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Again and again, the urgent call goes out for educators and employers to work together to develop the talent supply pipeline needed for economic competitiveness and business growth in the Commonwealth. Blueprint Virginia 2025 - the business plan issued by the Virginia Chamber this past December - leads with the observation that "the availability of a well-trained and educated workforce remains the top concern for Virginia's business community, and with good reason."
"People are saying 'it's a second Fox News,' but it's a lot more insidious than a second Fox News because with Fox News, you know what you're watching," Maher said. "Sinclair has 200 stations all over the country and you don't know if it's a Sinclair station."
For the first time in nearly a decade, Republican candidates across the country find themselves bereft of what was once their favorite talking point: repealing and replacing President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act -- and all the havoc they alleged it has wreaked. That's because the GOP failed dramatically in its efforts last year to roll back the ACA as its first big legislative delivery on the promise of single-party control of Washington from Congress to the White House.
Congress had an agency designed to help senators avoid the sort of embarrassment they faced when trying to understand Facebook - but lawmakers stopped funding it 23 years ago and have resisted reviving it. Now there's talk the Office of Technology Assessment could make a comeback.
Authorities say 28-year-old Eun Soo Lee of Cypress, California was arrested Thursday in California and charged with threatening Republican Rep. Tom Garrett. According to an affidavit, Lee admitted sending threatening messages when he was interviewed by an investigator last year, saying he was frustrated with Garrett's political views.
If you went looking for a group of passionate changemakers on Friday night, they were probably at the United Nations. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg turned the fourth floor of the U.N. into a powerfully casual celebration for the 9th annual DVF Awards, complete with small chocolate dessert towers and white lounge couches in lieu of traditional seats.
Whitney Walker, second left, and Tracy Kurzendoerfer protest outside of Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's office on Friday, March 30, 2018 in Frankfort, Ky. Walker and Kurzendoerfer are teachers in Fayette County.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday reaffirmed her support for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, an investigation that has edged closer to President Trump's inner circle. "I think it is so important, it is so imperative, that this investigation be allowed to go forward," Murkowski said at the annual Women in the World Summit in Manhattan.
Facebook's days of reckoning in Washington and President Donald Trump's agitation with perceived political enemies made for a week of grabby headlines from two ubiquitous forces in American life - the social media colossus and Trump's Twitter account. A look at the veracity of some of the claims this past week from Trump in tweets and in the White House, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in two days of congressional testimony and Mike Pompeo in his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state: TRUMP: "I have agreed with the historically co-operative, disciplined approach that we have engaged in with Robert Mueller .
James Comey said his decision to announce that the FBI was going to look back into the Hillary Clinton email investigation just days before the election was influenced by his belief that she would beat Donald Trump and his desire to make sure that the election results were viewed as legitimate. "I don't remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been because I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump, and so I'm sure that it was a factor," Comey told ABC News' chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview ahead of the April 17 release of his book, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership."
Eric Himpton Holder Ex-Virginia governor says he could beat Trump in general election 2020 Dems boost down-ballot contenders in key states Citizenship question won't be most pernicious aspect of US Census MORE slammed the Trump administration at an event for Democrats in Ohio on Friday, accusing the president and Republicans of allowing "rampant corruption" to go on in the Cabinet. In remarks to Democrats Friday night that were first reported by the Washington Examiner , the Obama-era attorney general accused congressional Republicans of abandoning their duties of oversight over the executive branch.
President Donald Trump spoke to the nation late Friday on U.S. missile strikes against the Assad regime in response to its purported chemical weapons attack against Syrian civilians. Protesters with the Answer Coalition gather in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2018, to denounce the bombing in Syria.
Led by the 30,000 member Connecticut Citizens Defense League 1,500 gun owners and Second Amendment supporters rallied at the state Capitol Saturday. The rally comes less than three weeks after more than 10,000 marched in the same location to demand Connecticut toughen its already tough gun laws by increasing regulations by banning bump stocks and ghost guns.
Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning - BEIRUT - The Syrian government and its allies have absorbed a U.S.-led attack on Saturday and the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia, a senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus said. Damascus defiant as U.S. strikes prove more limited than feared BEIRUT - Syria, Russia and Iran shrugged off strikes on Saturday by the United States and its allies against three Syrian chemical weapons facilities, which drew angry condemnations but no indication that there would be a wider escalation.
'A perfectly executed strike': Trump claims Syrian airstrikes 'could not have had a better result' as White House says 'images of dead and dying children' after 'chlorine and sarin' attack forced the president to act 'I apologize for the mess': Jogger finds scorched remains of prominent gay rights activist and lawyer, 60, who set himself on fire in a Brooklyn park in protest over fossil fuels, and left cops a note to say sorry and identify himself UN Security Council votes down Russian proposal to condemn Trump's Syria strikes, as Nikki Haley warns members the US is 'locked and loaded' and ready to strike again US mocks Moscow's claim that Syria shot down 71 of the 105 missiles fired in airstrikes and reveals Russian troll activity spiked by 2,000% after the attack Obama and other senior Democrats DON'T blame me for losing the election by reopening Hillary email probe, ex-FBI director ... (more)
'A perfectly executed strike': Trump claims Syrian airstrikes 'could not have had a better result' as White House says 'images of dead and dying children' after 'chlorine and sarin' attack forced the president to act 'I apologize for the mess': Jogger finds scorched remains of prominent gay rights activist and lawyer, 60, who set himself on fire in a Brooklyn park in protest over fossil fuels, and left cops a note to say sorry and identify himself UN Security Council votes down Russian proposal to condemn Trump's Syria strikes, as Nikki Haley warns members the US is 'locked and loaded' and ready to strike again US mocks Moscow's claim that Syria shot down 71 of the 105 missiles fired in airstrikes and reveals Russian troll activity spiked by 2,000% after the attack Obama and other senior Democrats DON'T blame me for losing the election by reopening Hillary email probe, ex-FBI director ... (more)
At any given time, just about anywhere in the world, friends hang out at the local coffee joint. And if one friend shows up first, the other might order a coffee - or might just hold off until the other person arrives.
The ferry, which is usually open to traffic 24-hours a day, crosses the Wisconsin River between Sauk and Columbia counties and is accessed by Wisconsin State Road 113. County highway department officials say, ordinarily, it closes for the season only until ice forms on the river.
John Floyd spent 36 years locked up for a New Orleans murder he insisted he didn't commit. A federal judge sees things the same way and ordered his release from jail last year and a new trial.