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VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform; They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance?; Updates: Snow to increase amid falling temperatures this evening with roads turning slick; Virginia's public colleges and universities can't require coronavirus vaccine, new GOP attorney general finds; Praying and protesting in Washington, they wait for news from Ukraine; Virginia House Republicans try hardball to save Youngkin Cabinet pick; Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich trails challengers in early fundraising ; Swastikas found at Union Station; authorities investigating ; How the Knickerbocker snowstorm became D.C.'s deadliest disaster 100 years ago; Teaching, parenting and grieving: South River coach copes after losing wife to covid at 44; Bas Rouge revels in Old World charm on the Eastern Shore; My son was abused in prison, but proposed Virginia legislation still wouldn't give him a second chance; Daniel Snyder might be about to rename his team, but he still has to acknowledge the harm the old name caused; Maryland's communities of color need a swift end to cannabis criminalization; Virginia's new lost cause; Youngkin's tip line bumble should be a lesson to the new governor

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Amanda Lambert, a Chesapeake Public Schools teacher who has a disease that makes her at high risk of serious illness from covid-19, has been forced to teach maskless children this week. (Kristen Zeis for The Post)

'So broken down': Teachers, students and families caught in the middle of Youngkin's mask order

Gov. Glenn Youngkin's mask-optional order is the subject of two lawsuits, one from parents and one from school boards.

By Hannah Natanson ● Read more »

VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform

A scathing Facebook post from VMI Superintendent Cedric T. Wins exposed the battle over the future of the nation's oldest state-supported military college.

By Ian Shapira ● Read more »

They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance?

The long shadow of "truth in sentencing" politics in Maryland, where the vast majority of lifers are Black.

By Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins ● Read more »

Updates: Snow to increase amid falling temperatures this evening with roads turning slick

Temperatures dip to near freezing areawide by 6 p.m. or so. A few inches of snow are likely to fall into the overnight.

By Ian Livingston ● Read more »

Virginia's public colleges and universities can't require coronavirus vaccine, new GOP attorney general finds

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares issued an opinion that state universities and colleges cannot require the coronavirus vaccine for enrolling or attending in-person classes.

By Justin Jouvenal, Lauren Lumpkin and Hannah Natanson ● Read more »

Praying and protesting in Washington, they wait for news from Ukraine

For the past few weeks, Ukrainians and Ukrainian Americans in the Washington region have been glued to the news, anxiously assessing developments in their homeland as an invasion by the approximately 100,000 Russian troops surrounding Ukraine seems possible at any moment.

By Joe Heim ● Read more »