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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Tuesday, Dec. 5 — U.S. Rep. Don Beyer of Northern Virgniia, founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Fusion Energy Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, today hailed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s announcement of a U.S. international engagement plan for fusion energy at COP28. Beyer said: “I’m thrilled that the […]
Boston, MA, Nov. 30 — Two of the most important pioneers in the identification and ongoing research into the terrible impacts of repeated blows to the head in contact sports opened the annual conference on the subject held at Boston University today. Dr. Ann McKee and Dr. Bob Stern made powerful presentations of […]
Thursday, Nov. 30 — Virginia’s Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine and Reps. Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly, Morgan Griffith Jen Kiggans, Jennifer McClellan, Bobby Scott, Abigail Spanberger, Jennifer Wexton, and Rob Wittman today welcomed the news that the Inspector General (IG) of the General Services Administration (GSA) will initiate an investigation into the site selection to relocate the […]
via Editor & Publisher Magazine The News/Media Alliance announced that the Canadian government for today’s deal with Google for its payment for the use of valuable news content on its search platform. The amount negotiated is reported to be $100 million per year, down from the $172 million called for by the Canadian […]
MEHMS Students Conduct Tasty Experiment Ms. Liebner’s 6th graders rated various types of Cheez-Its as they learned how to create rubrics. They evaluated whether their rubric accurately measured which type was best and then adjusted. The evaluation included different varieties, such as Cheddar Jack, White Cheddar, Puffs, or Off Brand […]
James Gibson Alverson IV – known to all as Jimmy – passed away peacefully at age 20 on November 20, 2023, surrounded by his family at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. His death resulted from complications of medulloblastoma brain cancer, with which he was diagnosed in 2015, and AML […]
Police Confirm Teen Death in Shreve Road Crash On Monday, Fairfax Police confirmed that one teenager has died of the seven involved in a high-speed crash in Shreve Road adjacent Falls Church last Monday morning. The News-Press learned through a GoFundMe campaign that one of the passengers in the Shreve […]
Former Falls Church resident Mary Vereb Hautanen, age 93, of Sarasota, Florida died on September 24th at the Brookdale Phillippi Creek Assisted Living in Sarasota. She was born on June 30th, 1930 in Leechburg, Pennsylvania, graduating from Leechburg Area High School and later from the St. Francis Hospital School of […]
The increase in hate speech and hate crimes isn’t just a worrisome effect of the conflict between Israel and the Hamas organization. Hatred is not an uncommon human attribute; how often has one uttered “I hate this or that (food, a task, a color, music)?” That usage, common as it […]
