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Virginia Lt. Governor on why her state is at risk of losing federal funding over transgender bathrooms
Fox News
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears joins 'Fox & Friends' to explain her opposition to transgender bathrooms in schools as the Education Department threatens to pull funding from districts defying the Trump administration's policies. NEWYou can...
Virginia Roehr
Villages News - Florida
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August 22, 2025
Virginia Roehr Virginia Roehr passed away peacefully on August 17, 2025, with courage and grace after a 5 year battle with Alzheimer’s. Ginny was born in 1938 in North Bergen, NJ. In 1957 she married her high school sweetheart; Bill: with whom she...
Women’s Equality Day: Celebrate the Victories. Confront the Backlash.
Ms. Magazine
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August 22, 2025
Alice Paul, vice president of the National Women’s Party, broadcasts from her desk at the Capitol, on April 27, 1922. (Bettmann Archives / Getty Images) Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, marks 104 years since the 19th Amendment was certified, recognizing...
Education Department says George Mason University’s DEI policies violate civil rights
WTOP - District Columbia
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August 22, 2025
The Education Department said George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, violated federal civil rights law by using race in hiring and promotion practices. The Education Department said George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, violated...
Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU milk drive collects over 2,200 ounces
WTVR-TV - Virginia
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August 22, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. — The Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU collected more than 2,200 ounces of donated breast milk during its first-ever milk drive this week, enough to benefit nearly 9,000 babies across Central Virginia. The hospital organized...
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando with skates, fire and a gender-fluid journey
Brisbane Times
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August 22, 2025
Janet Anderson has been getting very comfortable falling over lately. She’s one of four actors performing the title role in Belvoir’s upcoming adaptation of Orlando. For the show, the whole cast will appear as rollerskating Elizabethans, bringing...
Activists and Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears debate APS transgender policy at School Board meeting
Arlington Now - Virginia
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August 22, 2025
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears speaks at an Arlington School Board meeting while Tony Weaver, Mary Detweiler and other activists wave trans flags (staff photo by Dan Egitto) Equality Arlington Vice President Samantha Perez speaks outside an...
The ‘Firemen’ on the D-Line will prove pivotal to rescuing Virginia’s defense
The Cavalier Daily - Virginia
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Virginia’s 2025-26 schedule features Louisville, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Duke. Those first three were among the best rushing offenses in the ACC last season. The Blue Devils, meanwhile, ranked eighth in least sacks allowed in the...
Local filmmaker wins $130,000 award to fund Virginia Beach-based documentary
WTKR 3 - Virginia
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August 22, 2025
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A group of friends growing up in the Kempsville neighborhood of Virginia Beach had their everyday lives caught on camera by Alexander Dickerson. “This film is about me and my friends here in Virginia — aspiring artists,...
Moment woke pro-trans activist recoils on being told her disgusting placard is RACIST
Daily Mail
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August 22, 2025
A transgender activist was left in complete shock after a Democrat party leader confronted her for waving an overtly racist placard at a rally outside a Virginia school board meeting. Pro-trans rights protesters gathered outside the Arlington...
Va. Gubernatorial Race Candidate Abigail Spanberger Refuses To Side With Common Sense: Mary Katharine Ham
OutKick - Tennessee
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August 22, 2025
In a Northern Virginia public school district, several young male students were filmed in their locker room by a young woman who identifies as male. They complained about it. The young men were suspended for sex-based discrimination and sexual...
Washington County Education: 56 Asian students enrolled in schools in 2024-25 school year
SW Virginia News
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August 22, 2025
Lisa Coons Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Superintendent_of_Public_Instruction#:~:text=Lisa%20Coons%20was%20appointed%20Virginia's,%2C%20effective%20March%2022%2C%202023.Lisa Coons Virginia...
WATCH Winsome Earle-Sears' Shut DOWN Woke Mob With POWERFUL Speech Defending Virginia Children (Vid)
Twitchy
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August 22, 2025
Winsome Earle-Sears stood in front of a room of trans activists, people who openly booed and ridiculed her, and defended students, parents, and families who want their schools to be safe at the Arlington School Board meeting last night. She even...
In her own words: Why this Texas physician now helps women in Virginia
Dogwood - Virginia
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August 22, 2025
Dr. Rubino told her story to Dogwood writer Bonnie Fuller. I remember very clearly the moment I knew I was done. I could no longer practice as a women’s health care doctor in Texas. I had a patient, probably 18 or 19 years old. I was doing an...
‘She Is In Hiding’: GOP Nom In Key Race Knocks Dem Opponent’s Silence On Protecting Girls Spaces
The Daily Caller
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August 22, 2025
ARLINGTON, Va. — School districts’ decisions to defy the Trump administration and let students use bathrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity — not biological sex — is making waves in Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial race, but Democratic...
In her own words: Why this Texas physician fled to Virginia
Courier Texas
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August 22, 2025
Dr. Lou Rubino is just one of many physicians who’ve left Texas as a result of the state’s multiple abortion bans, which prevent doctors from treating pregnant women using not just abortion care, but life-saving emergency care. Dr. Rubino told her...
Trump administration accuses George Mason University of illegally using race in faculty hiring
The Indian Express
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August 22, 2025
The US Education Department on Friday said that a federal civil rights investigation has found that George Mason University illegally used race and other “immutable characteristics” in its hiring and promotion.The federal investigation follows a...
Franklin Farm church finds developer for proposed affordable housing project
FFX Now - Virginia
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August 22, 2025
The Community of Faith United Methodist Church’s property in Franklin Farm (photo by Abi Foerster) A church that wants to build affordable housing on its campus in the Herndon area will soon step up its efforts to win over skeptical neighbors. The...
Tennis-List of US Open women's singles champions
The Straits Times
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August 22, 2025
List of U.S. Open women's singles champions since the tournament began in 1887: 2024 - Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) beat Jessica Pegula (U.S.) 7-5 7-5 2023 - Coco Gauff (U.S.) beat Sabalenka 2-6 6-3 6-2 2022 - Iga Swiatek (Poland) beat Ons Jabeur...
Marius Ambrose, proud Lithuanian, educator
Cape Gazette - Delaware
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Marius Ambrose, 85, of Lewes, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He died peacefully, surrounded by the love and comfort of his wife, Janet, and daughters, Karen and Lizzie, after a brief battle...