This fall’s race for Virginia governor offers Democrats a chance to start recovering from stinging losses in last year’s presidential election. It also brings the risk that the party could slip further into the doldrums that hurt its brand with voters around the country in 2024. The Nov. 4 election for governor of Virginia —…
An attorney for Abby Zwerner, the first-grade teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student earlier this month in Newport News, Virginia, said that the administrators of Richneck Elementary School had multiple warnings that the unidentified boy was armed, but “failed to act” on those reports. In a news conference on Wednesday, Diane Toscano, a defense…
Power shifts begin in places most people never see – on assembly lines making batteries and robots, along transmission lines feeding data centre clusters, in local offices selling land and in labs training artificial intelligence models. The United States and China are using these quiet levers to construct different futures. The contest will be decided…
Abby Zwerner, a former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom in 2023, testified Thursday that she thought she had died in the shooting. “I thought I was dying, I thought I had died,” Zwerner said. “I thought I was either on my way to heaven or in heaven, but…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia will elect its first woman as governor Tuesday as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Voters will also decide races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and the state House of Delegates. The commonwealth is holding one of two…
A 24-year old Honduran national was struck and killed on a highway as he tried to escape ICE agents who stopped his vehicle, officials said. Jose Castro-Rivera was in a vehicle that was stopped on I-264 eastbound in Virginia around 11 a.m. local time on Thursday, according to Virginia State Police, who were responding to…
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that the University of Virginia has agreed to abide by Trump administration guidance ensuring the university doesn’t engage in racial discrimination in admissions and hiring. The move by the university is an attempt to bring to an end months of scrutiny by the Justice Department. Under the agreement, the university…
Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and Democratic challenger Jay Jones squared off in their first and only debate Thursday over a set of violent and incendiary text messages sent by Jones — an issue that has overtaken the race and vaulted it to national prominence. Miyares, an incumbent running for reelection, pushed hard against…
Ashley Tellis, a prominent Indian-American national security expert and long-time US adviser, has been accused of hoarding classified documents and repeatedly meeting Chinese officials, stirring concern over possible Beijing ties and jolting Washington’s foreign policy circles. An affidavit dated October 13 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said more than…
Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off for the first and only time on the debate stage Thursday night in Virginia’s high-stakes gubernatorial race. It was a fiery affair in which Earle-Sears, who is trailing in the race, went on the offensive from the very beginning, repeatedly interrupting Spanberger and asking her several…