Summer of sport: What to expect in U.S. sports in 2026
Sports fans in the United States are spoiled with choices this summer with the upcoming schedule packed with a plethora of top-class events.
Sports fans in the United States are spoiled with choices this summer with the upcoming schedule packed with a plethora of top-class events.
I had the weirdest email in my inbox midday Sunday, after a day (and night!) of reporting on Virginia’s 86-83 win over Miami on Saturday.
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.
Seven House Democrats voted with the 220-207 majority that passed a new funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes $10 billion for ICE.

Virginia home sales were up 7.3 percent in December, according to the December 2025 Virginia Home Sales Report released by the Virginia Association of REALTORS® on Thursday.
A new congressional report has it that U.S. families spent $1,625 more on daily living things due to inflation, and that’s not counting what happens if Europe responds to Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland by pulling the rug out from under the dollar.
The Trump administration’s recent seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has left me shocked and disappointed.
The vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday to advance a resolution blocking military action in Venezuela will not actually force Donald Trump’s hand, because Trump would have to sign it into law, and obviously, he’s not going to do that.
A statue of Barbara Johns now stands alongside George Washington representing Virginia the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
The gambit by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to force a U.S. Senate vote on extending Obamacare healthcare premium subsidies failed, as predicted, with the Senate voting 51-48 Thursday in favor of a bill that would extend the subsidies by three years.
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