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    Twenty-five people have been arrested for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus. Video from WVAW-TV showed officers with heavy gear and shields lined up on the campus in Charlottesville. Protesters chanted “Free Palestine.” The arrests come after tense and sometimes violent weeks on campuses around the U.S., as the Israel-Hamas war prompted dozens of protests. Also Saturday, protesters at the University of Michigan commencement ceremonies chanted anti-war messages and waved Palestinian flags that collided with the annual celebration of pomp and circumstance.

      Fans packed into Churchill Downs Saturday for the 150th Kentucky Derby, the longest continuously held sporting event in the country, and many said they felt the milestone made race day feel extra special this year. Some said that as they approached the track, they imagined what Churchill Downs must have been at that first race on May 17, 1875, when patrons arrived to watch the horses by riding horses there themselves. The 150th Run for the Roses would be unrecognizable to the 10,000 people who attended that first race. More than 157,000 arrived at Churchill Down from all over the United States for a dayslong spectacle of huge hats and mint juleps.

      On a snowy day in January 2003, tourism officials from across Southwest Virginia converged on the Carter Fold for an organizational meeting of something called “The Crooked Road.”

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      About a week after legislators brushed off his amendments to bills ensuring the right to contraception and requiring insurance coverage, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’s still thinking about what do.

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