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Capital city of Virginia, United States of America
West Virginia separated from Virginia during the Civil War largely because western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to join the Confederacy and because of long‑standing economic, social and politi...
Isolated incidents occurred where people were injected with saline or diluent instead of a COVID-19 vaccine, typically because of preparation or handling errors at specific clinics or pharmacies. Ther...
West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War chiefly because northwestern Virginians opposed Virginia’s 1861 decision to secede from the Union and long-standing regional grievances over repr...
You are not alone in feeling panic: videos and local reporting show real fear in immigrant communities as people see or share footage of ICE encounters, but the clips often lack context and do not pro...
The amount of federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) funding “at risk” in 2025 depends on which congressional appropriation path is adopted: under House proposals the program faces effective cuts that w...
Virginia’s reported clinician‑provided abortions rose from about 33,390 in 2023 to roughly 38,920–39,000 in 2024, a jump of about 5,490 procedures or roughly 16% driven largely by out‑of‑state patient...
Grocery prices rose between 2024 and 2025 because a mix of combined to push food‑at‑home and food‑away‑from‑home prices upward, with most official forecasts and indexes pointing to single‑digit percen...
The available reporting shows there is for removed Confederate statues; storage locations vary by city and case—from municipal facilities in Richmond and Edenton to secret or institutional custody and...
Unionist Virginians opposed secession in 1861 because a combination of prewar electoral outcomes, legalistic and procedural objections at the Richmond convention, regional economic and political divid...
Amazon’s Canadian footprint is concentrated in major urban markets and selected secondary communities: Toronto and Vancouver serve as technology and office hubs while a sprawling logistics network pla...
A British Columbia Supreme Court ruling in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada found that the Cowichan (Quw’utsun) have Aboriginal title over a portion of lands on Lulu Island in Richmond and declared certain C...
Economic and cultural divisions—mountain geography, different markets and settlement patterns, and the scarcity of slavery in the trans‑Allegheny counties—made western Virginians feel politically and ...
The creation of West Virginia on June 20, 1863, resulted from wartime political maneuvering by Unionist western Virginians who rejected Virginia’s 1861 secession, set up a “Restored Government of Virg...
Between 2017 and 2020 hundreds of Confederate monuments and related symbols were removed, relocated or renamed across the United States; by October 2020 one tracker counted “over a hundred” removed, r...
Available reporting does not provide a single, definitive list of which U.S. cities had the largest year‑over‑year increases or decreases in violent crime for the full 2024–2025 period; most public an...
Jay Jones issued apologies for violent text messages in multiple settings in October 2025, but reporting diverges on the precise . Contemporary accounts point to an on-stage apology during the Virgini...
Jay Jones is the Democratic victor in Virginia’s 2025 attorney general race and a central figure in a controversy over private 2022 text messages that fantasized about shooting then-House Speaker Todd...
States do not uniformly provide federal-style welfare to undocumented immigrants: federal rules generally bar undocumented people from Medicaid and SNAP, and the principal ways states handle these pop...
Several advocacy organizations and local coalitions are actively pushing for direct assistance and expanded services for undocumented immigrants, but explicit nationwide campaigns solely for cash paym...
The core claim—framed crudely as “Do the doom rats want to give money to illegals”—appears to conflate partisan rhetoric with a range of actual policies and local actions; , depending on the level of ...