Tag: #Virginia
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Campus police officers and students killed in US school shootings
Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, while one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a school in Minnesota the same day.
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Powerful winter storm triggers transport chaos and power outages across US east coast
Blinding snow whipped up by powerful winds pummeled the eastern US on Saturday, as one of the strongest winter storms in years triggered transport chaos and power outages across a region of some 70 million people.
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Millions hunker down as storm hits eastern US, Canada
Millions of Americans hunkered down as a major winter storm hit the eastern US with heavy snow and ice knocking power out for an estimated 145,000 customers.
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Clean Electricity Performance Program likely to be dropped
The cornerstone climate policy, Clean Electricity Payment Program (CEPP) also regarded as the Democrats’ massive social safety net package, will most likely be dropped from the final budget deal after the pushback from Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. “He is not available at the CEPP period. We have been trying,” a democratic aid told the…
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Pakistani-American woman achieves major milestone, gets into Virginian Cabinet
United States: Pakistani-American citizen, Mona Hafeez Siddiqui, managed to get into the Virginian cabinet with her recent appointment as the Deputy Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Policy Advisor, for immigrant and refugee affairs for the state of Virginia, United States. This recent appointment comes as a new collaboration between the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion…
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Protestors Clash with Seattle Police in Latest Outcry over US Feds
Protestors have clashed with Seattle Police in the latest outcry over US Feds.
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Cyclist who flipped off US president wins local election
Washington, Nov 6 (AFP/APP): A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird — making a rude single-fingered gesture — to US President Donald Trump’s motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia. Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photograph that went viral, beat the Republican incumbent to a seat…