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The Virginia governor’s office is hitting out at what it says is an "unprecedented" lawsuit by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. The DOJ is claiming that Youngkin violated the National Voter Registration Act with an executive order that required the election commissioner to regularly update the state’s voter lists to remove individuals who have been "identified as noncitizens" and had not responded to a request to verify their citizenship in 14 days. Virginia has announced that it has removed more than 6,000 individuals between Jan 2022...

Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said. Asked on a podcast if he thought it possible Trump was a Russian asset, Andrew McCabe, who Trump fired as FBI deputy director in 2018, said: “I do, I do.” He added: “I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term. But I do think that Donald...

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) filed paperwork this week to run for governor next year in the state. Sears’s paperwork was accepted by Virginia’s Department of Elections on Wednesday, according to Nexstar’s Richmond affiliate WRIC. The Hill is owned by Nexstar Media Group. The development comes after Sears’s team said on Wednesday she would be making a “special announcement” in Virginia Beach on Thursday. Sears is the first Republican to jump into the off-year race that will likely dominate campaign news next year. Late last year, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) launched her own campaign for the governor’s mansion. The...

US President Joe Biden was captured struggling to enter an SUV following a fundraiser on Tuesday night. Users on X roasted the oldest-ever sitting president as many mocked Biden for being unfit to be president. “Seriously folks it shouldn’t be this bad. Someone be kind and free him from duty,” wrote one user. The Tuesday evening fundraiser was held at the home of former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. The event, alongside President Biden, featured former US President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and 450 guests. According to the Biden campaign, the fundraiser raised over $US8 million, adding to the $US40 million...

Just a few weeks after Special Counsel John Durham revealed significant failures to investigate allegations against Hillary Clinton’s family charity, a U.S. Tax Court judge has once again breathed new life into a years-long whistleblower case alleging IRS improprieties involving the controversial Clinton Foundation. U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson has already once before denied an IRS request to dismiss the whistleblower case, first brought in 2017. And three years ago, he ordered the tax agency to reveal whether it criminally investigated the foundation, citing a mysterious "gap" in its records. The IRS filed a new motion to dismiss, and...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is touting a new partnership between the state and big tech giant Google that will welcome the openly left-wing corporation into Virginia schools to provide “workforce development” training and “computer science opportunities” to Virginia students. Google has been at the forefront of promoting Critical Race Theory and pro-trans ideologies targeting children, two things Youngkin promised to remove from Virginia schools during his campaign for Governor.Governor Youngkin joined Google executives this week in Northern Virginia, where the tech giant has built massive offices and data centers in recent years, to publicly unveil Google’s new $300 million investment...

National File has unearthed information from meetings of the World Economic Forum placing Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin at Davos alongside high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party.Glenn Youngkin attended Klaus Schwab’s annual World Economic Forum (WEF) summits in Davos, Switzerland in 2019 and 2020, the years immediately preceding his run for Governor of Virginia.According to a Chinese-language WEF webpage, at the 2019 Davos meetings, Youngkin, then a co-CEO of the Carlyle Investment Group, sat on a WEF panel alongside high-ranking CCP member Fang Xinghai. On Chinese government websites, Fang is listed as the Vice Chairman of the China Securities...

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the Republican Party does not have a single leader when asked if former President Donald Trump should remain as the head of the GOP. Partial transcript as follows: [cut] BRENNAN: Sure, but you lost the ballgame in the Senate. Karl Rove blamed...Should Mr. Trump remain the leader of the Republican Party? COTTON: Well, Margaret, when the party- when any party is out of power, as Republicans are now, we don’t have a single leader. The former president is obviously very popular with many of our voters– BRENNAN: He’s...

Democrats have a lengthy history of refusing to accept the results of elections they lost.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants his state to repeal a legislative mandate conforming Virginia 's vehicle standards to California 's on the basis that it could make a "disastrous combination" in conjunction with an evolving grid. Youngkin, a Republican, released a 2022 energy plan Monday recommending legislators to reevaluate the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a 2020 law that set deadlines for the state's utilities to cease generating electricity from fossil fuels and rely on renewable sources such as wind and solar instead, and to cut the link between Virginia's and California's air regulations. The plan also takes aim at a separate...

As opposition to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new policies on treatment of transgender students grows, Virginia still lacks an enforcement plan to have school divisions adopt them. Under new guidance published last month, schools are required to inform a student’s parent or guardian whether a student wants to change their name, nickname and/or pronouns from how they are listed in their records, among other policy changes. The Republican Youngkin said he expects schools to follow the law when it comes to the new guidance. “It’s the law and so I don’t really have a lot of patience for folks that see...

Last Friday, as Madeline highlighted, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) updated Virginia's policies on transgender students and pronouns, emphasizing parental involvement. This was a significant change from the previous administration of Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat. Despite such an update, it appears that the main culprits, Alexandria City Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools, don't show an intention of complying. As Madeline also covered, Fairfax County, the largest school district in Virginia, was training teachers to transition students without parental consent, which certainly earned the ire of Youngkin.

Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares established an "Election Integrity Unit" to ensure uniform compliance with state election law and increase voter confidence, officials announced. The new unit at the attorney general's office will also probe possible violations of state election law and provide legal advice to the Department of Elections. Attorney General Miyares said he is delivering on his 2021 campaign promise to strengthen transparency and confidence in elections by establishing the unit, which will be composed of more than 20 lawyers, investigators and paralegals from the attorney general's office. "It should be easy to vote, and hard to...

School is starting, but don't count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a "progressive" way that he hopes will make them Democratic voters.

- Trump took swipes on social media at potential 2024 rivals Govs. DeSantis and Youngkin. - It's been speculated that the Florida and Virginia governors could seek the GOP nomination in 2024. - Though he has not said he's running for re-election, Trump once again teased he may make another White House run.

by Josh Ford | 24NewsPresident David Olive of Bluefield College received news that the school’s basketball players continued to kneel during the National Anthem despite him telling them to stop immediately or face consequences.Some players continued to kneel as they reportedly believe it’s their way to take a stand against racial injustice.However, Olive shot back that the protesting reflects poorly on the school. He informed the team that he is suspending multiple players who refused to stop kneeling.“The basis for my decision stemmed from my own awareness of how kneeling is perceived by some in our country, and I did...

(The Center Square) – Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares can continue his investigation into how the Loudoun County School Board handled a sexual assault last year, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled. Earlier this year, Miyares commissioned a special grand jury to investigate whether school board members and school administrators intentionally lied and withheld information from parents about a sexual assault. Superintendent Scott Ziegler informed the school board about an assault that occurred in a school bathroom. However, less than a month later, he said in a public hearing there were no records of assaults in school bathrooms. No one on...

A majority of Virginians approve of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in his first year in office, while President Joe Biden’s approval is still underwater in the Commonwealth, according to a survey. The recent Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College survey showed that 55 percent of the 640 respondents approve of Youngkin’s job as governor, while only 35 percent disapprove.

California’s newly-announced rule barring the sale of new gas-powered cars in 2035 will apply to Virginia as well under the terms of a 2021 state law, Attorney General Jason Miyares’s (R) office confirmed to The Hill on Monday. In 2021, the state General Assembly, where Democrats then held majorities in both chambers, passed a law requiring the state to adopt the same automobile standards as those adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Although Democrats lost their majority in the state House of Delegates in 2021, efforts to repeal the legislation in this year’s legislative session were unsuccessful. California’s...

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is working to dismantle Virginia's push toward electric vehicles, calling the move "ridiculous" in a Sunday statement. Virginia's former governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, signed legislation in 2021 tying the state's emissions policies to the California Air Resources Board. The board has imposed a regimen to eliminate the sale of gas and diesel vehicles by 2035, forcing Virginia to do the same thanks to the 2021 law. "In an effort to turn Virginia into California, liberal politicians who previously ran our government sold Virginia out by subjecting Virginia drivers to California vehicle laws," Youngkin wrote in...