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Virginia Beach government’s top earners get pay raises
The Virginian-Pilot
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August 18, 2025
VIRGINIA BEACH — The City Council last week granted pay increases for five top city employees whom they appointed. The city manager, attorney, clerk, real estate assessor and auditor were granted 3% raises. Virginia Beach’s budget for this...
Virginia: Boyd Gaming, Pamunkey Tribe's temporary Norfolk casino to open this November
Yogonet International
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August 18, 2025
Boyd Gaming and the Pamunkey Indian Tribe will open a temporary casino, The Interim Gaming Hall, in Norfolk this November while construction continues on a permanent resort set for 2027. The temporary casino will have over 130 slot machines and...
MSNBC changing name to 'My Source News Opinion World' as part of corporate divorce
KTVU - California
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2022 MSNBC ELECTION COVERAGE -- 2022 Midterms Election Coverage -- Pictured: (l-r) Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Ari Melber in Studio 3A at Rockefeller Center on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 -- (Photo by: Virginia...
Starlink Seeks Trump Block on Virginia Fiber Plan for Satellite Shift
WebProNews
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August 18, 2025
Virginia’s Broadband Push Meets Resistance In a bold move that underscores the tensions in America’s quest for universal high-speed internet, SpaceX’s Starlink has petitioned the incoming Trump administration to derail Virginia’s ambitious plan to...
Trump declares himself the CEO of the US and raises business investment to nearly $4 Trillion
El País
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August 18, 2025
The office of president of the United States entails being the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, among many other responsibilities. For Donald Trump — his whole life an aggressive and ambitious businessman before becoming a politician — that...
Washington Data Center Boom: Economic Boost Meets Grid and Water Challenges
WebProNews
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August 18, 2025
In the heart of Washington state, a surge in data center construction is reshaping local economies, driven by the region’s abundant hydropower and strategic tax incentives. Tech giants and infrastructure firms are flocking to areas like Quincy and...
Lawmaker Wants Chinese Mining Company Shut Down
Liberian Observer
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Montserrado County District#17 Representative, Bernard Benson, Jr., has called on the Environmental Protection Agency ((EPA) to shut down the operations of LITCH, a Chinese Sand mining company operating in the Township of Virginia, Montserrado...
Charlottesville Tomorrow engages area businesses and nonprofits through new sponsorship program
Charlottesville Tomorrow - Virginia
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August 18, 2025
As a nonprofit newsroom, Charlottesville Tomorrow’s revenue model is based on community investment. Sponsorships are a key piece of this puzzle. To strengthen our newsroom and reflect our values, we’ve built more ways for more people to reach the...
Southwest Virginia coal company plans layoffs
Cardinal News - Virginia
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August 18, 2025
A metallurgical coal mining company in Southwest Virginia will lay off 72 people by mid-October, according to notices filed with state officials. The job cuts will impact employees of Wellmore Energy Company in Buchanan County. The Grundy-based...
DC housing market shifts with more homes to choose from and bargaining power for buyers
WJLA 7 - Washington D.C.
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WASHINGTON (7News) — The housing market in Washington, D.C., continued to shift over the summer as it turned into more of a buyer's market. It's a good sign for people who have been sitting on the sidelines -- waiting to buy a home. Real estate...
DallasNews Corporation schedules Sept. 23 shareholder vote on Hearst merger
The Dallas Morning News - Texas
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August 18, 2025
DallasNews Corporation moved forward Friday with plans to finalize its proposed merger with Hearst, setting September 23 as the date of a special shareholder vote while explicitly rejecting an “illusory” unsolicited, nonbinding offer from...
US Navy relies on Electric Boat company to sustain Columbia and Virginia submarines facing Russian and Chinese pressure
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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Zacks Equity Research, on August 15, 2025, reported that General Dynamics Electric Boat, a core business unit of General Dynamics Corp., has been awarded a $322.6 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command. The...
Trump administration threatens to pull federal funds from Virginia school districts in gender policy dispute
Fox News
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Virginia parent Jen McDougal joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the latest on the effort to end transgender policies in the classroom and bombshell accusations against Fairfax County Schools involving abortions for minors. NEWYou can now...
Virginia man accused of hiding in restroom stall, cutting woman during abduction attempt
WJLA 7 - Washington D.C.
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SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (7News) — A man was arrested after deputies said he tried to abduct a woman inside a restroom and cut her hand at a business near Northern Virginia early Saturday morning, according to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's...
Tort: Former employees sued for trade secret theft
Virginia Lawyers Weekly
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August 18, 2025
Where the marketing company alleged facts making it plausible that its “prospective costumers lists” are trade secrets, and that they were misappropriated by the defendants, its federal and state trade secrets claims survived the motion to...
Financiers respond to US-Russia top reaching no arrangement
Web NewsWire
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August 17, 2025
An extremely expected top in between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday yielded no arrangement to fix or stop briefly Moscow’s war in Ukraine, regardless of both leaders explaining the talks in Alaska as...
Virginia's Birth Injury Fund promised lifelong care. Families say it's delivering delays and denials.
Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia
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For four months, Danielle Whaley spent her nights in a hospital neonatal intensive care unit, watching her newborn daughter cling to life beneath a web of wires and tubes. Three times, doctors suggested it might be simpler to let her child...
Virginia schools to lose funding over gender policies
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 17, 2025
The Education Department said Friday that it will pull funding from five Northern Virginia school districts where officials said they would not comply with a request to change policies supportive of transgender students. The school districts in...
Virginia Symphony Orchestra to Perform in Yorktown Aug. 30
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily - Virginia
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August 17, 2025
(York County) YORKTOWN — The Virginia Symphony Orchestra returns to Yorktown Saturday, Aug. 30 for its 27th annual outdoor concert. Under the direction of conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin, the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. This year’s performance theme is...
GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Drive $150B Weight Loss Market by 2029
WebProNews
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August 17, 2025
The surge in popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists, drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy originally designed for diabetes management, has reshaped the obesity treatment market, drawing millions of users and billions in revenue for pharmaceutical giants....