
Nats rally on Soto homer, win second straight at Philly
A ninth-inning Juan Soto two-run homer lifted the Washington Nationals to a 4-3 win over NL East rival Philadelphia on Saturday.

A ninth-inning Juan Soto two-run homer lifted the Washington Nationals to a 4-3 win over NL East rival Philadelphia on Saturday.

Stephen Strasburg wasn’t exactly dominating, but he pitched around trouble in six shutout innings in a 4-0 Washington Nationals win at Philadelphia on Friday to start the second half of the 2019 season on a strong note for the Nats.

The House has adopted a set of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, including two offered by Don Beyer (D-VA) and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) addressing helicopter noise in the National Capital Region.

UVA softball head coach Joanna Hardin announced the hiring of Jake Sidwell as an assistant coach on Thursday.

Nearly 80,000 Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation customers used state-sponsored Amtrak Northeast Regional intercity passenger rail services in May.

Jenefer Davies, associate professor of dance/theater at Washington and Lee University, has been awarded an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Collaborative Curricula themed grant for $20,000.

The July exhibition at Arts Council of the Valley’s Smith House Galleries features impressionist landscape paintings by Deliece Blanchard and platinum/palladium nature photographs by Ellen Martin.

Attorney General Mark Herring and a coalition of attorneys general are fighting in court to protect the health, safety, and human rights of immigrant children in detention in the United States.

Power corrupts. Anyone who believes differently hasn’t been paying attention.

At a time when Albania was expected to make significant progress in its accession talks with the European Union (EU), some member states are unwilling to support the negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia.
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