A dollar and a dream: Mega Millions jackpot nears $1 billion for Friday night drawing
The jackpot for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing has just been increased to an estimated $980 million, according to the Virginia Lottery.
The jackpot for tonight’s Mega Millions drawing has just been increased to an estimated $980 million, according to the Virginia Lottery.
As President Trump floats the idea of 50-year mortgages, Americans are being sold a new version of the American Dream – one that can never truly be owned.
The way Tim Kaine told it to us on Monday, he wasn’t just one of the eight Senate Democrat votes on the tenuous deal with Republicans to end the shutdown, but a driving force.
America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it.
Mark Warner brought up something today that I hadn’t realized until he said it: that Abigail Spanberger would have won the governor’s race without Northern Virginia.
Ben Cline apparently hasn’t thought through what Tuesday’s election results in Virginia mean for his job security.
The president campaigned on making America great, but instead is choosing to defy a court order that would put food on tables of families.
Why don’t Republicans just follow Donald Trump’s advice, use the “nuclear option” putting the kibosh on the stupid U.S. Senate filibuster, and pass their version of the government funding bill that would reopen government?
The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

The two sides in the 2025 Virginia elections made their closing arguments at dueling rallies on Saturday, the MAGA Republicans in the far reaches of the Northern Virginia exurbs, the Democrats in the heart of Hampton Roads.
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