Recent News Headlines : Rhode Island - United States

STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL: NO CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON CENSUS


New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a letter sent to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross... READ MORE

13th February, 2018 0

ENROLLMENT NUMBERS STEADY FOR OBAMACARE IN 2018


That has been particularly tough for consumers who make too much to qualify for federal insurance subsidies through the health care law... READ MORE

8th February, 2018 4

CHINESE AMERICANS REVEL IN REJECTION OF ASIAN DATA COLLECTION BILL IN MASSACHUSETTS


Photo courtesy of Voice of American Chinese Chinese Americans across the U.S. on Wednesday... READ MORE

8th February, 2018 0

ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SEVERAL STATES OPPOSE FEDERAL TIPS PLAN


Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan called the proposal that rescinds a 2011 rule outrageous and likened it to wage theft... READ MORE

6th February, 2018 2

EPA CHIEF SCOTT PRUITT NOW CAN'T RECALL 2016 STATEMENTS SLAMMING 'OUR BULLY' TRUMP AS THREAT TO CONSTITUTION


Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt sought to distance himself Tuesday from his 2016 statements that presidential candidate Donald Trump is... READ MORE

30th January, 2018 0

ANALYSIS | CANADA'S FIX TO THE OPIOID CRISIS: VENDING MACHINES THAT DISTRIBUTE PRESCRIPTION OPIOIDS TO ADDICTS


Death rates from drug overdoses in British Columbia are almost as high as those in the states hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic in the United States... READ MORE

24th January, 2018 947

A BRAVE NEW WORLD OR A MATRIX-INSPIRED NIGHTMARE?


Taut, terrifying and thought-provoking, this is the dark side of artificial intelligence explored through the prism of Hollywood... READ MORE

23rd January, 2018 33

POPE BRINGS ENVIRONMENTAL CRUSADE TO PERU'S AMAZON, CITING 'DEFENSE OF THE EARTH'


An area lays deforested by illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios province of Peru, on Jan. 17, 2018... READ MORE

20th January, 2018 936

CVS PHARMACY PROMISES TO END TOUCHUPS OF ITS BEAUTY IMAGES


Pharmacy giant CVS said it will stop significant touchups of images used in its advertising for beauty products... READ MORE

15th January, 2018 365

CVS PLANS TO KEEP AETNA'S HEADQUARTERS IN CONNECTICUT


The company's CEO met with Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy as well as Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin on Thursday... READ MORE

13th January, 2018 68

CHINA'S TIANGONG-1 SPACE LAB TO PLUNGE TO EARTH BY MARCH


If wreckage from the Tiangong-1 falls on land, it could potentially provide some insight into China's space program... READ MORE

8th January, 2018 7430

'NOBODY WANTS TO BE OUTSIDE': 100 MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED BY US DEEP FREEZE


Jaw-clenching temperatures are expected over the weekend throughout the north-east, having already hit Vermont, Philadelphia, New York and Connecticut... READ MORE

8th January, 2018 1275

BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR BREAKS RECORDS; TEMPERATURES SET TO RISE


Arthur Bassett, who manages a coffee shop in downtown Cleveland, said Sunday the cold temperatures are what people in northeastern Ohio have come to expect... READ MORE

7th January, 2018 147

NEXT UP FOR THE NORTHEAST HOWLING WINDS AND FRIGID AIR


Winter-storm warnings covered parts of 12 eastern states while blizzard warnings blanket the U.S. coast from Virginia to Maine, including New Jersey, Long Island and Boston... READ MORE

5th January, 2018 206

5 DEAD AS STORM WALLOPS U.S. EAST COAST


The National Weather Service received multiple reports of coastal flooding in Massachusetts, including in Boston, Lynn and Cape Cod, that made roads impassable... READ MORE

4th January, 2018 209

MILLIONS ARE HOUNDED FOR DEBT THEY DON'T OWE. ONE VICTIM FOUGHT BACK, WITH A VENGEANCE


Therrien also gave his intel to some private lawyers who were going after Tucker in Texas... READ MORE

28th December, 2017 19744

NORTHEAST STATES SUE EPA OVER AIR POLLUTION FROM MIDWEST


FILE PHOTO: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks at a news conference to announce a state-based effort to combat climate change in New York, New York, U.S. March 29, 2016... READ MORE

27th December, 2017 2730

U.S. FORCES TAP OYSTER REEFS AS 'LIVING SHORELINES' TO PROTECT AGAINST STORM WAVES


And military installations in Alabama and North Carolina have dispatched their enlisted personnel to help build oyster reefs in off-base coastal sites... READ MORE

26th December, 2017 4

AFTER A WHITE CHRISTMAS, NEW ENGLAND BRACES FOR BITTER COLD


The National Weather Service issued wind chill advisories for parts of northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on Tuesday... READ MORE

26th December, 2017 0

WHITE CHRISTMAS AS BLIZZARD BLASTS NORTHEAST, MIDWEST FREEZES


A storm system that swept from Nebraska through Iowa dropped around 2 inches of snow on Chicago, the weather service said... READ MORE

25th December, 2017 2

MAN GETS 28 YEARS IN ISLAMIC STATE-INSPIRED PLOT TO BEHEAD CONSERVATIVE NY BLOGGER PAMELA GELLER


Wright insisted he never really wanted to hurt anyone but pretended to support the Islamic State group to get attention online... READ MORE

20th December, 2017 0

TRUMP JUDICIAL NOMINEE UNABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS PULLS OUT


Matthew Petersen, a nominee to the federal judiciary, has withdrawn from consideration days after a video clip showed him unable to answer basic questions... READ MORE

18th December, 2017 29

THIS IS THE SADDEST STATE CAPITAL CHRISTMAS TREE


-- The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island Statehouse is dead... READ MORE

16th December, 2017 4837

WORST INTERVIEW EVER? DONALD TRUMP JUDGE NOMINEE STRUGGLES TO DEFINE LEGAL TERMS AT SENATEA COMMITTEE HEARING


A lawyer nominated by President Donald Trump to be a federal judge has become an internet sensation after having difficulty answering basic legal questions... READ MORE

16th December, 2017 266

LAWYER WHO STRUGGLED AT HEARING TO BECOME JUDGE GOES VIRAL


As of Friday morning, a video of Matthew Spencer Petersen struggling with questions from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, had been viewed more than 3 million times... READ MORE

15th December, 2017 78

DEMOCRATS SLAM TRUMP'S 'INCONTINENT' TWEETS TARGETING SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND AS SEXIST AND CRUDE


Plowing into the sexual harassment debate in a big way, President Donald Trump laced into Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday, tweeting that the New York De... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 0

AS MUELLER CLOSED IN, PRESSURE MOUNTED ON FLYNN AND FAMILY


Rocky Kempenaar, a childhood friend who said he saw Flynn in November, said he warned him months earlier to be careful about Trump... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 0

DEMS SAY TRUMP'S TWEETS ABOUT GILLIBRAND SEXIST, CRUDE


Before launching his presidential campaign, Trump frequently bestowed donations on politicians of both parties... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 0

CALIFORNIA'S THOMAS FIRE GROWS TO FIFTH LARGEST IN HISTORY AS STARS EVACUATE


The wind-swept blazes have forced tens of thousands of evacuations and destroyed dozens of homes in Southern California... READ MORE

12th December, 2017 314

VIETNAM WAR VET GETS MEDALS FOR ARMY SERVICE 40 YEARS LATER


AP -- A Vietnam War veteran has received medals in Rhode Island more than 40 years after his service... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 125

Trending News Headlines : Rhode Island

MOST TRUMP REAL ESTATE NOW SOLD TO ANONYMOUS BUYERS


The investigation found Trump's companies owned more than 430 individual properties worth well over 250 million... READ MORE

14th June, 2017 37555

CANADAS TRUMP STRATEGY: GO AROUND HIM


Hints of this network emerged when Mr. Trump announced that the United States would leave the Paris climate agreement... READ MORE

22nd June, 2017 21397

ATTORNEYS GENERAL FROM 15 STATES, D.C. SUE TO SAVE DACA


The lawsuit alleges that one expert estimated that the rescinding the DACA program would cost New York state 38.6 billion dollars over the next 10 years... READ MORE

6th September, 2017 17734

HURRICANE MARIA GROWS TO CATEGORY-3 MAJOR HURRICANE, 'PROMISES TO BE CATASTROPHIC'


Hurricane warnings are in effect for both the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands, along with Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia... READ MORE

18th September, 2017 15692

LIQUID GENOCIDE: ALCOHOL DESTROYED PINE RIDGE RESERVATION THEN THEY FOUGHT BACK


But just as Whiteclay's closure has brought hope and opportunity to people here, so has it intensified other problems. Bootlegging has surged... READ MORE

29th September, 2017 11559

THESE ARE THE STATES WHERE YOU PAY THE MOST AND LEAST IN TAXES


The personal-finance website compared the 50 states by property taxes, individual income taxes and sales and excise taxes for its 2017 Tax Burden by State report... READ MORE

6th April, 2017 10727

EMERGENCY DECLARED AT HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION IN WASHINGTON STATE


An emergency has been declared at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southcentral Washington state after a portion of a tunnel containing nuclear waste was damaged... READ MORE

9th May, 2017 9488

HERE'S THE CHAIN REACTION TRUMP COULD SET OFF IF HE TRIED TO FIRE MUELLER


Dana Boente, the acting assistant attorney general for national security, would be next in line if Trump also removed Brand... READ MORE

21st July, 2017 7559

LGBT TEACHER USES HAND FAN IN PHOTO WITH TRUMP, WHO LOVES IT


Nikos Giannopoulos' memorable photo with President Trump and the first lady struck Internet gold... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 7343

DEMOCRATS IN U.S. SENATE TRY TO SLOW REPUBLICAN DEREGULATION


Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline and Michigan Representative John Conyers, both Democrats, introduced a companion bill in the House on Tuesday... READ MORE

16th May, 2017 6097

DO YOU NEED TO BE KOREAN TO BE K-POP?


The first K-pop group to be made up entirely of non-Koreans... READ MORE

14th June, 2017 5476

'QUEER LIVES MATTER': GAY TEACHER'S MESSAGE TO TRUMP AS PHOTO GOES VIRAL


However, in a post to his page on 29 April, three days after the White House visit, Giannopoulos went into more detail about his day... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 5423

THE LURE OF A BETTER LIFE AMID COLD AND DARKNESS


Russians are famed for swimming in any weather, even in Norilsk, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle... READ MORE

4th December, 2017 3718

CVS HEALTH IS SUED OVER 'CLAWBACKS' OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG CO-PAYS


And CVS Caremark, according to the suit filed Monday in federal court in Rhode Island... READ MORE

11th August, 2017 3501

TRUMP ASKS PUTIN ABOUT MEDDLING IN US ELECTION


Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, the only other official in the meeting, said Mr. Trump had accepted Mr. Putin's denial... READ MORE

8th July, 2017 3499

AMAZON IS ON THE HUNT FOR SECOND NORTH AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS


Amazon said it will let staff from Seattle move to the new campus... READ MORE

7th September, 2017 3196

MORE STATES JOIN U.S. CLIMATE ALLIANCE


Nine more states -- Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia -- joined the coalition this week... READ MORE

8th June, 2017 3159

PROBE OF TRUMP ADVISER CARL ICAHN'S BIOFUEL BUSINESS SOUGHT BY SENATE DEMS


IcahnA recommended personnel and policies that did, in fact, cause the price of these credits to drop, the letter said... READ MORE

9th May, 2017 3116

PROBE OF TRUMP ADVISER CARL ICAHN'S BIOFUEL BUSINESS SOUGHT BY SENATE DEMS


IcahnA recommended personnel and policies that did, in fact, cause the price of these credits to drop, the letter said... READ MORE

10th May, 2017 3116

PROBE OF TRUMP ADVISER CARL ICAHN'S BIOFUEL BUSINESS SOUGHT BY SENATE DEMS


IcahnA recommended personnel and policies that did, in fact, cause the price of these credits to drop, the letter said... READ MORE

10th May, 2017 3116

EPA KEPT SCIENTISTS FROM SPEAKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AT RHODE ISLAND EVENT


EPA supports the Narragansett Bay Estuary and just this month provided the program a 600,000 grant, EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said in a statement on Monday... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 3053

NORTH AMERICAN LAKES GETTING SALTIER BECAUSE OF WINTER DE-ICING


The study predicted that if the results were extrapolated to all the water bodies in the North American lakes region, about 7,770 would be at serious risk... READ MORE

11th April, 2017 2929

THE CRACK REDRAWING THE WORLD MAP


That's the extent of a rapidly expanding crack in an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica... READ MORE

5th May, 2017 2925

U.S. LAWMAKER CALLS FOR HEARING ON AMAZON'S WHOLE FOODS DEAL


Amazon's proposed purchase of Whole Foods could impact neighborhood grocery stores and hardworking consumers across America, the Rhode Island Democrat said in a statement... READ MORE

16th July, 2017 2743

PASSAGE HOME AND PERHAPS A 3RD LIFE FOR THE ROSA PARKS HOUSE IN BERLIN


Passage Home and Perhaps a 3rd Life for the Rosa Parks House in Berlin... READ MORE

2nd September, 2017 2474

REWILDING MOZAMBIQUE - FUNDED IN PART BY TROPHY HUNTING


Still, one country that seems to have found a positive way to link conservation with trophy hunting is Namibia... READ MORE

19th June, 2017 2115

BATTERED FLORIDA COULD DODGE WORST OF HURRICANE MARIA


A similar path for Maria would be joyous news for Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, states still in recovery mode after being battered by Hurricane Irma... READ MORE

19th September, 2017 1964

RHODE ISLAND'S 2017 TEACHER OF THE YEAR'S PHOTO WITH DONALD TRUMP GOES VIRALA


Nikos Giannopoulos, who teaches at the Beacon charter high school for the arts, was invited to the White House in celebration of his accolade... READ MORE

18th June, 2017 1690

'DONALD TRUMP IS CRAZY. I'M WORRIED'


Apparently speaking to Senator Jack Reed, Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat of the committee, Collins discussed the federal budget... READ MORE

26th July, 2017 1683

FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE COURTHOUSE


In 2012, Flynn was tapped to head the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA ... READ MORE

2nd December, 2017 1528


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