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Apr 16, 2025

Mitre-backed cybersecurity program gets last minute save

Federal contractor Mitre, which has dual headquarters in McLean and Massachusetts, expected Wednesday to lose the federal funding needed to operate and maintain its nearly 26-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, but a last-minute reprieve from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has prevented that from happening. Established in September 1999, the CV[...]

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, state Secretary of Commerce and Trade Caren Merrick and Microporous CEO John Reeves were among officials participating in a Nov. 13, 2024, ceremonial groundbreaking for Microporous' lithium-ion battery plant at the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County.
Apr 4, 2025

Warner worried about Microporous $100M grant

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia’s senior Democratic senator, is worried about the possibility of the Trump administration clawing back a $100 million federal grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to Microporous, the Tennessee company planning to invest $1.3 billion to build a lithium-ion battery separator facility at the Southern Virginia Megasite at […]

Elon Musk speaks at a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Apr 2, 2025

Musk could be headed for a Washington exit after turbulent times at Trump’s DOGE

WASHINGTON (AP) — DOGE‘s days appear to be numbered. Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that “at some point, he’s going to be going back” to running his companies. As far as the Department of Government Efficiency, Trump said “it will […]

FILE - Liam Sawyer, of Indianapolis, charges his 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E, March 8, 2024, at an electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Mar 28, 2025

Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritizes fossil fuels

President Donald Trump‘s administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy as the president prioritizes fossil fuels. The DOE is canceling two awards to a nonprofit climate think tank, RMI in Colorado, according to a document from the agency confirming the […]

Mar 12, 2025

Feds to consider ‘compelling offers’ for real estate

The Trump administration’s push to sell federal office buildings across the nation appears to be far from dead. A revised version of the “non-core” federal properties list is being prepared, a spokesperson for the General Services Administration, the federal property management agency, stated on Monday. “We anticipate the list will be republished in the near […]

Feb 24, 2025

Youngkin announces resources to support federal workers

Amid federal workers facing the threat of layoffs, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Monday that Virginia has 250,000 jobs open across various industries and unveiled an initiative to help connect the state’s workforce to these positions. Tens of thousands of workers have been fired under President Donald Trump‘s administration. During a press event at […]

Protesters supporting gender affirming care and transgender rights gathered on U.Va.'s Lawn during a Feb. 21 special meeting of the university's board of visitors. Photo by Kate Andrews, Virginia Business
Feb 21, 2025

U.Va. board votes to continue gender-affirming care for existing patients under 19

During a Feb. 21 special meeting, the University of Virginia’s board of visitors voted for UVA Health to continue providing gender-affirming treatment to people under 19, but only to current patients. New patients will instead be referred to “alternative private providers” until further notice. Also, the BOV — a 17-member board named by Virginia’s governors […]

Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii, after a meeting about President-elect Donald Trump's planned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Feb 6, 2025

Judge hits pause on Trump/Musk federal workforce buyout deadline

Less than 12 hours before the Trump administration‘s midnight Thursday deadline for 2 million federal workers to decide whether to accept a controversial buyout plan, a federal judge temporarily paused the clock, setting a hearing on the matter for Monday. Three unions representing about 800,000 federal workers filed the lawsuit to stop the deadline. In […]

Shipping containers are seen at the Atlantic Hub container terminal in Halifax on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, one day ahead of imposed tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump against Canada. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)
Feb 3, 2025

US trade war could raise prices, economists say

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to separately negotiate a monthlong pause on Monday with U.S. President Donald J. Trump on a trade war that was scheduled to begin on midnight Tuesday. However, as of late Monday afternoon, the Trump administration was still prepared to impose a 10% tariff on […]

Feb 3, 2025

Trump 2.0: Making real estate great again?

Let Trump be Trump. A campaign staffer’s now-famous motto during President Donald Trump‘s 2016 bid for president nods to the mercurial nature of the real estate mogul and former reality television star — as well as a similar slogan from “The West Wing.” And Trump himself has repeatedly said he trusts his gut over his […]

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on January 31, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
Jan 31, 2025

Trump White House says tariffs will be enacted Feb. 1

The Trump administration says it will impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China beginning Saturday, Feb. 1. “The president will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed […]

During a Jan. 30, 2025 White House news conference, U.S. President Donald Trump blamed federal diversity and inclusion promotion efforts for the mid-air crash between American Airlines and a military helicopter over the Potomac River. (Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via AP )
Jan 30, 2025

Trump-led DEI crackdown may leave glass ceilings intact

In the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s and 1970s, when my mother was climbing the corporate ladder at C&P Telephone, she was frequently the only woman at out-of-state national technical trainings for managers. And from her recollection, if the men in the classes weren’t hitting on her, many were resentful or threatened by her […]

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