OPINION: $44 Tolls Are Just The Start For Virginia Roads

Virginia politicians are feigning outrage over the $44 toll imposed on the short, one-way morning drive into Washington, DC on Interstate 66. The nation's latest high occupancy toll lane project opened earlier this month with eye-popping fees for single occupancy drivers on their way to work. Complaints about the exorbitant charges miss a far more important point.

SUBMEPP keeps submarine fleet in top condition

The U.S. Navy's submarines make up the stealthy, up-close-and-personal prong of the nuclear triad; prowling beneath the depths of the deep ocean for months at a time. However, what is less known about this arm of nuclear deterrence is all of the logistical undertaking that goes into ensuring each and every submarine is seaworthy by being promptly called into port when any number of critical parts are scheduled for repair, replacement or upgrade.

For Trump adviser at center of Russia probe, a rapid rise and dramatic fall in his ancestral land

A brass band played, fighter jets streaked the clear blue sky and a red carpet adorned the airport tarmac on the day in May 2016 when Vladimir Putin came to Athens for a visit. "Mr. President, welcome to Greece," the Greek defense minister, Panos Kammenos, said in Russian as he smiled broadly and greeted a stone-faced Putin at the base of the stairs from the plane.

Warner calls for McFarland to testify

Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said on CNN's "State of the Union" that KT McFarland, a former Trump transition official and deputy national security adviser, needs to provide testimony to Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller. "Ms. McFarland needs to come in, and not just testify in front of Mueller, but testify in front of the congressional committees," Warner said Sunday.

Fitzgerald: Those who draw the ‘race’ card are the least deserving to use it

SLUR? U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., yesterday. When Englishman Samuel Johnson suggested "patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels," he was referring to sunshine patriots, those who would wrap themselves in the flag for personal advancement as opposed to those who actually fought beneath it for love of country.

Virginia Board Of Elections Delays Certification Of House Races

Virginia's Board of Elections voted on Monday to delay the certification of two state-level House races as the national political atmosphere continues to boil over in scandal after scandal. The board voted unanimously after claims surfaced regarding voters receiving the wrong ballots, which could sway the 28th District's election that will help determine control over the state legislature.

After Roem’s election, Va. GOP leader wants to do away with ‘gentlewoman’ title for lawmakers

Virginia Del.-elect Danica Roem , left, and Demi Lovato at the American Music Awards. With Virginia's first openly transgender elected official preparing to take her seat in the House of Delegates, the Republican leader of that chamber says it is time to end a tradition of addressing lawmakers by formal male and female pronouns.

COLUMN: Nat’l GOP: Thank Virginia Voters for wake-up call

DEMOCRATS across the nation, ecstatic at their party's landslide win in the recent Virginia election, are eagerly thanking the state's voters for thoroughly repudiating Trumpism. Virginia voters spoke loud and clear in giving the largest Democratic margin of victory in a gubernatorial campaign here since 1985.

Va. Republican who leads House Judiciary Committee to retire

File - In this April 4, 2017 file photo, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Goodlatte is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a 13-term congressman from Virginia.

GOP sees political fortunes rise and fall with tax cuts

In this Nov. 8, 2017, photo, from left, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speak informally on tax reform and the elections with reporters in the Senate Press Gallery at the Capitol in Washington. It's an article of faith among Republicans that the GOP's electoral fortunes next year hinge on whether they succeed in their longstanding dream to redraft the nation's complex, inefficient tax code.

Sanders: Election ‘a referendum on the disastrous Trump administration’

Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday said Democrats' victories in Tuesday's elections were a reaction to President Donald Trump's presidency. "Yesterday's elections were really a referendum on the disastrous Trump administration, on his temperament, on his reactionary policies," said Sanders, speaking with Anderson Cooper.