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JUST IN: Tysons media company to be acquired in $6.2 billion deal

Published August 19, 2025 at 1:45PM | Updated August 19, 2025 at 9:49PM

The Boro office buildings in Tysons, where Tegna has its headquarters (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A national TV broadcast company based in Tysons could soon be subsumed into a rival.

Tegna, which became the first tenant to move into Boro Tower in 2019, announced today (Tuesday) that it has entered into a $6.2 billion agreement to be acquired by Nexstar Media Group, a media company whose local holdings include the CW affiliate DC News Now and the online political news outlet The Hill.

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Fairfax County no longer named a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ by Trump administration

By Angela Woolsey and Associated Press

Published August 6, 2025 at 1:45PM | Updated August 6, 2025 at 2:27PM

A member of the clergy with New Sanctuary Coalition enters an immigration courtroom as federal agents wait outside on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

The Trump administration has released a new list of localities and states it considers “sanctuary jurisdictions,” and Fairfax County is no longer on it.

The Justice Department identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions on Tuesday (Aug. 5), two months after the federal government quietly removed a much longer list that included many localities that support the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies.

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Child’s interview can’t be used in Herndon double murder trial, judge rules

By Associated Press

Published July 28, 2025 at 8:30AM

A framed photo of Brendan Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães on his bedside table in Herndon, provided by police as evidence in their murder case against him (courtesy Fairfax County Police Department via AP, FILE)

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia circuit judge ruled on Friday that prosecutors’ case against an IRS agent charged with killing his wife and another man cannot include a recorded interview from the defendant’s young daughter.

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JUST IN: Trump targets GMU with investigation into diversity-related hiring practices

By Associated Press and Angela Woolsey

Published July 10, 2025 at 8:20PM | Updated July 10, 2025 at 8:53PM

George Mason University (file photo)

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university.

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Vienna credit union no longer required to refund $80M in overdraft fees

By Associated Press

Published July 1, 2025 at 7:30PM

A sign for Navy Federal Credit Union's headquarters branch in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

By KEN SWEET AP Banking Reporter

NEW YORK (AP) — Navy Federal Credit Union will no longer have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees on their accounts, after the President Donald Trump-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved to dismiss the case.

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Virginia Democrats vying for lieutenant governor and attorney general locked in tight races

By Associated Press

Published June 17, 2025 at 9:45PM

Virginia State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi is among six candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Virginia's lieutenant governor (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrats seeking to be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor and attorney general remained locked in tight races in Virginia’s primary election Tuesday night.

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FCPD trainer and other experts urge action to prevent deaths at police academies

By Associated Press

Published June 13, 2025 at 10:00AM

The Fairfax County Criminal Justice Academy in Chantilly (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press

A panel of experts called Wednesday for policy and cultural changes to prevent deaths linked to heat and exertion at the nation’s police academies, and insisted that urgent action is needed to save the lives of recruits.

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Education Department launches investigation of FCPS over TJ admissions

By Associated Press and Angela Woolsey

Published May 22, 2025 at 6:15PM | Updated May 22, 2025 at 6:38PM

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing on the US Department of Education on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Fairfax County Public Schools over its admissions policy for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ).

The department announced today (Thursday) that it has opened an investigation into whether policy changes designed to diversify the magnet school’s student body violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race.

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Reston-based child care research library faces risk of losing federal funding

By Angela Woolsey and Associated Press

Published May 15, 2025 at 1:45PM

The office buildings at 1900 and 1902 Reston Metro Plaza at Reston Station (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

As the Trump administration continues to gut the federal workforce and budget, a Reston contractor recently got an inadvertent head’s up that one of its research projects could be next on the chopping block.

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spreadsheet mistakenly emailed to grant recipients on April 30 listed over 150 projects to support child welfare that are apparently being considered for termination, including Child Care and Early Education Research Connections, the Associated Press reported.

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White South Africans admitted by Trump administration arrive at Dulles Airport

By Associated Press

Published May 12, 2025 at 3:45PM

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

By MATTHEW LEE, REBECCA SANTANA and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press

DULLES, Virginia (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home, which the country’s government strongly denies.