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Justice Department axes hundreds of grants that help crime victims and fight opioid abuse

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department terminated hundreds of grants this week, effectively slashing the budgets for organizations across the country that assist crime victims and fight both gun violence and opioid abuse. The cancellations, which claimed that the more than 350 already-distributed grants “no longer effectuates the program

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Former NICU nurse Erin Strotman will remain out on bond after Henrico prosecutors requested it be revoked during her arraignment hearing April 23 on six new charges dating back to 2022 involving three babies.

Virginia nurse charged with abusing 4 premature babies since 2022 remains free on bond

By Melissa Hipolit Click here for updates on this story     HENRICO COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — Former NICU nurse Erin Strotman will remain out on bond after Henrico prosecutors requested it be revoked during her arraignment hearing Wednesday on six new charges dating back to 2022 involving three babies. Prosecutor Allison Martin made the bond revocation

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When nurse Kat Manning was assigned to Roger Pegram's care

Virginia nurse becomes ‘family’ after showing extraordinary compassion to dying patient

By Melissa Hipolit Click here for updates on this story     PETERSBURG, Virginia (WTVR) — When Roger Alexander Pegram Jr. was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January, the disease progressed rapidly, leaving little time for the former Peabody High School quarterback once nicknamed “Broadway Joe” after Joe Namath. On March 1, as Pegram lay in his

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(L-R:) CEO of Oracle Safra Catz

Investors got hosed when Trump’s tariffs tanked markets. Some of America’s billionaires managed to sell before the plunge

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Many of America’s wealthiest business leaders have lost millions, if not billions, of dollars in net worth since the start of the year, as President Donald Trump’s policies hit markets. But some might have lost even more if they hadn’t offloaded millions of dollars’ worth of stock

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump was warned of empty shelves and financial turmoil from tariffs and firing Powell. His U-turn pushed stocks higher

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs, particularly on China, and recent attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell caused alarm among some of his top advisers and America’s biggest CEOs, who warned of financial chaos and store shelves that could go bare, people familiar with

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