Nine Dominican nationals face deportation proceedings, including three previously deported brothers alleged to have run the drug trafficking operation PROVIDENCE, RI – Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Stephen G. Dambruch, and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Field Division, today announce […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI—Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan (Ward 5) today hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at Mount Pleasant High School to celebrate the school’s new athletic complex and kick off the first baseball game of the season. The event marked the first time the Mount Pleasant Kilties baseball team has hosted a game on their home turf in […]readmore
PAWTUCKET – At a ceremony held today at City Hall, a member of the Pawtucket Fire Department was sworn in to his new role and five new officers were officially sworn as members of the department by Public Safety Director Antonio J. Pires and Chief William Sisson. The ceremony began with Public Safety Director Pires […]readmore
Senator Reed criticizes forcible removal of passenger and demands answers from United Airlines CEO WASHINGTON, DC – Following the forcible removal of a United Airlines ticketed passenger from his seat on Flight 3411 from Chicago, Illinois to Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and 20 of his colleagues in the U.S. Senate are demanding […]readmore
Peter Heinlein/VOA News WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump appears to be offering a grand bargain to Chinese President Xi Jinping in which each would get something he dearly wants — an assurance of economic stability ahead of a critical Communist Party Congress in exchange for Chinese help in halting North Korea’s nuclear programs. The offer […]readmore
Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared the North Atlantic Treaty Organization “no longer obsolete,” three months after he said the alliance had outlived its usefulness because it had not defended against terrorist attacks. “The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do in […]readmore
William Gallo/VOA News Carter Page, an adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump whose communications were reportedly monitored under an FBI-obtained court order, denied Wednesday that he’d worked for the Russians. «Of course, I wasn’t a foreign agent,» he said in an interview with CNN. Last month, FBI Director James Comey acknowledged that his agency was […]readmore
The United States and Russia agreed Wednesday to call for an international investigation of the deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria last week that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to launch a retaliatory missile strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The joint bid for the United Nations and weapons experts to investigate […]readmore
A Celebration of the Latino Contribution to the American Songbook (Boston, MA)– Discover the fascinating musical fusions that propelled Latinmusic to the top of the US charts with LATIN MUSIC USA, coming back for audiences on Fridays, April 28thand May 5that 9:00 P.M. ET (check local listings). Produced by public media leader WGBH Boston in […]readmore
Una celebración de la música Latina y su influencia en la música y cultura estadounidense 27 de marzo de 2017 (Boston, MA)–Con el regreso de LATIN MUSIC USA, descubra las fascinantes fusiones musicales que impulsaron la música latina a la cima de las listas de éxitos. La serie se transmitirá el viernes 28 de […]readmore