Northern Virginia Daily

1 day ago | nvdaily.com | Byron Tau |Seung Min Kim |Chris Megerian

WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the 911 presidency. Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Donald Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his predecessors. An analysis by The Associated Press shows that 30 of Trump’s 150 executive orders have cited some kind of emergency power or authority, a rate that far outpaces his recent predecessors. The result is a redefinition of how presidents can wield power.

3 days ago | nvdaily.com | Cody Elliott

FORT DEFIANCE — Most teams dread those long, cramped-up trips on a school bus, playing on an unfamiliar field and being placed in the third-base dugout on game day. Oddly enough, it turns out that’s exactly how Central's softball team prefers things. “There’s this thing where we just really like road games,” Central shortstop Vanessa Gordon said with a laugh.

4 days ago | nvdaily.com | Jamie Stengle |Steve Karnowski

DALLAS (AP) — One person has died after severe weather tore through parts of the central U.S., including heavy rain in Dallas, a tornado that touched down in the Kansas City area and flash flooding in Kansas that forced firefighters to rescue dozens of people, including stranded motorists. A Dallas man died Wednesday after his vehicle became stuck in high water, authorities said. He was in one of two cars submerged under a bridge on Interstate 635, the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department said.

4 days ago | nvdaily.com | Hanna Arhirova |Michelle L. Price

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields. The U.S. president said in a social media post that “It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.”The call that lasted for an hour and 15 minutes was Trump’s first known with Putin since May 19.

4 days ago | nvdaily.com | Margery Beck

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law Wednesday a measure banning transgender students from girls’ sports, making the state the latest to keep transgender athletes from competing on women’s and girls’ teams. Pillen signed the law flanked by dozens of lawmakers, women athletes and other advocates — including former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, who has made a name for herself as a vocal advocate of banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.