Microsoft wins $22 billion deal making headsets for US Army

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Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets. ...

Student loan relief extended to some privately held loans

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The federal government’s pause on student loan payments is being extended to more than 1 million borrowers who have defaulted on student loans that...

Appeals court upholds constitutionality of terror watchlist

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government's terrorist watchlist, ruling that the...

Lawsuit targets Virginia’s policies on transgender students

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RICHMOND, Va. — A faith-based conservative group filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Virginia's new state guidelines on the treatment of transgender students in public...

Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition

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RICHMOND, Va. — Last month, Virginia lawmakers quietly passed one of the most restrictive bans in the country on the use of facial recognition...

Many history interpreters of color carry weight of racism

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Stephen Seals stood onstage waiting to be auctioned off. Moments later, a white slave auctioneer pointed a gun at one of the other Black...

Charlottesville mayor’s poem about city, racism ‘hits nerve’

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America’s Black politicians have a long history of calling out the nation’s racism. But few have taken to poetry and written that their city...

Judge rejects ex-CIA worker’s try to dismiss hacking charges

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NEW YORK — A former CIA employee cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren’t enough Hispanic or Black...

EXPLAINER: What’s going on with the Virginia Parole Board?

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RICHMOND, Va. — For nearly a year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's administration has been facing questions about the work of the five-member state parole...

Officer shot in Virginia during retrieval of runaway cow

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HARRISONBURG, Va. — A police officer was accidentally shot after he and others tried to corral a cow that had escaped from a livestock...