A shooting early Sunday morning in Virginia has left seven injured, including several Norfolk State University students, according to police.

The rescued beagles have ended up with more than 120 independent groups across the country — and some of those pooches have already found their forever homes.

The Texans worked out former Pittsburgh Steelers and Duke running back Mataeo Durant, per a league source.

Paige Casey is suing retail chain for $100K, but providing abortion options is part of her job, a CVS spokesman said.

A judge in Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries.

Kids share their vacations photos from Delaware, North Carolina and Florida.

Fred Miller purchased a property to host family gatherings, only to learn it was once a planation where his ancestors were enslaved.

It is unlikely that Malvo would ever be released from custody because he is also serving separate life sentences for murders in Virginia.

Advocates for transgender people say a federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could hurt conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care.

A jury has awarded $50,000 to a northern Virginia landlord who was shot three times with a stun gun when sheriff's deputies wrongly arrested him following a tenant's complaint. Matthew Souter, 57, of The Plains, Virginia, was arrested at his home in November 2018 after a tenant in his 19th-century farmhouse claimed he had violated a protective order she had obtained a day earlier. Before the trial began Tuesday in federal court, a judge ruled that the three Fauquier County sheriff's deputies who arrested Souter violated his constitutional rights.

El Shafee Elsheikh was found guilty of participating in a brutal ISIS hostage-taking scheme that led to the deaths of four Americans.

These are the stocks posting the largest moves midday.

State officials are calling on residents to get involved and kill these bugs at all costs. The spotted lanternfly isn't dangerous to humans or pets but could cost the country's agricultural industry.

The U.S. Postal Service has closed a small Virginia post office over concerns about its location inside a historic train depot that also serves as a museum about racial segregation.

The U.S. Postal Service has closed a small Virginia post office over concerns about its location inside a historic train depot that also serves as a museum about racial segregation

Conservatives turned school policies in Virginia's Loudoun County into a nationwide rallying cry. Now Democrats are fighting to win back parents' votes.

Superstar Missy Elliott has received numerous accolades throughout her career in music — and now her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia, is honoring the hip-hop diva with her own street name.

Four people were in critical condition.

The rideshare driver, with a passenger in his car, went off the road and slammed into the restaurant, police said.

A Virginia community gathers at a local church to commemorate what happened five years ago in Charlottesville.

It's been five years since White supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on the University of Virginia's campus.

The National Conference Center in northern Virginia is currently housing 657 Afghan evacuees selected for U.S. resettlement, including 216 children, according to DHS data.

An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a fellow officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison, matching the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. Former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson didn’t speak in court before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison. Cooper also sentenced Robertson to three years of supervised release after his prison term.

A Virginia man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison on federal bank robbery charges in a case that tested the constitutionality of broad search warrants that use Google location history to identify people near the scene of a crime.

In May, the Department of Justice sued Envigo RMS, alleging that the company was failing to provide "humane care and treatment to the thousands of beagles."

Northrop Grumman will move production of the engines and structures of its Antares rockets from Russia and Ukraine to the U.S.

Ninety-one male beagle puppies have arrived at Anderson Humane shelter in South Elgin from a Virginia-based research facility where over 4,000 beagles were removed.

Julio Alvarado-Dubon and Rolman Balcarcel-Bavagas have not been specifically charged with planning a mass shooting.

The prosecutor's findings are the latest fallout from a confrontation involving two police officers and a uniformed military officer that drew outrage and national attention to the small town of Windsor, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast of Richmond. The man who was pulled over, Caron Nazario, was never charged. Video of the December 2020 traffic stop surfaced in April 2021 after Nazario sued in federal court, alleging that his constitutional rights were violated.

At least 35 have been confirmed killed in flooding and hundreds remain unaccounted for. The governor warned that high winds could create the danger of falling trees and utility poles.

Delta-8 is a hemp product designed to get users high, but misleading labels or added chemicals have caused people to get sick. And a lack of federal regulation or guidance has states stepping in.

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says he recently met with the FBI to discuss his concerns about the two 2019 sexual assault allegations against him.

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has spent a tightly choreographed first six months in office cultivating his image in a way that’s furthered speculation he has designs on higher office.

A new court filing from Amber Heard's legal team alleges one of the jurors in the defamation case filed against her by her ex-husband Johnny Depp served improperly.

Police in Richmond, Virginia, say they thwarted a planned Fourth of July mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.

The marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials to enforce laws she says prohibit picketing outside the homes of the justices who live in the two states.

The White House is launching a partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden’s climate change plan.

A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press the NFL has fined the Washington Commanders $100,000 and stripped the team of two offseason workouts next year because of excessive contact in practice among players.

Washington Commanders assistant coach Jack Del Rio issued an apology for his word choice after doubling down on a comparison he made on social media between the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

Groups across the state of Virginia work all year long to get students registered to vote in high school and college -- the idea being, if these students start young, they’ll vote their entire lives.

Jill Biden and the U.S. surgeon general are empathizing with parents across the country who have been scrambling to find infant formula for their children.

A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press the Washington Commanders have bought land in Virginia for what could be a potential site of the NFL team’s next stadium.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

Boeing says it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.

The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to abortion, spelled out in a draft opinion leaked this week, will not be the final chapter in the nation’s most pitched culture battle.

The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower court had found discriminates against Asian American students.

A jury has convicted a British national for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

Three dozen House Democrats say Saudi Arabia is being a bad strategic partner.

Denny Hamlin ran down William Byron with five laps to go and ended the slowest start to a season of his career with a victory in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.

A growing number of college baseball teams are moving away from the tradition of catchers using their fingers and hands for pitch signs.

Virginia state agencies responding to a severe snowstorm that stranded hundreds of motorists along Interstate 95 in January collectively lost what a report called “situational awareness” amid the growing gridlock.

COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the summer of 2020, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors.

Authorities say two crewmembers rescued from the midweek crash of a U.S. Navy aircraft in Eastern Shore waters near the Virginia-Maryland line remain hospitalized.

Dayton, Oklahoma, SMU and Texas A&M have earned top seeds in the National Invitation Tournament.

The problems the nursing industry is experiencing lately aren’t new issues, said Melissa, 41, who’s in Roanoke, Virginia.

Wake Forest meets Boston College in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament looking for another win on its NCAA Tournament resume.

Virginia lawmakers have ended for another year efforts to put basic limits on how they can spend money donated to their campaigns.

Christine always envisioned a career in nursing. It’s all she ever wanted, professionally.

Virginia lawmakers are advancing a measure intended to lure the Washington Commanders to the state by allowing the NFL team to forgo what could be $1 billion or more in future tax payments to help finance a potential new football stadium.

The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era.

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hefty legislative agenda has been dealt a series of expected blows in the first half of the General Assembly session by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Virginia's Department of Education is conducting a review designed to root out critical race theory in schools.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has apologized after mistaking one Black legislator for another in a text message.

The Richmond Fire Investigations Unit are working to determine the cause and origin of a fire that engulfed William Fox Elementary School in Richmond.

A state official says a deputy Virginia attorney general has resigned after The Washington Post raised questions about social media comments the newspaper reported she made about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and other matters.

Washington Commanders safety Deshazor Everett faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a petition from parents that sought to invalidate Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order prohibiting school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroom.

The Virginia Military Institute will change its student-run honor court to make it more fair to cadets as part of a response to a state-ordered investigation into racism and sexism.