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Emmy winner Ewan McGregor and four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke began their first film together - Apple Original Films' Raymond and Ray - at a cemetery in Richmond, VA on Monday.In the dramedy, the Scotsman and the Texan - both 50 - play half brothers Raymond and Ray, who've 'lived in the shadow of a terrible father.''Somehow, they still each have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves,' read the logline - according to Deadline.

More than 100 Confederate symbols were removed from public display amid protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Of the 102 symbols taken down since then, 40 were in Virginia.

A judge in Virginia's Richmond Circuit Court has removed Kanye West from the state's 2020 presidential ballot, according to Laura Vozzella of The Washington Post. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed by a firm connected to several prominent Virginia Democrats which alleged that the rapper used invalid electors to get on the ballot.

Kanye West has been removed from the presidential ballot in Virginia.The singer’s campaign to run for US president has hit another stumbling block, with a judge in Virginia’s Richmond Circuit Court removing the rapper from the state’s ballot.As The Washington Post reported last week, a lawsuit was filed by a number of Democrats in Virginia, who claimed that West used invalid electors in order to get on the presidential ballot in the state.The judge has now concurred with the lawsuit, saying that 11 of West’s 13 electors in Virginia “were obtained by improper, fraudulent and/or misleading means”.Last week, two signed affidavits were submitted to the State Board of Elections by voters who claim they were fraudulently deceived into signing up

Gwar have lent their support to a campaign wanting to replace a statue of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States of America’s forces during the American Civil War, with one of their late frontman Oderus Ungerus.A petition was launched yesterday (June 12) to change the statue in Richmond, Virginia, where the band were formed.

A statue of Jefferson Davis was torn down along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night. The statue of the president of the Confederacy was toppled shortly before 11 p.m.