VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump sought Monday to diminish allegations he directed his lawyer to criminally violate campaign finance laws by making $280,000 in payments to two women to remain silent before the 2016 election about alleged affairs with him.Trump said on Twitter the payments made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, […]Load more...
VOA News/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Top House Democrats have raised the prospect of impeachment or the real possibility of prison time for President Donald Trump if it’s proved that he directed illegal hush money payments to women, adding to the legal pressure on the president over the Russia investigation and other scandals. “There’s a very real […]Load more...
Governor Phil Murphy to Serve as Chair-Elect for 2020 NEW ORLEANS – America’s Democratic Governors voted today to elect Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo to serve as the new Chair of the Democratic Governors Association for 2019. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will serve as Vice Chair and Chair-Elect for 2020. The vote came at […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – In accordance with a Presidential Proclamation, Governor Gina M. Raimondo has ordered that the U.S. and Rhode Island flags at all state facilities be flown at half-staff for 30 days in honor of former President George H.W. Bush. «George Herbert Walker Bush spent his life in service to the American people, and his passing […]Load more...
VOA News/Steve Herman BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — The world’s two largest economies, the U.S. and China, have agreed to a small truce in their escalating trade war after a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping following the G-20 summit. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One after the plane departed Argentina, said […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says he is willing to agree to a two-week extension of government funding to avoid conflicts with the ceremonies honoring the late President George H.W. Bush. Speaking on board Air force One on his way home from the G-20 summit in Argentina, Trump said congressional leaders have […]Load more...
November 28, 2018 Providence, R.I. — The Rhode Island Department of Revenue (DOR) today released its FY 2019 Revenue Assessment Report for October 2018. The Revenue Assessment Report, which is issued on a monthly basis, compares the adjusted general revenues by revenue source on a fiscal year-to-date and monthly basis to expected general revenues by […]Load more...
Picture above: Migrants push past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, as they try to reach the United States. VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump told supporters at a political rally late Monday that his administration has no intention of allowing Central American migrants who traveled to the […]Load more...
VOA News Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort broke his plea agreement with U.S. federal prosecutors by lying to investigators, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office alleged late Monday. Manafort, who faces up to 10 years in prison for various financial crimes, had agreed to cooperate with investigators looking into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s […]Load more...
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) is accepting applications for interns in his Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., offices for the spring of 2019. This program is open to civic-minded college students who are available for at least 10 hours per week. A qualified candidate will be well-organized, responsible, dependable, and have strong oral and written communication […]Load more...
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