Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) unveiled his proposed amendments to the two-year state budget on Thursday, which included spending $1 billion in tax breaks that would financially help Virginia residents by lowering state income taxes.
Three chimpanzees were gunned down after attempting a daring escape from Sweden's Furuvik Zoo, while four others remain besieged by authorities inside a building.
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Juju Smith-Schuster paid off around $10,000 in layaway balances at Burlington in Kansas City, Missouri, just in time for Christmas.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are running out of time to pass legislation to close loopholes in the electoral vote-counting process before the end of the year, when Democrats will relinquish control over the House of Representatives, making it more difficult to pass.
The Senate voted 54 to 40 against a measure that would require the Department of Defense to reinstate service members who had been separated from the armed forces for refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine.
The Senate voted down Sen. Joe Manchin’s amended permitting reform bill in a 47-47 vote Thursday evening, meaning that Democratic leaders failed to honor an agreement made to the West Virginia Democrat to secure his support for climate spending legislation.
