Year in review December 24, 2025 | 5:57PM EST 3 min (Diversity Richmond) Name: VA Pridefest, Richmond’s largest celebration of the LGBTQ+ community Why you know it: Nationwide pressure to roll back DEI initiatives led several corporate sponsors to pull funding from the event, putting pressure on organizers to find a way to fill the...

Just two weeks into the job, President Donald Trump threatened to fire or push out scores of Environmental Protection Agency employees in Chicago, and by August he terminated their union, a move still being challenged in court. In that same period, Trump’s EPA boss, Lee Zeldin, launched a deregulation campaign rolling back rules governing everything...

VAN HORNE — What happens when wildfires rage, hurricanes intensify, or droughts force people to make difficult choices? In 7th grade Social Studies, students are diving into these questions as they explore how human-environment interactions have shaped history—and continue to shape our world today. At the heart of this unit is our compelling question: How...