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School boards are a “battleground” in closing weeks of Virginia governor’s race

As the race for Virginia governor tightens, the state’s school board meetings have become a political battleground, and the center of the closing argument by Republicans. Huyen MacMichael, a mother in the Virginia exurb of Loudoun County, says the school board meetings there have grown toxic since the pandemic, with …

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Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested for trying to sell submarine secrets to foreign power

A Maryland-based Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested on charges of selling secret information about the design of nuclear power warships to someone they thought was a foreign power but was actually an undercover FBI agent.  The Justice Department claims Jonathan Toebbe, through his Pentagon-issued national security …

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Democrats negotiating over Biden’s agenda face another obstacle: Federal funding for abortions

The cost of the bill containing President Biden‘s social safety net agenda is not the only flashpoint in the negotiations between moderate and progressive Democrats: a disagreement has emerged over whether a ban on federal funding for abortions — shorthanded in Congress as the Hyde Amendment — should be included in the …

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