VOA News/Steve Herman WASHINGTON — Rival political rallies in Texas – just 200 meters apart – pitted the president of the United States against a possible election rival as they took opposite sides on the merits of a border wall with Mexico. “Today we started a big, beautiful wall right on the Rio Grande,” declared President […]Load more...
VOA News/Henry Ridgwell U.S. allies have given a cautious welcome to the announcement of a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to be held later this month in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang. The planned meeting was the major foreign policy announcement Tuesday in President Trump’s State of […]Load more...
Middletown resident continued working for five weeks without pay during federal government shutdown WASHINGTON – Jamie Green, an Aquidneck Island resident and air traffic controller at T.F. Green International Airport who was forced to work for 35 days without pay during the recent partial government shutdown, will join Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) as his […]Load more...
Bill to require publication of President’s tax returns filed as Ways and Means Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee prepares for hearing tomorrow on presidential tax returns WASHINGTON – Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01) introduced legislation today to require that anyone holding the office of President of the United States make his […]Load more...
VOA News/Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — White House officials are expressing anger after an insider leaked months of President Donald Trump’s private schedules. The release of the information is a “disgraceful breach of trust,” according to Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office operations. In a tweet, Westerhout said what the documents do not show “are […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump waded into the controversy surrounding the governor of Virginia over a racist photo that appeared on the governor’s medical school yearbook page. Trump tweeted late Saturday that Gov. Ralph Northam’s initial apology for the photo and subsequent denial that he was in the picture are «Unforgiveable!» The president’s tweet […]Load more...
(Left to Right: City Council Acting Chief of Staff James Lombardi III, Esq., City Council President Sabina Matos, City Council President Pro Tempore Michael Correia, Providence City Archivist Caleb Horton, City Council Deputy Majority Leader Mary Kay Harris, Project Manager Kat Boots, Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy, and Executive Director of both the Providence Foundation and […]Load more...
Legislation contains $1.6 billion in border security related funding and is based on compromises agreed to by Republicans and Democrats last Congress WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 648, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019, which would reopen government agencies at funding levels based on bipartisan […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — First-term California Senator Kamala Harris announced Monday she is seeking the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination to oppose President Donald Trump, joining the crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to end his presidency after a single term in the White House. Harris, a daughter of immigrant parents from Jamaica and India, […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 16, 2019 – Tuesday’s federal court decision blocking the inclusion of a citizenship question in the upcoming 2020 census comes as a victory for states, municipalities, and especially many immigrant communities, including Latinos. When the decision to include a question regarding a person’s citizenship status was announced by U.S Secretary of Commerce […]Load more...
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