President Donald Trump says abortions were acceptable to him in three instances, when a woman becomes pregnant by rape or incest and when the life of a mother is endangered. VOA NEWS – Ken Bredemeier U.S. President Donald Trump says he is less restrictive in his anti-abortion views than provisions in a string of pro-life […]readmore
La campaña de alto perfil para proteger la legalidad del aborto en Rhode Island se encontró con una derrota el martes cuando el Comité Judicial del Senado rechazó la legislación para consagrar los principios de la decisión histórica de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos de 1973 Roe v. Wade en la ley estatal. […]readmore
FILE – An election worker enters a polling station in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 24, 2019, as the station prepares for early voting. Voters in North Carolina’s 9th district will head to the polls Tuesday for a special election primary that will decide which Republican will face off against Democrat Dan McCready for a seat […]readmore
FILE – Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis. (L), Representative-elect Karen Handel, R-Ga.(R), and her husband Steve Handel participate in a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 26, 2017. VOA News-Associated Press Top Republicans are hunting district-by-district for just the right candidates — women and minorities in many cases — to help […]readmore
FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China. VOA News-Ken Bredemeier Capitol Hill correspondent Michael Bowman and reporter Ira Mellman contributed to this report President Donald Trump said the United States «can make a deal with China tomorrow» to resolve the trade dispute between the world’s two […]readmore
Federally-funded program will use the Rhode Island 2-1-1 infrastructure to help victims of cybercrime and online fraud PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Congressman Jim Langevin will be joined by local and national officials Monday to celebrate the launch of a statewide cybercrime support and recovery system. The new system allows Rhode Islanders to dial “2-1-1” in order […]readmore
VOA News – Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged he literally found himself on slippery footing Wednesday, a timely simile to what his administration suddenly was confronting. At the start of a political rally in the Florida Panhandle, Trump complained about the condition of the stage. “That runway is like an […]readmore
VOA News – Associated Press WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won’t be turning President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House. Mnuchin told Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Democrat-Massachusetts, in a Monday letter that the panel’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose” as Supreme […]readmore
VOA News – Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it is time for lawmakers to move on from the lengthy investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, despite House Democrats’ expansive efforts to investigate President Donald Trump and his administration. «Case closed,» McConnell said on the Senate floor. […]readmore
FILE – Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 1, 2019. VOA News – Ken Bredemeier The U.S. House Judiciary Committee moved Monday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over an unredacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s […]readmore