With the Supreme Court about to consider hearing the appeal of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, an unprecedented demonstration of support has come from hundreds of the country’s top legal minds, scholars, political figures representing both parties, business leaders and policy makers, according to a news release.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now making $470,000 available through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) to help increase adoption of forestry practices across Virginia.

“We stand with Paris, which has suffered coordinated and unspeakable terrorist attacks. Our prayers are with those who were murdered and their loved ones and all those first responders and security officials who are risking their lives to protect those in the aftermath of these attacks."

The Congressional App Challenge began Nov. 9, 2015 and runs through Jan. 15, 2016, challenging high school students to design and create an original app for submission. The submitted app can be on any topic, provided it is original, appropriate, and has been made within a year of Jan. 16, 2016.

The formal name for the ceremony is the Presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey. In 1989 at the end of the ceremony, then-President George H.W. Bush remarked that he was “pardoning” the turkey, beginning a custom followed by subsequent presidents. Once pardoned, the National Thanksgiving Turkey and an alternate are sent to Morven Park in Leesburg,

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) report that Virginia has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal planning grants to strengthen and improve community behavioral health clinics for mental and substance use disorder treatment.

With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 65 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2016.

The Internal Revenue Service today issued a consumer alert about possible fake charity scams emerging due to severe flooding this month in South Carolina and neighboring states. "When making donations to assist flood victims in South Carolina and elsewhere, taxpayers should take steps to ensure their hard-earned money goes to legitimate and currently eligible charities,” said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.