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Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week
Amazon plans another round of corporate job cuts next week as it moves toward eliminating about 30,000 roles companywide.
Top Five: January 2026
1 | University board fight ends; Spanberger to fill 22 seats The legal battle between Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state Senate Democrats over university boards of visitors ended as both sides acknowledged the matter would be made moot by the new General Assembly session and change in gubernatorial administrations. (Dec. 9) 2 | SAIC shakes […]
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a major increase
NEW YORK (AP) — The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years. Writing in an essay on her website, Scott said, “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is […]
FOR THE RECORD December 2025
Central Virginia Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly & Co. and Merck & Co. have committed a cumulative $120 million to develop a workforce training center for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing in Central Virginia. The companies, each of which plans to build major manufacturing facilities in Virginia; the state government, including Virginia Innovation Partnership Corp.; and [...]
Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently
A stalled “no-hire, no-fire” economy and rising costs have driven major companies from HP to Amazon to announce large layoffs, deepening worker anxiety.
Amazon to invest $50B to expand federal AI, computing capacity
Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and supercomputing capacity for its U.S. government cloud customers.
Penzance breaks ground on new AWS data center in Chantilly
Penzance has begun building a 45MW data center in Chantilly that will be fully leased and operated by AWS, with completion expected in 2027.
Amazon buys 189 acres in Prince William tech park for $700M
Amazon Data Services has bought approximately 188.5 acres in Prince William County for a whopping $700 million.
Cloudflare resolves outage that impacted thousands, ChatGPT, X and more
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday. At 12:44 p.m. EST, Cloudflare said its engineers no longer saw some of the issues plaguing its […]
Amazon closing Sterling facility, affecting 247 workers
Amazon.com plans to shut down a fulfillment center in Sterling at the end of January, but workers will have transfer opportunities.
Norfolk State receives record $50M gift from MacKenzie Scott
Norfolk State University announced Thursday that philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $50 million to the university.
Amazon opens Virginia Beach fulfillment center
Amazon has opened its massive 3.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Virginia Beach, bringing hundreds of jobs.
