Trump’s federal hiring freeze could delay benefits, healthcare for America’s veterans
U.S. Senate lawmakers are demanding that President Donald Trump exempt all positions at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from a hiring freeze.
U.S. Senate lawmakers are demanding that President Donald Trump exempt all positions at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from a hiring freeze.
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.
Legislation unanimously advanced in the Virginia General Assembly last week to create Historic Oak Hill State Park in Loudoun County.

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears just voted herself into a political corner on the right to contraception issue.
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.
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?
Donald Trump, for a second time, has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, which puts us in the company of Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world not part of the international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.
We already saw one of the J6ers pardoned by Donald Trump put back in the pokey on a fresh set of federal gun charges. Now we have a guy in Indiana freed last week by Trump who was shot dead after resisting arrest during a traffic stop on Sunday.

Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020.

Atlantic Builders, an award-winning regional homebuilder, announced a historic $1 million donation to charitable organizations across Fredericksburg and Charlottesville.
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