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Innovative technologies produce gadgets meant to be helpful or simplify our lives. But sometimes, new products are used for unintended, illicit purposes.

Craig Wright has the story of a woman who wasn’t sure how to react to a disturbing alert she received on her phone about one such device.

The General Assembly is parsing through the governor’s many amendments and vetoes.

Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Senator Tim Kaine is out with a new book this week.

And as Michael Pope tells us, it’s not the standard Washington memoir.

Among Governor Glenn Youngkin’s education reforms was the development of a lab school program, linking colleges with local school systems to innovate new education models.

But as Democrats seek increased resources for the rest of the state’s public schools, they’re looking to reduce funding for that experiment in education.

Brad Kutner has more. 

Time is running out for the governor to act on bills from this year’s General Assembly session.

Jeff Schapiro, political columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is setting new records for vetoing more bills than any other governor in recent years.

Michael Pope has details about one vetoed bill that would have encouraged teaching climate change in public schools.

After some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court suggested they should reconsider precedent protecting access to contraceptives, Virginia Democrats passed a law that would protect such access.

But the governor has yet to sign it, and advocates want him to act, as Brad Kutner reports from Richmond. 

Governor Glenn Youngkin Thursday morning signed a bill that increases punishments for those who manufacture pressed pills that include fentanyl.

Brad Kutner has more from Richmond. 

All this year, Christine Kueter has been crisscrossing Virginia to listen to the stories of the 8.5 million people who call the Commonwealth home.

Today, she introduces us to a horse trainer in Abingdon who creates bonds with trust and understanding.

Virginia’s congressional races are heating up in anticipation of the June 18^th primary. Michael Pope tells us that the final deadline for candidates is early next month.

An effort to rein in the Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok is a rare moment of bipartisanship in DC, but similar efforts stumbled during this recent Virginia legislative session.

Brad Kutner has more from Richmond. 

The General Assembly has passed its bills.  Now we wait to see what the governor signs and vetoes.

Jeff Schapiro, political columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Michael Pope recap the week in politics and state government.

Governor Glenn Youngkin again railed against a multistate compact aimed at reducing the impact of climate change.

Brad Kutner has more from the governor’s appearance Thursday at a diner just south of Richmond.

City employees in Richmond are on the verge of becoming one of the first public workplaces in the state to form a union, negotiate a contract, and start seeing the benefits.

It’s a journey that became possible after state lawmakers reversed a decades-long ban on collective bargaining for local government employees back in 2020.

Mallory Noe-Payne explains how it happened.