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Dominion Energy sues Trump administration for halting wind projects

Published December 26, 2025 at 2:45PM

Wind turbine bases, generators and blades are positioned along with support ships at The Portsmouth Marine terminal at the staging area for Dominion Energy's wind turbine project Monday Dec. 22, 2025, in Portsmouth, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security concerns.

Dominion Energy Virginia said in its lawsuit filed late Tuesday (Dec. 23) that the government’s order is “arbitrary and capricious” and unconstitutional. The Richmond-based company is developing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, a project it says is essential to meet dramatically growing energy needs driven by dozens of new data centers.

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Virginia offshore wind project among those halted by Trump administration

By Angela Woolsey and Associated Press

Published December 22, 2025 at 3:45PM

Wind Turbine Installation Vessel Charybdis works to install generators for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project near Hampton Roads (via Dominion Energy)

The Trump administration on Monday suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.

Among the affected projects is Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which has been under construction about 27 miles off of the Virginia Beach coast since 2023.

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JUST IN: Temporary Annandale immigration court judge fired after defying Trump deportation push

By Associated Press

Published December 19, 2025 at 12:40PM | Updated December 19, 2025 at 1:54PM

The Annandale Immigration Court is housed in an office building at 7619 Little River Turnpike (staff photo by Jared Serre)

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, The Associated Press has learned.

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Fairfax leaders to honor police for response to 2021 attack on U.S. Capitol

By Scott McCaffrey

Published December 15, 2025 at 8:30AM

The U.S. Capitol Building in D.C. (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors next month will honor the efforts of local police to restore and maintain order at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

With the attack’s five-year anniversary nearing, the board voted 9-0 at its Dec. 9 meeting in support of a proposed commemorative proclamation sponsored by supervisors Rodney Lusk (Franconia) and Dan Storck (Mount Vernon) with Chairman Jeff McKay.

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Northern Va. leaders push back on Trump’s criticism of Dulles Airport

By Scott McCaffrey

Published December 8, 2025 at 8:30AM

Dulles International Airport departure level and parking lot (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Northern Virginia political leaders have reacted coolly to President Donald Trump’s criticisms of Dulles International Airport and his calls for a major rebuilding project there.

Trump called the airport “terrible” and suggested it was “incorrectly designed” during a Dec. 2 Cabinet meeting. Hours later, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced it would seek proposals for new terminals and concourses to replace or enhance the facility, which straddles the Fairfax and Loudoun line.

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Trump admin wants to rebuild ‘inefficient’ Dulles Airport despite ongoing renovations

By Angela Woolsey and Associated Press

Published December 3, 2025 at 8:30AM

FILE - A sign of Washington Dulles International Airport station is seen during the opening of new Silver Line Extension at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Dulles International Airport has emerged as the latest target of President Donald Trump’s bid to remake the architecture of the nation’s capital.

Even as the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) pursues billions of dollars in capital projects, including a new concourse slated to open next fall, the U.S. Department of Transportation began soliciting proposals yesterday (Tuesday) from developers, architects and engineers to redesign airport just outside Fairfax County.

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Federal government shutdown now the longest ever, as Trump meets with GOP senators

By Associated Press

Published November 5, 2025 at 10:00AM

President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with Senate and House Republicans in the State Dining Room of the White House on Nov. 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays and federal workers nationwide left without paychecks.

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Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ rallies to return to Fairfax County tomorrow

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 17, 2025 at 9:15AM | Updated October 17, 2025 at 10:40AM

Protestors along Franconia-Springfield Parkway for a "No Kings" rally on June 14, 2025 (courtesy Indivisible of Franconia)

Hundreds of Fairfax County residents are expected to hit the streets tomorrow (Saturday) as part of a nationwide protest movement opposing the Trump administration.

Though the main event will take place at noon near the National Mall in D.C., a dozen rallies are also planned across the county for this year’s second “No Kings Day of Action,” many of them organized by local chapters of the grassroots, liberal activist network Indivisible.

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Federal workers endure financial strain and fear layoffs as the government shutdown drags on

By Associated Press

Published October 15, 2025 at 12:45PM

A sign that reads "Closed due to federal government shutdown" outside of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, JOEY CAPPELLETTI, JESSE BEDAYN and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confronting new uncertainty with the Trump administration’s promised layoffs.

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Fairfax board fears trickle-down impact of planned federal homeland security grant cuts

By Scott McCaffrey

Published October 15, 2025 at 10:00AM

Board Chair Jeff McKay (screenshot via Fairfax County)

Fairfax County leaders are voicing concern that proposed Trump administration’s cuts in homeland security grants could have a major local impact.

“It is a significant hit to our public safety agencies,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said at the board’s meeting on Tuesday (Oct. 14). “We will be very loud and outspoken about it.”