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FAQs: What is happening with gun legislation in Virginia? 02/17/2020 03:12pm • AR-15 rifles are on display during the Nation's Gun Show on Nov. 18, 2016 at Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The show is one of the largest in the area. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Democrats are set to take over both the Virginia Senate and the House of Delegates. This histor US assures Afghans it will not abandon them after peace deal 02/15/2020 05:36am • ��� As the United States finalizes its plans to reduce violence in Afghanistan, an Afghan source close to the negotiations has said that US officials in Munich, Germany, reassured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his team that American won't abandon them. The source said National Zoo revamps ZooLights security plan following November chaos 02/11/2020 07:46am • Neighbors of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and D.C. business owners attended a community meeting Monday night to share their concerns about the chaos that broke out during last year's holiday ZooLights festival. A rowdy group of young adults overran the dazzling annual light display on Nov. 30, Top US spy-catcher: The alarm is 'blinking faster and brighter' 02/11/2020 05:41am • On July 18, 2018, Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence, compared the cyber threat the U.S. faced to the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. "Here we are nearly two decades later, and I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again," Coats said. On Monday, the U.S. top coun Election security chief urges public to be vigilant 02/10/2020 04:03am • Impeccably dressed, charismatically polite and armed with an urgent message, Shelby Pierson, the U.S. Election Threats Executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), strode briskly into the studio at WTOP and got straight to the point. ���At this juncture, we do not have CBS News head calls threats against Gayle King reprehensible 02/09/2020 01:39am • ��� NEW YORK (AP) ��� The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King ���reprehensible��� Saturday as backlash grew against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Brya Technical glitch at Iowa caucuses bares voting security concerns 02/06/2020 07:07pm • Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price speaks about the delay in Iowa caucus results Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Americans watched in disbelief, glued to their TV sets, smartphones and tablets, on Monday night as the Iowa caucuses, the first offic Bill granting licenses to undocumented immigrants advances in Virginia Senate 02/05/2020 07:13pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to possess a driver���s license in Virginia has advanced in the Senate. Senate Bill 34, introduced by Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell of Fairfax, would allow immigrants to obtain a driver���s license regardless of legal status. Th Electronic gaming machines with cash payouts got DC approval. Here's who will get the first one 02/04/2020 02:55pm • The D.C. Council is taking some tentative new steps toward regulating electronic gaming machines with cash payouts, as one company works to install the devices in the District even as they face intense legislative scrutiny in Virginia. Lawmakers passed emergency legislation Tuesday designed to se DC jail under routine security checks, official says, after word of 'lockdown' causes concern 02/01/2020 04:14pm • The word "lockdown" filled local social media feeds this week as visitors were shut out of the D.C. jail unexpectedly on Monday and all educational classes were canceled. Word of the move alarmed local activists. No New Jails DC tweeted Friday, "Folks have been entrapped in solitary confinement f The shunned: People from virus-hit Chinese city tracked, quarantined 01/31/2020 06:28pm • ��� BEIJING (AP) ��� Meron Mei, a sophomore at Wuhan University in the Chinese city at the heart of a viral outbreak, went back to his home village and started to cough. So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coron For Puerto Rico's earthquake families, trauma continues thousands of miles from home 01/29/2020 06:37am • The beefy ex-cop sleeps in a twin-size trundle bed a few inches off the hardwood floor. His wife, their 17-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son rest on the attached full-size bed, and their 16-year-old son turns in on the upper bunk. Another couple and their 10-year-old Virginia man receives federal sentence for child pornography 01/25/2020 10:12am • A Virginia man has been sentenced to federal prison for using popular social media apps to target and exploit young children. Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr., 30, of Ashburn, Virginia, enticed and coerced several young girls across the country to send sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves Months from 2020 election, Va. updates cybersecurity, voting equipment rules 01/24/2020 03:00pm • AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file Virginia elections officials are taking new cybersecurity steps as part of new voting-equipment policies ahead of the 2020 presidential election. More significant security measures are planned starting in 2021. Under new plans for voting systems and electronic poll How much you will get from Social Security 01/21/2020 11:00am • It can be difficult to predict how much you will receive from Social Security, especially if you are more than a few years away from retirement. But familiarizing yourself with how your benefit will be calculated can help you budget for retirement and even boost your future Social Security payments.