This Rhode Island lawmaker was the sole US federal representative at major climate summit

The Trump administration declined to send an official US delegation to the UN's major climate conference for the first time ...

As government shutdown deal moves forward, where do RI's Senators stand?

A 60-40 vote taken in the Senate on Sunday, Nov. 10, advanced a plan that would reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, ...
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Rhode Island’s US Senators Defend Vote To Ban Hemp Despite Concerns It Will Kill A Growing State Industry

At the urging of the vast majority of the state attorneys general, they voted to table an amendment to strip this provision.” ...

An unadvertised perk of winning a seat in RI legislature: Good eats

Capital Grille, Hemenway's, Costantino's Venda, Camille's, Los Andes and Twin Oaks are some of the restaurants that pop up on ...

Sen. Whitehouse was the only US lawmaker to attend UN climate summit

BELEM, Brazil (WPRI) — Nearly 200 nations gathered in Brazil to discuss the health of the planet, but the only federal representative from the United States who attended the United Nations Climate ...
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Donnis: Will the Rhode Island Senate remain divided?

In November 2024, Senate President Dominick Ruggerio maintained a strong hold on power, but concerns about his declining ...

How a RI judge intervened after a teen intern was wrongfully detained by ICE

Judge McBurney took the intern into his car while asserting to ICE that they had the wrong person, a Judiciary spokesperson ...