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Four U.S. presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. Donald Trump is determined to be the fifth.
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Fifty-six percent of all voters, and 61 percent of independents, are signaling a big thumbs down to Donald Trump’s move to use armed National Guard troops as a show of force in the nation’s capital.
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If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations.
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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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