Ukrainian authorities say 3 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike in the city of Kherson. Kyiv alleges the strike targeted a hospital and school. Ukraine meanwhile has admitted its forces are facing a difficult situation in the region of Donetsk. FRANCE 24's Héloïse Melan and C…
A sixth Memphis police officer has been placed on administrative leave in the aftermath of the violent arrest that led to Tyre Nichols' death. The officer, Preston Hemphill, was relieved of duty amid an ongoing internal investigation at the Memphis Police Department, a spokesperson confirmed…
Before Tyre Nichols died after police beat him following a traffic stop in Memphis, he was a teenager who made skateboarding videos with his friends in Sacramento. Ryan Wilson was one of them.
The unheeded warnings before a teacher was shot at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News played out like a bad horror movie.
A weird thing happened to the global auto industry during the pandemic: Its valuation roughly tripled to about $3 trillion. I wrote about that here. Roughly a year on, a lot of other weird stuff has happened, most notably the head of the world’s most valuable automaker trying his hand at run…
Shortly after Robin Williams died by suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweeted an image of Aladdin tearfully hugging Williams’s character from the iconic Disney film. “Genie, you’re free,” read the caption. The tweet, as The Post’s Caitlin Dewey noted …
‘Put up or shut up.”
Oh, the irony of imbalance that hangs over our Daily Progress. In the latest example: On Saturday, January 22, 2023, the Progress carried an article on Evan Smith’s appointment as a one-year fellow to the Karsh Institute of Democracy to, “…continue the most important work of my career: stren…
If you are interested in buying a Tesla, Lucid, or Rivian vehicle in Virginia, or any number of new, exciting transportation options from startup companies that sell direct to consumers, then HB2468 should be very important to you. It basically amends the current laws to allow any company th…
A weird thing happened to the global auto industry during the pandemic: Its valuation roughly tripled to about $3 trillion. I wrote about that here. Roughly a year on, a lot of other weird stuff has happened, most notably the head of the world’s most valuable automaker trying his hand at run…
From the perspective of a senior medical student who has personally cared for dozens of transgender adolescent Virginians over the past year, Senator Bryce Reeves’s bill, Children Deserve Help Not Harm Act (SB1203), is absurdly out of touch with the reality of these children and their famili…
Shortly after Robin Williams died by suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweeted an image of Aladdin tearfully hugging Williams’s character from the iconic Disney film. “Genie, you’re free,” read the caption. The tweet, as The Post’s Caitlin Dewey noted …
‘Put up or shut up.”
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While Twitter has many critics, a researcher explains the ramifications of losing an important source of real-time information as well as geotagged data.
‘Put up or shut up.”
Did the Founding Fathers intend for University of Virginia football players D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler to die?
First came Robert James Waller’s bestseller “The Bridges of Madison County” about an Iowa woman’s affair with a photojournalist while her husband and kids are away at the state fair. The novel has a happy ending when she chooses to stay with her family.
Of all people, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin surely understands that the United States and Virginia must operate in the global economy to prosper. Youngkin was a co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, one of America’s major money management firms. Such firms work with international investments all the …
Ukrainian authorities say 3 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike in the city of Kherson. Kyiv alleges the strike targeted a hospital and school. Ukraine meanwhile has admitted its forces are facing a difficult situation in the region of Donetsk. FRANCE 24's Héloïse Melan and C…
A sixth Memphis police officer has been placed on administrative leave in the aftermath of the violent arrest that led to Tyre Nichols' death. The officer, Preston Hemphill, was relieved of duty amid an ongoing internal investigation at the Memphis Police Department, a spokesperson confirmed…
Before Tyre Nichols died after police beat him following a traffic stop in Memphis, he was a teenager who made skateboarding videos with his friends in Sacramento. Ryan Wilson was one of them.
The unheeded warnings before a teacher was shot at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News played out like a bad horror movie.
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Oh, the irony of imbalance that hangs over our Daily Progress. In the latest example: On Saturday, January 22, 2023, the Progress carried an article on Evan Smith’s appointment as a one-year fellow to the Karsh Institute of Democracy to, “…continue the most important work of my career: stren…
From the perspective of a senior medical student who has personally cared for dozens of transgender adolescent Virginians over the past year, Senator Bryce Reeves’s bill, Children Deserve Help Not Harm Act (SB1203), is absurdly out of touch with the reality of these children and their famili…