What’s making news in climate, environment: January 2026 update
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Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger detailed her plans to make utility bills more affordable, as the cost of electricity continues to rise.
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2025: The year the government stopped pretending it cared about freedom
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Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution.
First responders in Virginia get $20M boost in federal funding for staffing, training, more
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More than $20 million has been awarded in federal funding for fire departments, localities and organizations throughout Virginia.
Elon Musk, tariffs: The two Trump own goals that doomed his second term
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Donald Trump claimed a mandate that never existed – he didn’t even get a majority of the votes cast in the 2024 election, and that’s not considering the tens of millions of people who didn’t vote – but anyway, he claimed a mandate.
Alon Ben-Meir: Trump’s disgraceful and destructive use of the presidential pardon
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Donald Trump has mastered the art of exploiting the power of his office to serve his malignant narcissism and lust for power in endless ways.
Jewish advocacy groups take aim at Roanoke Del. Sam Rasoul over Gaza comments
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A coalition of Jewish advocacy groups is trying to cancel a Democratic state delegate, Sam Rasoul, a Palestinian-American, accusing Rasoul of antisemitism.
Ben Cline runs interference for Trump, DoD, on illegal missile strikes
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Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline, predictably, because he’s hard-core MAGA, isn’t interested in the oversight part of his job on the matter of the Sept. 2 double-tap missile strike.
Government unchained: The year the Constitution lost its guardrails
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We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
Norfolk grand jury declines to indict Letitia James in mortgage fraud case
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A grand jury in Norfolk declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James in the overdone mortgage fraud case that Donald Trump tried to get the Justice Department to make stick.
Alon Ben-Meir: Trump must be stopped from destroying our democracy
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Every American must remember that the U.S. is not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover; we are in it. Donald Trump is acting on it methodically in broad daylight.
