RALPH NORTHAM

Matt Strickland, owner of Gourmeltz in Fredericksburg, Va., called coronavirus protocols unconstitutional. Now he wants to be a lawmaker in Virginia.

A number of cultural groups, historians and Virginia residents are sounding the alarm about historical inaccuracies and oversights on the latest draft of history standards for K-12 education in the state proposed last week by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who faces Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, joined Fox News' Sean Hannity for a Monday town hall event.

The troubled Los Angeles City Council appears headed into a long power struggle, as two disgraced councilmen resist widespread calls for their resignation amid a racism scandal and state investigation.

The office of Virginia's attorney general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children.

In footage taken by her daughter during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Pelosi appeared calm, focused and pragmatic under unthinkable circumstances.

In addition to the vote to subpoena Trump, there were notable revelations and previously unseen video that emerged from what's likely to be the committee's final hearing.

Never-before-seen video footage played Thursday by the House Jan. 6 committee shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders, including Republican allies of Donald Trump, responding anxiously — and angrily — to the insurrection at the Capitol.

Thursday's hearing revealed new video footage of members of Congress working the phones from secure locations, interspersed with scenes of rioters chanting outside.

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says he recently met with the FBI to discuss his concerns about the two 2019 sexual assault allegations against him.

Virginia state agencies responding to a severe snowstorm that stranded hundreds of motorists along Interstate 95 in January collectively lost what a report called “situational awareness” amid the growing gridlock.

The Virginia governor's campaign shared a photo of the high school senior in an apparent attempt to deflect attention away from the article.

Four governors declared a state of emergency ahead of this weekend's storm, which could drop several inches of snow on areas that aren't accustomed to severe winter weather.

At least 27 states stretching from Kansas to Georgia had winter weather advisories posted on Saturday morning.

Saturday, Virginia's next governor, Glenn Youngkin, a member of the GOP, will be sworn into office. Youngkin and Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears surprised Democrats when they swept office in November.

Forecasters predict a quarter-inch of ice which could lead to days without electricity.

Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put much of the Southeast on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers strip store shelves of supplies and road crews treat highways ahead of an approaching weekend storm.

Forecasters' predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia have shoppers scouring store shelves for storm supplies and road crews trying to prevent a repeat of past wintertime debacles.

Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is leaving a progressive legacy behind when he steps down Saturday after eight years.

"I don't know why you're sitting there saying, 'What went wrong?'" Northam told a reporter. "This was a storm that we haven't seen for a long time."

With more bad weather looming, Virginia officials are seeking to reassure the public they are prepared as they reacted to harsh criticism of their response to a storm earlier this week that left hundreds of motorists stranded on Interstate 95.

There was plenty of outrage from motorists, some of whom were stranded overnight Monday into Tuesday, posting pleas for help on social media.

Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that resulted on Interstate 95 after a winter storm dumped nearly 11 inches of snow.

Drivers have been stuck in freezing-cold temperatures for more than 15 hours without food or water following a crash involving six tractor-trailers.

The waiting is over for the last of the drivers who got stranded overnight on an interstate highway in Virginia.

She's been an artistic chameleon for more than six decades. Now, at 82, Judy Chicago is being celebrated with her first career retrospective, at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Correspondent Martha Teichner talked with Chicago about how she gave up being like "one of the boys" in a male-dominated art world, to forge her own identity; her landmark piece, "The Dinner Party"; and the subsequent work that has defined her as an artist of unusual breadth.

The enormous pedestal where the Robert E.

Highlights of this day in history: Thomas Edison demonstrates light bulb; The United States winds down the Marshall Plan; Actor Anthony Hopkins, composer Jule Styne and musician Donna Summer are born. (Dec. 31)

The massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and eight other monuments will move to the museum after the city council approves the plan.

Conservators said Tuesday the 19th century artifacts were "in better shape" than expected.

Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital Tuesday pulled buttons, coins, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The lead conservator for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Kate Ridgway, said that the measurements and material, copper, match historical accounts, so they believe it’s the 1887 time capsule they’ve been looking for. Conservators had already made several cuts before the media was invited to observe Ridgway make the final cut.

Governor Ralph Northam tweeted photos of a box being removed from the site and said conservators were studying the artifact.

Last week, experts opened a box they believed to be a chest left in the plot in 1887, but the contents weren't what they were expecting. Now they may have finally found what they were seeking.

Last week, a different time capsule was opened after it was found underneath the pedestal of the Confederate general's statue.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Crews wrapping up the removal Monday of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond found what appeared to be a second and long-sought-after time capsule, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said. The governor tweeted photos of a box being removed from the site and said conservators were studying the artifact. News accounts described its dozens of donated artifacts, including Confederate memorabilia.

A small box was found in the pedestal that used to hold a statue of the Confederate general in Richmond, Va. It took hours for experts to open the box and find several water-damaged items inside.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is scheduled to witness the opening Wednesday of a time capsule from 1887 that was buried under a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. The massive bronze equestrian statue of Lee — long seen as a symbol of racial injustice in the former capital of the Confederacy — was taken down in September. The time capsule was found Friday by crews working to remove the pedestal where the Lee statue had stood.

Crews found a square box embedded in a granite stone, which appears to be the copper time capsule, said the owner of the construction company.

Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Richmond for more than a century believe they've found a time capsule that was buried there in 1887. The massive bronze equestrian statue of Lee, erected in 1890, was taken down in September, more than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered its removal after protests over racism and police brutality erupted across the country following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The day after the statue was removed, work crews spent more than 12 hours searching for the time capsule in the 40-foot (12-meter) tall pedestal, but were unable to locate it.

The information technology agency that serves Virginia’s legislature has been hit by a ransomware attack that has substantially affected its operations.

The Swords Into Plowshares project, led by the Jefferson School American Heritage Center, a local Black-led nonprofit, involves the statute at the heart of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has announced that his administration will remove an enormous pedestal that until earlier this year held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats’ “left, liberal, progressive agenda.”

Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats’ “left, liberal, progressive agenda.”.

Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and outgoing Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam are pledging a smooth transition of power.

Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy businessman, flipped the Virginia governorship to Republican control in a race that saw the highest turnout among the state's voters in recent history.

Democrats became the dominant political force in Virginia over the past decade, but their grip was weakened in Tuesday's gubernatorial election.

The Virginia gubernatorial race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe was too close to call before 8 p.m. ET.

Warsaw, Va., councilman Faron Hamblin said he wore blackface to look more like a movie character: "I did it to show my love for the character and the movie."

A Virginia governor’s race that appears deadlocked between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin has entered its final hours.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin raced to fire up their party’s base voters in opposite ends of Virginia on Sunday.

Democrats’ decision to drop a proposal for paid family leave from their massive social safety net and climate change package was met with disappointment and irritation by female voters in Virginia.

A bomb cyclone delivered an early-season snowstorm to California ski resorts on Oct. 25.

Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.

Former President Barack Obama has offered a sharp rebuke of the Republican candidate for Virginia governor while campaigning for the Democrat in the closely contested race.

Skeptical Virginia Republicans have come around to Glenn Youngkin, the party's candidate for governor.

Former President Barack Obama is coming to Richmond this month to campaign with fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the final stretch of the competitive race for Virginia governor.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin got off to a combative start in the second and final debate in Virginia’s closely watched gubernatorial election.

About a month and a half out from the finale of the Virginia governor's race, optimism among Democrats in this state long trending blue is increasingly tinged with nervousness.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed over abortion and vaccination policies in Virginia’s first gubernatorial debate of the general election season.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin have met in southwest Virginia for the commonwealth’s first gubernatorial debate of the general election season.

"If we insist on tearing down statues of reprehensible people, let's at least be fair and balanced about it," this Missouri Republican said.

A newspaper article from 1887 suggests the copper time capsule contains a "picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin," as well as other memorabilia.

The bronze equestrian statue of Lee was one of five enormous Confederate tributes along Richmond's Monument Avenue.

A 133-year-old time capsule that was placed at the pedestal of the Confederate monument in Richmond, Va. in 1887 will be replaced by a new time capsule filled with modern-day artifacts.

"The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people," Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said. "It is time to display history as history."

The Northam administration has said it would seek public input on the statue's future.

More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it will be lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., and placed into storage.

A statue of Gen. Robert E.

The Northam administration has said it would seek public input on the statue’s future.

Preparations for the statue's removal will begin 6 p.m. Tuesday when crews will install protective fencing. Once the statue is hoisted off the pedestal, it's expected to be cut into two pieces for transport.

A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The nationally recognized statue became the epicenter of a protest movement in Virginia​ after George Floyd's death.

The high court's ruling came in two lawsuits filed by Virginia residents who attempted to block removal.

The high court's ruling came in two lawsuits filed by residents who attempted to block the statue's removal. The court says the state can take down the huge statue in Richmond.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled unanimously that the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The search continues for five crew members of a Navy helicopter that crashed off the coast of San Diego. One crew member was rescued.

Black farmer John Wesley Boyd Jr. has been fighting for four decades against a system he says favors whites. Now, he and fellow farmers of color are battling lawsuits by whites claiming reverse discrimination. (Sept. 1)

Black women are increasingly considering gun ownership for personal protection, according to industry experts and gun rights advocates. (Sept. 1)

The case attracted pleas for mercy and in recent years has been denounced as an example of racial disparity in the use of the death penalty.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has granted posthumous pardons to seven Black men executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration has received notification that the Department of Defense has authorized the use of Marine Corps Base Quantico to house Afghan refugees, as well as a national guard installation in central Virginia.

Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school.

President Joe Biden is back on the campaign trail, leading the kind of rally that was impossible last year because of the pandemic.

The House has approved a bill to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol.

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax after CBS News broadcast interviews with two women who accused him of sexual assault.

If a court clears the way, the state of Virginia will not just remove a soaring statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Republican governors running for reelection have begun trumpeting the party’s more hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic as they try to flip the script on an issue that helped Democrats win the White House and control of Capitol Hill in 2020.

Terry McAuliffe outperformed even his own campaign’s expectations, winning every city and county in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Virginia governor.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has heard arguments on whether the state has the right to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The Supreme Court of Virginia is set to hear arguments in legal challenges to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's plan to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

In his quest for a second term as Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe is heading into next week's five-way Democratic primary with an undeniable lead in public polling, name recognition, endorsements and money.

President Joe Biden started the Memorial Day weekend by visiting a rock climbing gym in northern Virginia as the state lifted all COVID-19 distancing and capacity restrictions at private businesses and much of the nation pushes toward a greater sense of normalcy.

Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, has long had lofty political ambitions, and despite facing two unresolved allegations of sexual assault he’s pressing forward with a bid for governor.

As Republicans roll back access to the ballot, Democrats in certain states have been quietly moving to expand voting rights.

Political newcomer Glenn Youngkin has emerged as Virginia Republicans’ nominee for governor, in a year when the GOP hopes to end a 12-year losing streak in statewide races.

Tens of thousands of Virginians are casting ballots to choose GOP nominees for governor and other statewide offices this weekend.

A Virginia town has announced that one of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a Black Army officer during a traffic stop has since been fired.