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Friends and AFP readers are in shock and awe over the pace of the efforts to dismantle American democracy coming from the Trump/Musk/MAGA team, and all I can say is, buckle in.
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The Trump U.S. Attorney in Washington pledged in a letter to private citizen Elon Musk to protect the employees of the unelected oligarch as they continue their illegal takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID.
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The suits at UVA Health and VCU Health are cowering in the face of a questionable directive from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to stop providing gender-affirming healthcare to trans minors.
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I wondered why Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline was silent about President Trump’s order declaring that children born in the United States to undocumented parents are not entitled to U.S. citizenship.
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The Coordination for Soil Carbon Research and Monitoring Act would empower the federal government to support interagency work around soil carbon sequestration research and monitoring.
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Legislation unanimously advanced in the Virginia General Assembly last week to create Historic Oak Hill State Park in Loudoun County.
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Mark Warner said today his U.S. Senate office got a phone call from a domestic-violence shelter serving multiple counties in Virginia that “may have to close their doors if President Trump doesn’t reverse course” on the pause on federal grants and loans set to go into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
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TikTok was gone for 14 hours. That’s just about the length of a nonstop flight from Hawaii to New York, or a teenager’s Saturday night sleep. Why has it dominated the internet and everyone’s conversations for days?
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Donald Trump, for a second time, has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, which puts us in the company of Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world not part of the international agreement on climate change.
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A new VCU poll, out on Friday, has Democrat Abigail Spanberger with a 10-point lead on Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the 2025 governor’s race.
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