Abigail Spanberger, a former Democratic congresswoman and CIA officer, will be elected Virginia’s next governor and become the state’s first female chief executive, CNN’s Decision Desk projects.

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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

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