Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, announcing her support for the Iran nuclear agreement, said as president she would not hesitate to take military action should Tehran attempt to build a nuclear weapon. «The United States will never allow you to acquire a nuclear weapon,» she said, referring to Iran. The former secretary of state spoke […]readmore
VOA News Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has conceded that her use of a private email server when she was U.S. secretary of state was “a mistake.” «Yes, I should have used two email addresses,» Clinton said In a statement posted late Tuesday night on her Facebook page. «One for personal matters, and one for […]readmore
VOA News A former employee of the U.S. State Department who helped Hillary Clinton set up her personal email server has said he will not testify before a special congressional committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Attorneys for Brian Pagliano sent a letter to the House committee Monday […]readmore
PAWTUCKET – The Office of Congressman David N. Cicilline is accepting requests from residents of Rhode Island’s First Congressional District who are interested in attending Pope Francis’s address to a joint session of Congress at 10 AM on Thursday, September 24, 2015. Pope Francis, who was elected in March 2013, will become the first pope in […]readmore
VOA News The State Department has released another 7,000 pages of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, sent and received when she was secretary of state. The controversy over Clinton using a private account instead of a government account apparently has hurt her presidential campaign. Clinton denies sending or receiving any classified emails. But some voters say […]readmore
Reuters/VOA WASHINGTON—Republican Jeb Bush offered his most direct assault on Donald Trump to date on Tuesday, retaliating for a series of personal insults with a review of his front-running rival’s past record of supporting Democratic causes. In a Web video, the Bush campaign used Trump’s own words in support of Democrat Hillary Clinton and for […]readmore
WASHINGTON—Hillary Rodham Clinton has a message for the country’s wealthiest Democrats: I need you, unfortunately. «We’re going to have to do what we can in this election to make sure that we’re not swamped by money on the other side,» the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said Thursday. But when asked how she feels […]readmore
WASHINGTON—Some Republicans gleefully scripted Donald Trump’s political obituary in the wake of his scathing comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service earlier this month, hoping that his freewheeling presidential campaign had finally imploded. Predictions of his demise were apparently premature. Instead, Trump is gaining momentum ahead of next week’s first Republican debate, a new Reuters/Ipsos […]readmore
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI) today announced the introduction of the Equality Act – legislation to extend anti-discrimination protections in public accommodations, housing, employment, federal funding, education, credit, and jury service. Cicilline, who is one of seven openly gay members of Congress, announced the Equality Act today during a press conference with Senator […]readmore
U.S. real estate mogul Donald Trump, among the top contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, refused Sunday to back off his attack on the Vietnam War record of Senator John McCain, the party’s 2008 presidential candidate who was tortured during his five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi in the 1960s. Trump […]readmore