‘Attack on public health’: HHS staff cuts will hurt Americans ‘every single day’
The end of March in the United States brought more staff cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency at the HHS.
The end of March in the United States brought more staff cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency at the HHS.
Climate change may be a dirty word for Donald Trump, but a national expert said it shouldn’t be a political football, it affects us all.
Sometimes politics hit so close to home that it’s unavoidable, which is exactly what happened one week into Trump’s second term, when he issued a blanket freeze on trillions of dollars of federal funding.

Interim UVA Basketball coach Ron Sanchez tried to say, after last week’s last-second loss to SMU, that he’s not “experimenting” with his rotation, which tells us, he just doesn’t realize that he’s still experimenting with his rotation.
Today, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States and former President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden left Washington, D.C.

The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River Valley and Central Virginia.
Donald Trump, who wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, told a fake news radio host on Monday that he will “unban” President Biden’s sweeping offshore drilling prohibition.

An anonymous email sent to me two years ago offered an ominous warning: that a “heavily armed” woman claiming to be my neighbor had threatened me at a right-wing militia meeting.
A Floyd County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was “unlawful and without effect.”
A report by Ocean Conservancy has concluded that a second term of Donald Trump as U.S. president poses serious threats to the world’s oceans.
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