In recent years, the annual number of patients diagnosed with drug use disorder who are treated and discharged by Virginia hospitals has been on an upward trajectory, rising by 11.3 percent from 2020 (57,925 patient discharges) to 2024 (64,460 patient discharges).
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Commodities prices and interest rates collapsed across the board following President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement of reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trade partners despite Congressional Democrats’ predictions that inflation would increase as a result of the tariffs.
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Republican Florida State Sen. Randy Fine defeated Democratic candidate Josh Weil on Tuesday in Florida’s special election for its 6th Congressional District.
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Two Republican-led states have removed hundreds of thousands of registrations from their voter rolls this month, while another identified hundreds of non-citizen voters during their voter list maintenance.
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin in the 2025 gubernatorial race, defended her record amid attacks from her Republican challengers in the race and stressed the need to continue the “successes” of the current administration into the future during an exclusive interview Monday on The John Fredericks Show.
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President Donald Trump renewed calls for the U.S. to acquire Greenland during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday under questioning by Pennsylvania-based radio show host and publisher of The Virginia Star John Fredericks
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A terrorist from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), who was extradited to the United States in the early Wednesday morning hours, confessed to the FBI that he played key roles in the infamous bombing of Abbey Gate at the Kabul, Afghanistan airport that took the lives of soldiers and civilians, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He also claimed taking part in a deadly attack on a concert hall in Moscow, and a blast targeting Canadian embassy security guards in Kabul.
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Twenty-four Democratic senators rebuked President Donald Trump in identical speeches Tuesday hours ahead of his address to a joint session of Congress.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday issued a lengthy public statement expressing gratitude for the American contribution to their defense and expressing a desire to mend fences with President Donald Trump after a dustup at a Friday meeting derailed a planned mineral deal.
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Two candidates joined Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears in the race to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday, when both former State Senator Amanda Chase and former Delegate Dave LaRock made moves to enter the race.
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Despite a string of headlines suggesting that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its efforts to slash federal waste is hurting President Trump in the polls, the public appears at odds with the media over its perception of the department and on Trump’s first month more broadly.
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On the heels of obtaining confirmation the Trump administration will cease to allow the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) to manage the White House press pool, The Virginia Star publisher John Fredericks said the decision would destroy a “monopolistic, power-hungry cartel” that effectively managed media coverage of the president for more than “ten decades.”
In response to a question from Fredericks, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the administration will be taking control over the rotating schedule for the White House press pool, giving new media outlets the opportunity to travel with the president on Air Force One, enter the East Room of the White House, and ask President Donald Trump questions during special events.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced the arrest of an illegal immigrant who is citizens of both Turkey and Egypt, but nonetheless entered the United States illegally from Mexico, and is now alleged to have violated the terms of his release into the country by moving to Virginia without informing authorities.
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Democrats are facing new charges of election fraud going back to 2021, despite their party pushing back on election integrity and voter fraud claims since the 2020 presidential election.
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The Security and Exchange Commission appears ready to quash the controversial climate disclosure rule, which will bring to an end the legal challenges dropped on it.
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U.S. Representative John McGuire (R-VA-05) on Monday said that House Republicans are close to presenting one piece of legislation that would accomplish much of the agenda outlined by President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.
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President Trump is shaking the rafters of the establishment from the new Department of Government Efficiency to trade policy and potential administration control of the U.S. Postal Service, hoping such actions will lead to lasting change.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealed Sunday on Fox News why the Pentagon will be opening up various positions and called out previous mandates under the Biden-Harris administration that led to the need for “fresh blood.”
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President Donald Trump derided longtime Democratic political strategist James Carville after the former Clinton campaign strategist suggested Democrats should “play opossum” while the inevitable “collapse” of the Trump administration unfolds, fueled in part by a potential loss by Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin this November.
“I’m telling the Democrats, just sit there, play possum. Let them go, let them go, let them go,” said Carville during a Thursday appearance on Fox News. Claiming without evidence that the administration’s poll numbers are declining, he advised Democrats, “Just let the ball come to you. We don’t need to be aggressive now.”
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Dave LaRock, who represented Virginia\’s 33rd District in the House of Delegates for a decade before losing the primary in his 2023 bid for the State Senate, confirmed on Wednesday that he is considering entering the race for the Republican nomination for Governor of Virginia.
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Arlington Public Schools (APS) announced a change to its public pool policy last week, with members of the public now required to undergo screening against a sexual offender database, following the arrest of Richard Cox, a registered sex offender who allegedly exposed himself to women and children in women’s facilities after claiming to identify as a transgender woman.
The public school system, which allows its pools, restrooms, and locker rooms to be used by the public when school is not in session, announced new policies that took effect on Saturday. These include requirements for visitors to have their photo taken, present identification, and consent to be scanned against a national database of sex offenders, among other requirements.
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Virginia House Delegate Wren Williams (R-Patrick) confirmed on Tuesday that members of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration are opposed to the House Bill (HB) 2252, the legislation he proposed that would allow those released from prison with probational conditions to end their probation period early, following the completion certain conditions that promote reintegration to society.
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John Reid, the former Richmond radio host who is now seeking the Republican nomination to serve as Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, said on Monday that Governor Glenn Youngkin paved the road for Republicans to “step up” and prevent Democrats from taking back control in 2025.
Reid made the remarks while appearing as the guest host on the Monday broadcast of “The John Fredericks Show,” when he first explained his decision to enter politics began with the riots, election protests and COVID-19 policies pursued by Democrats in 2020 and 2021.
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Virginia Delegate Wren Williams (R-Patrick) said on Thursday that House Bill (HB) 2252, his legislation to create an incentive structure that would allow those released from prison with probational conditions to end their probation period earlier if they complete certain conditions set by the commonwealth.
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who last year announced her candidacy to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin, said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump won her support for the second time with his response to the assassination attempt he survived in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Earle-Sears made the remarks during an appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” telling The Virginia Star publisher John Fredericks that even though she urged Republicans to move past Trump following the president’s contest of the 2020 election results, she was moved by his profession of faith following the assassination attempt.
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Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA) affiliate VHHA Solutions announced Monday it has partnered with Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), a company which specializes in de-escalation and crisis prevention training across a wide range of environments including the healthcare field.
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Virginia Tech stated in a Tuesday notice posted to its website that it would effectively ignore a recent executive order by President Donald Trump that capped the portion of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding which can be used for facilities and administrative costs to 15 percent, citing the recent pause issued by a federal judge in Massachusetts.
In a statement posted to the university’s website by Provost Cyril Clarke and Chief Operating Officer Amy Sebring, Virginia Tech claimed the 15 percent cap would harm the university’s ongoing projects, and said it would continue to anticipate the Biden-era caps until a judge issues a final ruling.
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As the California business exodus continues, the latest to leave is Realtor.com, relocating its corporate headquarters from Santa Clara, Calif., to Austin, Texas.
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U.S. Representative John McGuire (R-VA-05) said on Monday that Virginia Republicans have a “chance” to retain the commonwealth’s executive branch in November, saying that Democrats in the General Assembly are not behaving like a party that is trying to expand its coalition ahead of the 2025 elections.
McGuire, making the comments during an appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” highlighted the legislative agenda unveiled by Virginia Democrats as evidence the party may not be capable of beating Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who seems likely to become the Republican gubernatorial nominee.
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Former Richmond-based broadcaster John Reid said on Friday that his entrance into the race to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor was sparked by the recent water crisis in the commonwealth’s capital, which saw most of the city lose access to running water for six days in January.
Reid, who is the latest Republican to enter the race, made the remarks durin
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It was revealed on Thursday that Richard Cox, who is reported to be a convicted child sex offender, allegedly exposed his genitals in multiple incidents between October and December of 2024, including at two Northern Virginia high schools and one locker room, where he was granted access to women’s facilities due to his purported status as a transgender woman.
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Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, the only elected Republican in the county, today said that his campaign to become the next Lieutenant Governor of Virginia was motivated by an effort to help the Republican ticket on Election Day, and particularly to help Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears win her election to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Asked on Wednesday by The Virginia Star publisher John Fredericks how he expected to win in November if Earle-Sears should perform poorly, as a January poll showed former Representative Abigail Spanberger winning against Earle-Sears by 10 percent, Herrity pointed to his years of electoral success in Fairfax County.
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John Curran, who last year launched his candidacy for the Republican nomination to become Virginia’s next lieutenant general, said on Tuesday that he hopes to bring the commonwealth’s Republicans together, creating a unified front to leverage public opinion and force Democrats to accept conservative legislation.
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The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in a largely party-line vote Tuesday evening.
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President Donald Trump has paused for 30 days a 25 percent tariff on Mexican goods and another 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods and 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy products after both countries acceded to the President’s demands to contribute to border security, preventing illegal migration and drug trafficking flows.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday that the federal agency arrested a previously convicted, twice deported illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted a Virginia woman.
The immigration agency revealed the January arrest of Nicolas Alberto Hernandez-Lopez, a citizen of El Salvador who was previously convicted of the second-degree sexual assault of a Fairfax County, Virginia woman in 2019, when the immigrant was determined to have violated the terms of his admission into the country.
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A new election integrity report examining how non-citizens have been registered to vote in South Dakota and Oregon warns that automatic voter registration is the culprit.
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The Trump administration has reportedly ordered a 70 percent cut to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency which manages personnel for the federal bureaucracy. According to OPM, about 160 of its jobs are located in Virginia.
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares reportedly sent a legal notice to the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and University of Virginia (UVA) health systems, offering guidance on the executive order banning federal spending on transgender surgeries or medicines signed by President Donald Trump, which states that his office is monitoring for compliance.
The legal notice, published by ABC 8 News on Friday, references the Tuesday executive order Trump signed, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Castration.”
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Legislation under consideration by the Virginia House of Delegates would require the U.S. Congress to formally pass an act of war against a foreign country before the Governor of Virginia is allowed to authorize the Virginia National Guard to deploy overseas.
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Officials said Thursday morning that searchers have recovered 27 bodies from the American Airlines flight that collided overnight with a military helicopter and plunged into the Potomac River along Washington, D.C.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump formally dropped the government’s Biden-era lawsuit against Virginia over the commonwealth’s purge of noncitizens from its voter rolls before the 2024 elections.
Legal notice of the voluntary dismissal by the Trump administration’s DOJ was filed on Tuesday, months after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Virginia’s right to remove the noncitizens from its voter rolls despite the Biden-era lawsuit last October.
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The third Republican to enter the primary contest to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor is John Reid, a former radio host based in Richmond who entered the race Monday as conservatives seek a new candidate to replace Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who appears likely to become the party’s nominee for governor.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin vowed to veto legislation, currently under consideration in the Virginia State Senate, which would remove the religious exemption that allows Virginia parents to homeschool their children on theological grounds.
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In his first international address since taking office, President Donald Trump spoke on Thursday to an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, emphasizing a “revolution of common sense” and outlining a series of America-First policy initiatives aimed at reversing what he described as the economic and social damages of the previous administration.
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President Donald Trump unveiled his trade policy objectives this week and emphasized his plan to strengthen “the American economy, the American worker, and our national security” in his second term.
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Republican U.S. Alabama Sen. Katie Britt will reintroduce legislation Thursday to secure the southern border.
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The plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA-01) to pass the legislative agenda outlined by President Donald Trump could result in accusations of Republican failure, warned Virginia U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09), who said that the legislation could easily be broken into two bills that would be easier for House Republicans to pass through the narrowly divided Congress.
Griffith made the remarks during a Wednesday appearance on “The John Fredericks Show” after Scalise confirmed on Tuesday that House Republicans are “moving forward with one bill,” with the Louisiana Republican additionally telling reporters that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has agreed to the plan that would see Trump complete multiple campaign promises, including his promises to extend his tax cuts, increase border security, and improve domestic energy production.
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The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative announced Monday it is suspending activities. The move comes after BlackRock, with $11.5 trillion in assets under management, joined an exodus of mega-firms leaving net-zero groups.
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed a lawsuit against the social media platform TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, alleging the company’s smartphone application was designed to be addictive to young people, and that its creators make false claims about its content being appropriate for minors.
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