PAWTUCKET, RI – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline announced new federal funding to help fire departments in Lincoln, Narragansett, and Pawtucket purchase new equipment. The funding is made available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG). The Saylesville Fire […]readmore
NORFOLK – A 2008 Mount Saint Charles Academy High School graduate and Cumberland, Rhode Island native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided missile cruiser, USS Anzio. Lt j.g. Robert Van Winter is a damage controlman assistant aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser operating out of Norfolk, Virginia. A Navy damage controlman assistant […]readmore
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a child suicide bomber carried out Saturday’s attack on a wedding party in southeast Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding scores of others, many of them critically. Erdogan, speaking Sunday, said initial evidence shows the bomber was between 12 and 14 years old. He said Islamic […]readmore
VOA NEWS WAYNE LEE A massive disaster recovery effort is underway in the southeastern state of Louisiana, as flood victims continue to clean homes, rebuild, and search for people who may have been trapped by widespread flooding. The flooding has been so powerful that caskets have been swept away from some cemeteries. The flooding, which […]readmore
Álvaro Algarra – Caracas, Venezuela Voz de América El presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, ha hecho varios llamados a la oposición en días recientes para que no salga a las calles. El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, durante una alocución en cadena nacional de radio y televisión amenazó a todos los ciudadanos opositores que salgan a […]readmore
Voz de América El candidato presidencial republicano, Donald Trump, dijo que ahora es claro que el presidente Obama «mintió» sobre el pago de 400 millones de dóalres a Irán. Por primera vez, la administración Obama dijo claramente y públicamente que un pago en efectivo de 400 millones de dólares a Irán fue hecho para influenciar […]readmore
VOA News U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson toured recovery efforts Thursday in the Southern state of Louisiana, where unprecedented flooding has left at least 13 people dead and thousands displaced. The flooding around Baton Rouge came from record-breaking rains of more than 75 centimeters that began last week. An estimated 40,000 homes have been […]readmore
Reginald Savage had an uneasy feeling when he last contacted his American son fighting alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State in Syria. «I then knew that I wasn’t going to see him again,» the father said of his last email exchange in late July with William Savage, who was on the frontlines in northern […]readmore
VOA News Two cases of the Zika virus have been identified in Miami Beach, one of the world’s most popular tourist spots, U.S. media reported Thursday. The mosquito-borne virus, first detected in Brazil last year, is relatively mild in most cases. However, pregnant women who are infected with Zika risk giving birth to babies with […]readmore
VOA News The Russian prosecutor general’s office has added two U.S.-based non-governmental organizations to its list of foreign NGOs whose activities are deemed «undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation.» The office said Thursday that the work of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) «poses a threat to […]readmore