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North Carolina's new abortion ban is changing the dynamic around the procedure in Virginia, where abortion providers are also suing to preserve access to mifepristone… The Harrisonburg Citizen takes home a bundle of awards for its coverage… The UVa Cancer Center gets funding to study a new approach to treating leukemia….

VMI's chief diversity officer resigns after nearly two years of constant backlash from White alumni and students… Senator Tim Kaine says he’s pushing the Postal Service to improve mail delivery in areas that are still not getting proper service… Jeff Schapiro surveys the week that was in Virginia politics and government….

Environmentalists are dismayed that the debt ceiling agreement would approve all the remaining permits to complete the stalled Mountain Valley Pipeline… Meanwhile, members of Virginia’s General Assembly are at a standstill with their budget amendments, and the deadline is just a month away… A centuries-old document discovered in Rockingham County reveals an assassination attempt against George Washington….

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….

Police shoot and injure one person involved in a fight at a Walmart near the JMU campus in Harrisonburg… After wandering over D.C. and triggering the scrambling of a fighter jet, a small plane crashes in the mountains south of Staunton… Virginia joins with nine other states to sue FEMA over proposed flood insurance rate hikes….

The man shot by a sheriff’s deputy at the Walmart near JMU Sunday died later that night at Sentara RMH… Investigators, combing through the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Augusta County Sunday, say there were no survivors, and that the plane appeared to be on auto-pilot… Full Disclosure’s Roben Farzad discusses how the governor’s order that most Virginia jobs won’t require a college degree, will affect colleges with already declining enrollment….

The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank learns more about the “missing guests” who need food assistance, but aren’t getting it… As his Asia trip continues, Governor Youngkin says in Japan that he hopes to create supply chains that are not dependent on China… Virginia's labor force participation rate returns to pre-pandemic levels….

The governor’s appointee for diversity and inclusion speaks out against diversity programs on the VMI campus… A group of Valley high school students pay a visit to Farmville, a key historical site during the fight over segregation in Virginia… In our weekly politics chat, Jeff Schapiro joins us to discuss this year’s elections, as incumbents face other incumbents in the primaries, and the governor’s trip to Asia….

The state’s legislative Black Caucus joins the NAACP in calling for Virginia’s Diversity Chief to resign after he attacked diversity programs at VMI… The rate of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning among children and adolescents spiked in the first full year of the pandemic… When it comes to curbing tobacco use, Virginia gets one of the lowest grades in the nation….

Virginia Beach is recovering from a rare tornado that hit the area Sunday… Governor Youngkin says he won’t run for president… The controversy over the governor’s Diversity Chief isn’t just about rhetoric… An analysis finds that Youngkin’s appointments are less racially diverse and more male-dominated compared to those of former Governor Northam….