Pro-Palestinian activists reportedly spray-painted “Death to the GHF” on the driveway of John Acree, acting director of U.S. aid group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, at his Virginia home and vandalized his car, according to multiple sources.
The GHF has repeatedly asked the United Nations to join it in its mission of feeding the people of Gaza, as United Nations trucks are routinely looted by Hamas terrorists intent on starving the people of Gaza in order to create a public outcry against Israel, but the United Nations has rebuffed them time and again.
On August 4, Acree released a public statement on video explaining his fervent desire to feed the people of Gaza and his frustration at the United Nations’ refusal to work in tandem with GHF.
“I’m an American and a lifelong humanitarian leader, starting with the Peace Corps in the early 80s and continuing throughout my career,” he began. “I’ve served the United States in some of the world‘s most disadvantaged countries and complex crisis zones, leading response efforts in active war zones, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean, and amid collapsing political systems in Pakistan and Tajikistan.”
“At GHF,  I’m proud to lead a team that shows up every single day with one mission: to feed people,” he continued. “Not to take sides, not to take credit, just to save lives. Since launching food delivery operations, we’ve delivered more than 105 million meals safely and directly to Palestinian civilians in need. We built a secure and affecting distribution model that works, and we’re scaling it to reach even more people faster. This is hard work. It’s dangerous work, but it’s the right work and I’m proud to do it alongside our Palestinian partners, our US colleagues, and the international allies committed to keeping food from becoming another victim of politics.”
He referred to the Hamas forces stealing food, saying, “We all share the same passion to help the hungry Palestinians. In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed scenes no humanitarian should ever have to witness: the United Nations aid convoys looted in broad daylight, aid workers endangered on unprotected trucks, and above all, breakdown and access to life-saving assistance for the people of Gaza. This chaos is not just tragic; it’s unacceptable. Since the United Nations resumed its vital mission to deliver aid in Gaza in May, the effort has been consistently undermined by a harsh and dangerous reality on the ground: lawlessness, the presence of armed gangs, and the absence of a functioning civil order.”
“As a result, too many people in desperate need, children, families, the elderly, are going without aid at precisely the moment their need is greatest,” he pointed out.
“But I’m here to say today there is a better way; one that helps the UN fulfill its humanitarian mandate while also adapting to the evolving conditions on the ground,” he declared. “That way is, specifically, a partnership between the United Nations and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. This partnership could take several practical forms. First, operational support and escorting. GHF can provide logistical support to UN convoys to help ensure aid reaches its destination safely. And we can advise on timing and potential routes. Second:  distribution of existing aid. Much of the UN’s aid stock is already inside Gaza, but it’s sitting idle. We can move it to our SDS sites today and tomorrow. Using our secure, proven distribution networks and with the access to their aid, we can expand our access points across Gaza, including hopefully the north. Finally, community-based expansion. Together, we can reestablish neighborhood-level trust and access, expanding food delivery to areas that are currently out of reach or too dangerous for centralized distribution. There are likely other ways we can support the United Nations that would come to life if they came to the table and engaged with us, but so far they have not.”
He then explained how GHF had repeatedly tried to reach out to the UN:
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On June 4 we met in person with senior leaders from the United Nations’ World Food Program, deputy executive Director Carl Skau and Country Director Antoine Renard to present practical proposals for how GHF could help deliver their food to civilians in Gaza. Unfortunately the meeting was cut short by the WFP before our ideas to be discussed.
On June 24 we sent a letter to (UN) Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, urging direct collaboration and stating what remains true today: The UN has the means, GHF has the mechanism, what remains is simply the will. We followed up again on July 22, writing to Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher to reiterate our commitment to partnership. On July 23 GHF made the offer to deliver all of United Nations sitting in Gaza for free given the situation on the ground.
And most recently we were planning a meeting with the UN originally scheduled for today. Unfortunately, that meeting was obstructed by some within the UN system and is no longer taking place.
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“Despite this repeated outreach, the United Nations continues to struggle to get aid to those in need; their trucks are looted, by their own figures, at a rate of 95%. That’s their own figures,” he noted. “Hundreds of truckloads sit inside Gaza; cleared, stocked, but untouched. GHF has offered to deliver that aid for free, as I’ve mentioned. We’ve asked the UN to join us on the ground side-by-side; so far, they’ve declined.”
“If there was a time to adapt, to innovate, and above all to partner, it is now. We urge the UN to join us in &#8230; a new way forward. Together we can break through the chaos and deliver hope where it is needed most,” he concluded.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that a Civil War monument removed under the Biden administration from Arlington National Cemetery will be restored to its original location. 
The monument, known as the Reconciliation Monument or the Confederate Memorial, was removed by the Pentagon in December 2023 under President Joe Biden because of its links to the Confederacy. First erected in 1914, the monument sat in a section of the cemetery where around 400 Confederate soldiers were buried. 
“I’m proud to announce that Moses Ezekiel’s beautiful and historic sculpture — often referred to as ‘The Reconciliation Monument’ — will be rightfully be returned to Arlington National Cemetery near his burial site,” Hegseth announced on X. “It never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history—we honor it.”
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I’m proud to announce that Moses Ezekiel’s beautiful and historic sculpture — often referred to as “The Reconciliation Monument” — will be rightfully be returned to Arlington National Cemetery near his burial site.
It never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike…
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1952851480643359156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The news was first reported by The Blaze. 
In 1906, Secretary of War and future president William Howard Taft <a href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Monuments-and-Memorials/Confederate-Memorial">approved</a> plans to construct a memorial near the Confederate graves. The monument was created by prominent Jewish American sculptor Moses Ezekiel, who fought for Virginia during the Civil War. 
Featured on the monument are 14 shields referencing the 11 official Confederate states, and the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. There are also figures of southern soldiers and civilians alongside mythical gods. 
The monument references Isaiah 2:4, a passage in the Bible that talks about turning swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, a powerful message for a nation recovering from the trauma of war and the deaths of 600,000 Americans. Many presidents, including Barack Obama, have sent flowers to the monument on Memorial Day.
After the removal by the Biden administration, the monument was moved to a Defense Department storage facility in Virginia. 
“At the request of Moses Ezekiel’s family and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Moses Ezekiel&#8217;s sculpture will be returned to Arlington National Cemetery,” Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/exclusive-moses-ezekiels-historic-sculpture-finally-set-for-installation-in-arlington-cemetery-by-the-southern-graves-it-once-marked">told</a> the Blaze’s Beltway Brief, “where he is buried and where his legacy as a renowned American artist and decorated veteran can be honored.”
Youngkin added that the monument would be refurbished and would be back on display in Arlington by 2027.
The announcement from Hegseth came after the National Park Service <a href="https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/pike.htm">said</a> Monday that it would be returning the statue of former Confederate General Albert Pike to Washington, D.C. The statue was torn down during a riot in June 2020 and never went back on display.

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A city councilman from Danville, Virginia, was doused in gasoline and set on fire in a horrific attack on Wednesday, multiple reports have confirmed.
Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, was allegedly attacked by Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29 — who has since been placed under arrest — in the offices of Showcase Magazine. Hayes, according to the outlet&#8217;s publisher and local law enforcement, dumped a five-gallon bucket of gasoline over Vogler — and when Vogler ran out of the building, Hayes followed and set him on fire.
Vogler was able to identify his attacker at the scene and was airlifted to a hospital for emergency treatment. &#8220;Lee is awake and talking, and is en route to the burns center in Lynchburg,&#8221; Andrew Brooks, publisher of Showcase Magazine, said in a statement.
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&#8220;Our hearts and prayers are with him. We don’t really know what to say,&#8221; Brooks added.
According to multiple reports, Vogler and the suspect knew each other prior to the attack, and the motive is not believed to be political.
&#8220;Please join me in praying for Councilman Lee Vogler and for his family. We stand with Danville and support a full investigation into this attack. Violence is never the answer and must be condemned,&#8221; Lt. Governor Winsome Sears responded to the attack with a call for prayer — and an investigation.
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Please join me in praying for Councilman Lee Vogler and for his family. We stand with Danville and support a full investigation into this attack.
Violence is never the answer and must be condemned.
— Lt. Governor of Virginia &#8211; Winsome Earle-Sears (@WinsomeSears) <a href="https://twitter.com/WinsomeSears/status/1950629561580048601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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John Reid, who is running to be Virginia&#8217;s next Lt. Governor, added, &#8220;What happened in Danville is horrifying. A deranged individual broke into the offices of Showcase Magazine and set City Councilman J. Lee Vogler on fire. Let me say this as clearly as I can: Violence has no place in our Commonwealth. No disagreement ever justifies hatred, threats, or brutality.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, we stand with J. Lee Vogler. We are praying for his full recovery, for strength in the days ahead, and for peace for his loved ones and the entire Danville community. This is about humanity. It’s about drawing a line and saying, &#8216;Enough.&#8217; We can disagree without dehumanizing. We can debate without descending into chaos. Virginia is better than this. And we all have a role to play in keeping it that way,&#8221; he continued.
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What happened in Danville is horrifying. A deranged individual broke into the offices of Showcase Magazine and set City Councilman J. Lee Vogler on fire.
Let me say this as clearly as I can: Violence has no place in our Commonwealth. No disagreement ever justifies hatred,…
— John Reid (@JohnReid4VA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnReid4VA/status/1950612773249208617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The House Judiciary Committee this week revealed that under the Biden administration, the FBI spied on a Catholic priest who refused to disclose private conversations with a parishioner who was arrested.
FBI employees at the Richmond field office discussed the priest’s ordination, recruitment efforts, location, and credit card information through email. They also communicated with their London office to monitor him during a trip to the United Kingdom, according to the <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/pdfs/judiciarycommitteereport.pdf">report</a>.
They launched a “formal investigative assessment” against the priest after he refused to answer whether a parishioner had expressed “desires and plans to commit violence.” The employee wrote in an email to the counterterrorism unit at FBI headquarters that the priest “became very uncomfortable and started incoherently stuttering.”
He said the priest “requested to speak with the church’s leadership and attorneys” and “refused to speak with us any further but has continued to speak with [the parishioner] while in prison, and even attempted to visit him.”
He also incorrectly stated in his email that the priest’s communications were “not considered privileged” since the parishioner “has not completed his catechism or been baptized in the Church.”
Virginia law <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title19.2/chapter16/section19.2-271.3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protects</a> confidential communications between ministers of religion and any “persons they counsel or advise.”
“The priest-penitent privilege rightly protects communications between a clergy member and an individual seeking spiritual guidance,” the House Judiciary Committee report notes. “It is not dependent on the individual achieving certain milestones in his or her spiritual life.”
The report determined that the Richmond office’s investigation was unlawful: “There appeared to be no legitimate law-enforcement purpose for investigating this priest.”
The report, which was compiled by the Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, was issued in response to a 2023 leaked <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fbi-anti-catholic-memo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> from the Richmond FBI field office that revealed the agency attempting to link “Radical-Traditionalist Catholic ideology” to violent racism and the “far-right white nationalist movement.”
It found that the Richmond office was gathering intelligence on “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics &#8220;(RTC), a group which, the committee notes, FBI staff couldn’t even define.
A presentation titled “Traditionalist Catholicism Overview” outlined their “core ideology and beliefs.”
“Core concepts” included the Traditional Latin Mass, “conservative family values/roles,” a “rejection of modernity,” and a “tendency toward isolationism.”
It alleged that radical Catholics’ main tenets include the “belief that mainline Catholicism is illegitimate” and were accused of holding “hardline positions on abortion, LGBTQ matters, and interreligious dialogue.”
It also claimed that RTC contains “apocalyptic overtones,” “rigid fundamentalism [and] integralism,” and an “undertone of antisemitism.”
In its information gathering, the FBI used “politically biased and anti-Catholic source material,” the report notes. Many of the articles they cited openly accuse Catholics of being white supremacists. One article titled “The Catholic Church has a Visible White Power Faction” from Sojourner, a progressive Christian publication, was <a href="https://sojo.net/magazine/august-2020/catholic-church-has-visible-white-power-faction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken down</a> at one point because of misleading statements that editors claimed “called into question the entire substance of the article.”
The FBI also relied heavily on the Southern Poverty Law Center, a “far-left, anti-religion group that focuses on labeling conservative leaning groups as &#8216;hate&#8217; groups.” The SPLC considers groups like Focus on the Family, a global evangelical ministry widely popular in Christian circles, to be hate groups for opposing LGBTQ and abortion.
“The FBI analysts who developed the Richmond memorandum relied on literature with an inherent prejudice against people of faith and those with widely-held, deeply personal views of the sanctity of life,” the Committee notes.
Though former FBI director Christopher Wray minimized the significance of the 2023 memo, saying that it was a single product of a single office, the committee found that the Richmond office was working with FBI headquarters and that its “religious liberty abuses were more widespread than the FBI initially admitted and led the public to believe.”
Employees worked with FBI headquarters to develop a “Strategic Perspective Executive Analytic Report” for external use. They pitched the project to headquarters in December 2022, a month after the memo was created. It was later abandoned after the memo was leaked to the public.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265497/judiciary-committee-fbi-spied-on-catholic-priest-for-not-divulging-info-on-parishioner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the Catholic News Agency that lawmakers “knew the Biden-Wray FBI was targeting Catholics, but new documents obtained by the committee — thanks to the leadership of FBI Director [Kash] Patel — shows that it was worse than anyone thought.”
“Contrary to Director Wray’s statements, the targeting of Catholics went beyond the Richmond Field Office and extended not to just offices across the country but around the world.”

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Democrat James Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million D.C. townhome, raising questions about how connected he is with the Virginia district he wants to represent in Congress.
Osyf, 40, is vying with two other Democratic candidates to unseat GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans in Virginia’s second district. Osyf, a Navy veteran and executive at Lockheed Martin, is the most prominent of the three Democratic contenders.
Osyf is listed as the owner of a $1.7 million townhome in Washington, D.C., while the district he seeks to represent is located roughly 200 miles away in southern Virginia. In addition to the townhome, his campaign is registered at an address in D.C., as well. Records indicate that he does not own a residence in Virginia’s second district, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/dem-in-ultra-competitive-house-race-bases-campaign-in-dc-three-hours-outside-district/">New York Post</a>.
“It certainly doesn’t look good,” Todd Belt, director of the Political Management program at George Washington University, told the Post, adding that the poor optics associated with living outside the district are “why candidates often fake a residence in a district in order to run there.”
Virginia state law requires that candidates for office be residents of the state for at least one year prior to the election.
While Osyf’s campaign headquarters are currently located in Washington, he could amend his campaign filings later to change his headquarters to an address in the district.
Osyf wants to flip Virginia’s second district from Kiggans, who has held the seat since 2023 after she beat former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria. Kiggans <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia%27s_2nd_Congressional_District">flipped</a> the seat by a vote of roughly 52% to 48%.
Kiggans held the seat in 2024 by a similar margin, overcoming a challenge from Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal by roughly 51% to 47%. Kiggans&#8217; seat is listed as “lean Republican” by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a> for 2026.

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The Loudoun County school board will no longer force staff to use students&#8217; preferred pronouns after teachers sued over the Northern Virginia school district&#8217;s transgender policy, a court ruled on Thursday.
In a free speech victory for several teachers who sued, the Loudoun County Circuit Court officially recognized that Loudoun County Public Schools no longer requires teachers to use pronouns inconsistent with students’ biological sex.
The court noted that &#8220;on its face, [the transgender policy] does not require teachers or other staff to use a pronoun to refer to a person that a teacher believes is inconsistent with the person’s sex. Instead, [the policy] permits staff to refrain from using any pronouns.”
The transgender <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/loudoun/Board.nsf/files/D7VLH356939A/$file/8040.pdf">policy</a>, which was adopted in 2021, allows &#8220;gender-expansive or transgender students&#8221; to choose their names and pronouns. Originally, officials stated that it required teachers to use them as well.
&#8220;Staff or students who intentionally and persistently refuse to respect a student’s gender identity by using the wrong name and gender pronoun are in violation of this policy,&#8221; the policy reads.
However, the Loudoun County school board backed down on requiring teachers to use pronouns after Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/vlaming-v-west-point-school-board/">won</a> a victory on the same issue for another high school teacher, Peter Vlaming, in a different Virginia school district.
Thursday&#8217;s court ruling affirms the school board&#8217;s new interpretation of its policy.
This is the second victory for Loudoun County teachers in this case.
In May 2021, physical education teacher Tanner Cross spoke at a school board meeting and expressed his concerns that the new transgender policy would violate teachers and parents&#8217; rights and be harmful to students.
A few days later, Cross was suspended by Leesburg Elementary School.
He <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/cross-v-loudoun-county-school-board/">ultimately</a> got his job back when Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys sued on his behalf, and the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that his constitutional rights had likely been violated.
&#8220;Unfortunately, thereafter &#8230; the school board adopted [the transgender policy] without making any revisions or addressing any of the concerns that Tanner or the other parents and teachers addressed,&#8221; Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Wire.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys added two more teachers to the lawsuit against the policy — Smart’s Mill Middle School English teacher Kim Wright and Loudoun County High School history teacher Monica Gill.
&#8220;Thankfully, now after several years of litigation, the school has agreed that its policy does not and cannot compel teachers to use pronouns that students request which are inconsistent with the student&#8217;s sex,&#8221; Langhofer said.
Gill, one of the plaintiffs celebrating Thursday&#8217;s ruling, has taught in Loudoun County for nearly 25 years.
&#8220;I treasure all my students, regardless of whether they identify as the opposite sex,&#8221; Gill said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
However, the transgender policy &#8220;threatened to make me ignore biological reality and lie to my students,&#8221; Gill said.
&#8220;This policy jeopardized the dignity of all students,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m pleased that the school district has now honored my constitutionally protected freedom to speak to my students in love and truth.&#8221;
Loudoun County has been a flash point in the national controversy over transgender ideology in schools, starting with The Daily Wire&#8217;s bombshell 2021 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">investigation</a> into a father&#8217;s claim that the school district covered up the rape of his daughter by a male student in a skirt in the girls&#8217; school bathroom.
&#8220;For many, many years, Loudoun County, along with many other school boards across the country, have acted as if they control, that they&#8217;re ultimately responsible for the education of the children rather than parents,&#8221; attorney Langhofer said.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve also acted as if they get to control all of teachers&#8217; speech and that they can punish teachers for disagreeing with the school on really important topics such as human sexuality and gender identity,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So this ruling is a great victory for teachers who don&#8217;t want to express messages that they think are untrue or are harmful to students and also don&#8217;t want to mislead parents about how their schools are treating the students at school,&#8221; the attorney said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Loudoun County Teachers Don’t Have To Use Trans Pronouns, Court Rules

EXCLUSIVE: Loudoun County Teachers Don't Have To Use Trans Pronouns After Lawsuit

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Staff at one of America’s top public high schools appeared to have violated Virginia law by sharing its intellectual property with an organization that took millions of dollars from Chinese entities looking to “clone” the school, according to emails reviewed by The Daily Wire.  
New emails obtained by Defending Education show staff at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria collecting information on its textbooks and science labs to send to a Chinese company, as well as admissions from the school’s principal that previous intellectual property sharing had “violated state law.”
The school has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-school-system-sold-china-a-handbook-on-how-to-clone-americas-top-stem-school">faced criticism</a> for sharing its blueprints and curriculum with Chinese entities looking to replicate the school in China. The new emails shed more light on the lengths staff went to share information with the school’s “international partners&#8221; and reveal that state laws may have been broken in the process. 
In an August 21, 2019 email to staff, then Principal Ann Bonitatibus said that staff at the high school and the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund, a nonprofit supporting renovations at the school, appeared to break the law by selling its intellectual property.
The Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund received $3.6 million between 2014 and 2021 from Chinese entities like the Ameson Foundation, which had a contract with the partnership fund to help China nearly identical schools. In May, Defending Education <a href="https://defendinged.org/defending-education-request-investigation-into-the-activities-of-the-thomas-jefferson-high-school-for-science-and-technology-partnership-fund-inc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a complaint with the IRS demanding an investigation into the fund over its foreign funding. 
“[Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund] staff shall not request from, or compensate, [high school staff] staff for ‘deliverables’ that replicate, mirror or otherwise transmit [Fairfax County Public Schools] intellectual property,” the principal <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/thomas-jefferson-high-school-principal-appeared-unfazed-that-school-possibly-broke-state-law-by-partnering-with-china-affiliated-groups/">wrote</a>. “In the summer of 2017, I became aware of HSTI contracts that did such and immediately ended the practice and notified you it violated state law. I have consistently shared with Board leadership that FCPS/TJ staff cannot sell our brand or intellectual property which includes curriculum design, assessments, program design, etc.”
Fairfax County Public Schools did not respond to requests for comment for clarification on what actions were taken in response to the purported violations of state law. 
That came after Bonitatibus said that high school staff were not allowed to use Fairfax County Public School resources during their contractual time to do work for the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund. She said that a staff member was previously found to be doing work for the partnership fund without the knowledge of school leadership. 
In the same email, Bonitatibus seemed to shrug off concerns about the situation. 
“As stated during our meeting, I believe all parties are acting with good intentions. It can be difficult to navigate the complex scenarios that arise, and we’re here to partner with you and work together to benefit the TJ staff, students and broader community,&#8221; she wrote. 
In light of the alleged legal violations, she asked that any materials gathered for Shirble HK, a Chinese department store incorporated in the Cayman Islands, be run through her. Shirble gave $1.5 million to the partnership fund between 2016-2021. 
“As a result, I respectfully request that copies of any materials generated by our current or prior teachers this past summer 2019 for Shirble be provided to [redacted] and me for review,” Bonitatibus wrote. 
Shirble has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/top-us-high-school-traded-curriculum-for-donations-in-secretive-business-deals-with-ccp-tied-groups-irs-complaint-says/">troubling ties</a> to the Chinese Communist Party. Yang Xiangbo, the company’s former chair, has attended meetings at the United Front’s Chinese People’s Political Consultive Conference and previously said that CCP officials stopped by the stores &#8220;to guide the work and put forward ardent expectations for Shirble.&#8221;
Other emails obtained by Defending Education show that high school staff compiled detailed information on the school’s research labs and curriculum for Shirble. For example, on June 10, 2019, an employee of the partnership fund emailed a teacher at the high school saying that Shirble wanted to know “about ALL our Senior Research Labs.”
“I have a special request for you. Our current International Partners, Shirble, have specifically asked to know more about ALL our Senior Research Labs as they are going to work on building some of their own,” the employee wrote, adding that Shirble wanted the “curriculum design, equipment needed, lab layout, and possible senior work projects for their own version of the lab.” 
The employee told the teacher that the partnership fund would pay the teacher “at a rate of Pay Band 11 for up to 15 hours total of work.” By August 15, 2019, the teacher had responded and provided a detailed document on course structure, equipment used, and lab policies. 
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Earlier in the year, a representative from the partnership fund requested that the school provide a list of all the textbooks it uses for Shirble. 
“One of our international partners, Shirble, has asked for a list of text books that we use for certain specific classes,” the representative <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/fairfax-county-public-schools-provided-china-affiliated-organization-with-curriculum-information-used-for-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Do we have a main list anywhere I can access? Or is it best for me to send you the list? Or go through Dept heads?”
In response, assistant principal Volita Russell began circulating requests to staff to compile the textbook lists. Lists of texts used for English, biology, chemistry, physics, geosystems, health, French, math, computer science, and history were all gathered. 
Russell indicated in an email that she would be getting the sharing of textbooks approved, but it is unclear if the lists were ever sent to Shirbel. 
Defending Education Vice President Sarah Parshall Perry told The Daily Wire that Fairfax County Public Schools has a “history of malfeasance” including its sharing of school materials with Chinese entities.  
“What&#8217;s more, is that TJ&#8217;s principal appeared to acknowledge that the school broke state law by providing China-affiliated groups with its intellectual property,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, further communications revealed through our public records requests indicate that TJ&#8217;s relationship with Shirble Department Store Holdings in China included the apparent provision of specific curricular inclusions (including textbooks) for use by Shirble.&#8221;

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Harrison Ruffin Tyler — the grandson of President John Tyler, who served in the White House from 1841 to 1845 — died earlier this week, his family said on Wednesday. He was 96.
Tyler, born in 1928, was so close in his family tree to President Tyler, who was born in 1790, due to two generations of second marriages to much younger wives, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrison-ruffin-tyler-grandson-president-john-tyler-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Tyler&#8217;s father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, had two sons with his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, when he was in his 70s. Similarly, Lyon Gardiner Tyler&#8217;s father, President John Tyler, had multiple children with his much younger second wife when he was in his 50s and 60s. President Tyler fathered 15 children, with Lyon being the 13th child born to him.
Tyler grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and World War II. His father died when Tyler was just 7 years old, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/05/29/harrison-ruffin-tyler-grandson-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. Tyler was also related to Pocahontas and President William Henry Harrison, whom his grandfather replaced as president after Harrison died just one month after his inauguration in 1841.
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025. 
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John Tyler faced unprecedented challenges, being the first vice president to succeed a president who died while in office. Near the end of his life, John Tyler, a Virginia Democrat, sided with the Confederacy and served as a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. He died in 1862, shortly after the start of the Civil War.
The grandson of the 10th president became fascinated with history, and to preserve some of his family&#8217;s legacy, he purchased President Tyler&#8217;s Sherwood Forest plantation in 1975 and Fort Pocahontas, a Civil War fortification, in 1996. Both historical sites are in Virginia, where the Tyler family lived for generations. Harrison Tyler and his wife, Frances Payne Bouknight Tyler, spent $250,000 to restore the Sherwood Forest house to its original state and open it to the public. Thanks to Tyler&#8217;s preservation, people can <a href="http://www.sherwoodforest.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tour</a> the plantation home in Charles City, Virginia.
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&#8220;He will be remembered for his considerable charm, generosity and unfailing good humor by all who knew him,&#8221; said Annique Dunning, executive director of Sherwood Forest.
Much of Tyler&#8217;s efforts to preserve history were made possible by his successful and lucrative career. He graduated from the College of William &amp; Mary in 1949 with a degree in chemistry. In 1968, he co-founded ChemTreat, an industrial water treatment company, which was sold to the Danahar Corporation in 2007 for $435 million, according to the Post.
Tyler suffered mini strokes in 2012, which landed him in a nursing home in Virginia, where he lived the final years of his life. His wife died in 2019, and his last remaining sibling, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., died in 2020. Tyler and his wife, who married in 1957, had three <a href="https://people.com/grandson-of-10th-united-states-president-john-tyler-dies-at-96-11744091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children</a> and eight grandchildren.

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President Donald Trump announced Monday that he was pardoning a Virginia sheriff sentenced to 10 years in prison on bribery charges, saying the Biden administration had politically targeted the former law enforcement officer. 
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was issuing a full pardon to former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted in December 2024 on charges that he handed out auxiliary deputy positions for money. Jenkins, who was set to report to prison on Tuesday, disputed the accusation and conviction, saying the prosecution was motivated by his conservative views. 
“Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden DOJ. In fact, during his trial, when Sheriff Jenkins tried to offer exculpatory evidence to support himself, the Biden Judge, Robert Ballou, refused to allow it, shut him down, and then went on a tirade,” Trump wrote. “As we have seen, in Federal, City, and State Courts, Radical Left or Liberal Judges allow into evidence what they feel like, not what is mandated under the Constitution and Rules of Evidence.” 
“This Sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail. He is a wonderful person, who was persecuted by the Radical Left ‘monsters,’ and ‘left for dead.’ This is why I, as President of the United States, see fit to end his unfair sentence, and grant Sheriff Jenkins a FULL and Unconditional Pardon. He will NOT be going to jail tomorrow, but instead will have a wonderful and productive life,” Trump added. 
Jenkins first made national headlines back in 2019 when he promised to deputize thousands of Culpeper residents if the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature moved forward with strict gun control measures. 
“Every Sheriff and Commonwealth Attorney in Virginia will see the consequences if our General Assembly passes further unnecessary gun restrictions,” Jenkins <a href="https://wset.com/news/local/culpeper-sheriff-says-hell-deputize-residents-if-gun-laws-pass-in-virginia?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Facebook at the time. “I plan to properly screen and deputize thousands of our law-abiding citizens to protect their constitutional right to own firearms.”
He also later <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/17/law-enforcement-rallies-around-virginia-sheriff-caught-sting-operation-defying-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in a phone call with other sheriffs discussing potential charges against Hunter Biden based on revelations from the laptop showing his drug use and questionable business dealings. 
After that call, Jenkins was wrapped up in a sting operation where federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdva/pr/former-culpeper-sheriff-sentenced-10-years-federal-bribery-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he accepted cash bribes in the form of campaign contributions, including from two undercover FBI agents, in exchange for becoming auxiliary deputy sheriffs. 
In December 2024, Jenkins was convicted by a jury that found he took $75,000 in campaign donations in exchange for handing out auxiliary deputy badges. According to the Justice Department, those who bribed Jenkins were not trained or vetted and did not do legitimate law enforcement work. He was sentenced in March to 10 years in prison. 
“Scott Jenkins violated his oath of office and the faith the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he engaged in a cash-for-badges scheme,” Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Zachary Lee said at the time. “We hold our elected law enforcement officials to a higher standard of conduct and this case proves that when those officials use their authority for unjust personal enrichment, the Department of Justice will hold them accountable.”
After the trial, Jenkins maintained his innocence and said that he wasn’t given the opportunity to give his side of the story. 
&#8220;I truly believe if I could get an hour of time with someone in the administration and lay out some facts with my attorney and I really believe if they could hear the other side which I couldn&#8217;t get in front of the jury – I believe whole heartedly in the president,&#8221; he said during a video call. &#8220;I believe if he heard the information, I know he would help if he knew my story.&#8221;

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Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, released body-cam footage on Friday of a police-involved shooting in April that resulted in the death of a 36-year-old man.
The Fairfax County Police Department <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/chief-kevin-davis-releases-body-camera-footage-from-attempted-murder-of-officers-in-fair-oaks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the shooting an “attempted murder.” Footage showed a traffic stop in Fair Oaks from April 23 that quickly deteriorated into a firefight that involved Virginia resident Jamal Wali and three police officers.
The encounter began when a police officer pulled Wali over for speeding and having an expired inspection sticker. After the officer signaled for Wali to pull over, Wali slammed on the brakes. The officer, who was close behind, exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” as he braked to avoid hitting Wali’s car.
Wali noted he had a gun before asking why he was pulled over. From there, the situation became chaotic quickly as Wali, who said he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, began to argue over how he has been treated since coming to the United States. Wali refused to give his name and said he had no driver’s licence or vehicle registration.
“You f***ing people brought me to this goddamn country, and I’m dying every f***ing single day,” Wali told the officer. At one point, he said he “should have served with f***ing Taliban” while the officer attempted to deescalate the situation.
The officer called for backup, noting that Wali was argumentative and appeared to reach for a weapon at several points. Two more officers arrived on the scene within minutes. After the third officer walked up, Wali grabbed his gun and fired at two police officers on the driver’s side of his vehicle, hitting both. A third officer who was on the passenger’s side of Wali’s car fired back at Wali.
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Additional emergency personnel arrived at the scene. Wali was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. Two officers were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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Police in Fairfax, Va. have released the footage showing an armed Afghan migrant trying to kill police on April 23.
Jamal Wali, who was given refuge in the U.S. and has four children, made racist anti-white statements against the police, showed his firearm, and said he wished he… <a href="https://t.co/bWU35FBP7L">pic.twitter.com/bWU35FBP7L</a>
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Fairfax County police chief Kevin Davis in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAMhiTG6xA&amp;rco=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> on Friday confirmed that Wali, as he repeatedly said throughout the traffic stop, was married and had four children.
“The impact on those children is unimaginable, and they’ll carry that with them the rest of their lives,” Davis said.
“We are very fortunate that we didn’t have two police funerals,” Davis said, adding that “it was thanks to some strategic thinking, actions by our police officer who you see on the passenger side of the car, his actions his deployment of that deadly force saved the lives of the two officers on the driver’s side of the car. There’s no doubt about that.”

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Security Guards at the CIA&#8217;s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, shot and wounded a woman on Thursday morning after she failed to stop at the gate, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-shot-cia-headquarters-gate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The woman was transported to the hospital with what law enforcement officials described as a non-fatal gunshot wound to her upper body. The woman who crashed into the gate was identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/security-incident-cia-headquarters-virginia-rcna208468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. In 2021, Spadaro was found guilty of driving under the influence.
“There was a security incident that law enforcement responded to outside CIA Headquarters,” a CIA spokesperson told NBC News. “The main gate is currently closed, employees should seek alternative routes. Additional details will be made available as appropriate.”
The shooting came just hours after two Israeli Embassy staffers were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-embassy-staff-murdered-by-unidentified-shooter-outside-capitol-jewish-museum?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Two+Israeli+Embassy+Staffers+Murdered+By+Keffiyeh-Wearing+Man+Shouting+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+In+DC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> by a man shouting &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. The CIA headquarters in McLean is just over 12 miles northeast of the Capital Jewish Museum, but there is currently no evidence that the two shootings are related. According to police, the shooting at the CIA headquarters was &#8220;non-fatal,&#8221; NBC 4 Washington <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/person-shot-and-wounded-on-cia-property/3919563/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Fairfax County Police responded to help the CIA with traffic control at around 4:00 a.m. ET following the shooting.
In March, a man was <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/man-arrested-cia-headquarters-shot-at-building-court-documents-affidavit/65-4182cc05-07cc-4c5b-8195-2f846207665d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> following an hours-long standoff at the CIA headquarters. According to court documents, Robert Scofield, 28, fired several shots at a CIA building and then pointed the gun at himself. Scofield, a convicted felon, eventually surrendered after police negotiators arrived on the scene.
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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), 75, who staved off a challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to lead Democrats on House Oversight Committee, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/gerry-connolly-dies-cancer.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> on Wednesday from esophageal cancer.
Connolly had served as the representative for Virginia’s 11th congressional district —which contains nearly all of Fairfax County — since 2009. The home of federal workers, the 11th district was the wealthiest congressional district in the nation from 2003 to 2013. Prior to that he had served as Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors since 2003. According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210423141050/https:/projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fivethirtyeight</a>, he voted 100% of the time with former President Joe Biden. He won decisively in every congressional election except in 2010, when he narrowly defeated his GOP opponent.
“It is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and loving father, husband, brother, friend, and public servant, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, passed away peacefully at his home this morning surrounded by family,” read a statement from Connolly&#8217;s family.
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Connolly, as a top Democrat on the Oversight committee, became well-known for his outspoken opposition to President Donald Trump.
In April 2019, Connelly <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sitroom/date/2019-04-25/segment/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with host Wolf Blitzer. He called President Trump “the soulless occupant of the Oval Office,” then referred to the “amoral narcissistic kind of tendencies coming out of that office.” Meanwhile, he said of Joe Biden, “You can give him a complex subject and he get to the heart of it faster than anybody I know. The idea that he is not an intelligent man is simply false. And Mr. Trump is going to learn that the hard way.”
In December 2019, Connolly voted to impeach President Trump, <a href="https://connolly.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3724" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying:</a>
<blockquote>To extort a foreign country to investigate your political opponent is an unconstitutional abuse of power. To solicit foreign interference in an American election is an unconstitutional abuse of power. &#8230; The delicate balance of power that underpins our democracy is threatened when a President disregards the Constitution by obstructing Congress to cover up illegal behavior. In doing that, President Trump violated his oath.</blockquote>
In April 2024, when some Republicans considered the idea of renaming Dulles Airport in Washington D.C. after Trump, Connolly reacted, “Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I&#8217;d suggest they find a federal prison.”
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Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who reps part of Dulles, weighs in on GOP bill to rename the airport after Trump.
&quot;Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I&#39;d suggest they find a federal prison.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/axios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Axios</a> <a href="https://t.co/GGYFT8qJnv">https://t.co/GGYFT8qJnv</a>
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His family says that his contributions to his community, including his fight for the extension of DC&#8217;s train system to the airport, will be his legacy.
“As a county supervisor, Mr. Connolly was one of the earliest proponents of extending Metrorail’s Silver Line from the inner suburbs to Washington Dulles International Airport. Elected to Congress in 2008, he helped secure additional funding for 23.2 miles of Silver Line expansion,” the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/05/21/gerry-connolly-virginia-congressman-dead-obituary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.

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