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Upon receiving Jay’s letter, General Washington passed on the recommendation to the convention where it was adopted in the final draft. Thus Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution, the fundamental law of our nation reads: Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of U.S. Constitution as adopted 17 September 1787: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the...

Virginia State Police said the incident started around 7:30 p.m., when a Richmond police officer partnered with a Virginia State Police Special Agent approached a vehicle for a consensual encounter in the 1900 block of Redd Street. They said the stop was initiated after the officer and special agent observed a car pull up to the curb and park the wrong way of the street. “The Richmond Police Officer was in uniform and driving a marked Richmond Police SUV. The Richmond Police Officer and Special Agent walked up to the car and struck up a conversation with the driver as...

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the firebrand Islamist cleric behind the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center, has died in federal prison. He was 78. Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian radical who maintained a global following even while imprisoned for more than two decades, died Saturday at Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, where he was serving a life sentence, Reuters reported.

Two men has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in connection with the Jan.22 shooting death of 26 year old Stafford resident Jorge Leonardo Melo. Juan Pablo Rubio 21, of Stafford and Ronaldo Antonio Silvestre Torres, 23, are also charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

I was more moved than I expected. Then more startled. The old forms and traditions, the bands and bunting, endured. I thought, as I watched the inauguration: It continues. There were pomp and splendor, happy, cheering crowds; and for all the confounding nature of the past 18 months, and all the trauma, it came as a reassurance to see us do what we do the way we do it. A friend in the Southwest, a longtime Trump supporter, emailed just before the swearing in: “I have been crying all morning.” From joy. The inaugural address was utterly and uncompromisingly Trumpian....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A New Jersey woman and her 5-year-old great-granddaughter have been found alive in secluded woods in rural Virginia, apparently stranded there for days after disappearing on a holiday road trip, authorities said.

The U.S. Navy says the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and several supporting ships will arrive Friday in Norfolk. More than 6,000 sailors spent seven months underway.

When people break into the country they are not immigrants. They are usually not undocumented either. They usually have documents in multiple names, fraudulent documents. I sometimes refer to them as fraudulently documented foreigners which is more accurate than The Ministry Of Propaganda's undocumented immigrant. We all should always use the correct term, illegal alien(s). They are not immigrants and continuing to let the Ministry Of Propaganda control the langage allows them to paint us as anti-immigrant. Most of the talk about “immigration” isn’t about immigration. Immigration is a process by which the potential immigrant applies in their home country...