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With the new school year set to begin in under two weeks, on Aug.24, there goes the month of August from our traditional calendars. Football season will be well underway and all the trappings of what historically has been a post-Labor Day era will be proceeding. The School Board’s first meeting of the new year was held this week, characterized by a lengthy closed session and ...

The widely circulated but false report that was touted as one of the strongest non-electoral political moves in recent times, the new Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as the southside Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, was reported to have countered the hostility of Republicans in the U.S. Congress by extending a warm personal welcome to U.S. public health advocate Anthony Fauc...

The latest Spider-Man offering, rated PG-13 and released on July 31 by Sony Pictures, is a direct sequel to 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home”. The Spider-Man franchise is one of the most successful superhero film series ever made and the new film has just achieved the status of the biggest box office opening in history. Since 2002, three actors have portrayed Spider-Man in liv...

by Penny Gross

Exclusive to the Falls Church News-Press

Senator Ted Cruz (R-T) should be ashamed of himself. And Senators Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), too. The vote count for the Michigan Senate primary hadn’t even been certified when Cruz appeared on FOX television to denounce Dr. Abdul El-Sayed a...

What is the difference between the police department and the sheriff’s office? That is a complicated question, due to the evolution of Virginia’s local governments. The short answer to this question is that the police department falls under the control of the county, and the sheriff’s office is subject to the control of the state. As for the long answer, let’s start with a li...