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Youngkin shifts Virginia right, raising profile inside GOP

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has spent a tightly choreographed first six months in office cultivating his image in a way that’s furthered speculation he has designs on higher office

The Independent UK

Manchin in driver’s seat again after inflation fears vindicated

WASHINGTON — Nearly a year ago, Sen. Joe Manchin wrote Fed Chair Jerome Powell to raise alarm that the central bank’s policies would overheat the economy, a fixation that made the West Virginia Democrat an outlier in his party.

Tribune News Service

How the son of sharecroppers helped send the world's most powerful telescope to space

Gregory Robinson grew up as one of 11 children of tobacco sharecroppers in rural Virginia. He reflects on his journey to NASA, where he directed the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope program.

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Virginia: all missing people accounted for following severe flash-flooding

Authorities initially reported 44 people missing following heavy rainfall and winds, but now have declared all were found safe

The Guardian - US

Crews still searching for 17 people after Virginia flooding

Authorities in a remote corner of southwest Virginia have located more than half of the 44 people who were reported unaccounted for after devastating flooding washed out roadways and damaged more than 100 homes

The Independent UK

Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients lose access to 'gold standard' drug

Six days after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, lupus patient Becky Schwarz got an unexpected message from her rheumatologist.

Los Angeles Times

Crews have found all 44 Virginia residents who were missing after flooding

Authorities in southwest Virginia had feared the worst as they were inundated with calls from people who said they were unable to reach family members. But by noon Thursday, everyone had been located.

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Animal rescue groups across the U.S. band together to rescue 4,000 beagles

A federal judge ordered thousands of dogs to be rehomed from a Virginia research facility after several inspections revealed poor conditions. Animal rescue groups are working to do just that.

WEKU

No deaths, 100 homes damaged in aftermath of heavy flooding in Virginia

A state of emergency was declared in Buchanan County after floods cause widespread damage

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America

The Fugitive Slave Act was perhaps the most detested law in all American history.

Los Angeles Times

Judge Rejects Amber Heard’s Demand for New Trial

A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected actress Amber Heard's demand for a new trial in the defamation case she lost to her former husband Johnny Depp. Heard's lawyers had asked Judge Penney Azcarate to set aside the verdict awarding $10 million to Depp and declare a mistrial, but the judge…

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Southwest Virginia flooding damages homes, prompts rescues

Authorities say flooding in a remote corner of southwest Virginia has damaged more than 100 homes but there are no confirmed deaths or injuries despite some 40 people being unaccounted for

The Independent UK

A judge rejects Amber Heard's request to set aside the verdict for Johnny Depp

A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected an effort by actress Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million judgment awarded against her in favor of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

WEKU

Rescuers catch a kitten as it falls from Virginia building

Firefighters and animal control officers used outstretched sheet to save little animal

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Judge denies Amber Heard’s request for mistrial in Johnny Depp case

Ms Heard’s legal team had requested the verdict to be thrown out

Daily Mirror

Missing non-verbal boy, 6, with autism and Down Syndrome found dead in pond

Landon 'Waldy' Raber was found dead in a small pond on the property where he went missing hours earlier in Curdsville, Virginia, said the local sheriff's department

Tribune News Service

As sports betting grows, states tackle teenage problem gambling

With online and retail sports betting now legal in more than 30 states, the portrait of a new problem gambler is emerging: the high school student.

The Independent UK

4,000 beagles rescued from Virginia dog breeding facility with nowhere to go

More than 300 beagle puppies died last year at the facility that has 70 animal welfare violations

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Heard Faces High Legal Hurdles Seeking to Reverse Depp Win

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard libel trial, which generated intense interest for two months earlier this year as a livestreamed, no-holds-barred soap opera featuring one of Hollywood's biggest stars, is not fading away quietly. Earlier this month, Heard's lawyers filed a 51-page motion asking Judge Penney Azcarate to set aside the…

The Independent UK

Heard faces high legal hurdles seeking to reverse Depp win

Legal experts are expressing skepticism that actress Amber Heard can persuade a Virginia judge to set aside a $10 million defamation verdict awarded to her ex-husband, Johnny Depp

The Independent UK

Why has Amber Heard asked for a new trial against Johnny Depp and what have lawyers said?

Heard’s team alleges that one of the seven jurors was not the person summoned for jury duty

Daily Mirror

Man's incredible £210,000 lottery win - using numbers he saw in a dream

Alonzo Coleman from Virginia, US, couldn't believe it when he discovered the numbers he saw in a dream came up in the lottery draw, banking a cheque for $250,000 (£210,000) in the process

Los Angeles Times

'Heard slings an exceptional amount of mud': Depp's team scoffs at mistrial request

Johnny Depp's legal team says that his ex-wife Amber Heard "has identified no legitimate basis to set aside" a Virginia jury's verdict in their bombshell defamation trial and asked the court to reject Heard's post-trial motions requesting a mistrial.

The Independent UK

Depp's lawyers urge judge to leave jury verdict intact

Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict

The Independent UK

No bond for 2 charged in connection with alleged July 4 plot

Two men charged in connection with what police have said was a thwarted Fourth of July mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia, have been ordered held without bond

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