Fung Facts: Mayor Fung Ignored Cranston’s Small Business While Chasing Big Box Stores and Chain Restaurants PROVIDENCE, RI – After spending the last decade mostly focused on big box stores and chain restaurants, Allan Fung today – less than six weeks before the election – discovered small businesses. Fortunately for Cranston business owners, Governor Raimondo […]Load more...
VOA/Victoria Macchi The U.S. State Department is proposing that the United States receive proportionally fewer refugees from Africa and the Middle East in the coming year than it planned to last year, in favor of an increase in refugees from Asia and Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to data obtained from the agency. […]Load more...
VOA/Jeff Seldin WASHINGTON — China’s growing prowess in cyberspace is a bigger, more dangerous threat to the United States than Russia’s attempt to undermine U.S. elections, Washington’s top intelligence official said, warning that Beijing is on a path that could lead to global supremacy. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats characterized the Chinese threat as deliberate, […]Load more...
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, reiteró el martes su apoyo al candidato a juez de la Corte Suprema, Brett Kavanaug, quien ha sido acusado por tres mujeres de abuso sexual. “Los cargos [de los que se acusa a Kavanaugh], que sucedieron hace 36 años son totalmente insustanciales”, dijo Trump en una rueda de […]Load more...
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Peter Feldman Confirmed as Commissioner of U.S. Consumer Product Safety
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Attorney Peter Feldman, senior counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, has been confirmed as a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). President Donald J. Trump originally nominated Feldman on June 4, 2018 and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on a bipartisan 80-19 […]Load more...
Program will leverage the support of City and State leaders, Providence families, and other stakeholders to expand access to and affordability of higher education. PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge Elorza, Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, and many other members of the local community joined Providence Promise yesterday afternoon at the State House Library to announce and celebrate the […]Load more...
(EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I.) – Representatives from Teamsters Local 251 distributed a letter regarding the health and future of the New England Pension Fund to the Providence First Student bus drivers today. The letter addresses the mischaracterizations that First Student’s public relations experts are relying on as they refuse to budge in negotiations. Executive Director Ed […]Load more...
Central Falls, RI. September 25, 2018 – Senator Jack Reed will celebrate the Central Falls School District as a 2018 Angels in Adoption® Honoree for their outstanding advocacy for Foster Care for the children of Central Falls. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), which coordinates the Angels in Adoption® Program, will honor Central Falls School District at […]Load more...
VOA News/Michael Bowman CAPITOL HILL — The U.S. Senate’s partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s embattled Supreme Court nominee intensified Tuesday, fewer than 48 hours before Judge Brett Kavanaugh and one of his accusers were expected to give contradictory testimony on whether the nominee committed sexual assault as a teenager. Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of […]Load more...
VOA NEWS/Katherine Gypson KINDRED, NORTH DAKOTA — Throughout West Acres, North Dakota’s largest shopping mall in Fargo, help wanted signs fill storefront windows. «It’s a very competitive market,» said Brad Ruhro, owner of Legacy Toys, a family-owned chain of toys stores with a location at West Acres. Ruhro said that as a toy store owner, it’s […]Load more...