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  • Virginia Residents Ask School To Overlook Trans Sex Offender Caught Naked In Girls’ Locker Room To Keep Gender Policy

    02/05/2025 11:24:46 AM PST · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | February 05, 2025 | Jaryn Crouson
    Virginia residents are rallying against parents who spoke out about an Arlington Public Schools (APS) District policy that allowed a serial sex offender to watch young girls change in a high school locker room for months. The transgender proponents called on the district to maintain its policy allowing men to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to be transgender after many parents voiced their concerns at a Jan. 30 school board meeting, according to ABC 7 News. Registered sex offender Richard K. Cox was arrested in December 2024 after several people reported a naked man watching women...
  • DOJ ends lawsuit against Virginia for removing illegal aliens from the voter rolls

    01/31/2025 8:46:30 PM PST · by FLT-bird · 13 replies
    Excellent. Now the other states need to purge them too.
  • This 425-year-old map may have just solved the ancient mystery of the vanished Roanoke colonists

    01/31/2025 12:06:36 PM PST · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | January 31, 2025 | Staff
    Most people have heard of the utterly baffling story of the "Lost Colony," the early English settlement in Virginia/North Carolina that completely vanished sometime before 1590: The Lost Colony of Roanoke | Britannica Explore the oldest mystery of colonial America. WWW.BRITANNICA.COM https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke The colony's founder, John White, departed for England in 1587; he returned three years later to find more than 100 colonists simply gone: The word CROATOAN and the letters CRO, carved into trees within the colony's borders, were the only signs pointing to an explanation. Despite the clues, the returning crew was unable to search for the missing...
  • Inside the $4BN Underwater Highway Rebuild - Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Expansion [8:07]

    01/30/2025 1:29:17 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 24, 2025 | Build Core
    The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion is one of Virginia's largest infrastructure projects, aiming to alleviate decades-long traffic congestion in Norfolk, a key city at the crossroads of the Chesapeake Bay. This $4 billion project will widen nearly 10 miles of I-64, add two new tunnel lanes beneath the harbor, and transform roadways and bridges across the region. The ambitious plan also involves "Mary," one of the largest tunnel boring machines in the world, which has been tunneling beneath the water for over a year. Despite some criticism about its focus on road expansion, the project is backed by a significant...
  • ‘Unfathomable’ pro-abortion amendment passes in Virginia Senate

    01/24/2025 6:32:28 AM PST · by Morgana · 11 replies
    Live Action News ^ | January 24, 2025
    Lawmakers in the Virginia Senate gave approval this week to a constitutional amendment that would allow for preborn children to be killed with no gestational restrictions. The amendment passed in a party line vote of 21-19. Though abortion is already legal all the way through 26 weeks six days in the state — and all the way to birth if three doctors determine the mother’s life or health is at risk — the amendment would solidify that extreme stance, making it harder to undo legislatively while further loosening the third-trimester exceptions and providing no safeguards to protect women and young...
  • 'What Are UFOs' Examines Our Fascination with the Unknown

    01/22/2025 9:41:19 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 66 replies
    Time Mag/MSN ^ | Jeffrey Kluger
    Nobody expected anything special when the squadron of Navy F/A-18 fighter jets headed out for routine aerial maneuvers off of the coast of Virginia Beach one day in 2013. The F/A-18s, a Naval workhorse, owned the local air space that day—but only until they didn’t. All at once, the jets’ radar picked up a cluster of half a dozen objects flying along with them, moving erratically—and entirely acrobatically. At some moments they ripped along side-to-side at speeds exceeding 350 knots—or 402 mph. Then, suddenly, they would stand utterly still in winds that themselves were moving at 150 knots (172 mph)—gusts...
  • Nuclear Fusion With AI – New Plant To Open Soon

    01/19/2025 4:52:03 AM PST · by Pontiac · 53 replies
    Forbes ^ | 1/18/2025 | John Werner
    “Fusion is a reaction, and there’s a race right now to figure out the right machine to make that reaction happen here on Earth. The machine that would make the reaction would consume a fuel that everyone has access to - no need for uranium or plutonium and no nuclear waste - and would provide unlimited energy.” Out of about 50 companies out there, CFS is the biggest. Mumgaard detailed advances that could lead to practical, production-level fusion processes. But challenges remain. A reaction like this, he says, needs three things. It needs to be hot, dense and insulated. Citing...
  • Virginia Church Disrupts Pre-Attack Surveillance: Are Churches Being Targeted?

    01/18/2025 6:59:33 AM PST · by Perseverando · 30 replies
    Christian Warrior Training ^ | January 17, 2025 | Keith Graves
    On January 15, 2025, three men entered two churches in Fairfax, Virginia, and began taking photos and videos of the properties. One of the men asked questions about the churches’ security systems, specifically whether their cameras could live-stream and if they were monitored continuously. When challenged by staff, the group left in a Lexus SUV. Their behavior, consistent with reconnaissance tactics often used to plan attacks, raised significant concerns among church leaders and law enforcement. This incident is not isolated. Just days earlier, a similar situation unfolded in Southern California, where individuals displayed nearly identical behavior, including taking photos and...
  • Terror Plot Foiled: Egyptian National Arrested for Plotting Israeli Embassy Attack in NYC

    12/19/2024 3:40:14 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/19/2024 | Ward Clark
    Sometimes, the FBI gets it right. After an investigation that apparently has been ongoing for some months, the FBI has arrested an Egyptian national, one Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, for plotting an attack on the Israeli Embassy in New York City.The FBI has arrested a Virginia man, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, for allegedly sending information on how to build a bomb that would target the Israeli consulate in New York. Charging documents say that Hassan worked closely with an FBI informant.In May, local police got a tip of an ISIS supporting account on Twitter. A review of his...
  • FBI Discovers Largest Homemade Explosives Cache in History at Virginia Man’s Home — Allegedly Used Biden Photos for Target Practice

    01/01/2025 1:33:20 PM PST · by Beowulf9 · 36 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Dec. 31, 2024 | Jim Hᴏft
    A Virginia man, Brad Spafford, 36, was arrested earlier this month after authorities discovered what they claim is the largest stockpile of homemade explosives in FBI history. Spafford, who reportedly used images of Joe Biden for target practice, is being labeled by federal agents as an “extreme danger to the community.” During a search of Spafford’s 20-acre property, authorities found over 150 homemade explosive devices, including pipe bombs labeled as “lethal.”
  • FBI: Largest Cache of DIY Explosives Found on Va. Farm

    12/31/2024 3:13:08 PM PST · by AirForceVet1988 · 64 replies
    NewsMax ^ | 12-31-24 | None
    A Virginia man was arrested after the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" was discovered at his farm by the FBI, The New York Times reported. Brad Spafford was apprehended outside Norfolk on Tuesday, Dec. 17, after more than 150 explosive devices were found in a detached garage on his 20-acre property, the Times reported. The devices were mainly pipe bombs, some labeled as "lethal," prosecutors told the Times. Pipe bombs were also found inside his bedroom — loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading "#NoLivesMatter," the Times reported....
  • Police: July 4 mass shooting thwarted in Virginia’s capital

    07/06/2022 12:41:57 PM PDT · by VanShuyten · 36 replies
    WTOP News Radio ^ | July, 6, 2022 | AP
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to the arrest of two men and the seizure of multiple guns — an announcement that came just two days after a deadly mass shooting on the holiday in a Chicago suburb. … Police initiated an investigation, along with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FBI, which led to the arrests of two men on charges of being a non-U.S. citizen in possession of a firearm. Additional charges are possible, Smith said. Officers seized...
  • Loudoun County teacher under investigation for passing around cotton while teaching about the history of the cotton gin

    12/23/2024 11:39:36 AM PST · by Red Badger · 55 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | December 23, 2024 | Staff
    Loudoun County has been the center of DEI clown world for quite a while now, and stories range from the horrible to ones like this that are just plain dumb. Yes, a teacher at Riverside High School is under investigation because he distributed a piece of raw cotton for students to examine, while giving a lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery. I had a history teacher who conducted this exact exercise, and the tactile reinforcement has helped me remember the lesson he taught that day, even all these years later. (But I went to school back...
  • Virginia governor again attempts to end taxpayer funding for eugenic abortions

    12/23/2024 5:59:42 AM PST · by Morgana · 3 replies
    Live Action News ^ | December 22, 2024 | Bridget Sielicki
    For the third consecutive year, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has proposed a budget amendment that would eliminate taxpayer-funded abortions for fetal anomalies. According to Virginia Mercury, current state law allows state insurance to cover abortions for cases in which a doctor has diagnosed “gross and totally incapacitating physical deformity or with a gross and totally incapacitating mental deficiency.” Youngkin’s proposed budget amendment would explicitly remove this, with language saying “no expenditures from general or non-general fund sources may be made out of any appropriation by the General Assembly for providing abortion services, except otherwise as required by federal law or...
  • Powering up Virginia: World's first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant

    12/22/2024 9:20:29 AM PST · by MagillaX · 45 replies
    CNBC TV ^ | 12/18/2022 | CNBCTV
    Bob Mumgaard, Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin join 'Squawk Box' to discuss a multi-billion dollar investment for the world's first grid-scale commercial fusion power plant in Virginia, what fusion energy is, and more. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC
  • Two major banks leave UN Net Zero Banking Alliance in two weeks

    12/21/2024 10:43:47 AM PST · by george76 · 13 replies
    Center Square ^ | 12/21/ 2024 | Bethany Blankley |
    Not soon after the general election, and within two weeks of each other, two major financial institutions have left a United Nations Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). This is after they joined three years ago, pledging to require environmental social governance standards (ESG) across their platforms, products and systems. According to the "bank-led and UN-convened" NZBA, global banks joined the alliance, pledging to align their lending, investment, and capital markets activities with a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, NZBA explains. Since April 2021, 145 banks in 44 countries with more than $73 trillion in assets have joined NZBA, tripling...
  • 18 staff members arrested at Virginia nursing home. This isn’t the first time VDH investigated.

    12/21/2024 10:26:50 AM PST · by Morgana · 28 replies
    WTVR ^ | December 19, 2024 | Melissa Hipolit
    COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — The Virginia Department of Health confirmed its Office of Licensure and Certification is conducting an investigation into Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Colonial Heights. "Due to the ongoing criminal investigation, VDH cannot comment further on this matter at this time,” Maria Reppas, a spokeswoman for VDH, said. CBS 6 has reported Colonial Heights police arrested multiple employees at the Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Wednesday morning, charging them with crimes ranging from abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults to falsifying patient records. The arrests came after police say a 74-year-old patient was hospitalized...
  • GOP Senator Blocks 'Desperate Attempt' by Dems to 'Trump-Proof' Washington

    12/19/2024 4:28:45 AM PST · by george76 · 56 replies
    Townhall ^ | December 18, 2024 | Leah Barkoukis
    Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said he was "proud" to block a proposal from Democrats to protect federal workers from potentially getting reclassified as political appointees under the incoming administration. The measure was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) as a way to prevent such reclassification without congressional approval. He asked for unanimous consent to pass the Saving the Civil Service Act, warning about “attempts in recent years to erode the independence of the federal civil service,” a reference to efforts President-elect Trump made in his first term. Kaine and other Democrats fear that Trump, now reelected, may attempt to reclassify...
  • Virginia hunter dies after bear falls out of tree and crushes him

    12/18/2024 8:26:04 AM PST · by Red Badger · 67 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | December 18, 2001 | Staff
    Awful stuff out of the Old Dominion: A beloved father died after he was seriously injured during a hunting accident while with his son in Virginia, officials said. Lester Clayton Harvey Jr., 58, was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of a tree where his group of houndsmen had chased a bear in Lunenburg County on Dec. 9, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources told McClatchy News in an email. One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell. Harvey was a hunting enthusiast and appeared to regularly go on excursions in the woods...
  • Grandfather dead after bear shot in a tree falls on him while hunting

    12/17/2024 1:33:04 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 140 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/17/2024
    The incident occurred Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources said in a statement. A hunting group was following the bear when it ran up the tree, the department said. As the group retreated from the tree, a hunter shot the bear. The animal fell onto another hunter [the victim] who was standing about 10 feet (3 meters) from the bottom of the tree. The department identified the man as Lester C. Harvey, 58, of Phenix, Virginia. A member of the group rendered first aid before Harvey was rushed to two...