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Governor Ralph Northam today ordered the recall of four Virginia National Guard soldiers and one helicopter from the U.S. Southwest border in response to the federal government’s enforcement of a “zero-tolerance” policy that separates immigrant children from their families.
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VCU alumna Iris Harrell and her wife, Ann Benson, have made a $1 million planned gift to the College of Humanities and Sciences that will create the Harrell-Benson Scholarship to support students in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
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Researchers in the Department of Physics are building a major program in quantum information sciences thanks in part to multiple federal grants that have brought $3.7 million directly to Virginia Tech.
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The Trump administration has submitted a proposal for inter-agency review that would reportedly gut the Clean Water Act, stripping longstanding protections for streams, wetlands, and smaller waterways that feed drinking water sources for millions of people in the South.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and a group of 25 Senators wrote a letter to Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Jeff Pon, urging the Trump Administration not to cut retirement benefits for the nation’s federal workforce.
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The Charlottesville Police Department along with the Charlottesville Police Foundation are inviting all ages to enjoy “Ice Cream with a Cop,” a free community outreach event that takes place at various city parks and neighborhoods throughout the next few weeks of summer.
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Bipartisan legislation would make it easier for students to get degrees they have already earned by ‘reverse’ transferring college credits from four-year institutions to community colleges.
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For all the concern about whether the Washington Nationals will have a chance to retain Bryce Harper in the offseason, is it a given that the Nats will even miss him if he goes?
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The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced bipartisan legislation that includes Virginia priorities championed by U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA).
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Governor Northam announced today that the follow-up to Warner Bros. Pictures and DC’s hugely successful Wonder Woman, titled Wonder Woman 1984, will film for several weeks in the Alexandria area this summer.
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