Reading archive 2024-12-18

Former D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond dies months after leaving prison: Edmond, a symbol of the city’s 1980s crack epidemic, stepped down to community corrections this summer and was set to be released from custody next year. - "His mother, Constance 'Bootsie' Perry, was recorded by an undercover informant bragging how she and her husband, Rayful Edmond II, taught their son how to sell drugs when he was a youth, Murphy said."

Youngkin says nation’s first commercial fusion plant to be built in Virginia: If the technology can be proved, the project promises to supply about 400 megawatts of electricity — enough energy to power about 150,000 homes.