Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today announced a settlement with Dallas-based MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. (MoneyGram) resolving a multistate investigation which focused on complaints of consumers who used MoneyGram’s wire transfer service to send money to third parties involved in schemes to defraud consumers. In addition to Rhode Island, 48 states and the District of […]readmore
WARWICK, R.I. – For the 16th consecutive year, Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) is hosting the Rhode Island Second Congressional District High School Art Competition. High school students who reside in the Second District are eligible to compete for a grand prize trip to Washington, DC, a college scholarship and the honor of having their work hang […]readmore
MUNICH, GERMANY / GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—Russia is proposing talks about a cease-fire in Syria, but European diplomats are skeptical about the offer, which they see as a delaying tactic that would allow intense Russian airstrikes in Aleppo to continue. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had submitted a “quite specific” proposal. “We will wait for […]readmore
Luis Ramirez LONDON—NATO warships are heading to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece stop human traffickers, marking the entry of the alliance into efforts to deal with the growing flow of migrants to Europe.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said three ships under German command were being deployed immediately to help the Turkish […]readmore
VOA News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated a threat to banish the 2.5 million Syrian migrants it is hosting within its borders, saying he could bus them to the borders of the European Union. In a speech to a business forum in Ankara Thursday, Erdogan confirmed comments that were leaked earlier in the […]readmore
VOA News A 94-year-old former guard at Europe’s most notorious concentration camp has gone on trial in Germany, where he faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Reinhold Hanning has said he served at Auschwitz as a 20-year-old member of the German SS guard, but insists he served in a part of the camp where […]readmore
VOA News The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has left Moscow on a trip to Cuba in which he will both make a state visit to the Cuban President, Raul Castro, and hold a historic meeting with the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. Kirill left Moscow on Thursday, ahead […]readmore
VOA News U.S. defense chief Ash Carter appealed Thursday to his counterparts in the U.S.-led coalition conducting aerial attacks on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria for more military and financial help to carry out the campaign. Carter met with defense ministers from more than two dozen countries in Brussels, talking privately with some officials […]readmore
VOA News The remaining armed protestors occupying a U.S. federal wildlife refuge in the northwestern state of Oregon have agreed to turn themselves in Thursday morning, according to media reports. As that development was unfolding, word came that the patriarch of the family at the center of the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge […]readmore
Smita Nordwall The government in the northern U.S. state of Michigan is scrambling to help resolve the toxic water crisis in the city of Flint, where lead has been found in the bloodstreams of more than 200 children. Here’s a look at the who, what, where and why of the public health crisis that has […]readmore