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Fairfax ending COVID state of emergency and more Va. headlines
The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)
• In a Facebook video, firebrand Del. Marie March, R-Floyd, faulted her “do-nothing” Republican colleagues for “attempting to humiliate me” and blocking her bills from passing.—Cardinal News
• GOP activist Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, asked Virginia General Assembly members to support one of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Board of Education appointees, Suparna Dutta, against attacks by “leftist thugs who hate diverse voices.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Fairfax County, Virginia’s largest locality, is officially ending its state of emergency for COVID-19.—Washington Post
• Photos released by the U.S. Navy show Virginia-based sailors retrieving remnants of the Chinese balloon from the Atlantic Ocean.—Virginian-Pilot
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