The House of Delegates has an October 30 deadline to redraw 11 districts declared unconstitutional by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Region. While House Republicans want to pass their new plan when lawmakers convene October 21, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has threatened to veto the Republican redistricting plan.
We're starting to learn more about why black students have long been disciplined more harshly than their similarly-behaving white counterparts. Prospective teachers are more likely to perceive the faces of black adults as being angry compared to the faces of white adults, a new study finds.
With the primary elections Tuesday, NBC12 will hold a Digital Dialogue as Virginians choose candidates for Congressional and Senate races. While voter turnout is generally lower for primary elections, there are some hotly contested races in the state that could change the tide in Washington.
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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.
The Post story, " In Brazil's political crisis, a powerful new force: Evangelical Christians ," is an amazing account from a liberal perspective of how Christian conservatives are taking back their country. One leading critic of the ruling Workers Party in Brazil said, "We saw that communism was in their DNA."