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Abortion Ruling: Man Scales D.C. Bridge, Protestors Bang Drums At Justice's Home Abortion Ruling: Man Scales D.C. Bridge, Protestors Bang Drums At Justice's Home
Abortion Ruling: Man Scales D.C. Bridge, Protestors Bang Drums At Justice's Home Protests erupted across Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia following Friday's Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which ended 50 years of federal abortion protections.  A man slept on the Frederick Douglass Bridge Friday night, June 24, after hoisting a flag that read "Don't tread on my uterus." Guido Reichstadter, of Florida climbed the D.C. bridge just after 11 a.m. shortly after the the court released its ruling. I stayed on the bridge last night. There's a hatch up here I can crawl down any time, but my batteries still have charge and there's more to do up here. I wra…

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Virginia National Guard Deployed To Help With Snow Storm Virginia National Guard Deployed To Help With Snow Storm
Virginia National Guard Deployed To Help With Snow Storm Several days after a snowstorm clogged I-95 in Virginia and left thousands of commuters stranded for hours, the state's national guard has been activated to help with a second snowstorm. The Virginia National Guard has staged approximately 40 Soldiers and Airmen for severe winter weather response duty on Jan. 6. About 20 Soldiers are on duty in the Southwest Virginia area and ready to respond, and about 20 Airmen are mustered in the Virginia Beach area. Both groups are equipped with chain saws to conduct debris reduction operations to clear fallen trees to open blocked roads, and they wi…

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by Joe Gomez