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As I am writing this column, the Israeli military is converging on Gaza to destroy what has been left after 22 months of relentless war that killed more than 60,000 Palestinians and leveled to the ground 80 percent of its infrastructure.
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Todd Gilbert resigned his post as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia on Wednesday, apparently after being told by higher-ups in the Trump administration that his nomination was going to be pulled from consideration by the U.S. Senate.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is going to start “exercising discretion” for those determined to have had involvement in “anti-American or terrorist organizations” who are seeking to upgrade their legal status.
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I just returned from a reunion at the University of Virginia. Like many alumni, I was looking for the past; what I found was the future.
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I applaud Virginia Democrats for trying to make an issue of the political team of the MAGA lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, not knowing whether they needed to file a disclosure on what appears to be a free private plane trip.
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Dell Curry (Fort Defiance) and Ralph Sampson (Harrisonburg) were both born at old Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg.
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Don’t be fooled: the madness, mayhem and malice unfolding in America is not politics as usual. It’s not partisan hardball. It’s not bureaucratic overreach.
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An AFP reader sent in a photo of a billboard that went up recently in Waynesboro with the message, “Jesus is not God,” and asked if the city can do anything about it.
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Add Mark Warner to the list of critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to launch a full-scale occupation of Gaza City.
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One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
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