VOA News/Kane Farabaugh TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN — It’s standing room only in the large ballroom of this northern Michigan resort as people eagerly await the arrival of a young, well-spoken, charismatic Rhodes scholar seeking to reach Michigan’s highest elected office. “When I graduated college, Bill Clinton asked me why I was going to med school, and […]Load more...
VOA News A flurry of unexpected tornadoes swept through central Iowa, injuring at least 17 people, flattening buildings in three cities and forcing the evacuation of a hospital. Residents – and even weather forecasters – were taken by surprise Thursday as the tornadoes hit Marshalltown, Pella and Bondurant. Ten people were injured in Marshalltown and […]Load more...
VOA News/Nike Ching STATE DEPARTMENT — The U.S. has no intention of allowing Russia to question Michael McFaul, Washington’s former ambassador to Moscow and a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told VOA on Thursday. «It’s not going to happen,» the top U.S. diplomat said in an interview at the […]Load more...
VOA News President Donald Trump, via Twitter, extended his “deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those involved in the terrible boat accident which just took place in Missouri.” At least 13 people, including children, were killed when a tourist boat capsized and sank in a lake during a storm late Thursday in the […]Load more...
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 to reject an offer Vladimir Putin made to President Trump to hand over former U.S. diplomats and other American officials who have criticized the Kremlin for questioning. The non-binding resolution expresses the sense of Congress that no current or former diplomat, civil servant, political appointee, law enforcement […]Load more...
Phil Adams, of Westport, brings 30-plus years of experience in advising, managing and building innovative enterprises to SouthCoast’s leading business incubator Phil Adams, the former CEO of a Massachusetts-based energy management software firm that grew from seven to 130 employees under his leadership, has been appointed interim director of the UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and […]Load more...
Joe Lazzerini to Serve as Director of the Mayor’s Center for City Services PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza today announced today Matthew Shumate will serve as his Deputy Chief of Staff. «Matt has been a dedicated and hardworking member of our team in every position that he has held,» said Mayor Jorge Elorza. «I’m […]Load more...
PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, Lt. Governor Dan McKee made the following statement about National Grid’s intention to increase the standard offer electric rate by 19-percent: “Another rate increase is unacceptable. It is unacceptable for hardworking Rhode Island families, our small business community and our state’s seniors and most vulnerable. I am calling on National Grid to use […]Load more...
VOA News/Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday it believes Russia is continuing to target the United States with cyberattacks related to the upcoming November congressional elections. «We believe that the threat still exists,» President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. Her statement came hours after the U.S. leader appeared to contradict […]Load more...
VOA News British authorities said private Facebook information, which was gathered by data-mining company Cambridge Analytica without the consent or knowledge of the social media platform’s users, was accessed from computers based in Russia and other former Soviet states. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a British government investigative office investigating the scandal, said in a […]Load more...
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