VOA News The Obama administration has named a senior official to help deal with the toxic water crisis plaguing the city of Flint, Michigan. President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to hear firsthand about how her city’s residents were dealing with the public health crisis. Obama said Dr. Nicole Lurie, assistant […]Load more...
VOA News The first of several thousand Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica have crossed into the United States under a plan agreed to among Central American leaders. The migrants arrived in Miami Sunday, after 180 of them first crossed the U.S. border late last week at Laredo, Texas. The deal allows the migrants to […]Load more...
VOA News After being released from Iran as part of a prisoner swap, a group of Americans got to meet Monday with family and supporters who spent months and years following their cases from afar and advocating for their release. Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian met with senior editors from the newspaper at a U.S. […]Load more...
Carolyn Presutti, Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a case challenging President Barack Obama’s plan to protect more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally in the United States. The president’s executive order was aimed at deferring deportation of parents of American-born children and […]Load more...
January 19th, 2015 #innovateRI Rhode Island Innovates Metropolitan Policy Program Slater Mill 1793 The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution Blurring Distinction Between Manufacturing and Services Relentless Pace of Technological Change “Digitization of Everything” 2016 R&D-intensive industries that concentrate the nation’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. A M E R I C W H […]Load more...
La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Estados Unidos dijo este martes que ha admitido estudiar el recurso legal contra la orden ejecutiva del presidente Obama sobre migración decretada el año pasado. La orden ejecutiva garantizaría la protección contra la deportación de casi 5 millones de inmigrantes que entraron al país de manera indocumentada. El recurso […]Load more...
VOA News The United States is looking for three U.S. contractors who were reportedly kidnapped in Baghdad. Iraqi and U.S. officials say the company for whom the three are working went missing two days ago. There are no details on their identities or what their jobs are in Iraq, but many different companies are working […]Load more...
Senators Call for Action to Reduce Student Loan Debt and Help Families Pay for College Providence, RI – Friday, at Roger Williams University’s campus in Providence, Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse sat down with Rhode Island students and graduates to talk about the climbing costs of higher education and how student debt-which has skyrocketed […]Load more...
BOSTON – Department of Energy Resources (DOER) Commissioner Judith Judson announced today at the New England International Auto Show that the Baker-Polito Administration is adding $2 million in funding to DOER’s electric vehicle (EV) rebate program. «Electric vehicles are a vital component of our Global Warming Solutions Act commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in […]Load more...
WASHINGTON – Secretary Sally Jewell announced today that the Interior Department will launch a comprehensive review to identify and evaluate potential reforms to the federal coal program in order to ensure that it is properly structured to provide a fair return to taxpayers and reflect its impacts on the environment, while continuing to help meet […]Load more...
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