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Thousands of dogs from a shuttered breeding facility in Cumberland County will soon be up for adoption… Governor Youngkin’s new appointees to VMI’s board of visitors raise concerns that they could roll back efforts to make VMI more inclusive and diverse… Advocates for abortion rights in Virginia are thinking about how they could help people from other states that prohibit the procedure….

Virginia joins other Republican-led states in sending National Guard troops to the border with Mexico… The primary contest between incumbent Senator Creigh Deeds and challenger Delegate Sally Hudson near Charlottesville is drawing more votes than any other in the state in early voting… Albemarle County plans to buy a large tract of land to attract new defense department contracts to the area….

A flood of racist and antisemitic remarks disrupts a Charlottesville City Council meeting… Staff at the Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary in Nelson County say that one aspect of climate change impacts everything they do… Virginia’s election season is well under way, the House Speaker drama in D.C. highlights the extremism of one Virginia Republican, and Jeff Schapiro is here to talk about it….

A group of Rockingham County students is vowing a lengthy fight over the school board’s recent decisions… A trial date is set for the former UVa student accused of murdering three of his schoolmates in 2022… In the General Assembly, the governor’s tax proposal fails its first test, but another change to the tax code to help lower income families advances….

We go into the field (and stream) to learn how government and nonprofit agencies assess the health of our local waterways… Senator Creigh Deeds hopes that Virginia law will help provide hope for families threatened with separation by the Trump administration… Governor Youngkin selects September 9th for a special election to fill the seat of the late Representative Gerry Connolly….

Governor Youngkin offers an optimistic view of Virginia’s finances, but some lawmakers are skeptical… A group of professors call on state lawmakers to defend college DEI initiatives against the Trump administration… We have an exit interview with Michael McKee, stepping down as head of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank after more than a decade….

Dangerous heat and humidity settle into our area… Protesters gather in downtown Harrisonburg to oppose the ongoing violence between Israel, Gaza and Iran, just hours before President Trump orders airstrikes on Iran… Unless amendments to Trump’s massive spending and tax bill are made, federal cuts to Medicaid would have a significant impact on Virginia’s health care system….

Virginia’s ACLU sues ICE for allegedly detaining young people unlawfully at Farmville’s detention center and elsewhere...Meanwhile, Albemarle County’s Circuit Court Clerk says recent detentions at the courthouse by ICE agents have a chilling effect on court attendance...The Roanoke Times and Richmond Times-Dispatch will eliminate their Monday print editions....

American Oversight, a watchdog group that includes former Obama administration lawyers, is using the Freedom of Information Act to keep tabs on the Trump administration's agencies.

Much speculation has been aired about Syria's role in the current Mideast crisis. Joshua Landis, a professor of history and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Oklahoma, tells Scott Simon that Syria wants to use Hezbollah to get back in the Mideast's diplomatic game.