Opinion | Why Can’t I Just Burn My Diaries If I Don’t Want Anyone to Read Them?
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Opinion | Why Can’t I Just Burn My Diaries If I Don’t Want Anyone to Read Them?

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The person in these pages was young, willful, sometimes petty and painfully sure of herself. And to accept her — my — flaws felt a little like an act of resistance to the pressure I’m well acquainted with as a woman not to…

Trump Pulled 0 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.
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Trump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a pall over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. The schools, a mix that includes both public universities and Ivy League institutions, have been…

What to Know About the Plane and Helicopter Crash Near Washington
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What to Know About the Plane and Helicopter Crash Near Washington

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into the Potomac River near Washington on Wednesday night after colliding midair with a military helicopter while approaching Reagan National Airport, officials said. The plane was being operated as American Eagle Flight 5342 by PSA Airlines…

Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win
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Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Democrats on Tuesday held two key state legislative seats in Virginia, retaining their majorities in the General Assembly in the first special elections since President-elect Donald J. Trump won back the White House. The results were expected in overlapping House of Delegates and…

Virginia hospital halts NICU admissions after babies found with ‘unexplainable fractures’
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Virginia hospital halts NICU admissions after babies found with ‘unexplainable fractures’

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A hospital in Virginia shut down its neonatal intensive care unit after three pre-term babies were found with “unexplainable fractures” – more than a year after several newborns suffered similar injuries.  Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond paused all admissions to its NICU and…

Suspect sought in 2010 slay case finally busted — during routine traffic stop
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Suspect sought in 2010 slay case finally busted — during routine traffic stop

ByNews Polite

 A suspect sought in a 14-year-old slay case was busted last week in Florida — during a routine traffic stop for running a red light, authorities said. Timothy Hickerson, 43, recently became the prime suspect in the 2010 murder of Shane Donahue, 23, in Nokesville, Va., and a warrant had…

Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900
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Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900

ByNews Polite

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges. The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams,…

Youngkin touts removal of 6K non-citizens as a result of election integrity measures
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Youngkin touts removal of 6K non-citizens as a result of election integrity measures

ByNews Polite

BRISTOL, Va. – On the campaign trail with Virginia’s GOP Senate nominee Hung Cao Friday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin touted the fruit of his election integrity labor — namely, the removal of more than 6,000 non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls and codifying the Commonwealth’s all-paper balloting system. “We went…