Biden presses US leadership, home agenda on the line
Washington—As Joe Biden sought to project US leadership on the world stage at a climate summit in Scotland on Monday, ...
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Teen assault, gender in Virginia election spotlight
A sexual assault by a reportedly gender-fluid teenager in a school toilet has become a hot-button issue in the ...
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Probe ordered after US police pepper-spray Black soldier
The governor of the US state of Virginia vowed a full investigation Sunday after footage emerged of two police officers ...
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Virginia first US southern state to legalize pot use
Virginia became the first southern US state to approve the use of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. The ...
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Virginia first southern US state to abolish death penalty
Virginia on Wednesday became the first southern US state to abolish the death penalty and the 23rd state in the ...
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12 dead in Virginia mass shooting
Washington—A municipal employee sprayed gunfire “indiscriminately” in a government building complex on Friday in the US state of Virginia, police ...
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Virginia blackface row evokes painful past
Richmond"•Can a politician be forgiven for racist behavior from the past? What if that behavior evoked the darkest chapters of ...
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When local becomes global
A local family-owned food chain is set to conquer the Middle East with dishes that will surely remind overseas Filipino ...
Read moreIt’s hard to ignore Trump, but we have to try
By Stephen L. Carter Think about this: We now live in a country where nobody would want the president to ...
Read more1 dead at US far-right rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE"•A white nationalist rally erupted into deadly violence Saturday as a car plowed into a crowd while demonstrators and counter-protesters ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.