VOA News Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appeared to have a clear path to a third consecutive term — this time accompanied by his wife as vice president — in Sunday’s presidential vote. Opinion polls said the former guerrilla fighter was likely to receive more than 50 percent of the votes and avoid a runoff in […]readmore
VOA News/Jim Malone On Tuesday, sharply divided U.S. voters head to the polls to elect a new president. In many ways, the choice between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump is emblematic of a political polarization in the United States that has been building for decades. Many experts warn that sharp divide is not […]readmore
Mike O’Sullivan/VOA News LOS ANGELES — Hispanic leaders say the Latino vote could make the difference in Tuesday’s face off between presidential rivals Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, potentially swaying such such key states as Nevada, Arizona and Florida. Clinton holds a lead of nearly 50 points among Hispanics nationally, and a 30-point lead […]readmore
VOA News FBI Director James Comey has told Congress a new review of emails related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state revealed no evidence of criminal activity, as Democrat Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump prepared to make their last push for votes in Tuesday’s election. «Based on our review, we have […]readmore
Ken Bredemeier/VOA News The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is almost over, but not before Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton embarked on a marathon of rallies a day ahead of Tuesday’s national election. Trump, the blunt-spoken real estate mogul ending his first campaign for elected office, headed to five states in an effort to […]readmore
Ramon Taylor/VOA News NEW YORK — Sisters Rammy Hassan and Sara Bosompel came to the United States from Ghana 12 years ago on the same day, with the same dream: to earn a living as a citizen of the country. As voters in this year’s presidential election, they want a leader who will recognize the economic […]readmore
Jeff Swicord/VOA News Faith Loudon grabs one of the dozens of shopping bags lined-up across the floor of Trump headquarters in Pasadena, Maryland and empties the contents. The bags are for precinct greeters to use at the polls to sway voters toward Republican candidates. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years,” Loudon says showing us […]readmore
RI – Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Acting Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, announces the arrest of three New Jersey residents after Troopers seized forty-nine (49) glass vials containing MDMA (Molly) during a motor vehicle stop. On Saturday, November 5, 2016, at approximately 7:30 p.m., Troopers […]readmore
CRANSTON, RI—On the heels of a successful first performance at Cranston Stadium this past summer, the annual Fourth of July Drum and Bugle Corps Competition Summer Music Preview will return to the city once again in 2017, Cranston Mayor Allan W. Fung announced Monday. The 28th annual show, which features drum and bugle corps from […]readmore
Groundbreaking ceremony at the WaterFire Arts Center Providence, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo We all know how special WaterFire Providence is to Rhode Island. It’s a shining example of how the arts can be an economic driver and create jobs. Everywhere I travel, people bring up WaterFire- I tell them, come visit Rhode Island and […]readmore