Virginia

A federal court sided Tuesday with Gavin Grimm, a transgender student who sued the Gloucester County, Virginia, school board after it banned him from the men's restroom.

• By Kate Wheeling

• By Madeleine Deliee

Virginia's governorship will stay in Democratic hands after Terry McAuliffe leaves office in January.

• By Morgan Baskin

Dressed as a ninja, Shaheer Sarwar from Pakistan takes the oath of United States citizenship during a Halloween-themed citizenship ceremony on October 31st, 2017, in Fairfax, Virginia.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Governor Terry McAuliffe joins hundreds of city, state, and federal officials in formally opposing the expansion of drilling off their coasts.

• By Kate Wheeling

The leftist candidate proved a tough adversary for Northam, but fell short of clinching the Democratic nomination for governor by about 10 percent.

• By Morgan Baskin

A reporter for The Daily Caller neglected to mention he'd given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.

• By A.C. Thompson

The culturally significant Chesapeake Bay islands have lost two-thirds of their land since 1850, and could vanish altogether by 2070, an Army Corp of Engineers study finds.

• By Nathan Collins

Twenty years after abolishing parole, one state is examining the impact (and the politics).

• By Lauren Kirchner

Virginia is worsening its own climate change risks through inaction. Here's how it can get back on track.

• By John Upton

And what Attorney General Eric Holder missed in his recent speech on, among other things, the disproportionate burden of voter disenfranchisement of felons felt by minorities.

• By Lauren Kirchner

So now what?

• By Lauren Kirchner

The “Tobacco Trail” tempts two-bit crooks and big-time smuggling rings.

• By Lauren Kirchner