VOA News/Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON — The Trump administration believes missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice, thought to have been captured in Syria six years ago, is still alive. «We believe him to be alive,» State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on the sixth anniversary of his disappearance. «We remain deeply concerned about his well-being, and we are […]readmore
VOA News More than 300 Catholic priests sexually abused at least 1,000 children over the last 70 years and church leaders did all they could to cover it up, a Pennsylvania grand jury report released Tuesday said. The report said the number of victims might actually be in the thousands because church records have been […]readmore
Governor: «I’ve personally hired people in recovery because they are determined, committed and focused» PROVIDENCE, R.I. – At a one-stop job training center today in Providence, Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced a new Recovery-Friendly Workplace Initiative — supported by a $4 million federal labor grant — to expand skills training and job opportunities for Rhode […]readmore
WHITE HOUSE — Fifteen months since special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to head the probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, prosecutors and lawyers for President Donald Trump are still negotiating over what questions investigators can ask the president. News reports Wednesday quoted the president’s lawyers as saying they are trying to narrow […]readmore
Residential recycling rate highest since 2013; City on track to meet zero rejected recycling loads by 2030 PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today announced the City’s significant progress in its residential recycling program. As of July 2018, Providence’s weekly curbside recycling rate stood at 14.6% of total waste collected, the highest seen since […]readmore
Colonel Michael Winquist, Chief of the Cranston Police Department, announces that there will be no further charges lodged against a dog trainer in connection with the death of Knox, the English Bulldog. After a joint investigation between the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA) and the Cranston Police, it was […]readmore
VOA News Venezuelan authorities have arrested six people they call «terrorists and hired killers» in what President Nicloas Maduro says was an assassination attempt against him. The apparent attack during a a military parade Saturday involved two explosives-laden drones. One is said to have blown up in midair before reaching its target and the other […]readmore
VOA News/Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan announced Sunday three of its soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a combined, dismounted patrol with local forces. An American service member and two Afghan National Army soldiers were also injured in the blast, the mission said. “My thoughts and prayers, along with […]readmore
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday defended the 2016 meeting his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., held with a Kremlin-linked lawyer to «get information» on his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, saying it was «totally legal and done all the time in politics.» In his most definitive statement on the meeting at his […]readmore
Providence, RI – The American Red Cross is helping twelve families – eighteen adults after a fire Sunday afternoon on Elmwood Ave, Providence. Fire fighters battled a multiple-alarm fire on a three-story structure on 155 Elmwood Avenue. One person inside the home and two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation. According to Deputy Chief Steven Houle […]readmore