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The Virginia Senate approved legislation on Wednesday that would downgrade the legal penalty for a suspect found guilty of assaulting a police officer. Senate Bill 5032 would, if signed into law, eliminate the state’s six-month mandatory minimum prison sentence for assaulting an officer, and also gives a local judge or jury the authority to downgrade …

Peter Vlaming has two great passions—teaching and French.  But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce masculine pronouns …

Prince Andrew once used a puppet of himself to allegedly grope Virginia Roberts Giuffre and another accuser in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse — before an erotic massage in the “dungeon,” Giuffre claims in her manuscript. The alleged abuse — with the doll of the royal’s likeness from satirical British TV show “Spitting Image” — occurred …

Virginia governor Ralph Northam hailed an “awakening” on “black oppression” on Wednesday in the wake of the George Floyd demonstrations, while again denying he appeared in a yearbook photo featuring a man in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan regalia. “There’s been an awakening of really what Black oppression is,” Northam told NBC’s Lester …

Virginia governor Ralph Northam said Tuesday that he would christen Juneteenth — celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. — an official state holiday, making Virginia the second state in the country to adopt such a measure. “It’s time we elevate this,” Northam announced. “Not just a celebration by …

A Virginia judge temporarily stayed Governor Ralph Northam’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the state capital of Richmond, saying the decision violated an 1890 deed which said the commonwealth would “faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it.” Northam, who announced his decision to remove the statute last week …

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam speaks to gun control activists at a rally by Moms Demand Action and other family members of shooting victims outside of the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond, Va., July 9, 2019. Virginia will no longer require voters to present a photo ID in order to cast a ballot, Governor Ralph …

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre says she has tested negative for the coronavirus, calling it “the best news.” “I just have pneumonia, very happy,” tweeted the 36-year-old mom, who had previously said she was “so scared” as she posted a photo of herself getting tested in a hospital in her hometown of Cairns in …

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre stormed out of a hospital before getting her coronavirus test results — comparing the experience there to when she was trying to escape pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “I was forced to leave the hospital even though I have a temp & trouble breathing after the DR threatened to put me …

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre is “scared” Tuesday as she awaits the results of a coronavirus test from a hospital bed in Australia, she said. “Having trouble breathing, fever & cough,” the 36-year-old mom tweeted along with a photo of herself wearing a mask while in a hospital bed. “Getting tested for Covid-19 praying …