Steve Baragona Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he fears the U.S. election, now just three months away, will be «rigged» against him. Margaret Jurgensen’s job is to keep that from happening in Montgomery County, Maryland, a populous area adjacent to Washington. Jurgensen heads the county’s board of elections. «The person who says that […]readmore
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined other Senate Democrats in writing to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, urging them to immediately call Congress back into session to pass emergency funding legislation to address the growing Zika crisis. In the letter, the Senators note that […]readmore
TATE HOUSE – Rep. Robert E. Craven Sr., a former assistant attorney general, is calling on Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin to file a declaratory judgment action in Providence Superior Court seeking the court’s instruction on the release of the grand jury documents and testimony in the 38 Studios investigation. «Although the Attorney General has […]readmore
Actor estadounidense realiza polémicas declaraciones durante entrevista con la revista Esquire. El actor Clint Eastwood decide hablar de política y realiza polémicos comentarios sobre la “nueva generación” a la cual llamó “cobarde». En el marco de una entrevista sobre su película “Sully”, el actor republicano no dudó en expresar sus preferencias políticas que se inclinan […]readmore
Según la encuesta de Fox News, Clinton saca una ventaja de 10 puntos sobre su rival republicano, 49% a 39%. Una nueva encuesta, divulgada el miércoles por la noche, confirma la ventaja de Hillary Clinton sobre Donald Trump a nivel nacional y en algunos estados clave. Según la encuesta de Fox News, Clinton saca una […]readmore
VOA News Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON—U.S. presidential elections are only nominally national contests and are not decided by the popular vote. The outcome is decided in the 50 individual states as the candidates look to win the Electoral College, with each state’s impact on the outcome dependent on its population and representation in Congress. Both Democrat […]readmore
Chris Hannas With U.S. voters continuing to hold unfavorable views of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, parties outside the two that dominate the country’s politics are getting rare national exposure. The last president who was not either a Democrat or Republican left office in 1853, and while many different parties field candidates each election, […]readmore
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Rhode Island state Sen. Cynthia Armour Coyne has been selected to participate in one of the nation’s premier leadership development programs for state government officials, The Council of State Governments’ Henry Toll Fellowship program. The 48 leaders in the Class of 2016 Toll Fellowship program hail from 29 states, Puerto Rico and Guam and […]readmore
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to protect dairy farmers in Rhode Island and across the nation amid the dairy industry’s current financial crisis, U.S. Senator Jack Reed has joined 60 other lawmakers in writing a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid in the […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea will give voters a test drive of their new voting machines in a series of voter outreach events throughout Rhode Island. Voters across the state will cast their votes with the new voting equipment starting with the September 13 Primary election. The voter outreach events give […]readmore