Two-day Clinic Offering Free Oral Health Care Returns in New Location PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Oral Health Foundation will hold its signature Rhode Island Mission of Mercy (RI MOM) two-day free dental clinic on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30, at the Delta Dental of Rhode Island dental clinic at Providence Community Health Centers at […]Load more...
VOA News U.S. President Donald Trump accused China Tuesday of «actively trying to impact and change» the U.S. election and threatened «great and fast economic retaliation» if it retaliates with measures that would hurt American workers. Trump did not offer evidence to support his accusation nor did he specify whether it was the upcoming midterm […]Load more...
VOA/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats joined forces to speed legislation combating the misuse of opioids and other addictive drugs toward Senate passage Monday, a rare campaign-season show of unity against a growing and deadly health care crisis. The measure takes wide aim at the problem, including increasing scrutiny of arriving international mail that may […]Load more...
VOA News The storm system that struck southeastern states along the U.S. East Coast as Hurricane Florence is now soaking areas in the northeast with heavy rain as forecasters warn of widespread flooding threats. Flash flood watches and warnings are posted from Virginia into Vermont and New Hampshire through Tuesday. Those accompany the flooding in […]Load more...
VOA/Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE — The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold public hearings next week to hear from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of assaulting her three decades ago while the two were in high school. «To provide ample transparency, we will hold a public hearing Monday to give these […]Load more...
VOA/Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES — HBO’s record-breaking fantasy epic «Game of Thrones» stormed back onto the Emmys stage on Monday, winning the coveted best drama series prize on a night full of surprises, including an on-air marriage proposal that stunned the audience. The other big story of the Hollywood gala, television’s answer to the Oscars, was […]Load more...
WARWICK, RI — Judge Bob Flanders, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and former R.I. Supreme Court Justice, issued the following statement regarding Sen. Whitehouse’s reaction to the late-breaking allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: «The Deputy Chair of the DNC, Rep. Keith Ellison, has two documented claims of physical abuse of women against him, and yet Sen. […]Load more...
As Rhode Island’s grassroots gun violence prevention organization the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence (RICAGV) is gratified to see that the the Democratic Party of Rhode Island has at last recognized that there is “a serious issue with gun violence in our country,” and has for the first time acknowledged that gun violence is […]Load more...
VOA/Aline Barros HAZLETON, PA — Residents of the small city of Hazleton, PA, face deeply personal choices in this November’s election which features a homegrown candidate with hardline-immigrant views in a city that has been changed in deep-rooted ways by… an influx of immigrants.Hazleton’s “transformative decade,” is how former police chief Frank DeAndrea puts it. And […]Load more...
VOA News The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has come forward with her allegation. Christine Blasey Ford, professor at Palo Alto University in California, told the Washington Post that she feared for her life during the attack. «I thought he might inadvertently kill me,» Ford the newspaper in […]Load more...
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