A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allows Professor Mark Santow to offer opportunities for veteran educational attainment The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced that the Clemente Course in the Humanities is among its 2019 grant recipients, awarding two grants totaling $198,930 to expand its work in the NEH Dialogues […]readmore
STATE HOUSE — Representative John W. Lyle Jr. (District – 46 Lincoln, Pawtucket) and Representative Nardone (District – 28 Coventry) are pleased to put forward legislation to reform the 911 fees. The proposed bill (5433) would create a restricted receipt account for all 911 funds collected by telephone service providers on land lines and cell […]readmore
Community policing, community partnerships, police department improvements, and mayoral leadership all credited with reductions in city’s violent crime rate and other crime statistics. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – According to newly released Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data, in 2018 the City of Central Falls experienced its lowest violent crime rate in 25 years. Over the past […]readmore
VOA News A U.S. House of Representatives committee has voted to issue subpoenas to Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross seeking documents related to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the country’s 2020 census. Republican Justin Amash of Michigan joined 22 Democrats to approve the motion, 23-14. «The […]readmore
VOA NEWS – State Department correspondent Cindy Saine and VOA Russian service reporter Valeria Jegisman contributed to this report WHITE HOUSE — North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is set to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress Wednesday, ahead of a meeting in Washington of the alliance’s foreign ministers. House Speaker Nancy […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Associated Press CHICAGO —Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city. Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who’d never been elected to public office, defeated Cook County Board President […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Masood Farivar CAPITOL HILL — The Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee is set to vote Wednesday to authorize subpoenas to obtain the full report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election from special counsel Robert Mueller, as well as the testimonies of five former White House officials interviewed by the special […]readmore
INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK — Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore attracts more than 3.6 million visitors every year, but that number is expected to grow because the 6,000-hectare site on the shore of Lake Michigan is now Indiana Dunes National Park — the country’s newest. America’s National Parks System includes more than 400 parks, monuments, conservation areas […]readmore
Voz de América El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha criticado a Puerto Rico, un estado libre asociado, y sostiene que sus líderes son incompetentes, tontos y corruptos en la supervisión de su recuperación de dos devastadores huracanes en 2017. Trump se quejó el martes de que la isla caribeña está recibiendo 91.000 millones […]readmore
VOA NEWS – Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is lashing out at the country’s territory of Puerto Rico, contending that its leaders are incompetent, foolish and corrupt in overseeing its recovery from two devastating 2017 hurricanes. Trump complained Tuesday that the Caribbean island is getting $91 billion in government assistance to help […]readmore