WARWICK, RI. (March 26th, 2019) – The American Red Cross is helping one family – two adults – three children after a fire today on West Shore Road, Warwick. The Red Cross provided assistance to meet the family’s immediate needs. Responders included: Amy Rodenbaugh, Robert Partington and Lee Ann Freitas. The Red Cross is also providing comfort kits containing personal care items such as toothbrushes, deodorant; shaving […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Council on Elementary and Secondary Education voted unanimously this evening, with the support of the full Rhode Island Board of Education, to appoint Angélica Infante-Green as the next Commissioner of Education. Infante-Green is the first Latina and the first woman of color to lead the Rhode Island Department of Education. Currently a […]Load more...
FOTO: Un avión con la bandera rusa se ve en el Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar en Caracas, Venezuela, 24 de marzo de 2019. Voz de América La presencia de «especialistas rusos» en Venezuela se rige por un acuerdo de cooperación técnico-militar entre los dos países, dijo el martes el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia. […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC — In its efforts to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Trump Administration has now gone a major step further in asking the courts to throw out the entire law, which includes critical protections for people with pre-existing conditions. U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a strong supporter of the ACA, today warned that […]Load more...
DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after it was reported that the Justice Department issued a new filing in lawsuit challenging the individual mandate that calls on courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act: “Donald Trump and Republicans are obsessed with taking health care away from millions of Americans. For nearly […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) led a group of 15 senators in calling on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to follow the law and protect the confidentiality of responses collected through the 2020 census. The letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr follows reports about Trump Administration […]Load more...
Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools & Firms applauds Commonwealth’s public law school for high percentage of black students earning a JD In its recently released 2019 edition, the Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools & Firms has ranked UMass Law at UMass Dartmouth as one of the top five law schools for black students in the […]Load more...
Voz de América Pasadas la 1:00 p.m. de este lunes, Caracas y varios estados de Venezuela presentaron una falla importante de electricidad dos semanas después de que se recuperaran del apagón más prologando de su historia contemporánea. Además de la capital, medios locales y usuarios reportaron que el nuevo apagón afectó los estados Anzoátegui, Aragua, […]Load more...
VOA News-Reuters Una caravana de unos 1,200 migrantes de Centroamérica y Cuba avanzó hacia la frontera de Estados Unidos desde el sur de México el fin de semana, dijeron el domingo autoridades mexicanas. El Instituto Nacional de Migración dijo que los migrantes eran de Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador y Cuba, y que ya estaban […]Load more...
Nueva Jersey está por votar una propuesta para legalizar la marihuana para uso recreativo, pero el gobernador y líderes legislativos siguen presionando en apoyo a sus respectivos argumentos. Tanto el Senado como la Asamblea estatal tienen programadas votaciones sobre la iniciativa apoyada por el gobernador demócrata Phil Murphy, pero la aprobación dista de ser cosa […]Load more...