Virginia

The Cook Political Report moved the Virginia governor's race from "leans Democrat" to "toss-up" status after a poll released last week showed Republican Glenn Youngkin overtaking Democrat Terry McAuliffe with likely voters.

The race for governor in Virginia is getting closer in the final weeks before Election Day. Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe will face off against Republican and political newcomer Glenn Youngkin. Recent polling from The Washington Post shows a statistical dead heat between the two. And this week the nonpartisan "Cook Political Report" also shifted this race from leaning Democrat to a toss up. Brendan…

A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters involving children

One of the most prominent Republicans who investigated President Bill Clinton in the 1990's called for the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots to subpoena Donald Trump, Jr.Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) rose to prominence a quarter century ago as the senior counse...

"People know that America is not the major country dirtying the planet," he said, pointing to polling data released from Trafalgar yesterday

Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell (Mich.) on Friday launched a messa...

Police have given the all-clear after a search of two state office buildings in Virginia's capital prompted by a report of a possible active shooter

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Florence Pan as the first Asian American woman to serve as a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C.

Democratic delegate Nancy Guy is facing an über-Trumper using culture war garbage against her. And it could work.

A monument dedicated to the abolition of slavery was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, two weeks after a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down 2 miles away. CBS affiliate WTVR's Cameron Thompson takes a look.

Several Senate Democrats on Thursday said that they hadn't seen a "framework" for how to pay for...

Facebook announced a new project that will bring high-speed broadband service to thousands of households in Virginia this fall, in partnership with a local ISP and utility company.

Congress is charging toward a government shutdown and debt default and appears to have no backup plan roughly a week before federal agencies would have to shutter their doors.

The Justice Department and officials in six states have filed a lawsuit to block a partnership formed by American Airlines and JetBlue, claiming that it will reduce competition and lead

Partnership between the two U.S. airlines reduces competition, according to federal antitrust enforcers.

Just weeks after officials in Richmond, Va., took down the nation's largest statue of Robert E. Lee, a new monument is going up — the Emancipation and Freedom Monument to mark the end of slavery.

The Virginia gubernatorial race is shaping up to be much closer than previous elections.

At least 127 people have been infected — and 18 hospitalized — amid an outbreak of salmonella across dozens of states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Members of the select committee tasked with examining the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol met behind closed doors with their staff for more than five hours on Monday night -- but as they seek thousands of documents and hours of potential interviews, the ultimate course of the ambitious investigation is still not clear.

The student's science project included a spotted lanternfly, an invasive species, that officials did not yet know reached the state