STATE HOUSE — Rhode Island House Minority Caucus members have announced the latest ratings from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), Rhode Island’s largest small business association, which recently released its legislative rankings for the 2015-16 session of the General Assembly. According to the advocacy group, RI House Republicans rank among the highest for […]readmore
VOA News Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday he is probably better off without the support of «weak and ineffective» people within his party, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. He said in an interview on Fox News that Ryan and other members of Congress were «being nasty» to him and not supporting his candidacy. […]readmore
Ken Bredemeier U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is vowing to finish the last weeks of his run for the White House on his own terms. Trump is undeterred by party leaders’ abandonment of his campaign after the widespread airing of a 2005 videotape in which Trump makes crude comments about women and boasts of […]readmore
Elizabeth Lee VOA News LOS ANGELES — Farid Khanlou owns Jordan Market in an area of Los Angeles called Persian Square. It’s packed with Persian businesses, many of which fly the country’s flag from before the 1979 Iranian revolution. In this heart of the Iranian-American community, the largest group of Iranians abroad, there are many who […]readmore
BOSTON, MA – Four new polls released today by Emerson College show a tightening of the presidential race, and for the first time, Hillary Clinton has taken the lead in Arizona, by a margin of 44% to 42%. Donald Trump leads 45% to 44% in the battleground state of Florida, and the two are even […]readmore
WASHINGTON, DC – Seeking to protect military families and active duty military personnel whose consumer rights may have been violated by Wells Fargo, a group of eleven U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Ranking Member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and Sherrod […]readmore
For months in the U.S. presidential campaign, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has drawn a modest amount of support, but after a string of foreign policy blunders, even he admits that his chances of winning the White House are all but nil. In mid-August, Johnson, the former two-term governor of the southwestern state of New Mexico, […]readmore
VOA News Carolyn Presutti CLEVELAND, OHIO — As a union carpenter, Dustin Wolf used to walk on stilts to work on grid ceilings. Now he works for the local chapter of his union, Interior Systems Local 373 of the Regional Council of Carpenters, which represents 35,000 carpenters across Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. A fourth generation union […]readmore
BOSTON —Democrat Hillary Clinton (44 percent) leads Republican Donald Trump (42 percent) in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of New Hampshire voters. The 2-point margin represents a toss-up, as the results are within the poll’s statistical margin of error. “There are just two sets of persuadable voters remaining in New Hampshire’s presidential contest: undecided voters […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea is reminding Rhode Islanders that they have until Sunday, October 9 to register to vote for the November 8 general election. “The easiest way to register or update your registration is to go to vote.ri.gov and use our online portal,” Secretary Gorbea said. “I want to […]readmore