Tag: Virginia

Local authorities declared a state of emergency before a rally of neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and other white supremacist groups started in Charlottesville, Va. Saturday morning following clashes between those groups and counter-protesters. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

National Security

Charlottesville declares state of emergency before white supremacist rally begins

Kyle Feldscher · August 12, 2017 3:42 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch said white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va. are "fueled by hate" as protesters poured into the town Saturday morning.

National Security

Orrin Hatch: White nationalist ideas ‘have no place in civil society’

Caitlin Yilek · August 12, 2017 2:24 pm

Virginia police ordered a Charlottesville rally held by tiki torch-bearing white nationalists to be shut down Friday night, declaring the protest at the University of Virginia "unlawful." (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

National Security

Torch-bearing white nationalists rally at University of Virginia

Caitlin Yilek · August 12, 2017 2:13 pm

The announcement comes only days after the company said it was leaving the exchanges in Nevada and Georgia. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Anthem to leave Obamacare exchange in Virginia

Kimberly Leonard · August 11, 2017 9:33 pm

News outlets on Wednesday reported the FBI raided Manafort's Alexandria, Va., home July 26 after obtaining a search warrant for tax documents and foreign banking records. (AP)

National Security

Trump ‘surprised’ by FBI raid of ‘decent man’ Paul Manafort’s home

Josh Siegel · August 10, 2017 8:51 pm

Spieles said he acted alone, and was not told by anyone else in the party to create fake voters. (iStock by Getty Images)

Virginia college student gets 100 days in jail for registering dead voters for Democrats

Sean Langille · August 10, 2017 5:25 pm

A well-known whistleblower in the Department of Veterans Affairs warned Wednesday that the VA appears to be getting ready to close tens of thousands of incomplete healthcare applications, even though it's been clear for more than a year that the VA was failing to give veterans a chance to complete these applications. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Whistleblower warns VA is taking steps to close thousands of veterans’ healthcare applications

Pete Kasperowicz · August 9, 2017 6:07 pm

Airbnb said that the "Airbnb Community Commitment" requires users to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age." Airbnb claims that the white nationalists are in breach of the commitment. (Flickr)

Beltway Confidential

Charlottesville and Airbnb are wrong to attack white supremacist free speech

Tom Rogan · August 9, 2017 2:20 pm

The cancellations come after a neo-nazi group boasted it had booked seven houses for 80 to 90 people from various alt-right groups. (Flickr)

White nationalists threaten to sue Airbnb for canceling bookings at Virginia rally

Sean Langille · August 8, 2017 3:51 pm

A Tough But Telling Race in Virginia

Ike Brannon · August 2, 2017 10:49 am

"The security and efficiency arguments for this are clear. What is not clear is why this project was suddenly halted, why Congress was not notified in advance, and what happens now," Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., will say at a morning hearing, according to an excerpt of his prepared remarks obtained by the Washington Examiner. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

John Barrasso to scold feds for quietly killing new FBI headquarters

John Siciliano · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

Problems at the D.C. VA Medical Center have continued since Hawkins' departure.

Longtime director of DC VA medical center fired from VA headquarters: Report

Josh Siegel · August 1, 2017 10:22 pm