Associated Press NEW YORK—The director of Taylor Swift’s new music video is defending the singer after some claimed she whitewashed her video based in Africa.Joseph Kahn said that the video for Wildest Dreamsincludes black people and was produced by a black woman and edited by a black man. «This is not a video about colonialism but […]Load more...
VOA News South Carolina will seek the death penalty against the white man charged in the June killings of nine black people at a Charleston church, court documents showed Thursday. Dylann Roof, 21, faces multiple charges including nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a weapons charge for the June 17 shooting […]Load more...
DALLAS—Texas abortion providers asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to hear their challenge to the state’s restrictions on abortions that they contend are aimed more at shutting clinics than protecting women’s health.A U.S. appeals court in June upheld the main provisions of the Texas abortion law including one requiring clinics to have certain hospital-grade […]Load more...
VOA News Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a federal courthouse in Kentucky where a local county clerk faces charges for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis defied last month’s court order to resume issuing marriage licenses to all eligible couples, straight or gay, a practice she stopped after […]Load more...
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 […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo has appointed Dr. Nitin Padture to the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission). «Atomic energy is not only one of the nation’s alternative energy sources, but it is also one of the future’s great hopes for advancements in medicine, biotechnology, physics, material science, and other engineering and technology fields,» […]Load more...
NEW LONDON, Connecticut – The Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival announces U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ida Lewis will participate in this year’s annual celebration, Sept. 9-12, in New London. Ida Lewis, a 175-foot-long keeper class coastal buoy tender, is scheduled to arrive at Fort Trumbull, Sept. 9, and will be open for free, public tours on […]Load more...
The R.I. Department of Education (RIDE) is accepting applications from public and nonpublic institutions that would like to participate in the federally funded Child and Adult Care Food Program. Child-care centers, adult day-care centers, day-care homes, schools, and emergency shelters may participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which currently provides nutritious meals […]Load more...
Providence, RI – August 31, 2015 – Ella Gonzalez of North Kingstown has been named the Director of National Accounts at the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (PWCVB). She is responsible for marketing Providence and Warwick to potential meeting and convention planners as well as managing current clients in the mid-Atlantic region of the […]Load more...
Pawtucket, RI – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island recently appointed Kamran Manzoor, MD, to its medical staff in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care. Dr. Manzoor is a member of Affinity Physicians and will work out of Memorial Hospital. Dr. Manzoor earned his medical degree from Nishtar Medical College, Multan, Pakistan. He completed his […]Load more...