Construction is underway at the site of the Trump administration's second planned family detention center. MS NOW's Rosa Flores reports from the construction site in Alexandria, Louisiana, and details the controversy facing these kinds of facilities.
A Tajik national committed to a Virginia psychiatric facility after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in his landlord's killing used escorted outings, including one to his home country's embassy, to obtain a passport and airline ticket, then fled the United States. Abdulloi Doniyor Toshpulodzoda walked away from the Northern Virginia Mental Health […] The post Virginia Democrat concedes 'failure' after illegal immigrant who killed landlord fled to Tajikistan on facility pass appeared first on American Almanac .
A Tajik national committed to a Virginia psychiatric facility after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in his landlord's killing used escorted outings, including one to his home country's embassy, to obtain a passport and airline ticket, then fled the United States. Abdulloi Doniyor Toshpulodzoda walked away from the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Falls Church on a 48-hour authorized pass and boarded a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul, then continued to Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He left on July 6, 2026, just days after a judge found he remained mentally ill and ordered him to stay confined for inpatient treatment. The New York Post reported that Virginia law permits mental health facilities to grant committed…Open
A Deputy U.S. Marshal was shot and killed on Monday while serving an arrest warrant in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Uncle Sam should keep his priorities straight. The post How to Make It to America 500 appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag How to Make It to America 500 Uncle Sam should keep his priorities straight. TakiMag (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) I have spent a lot of time in the Middle East, and think about the place even more when far from its pungent smells and 1,001 Nights mysteries. I was sent there very young because my father owned textile factories in Africa, in Khartoum, and every weekend was spent in Cairo or Alexandria. Both cities back then were still cosmopolitan, with wonderful hotels, nightclubs, and restaurants. Nasser had not yet come to power, although King Farouk had been recently…Open
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Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) on Wednesday introduced legislation to make the Virginia cities of Arlington and Alexandria part of Washington, D.C., reversing an 1846 law that returned the regions to the Old Dominion. “The Make DC Square Again Act restores the original ten-mile-square District and ends the artificial advantage Virginia Democrats have recently gained from all the federal bureaucrats moving into Virginia,” McCormick said in a statement. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5847306-mccmormick-virginia-dc-redistricting/ #Virginia #Redistricting #RichMcCormick #DonBeyer #Congress #WashingtonDC
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) on Wednesday introduced legislation to make the Virginia cities of Arlington and Alexandria part of Washington, D.C., reversing an 1846 law that returned the regions to the Old Dominion. “The Make DC Square Again Act restores the original ten-mile-square District and ends the artificial advantage Virginia Democrats have recently gained from all the federal bureaucrats moving into Virginia,” McCormick said in a statement. #RichMcCormick #WashingtonDC #AlexandriaVA #ArlingtonVA #Virginia #GOP
Arlington and Alexandria were historically part of Washington, D.C., until 1846 and the district itself was originally a square.
discovered the site of ancient Alexandria