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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- More than 1,600 Virginians have had their voter registrations canceled since August under a state program that the Justice Department and advocacy groups contend is illegal.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A judge is pressing the U.S. government to explain why a portion of the memo authorizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of foreign election interference and former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign remains classified seven years after it was issued.
A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges, later dropped, over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election sued the state attorney general Thursday, alleging malicious prosecution.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- A coalition of immigrant-rights groups and the League of Women Voters in Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares of an ongoing "purge" of voter rolls that will disenfranchise legitimate voters.
A former sheriff's deputy at a northern Virginia jail was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years in prison for smuggling drugs into the jail and for running a sex trafficking operation out of a Baltimore apartment.
A northern Virginia man who attacked staffers in the district office of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly with a baseball bat was found not guilty by reason of insanity Monday.
A Virginia man has been arrested and charged with threatening online to kill Vice President Kamala Harris and harm other public officials.
U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., one of Congress' most conservative members, filed a petition Thursday for a recount after state election officials say he narrowly lost a primary last month to a challenger backed by former President Donald Trump.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Bob Good is fighting a two-front battle to hold his seat in Virginia's 5th Congressional District and with it his role as leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. And that doesn't even count his opponent in the June 18 GOP primary, state Sen. John McGuire.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) -- Eugene Vindman has never run for office, and he's far from a household name, but his almost cultlike status among national Democratic activists as a figure from the first impeachment of Donald Trump has elevated him to a leading contender in a key Virginia congressional race.