Category Archives: Politics

Listen to “Ask the Speaker 5-8-19” on Spreaker. Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (D-Cranston) joined WPRO’s Gene Valicenti for the May edition of “Ask the Speaker....

AP pool photo By ANDREW TAYLOR and JONATHAN LEMIRE, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won't be turning President Donald ...

WPRO News Providence City Councilman and former City Council President David Salvatore released a scathing press release on Monday afternoon criticizing local website GoLocalProv for making ‘vic...

Listen to “Democrats set contempt vote for Barr over Mueller report” on Spreaker. By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO, The Associated Press with WPRO News WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judic...

Full credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images via CNN   Listen to “Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrives at prison” on Spreaker. NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, me...

Senator Valarie Lawson (D-East Providence) The Rhode Island GOP has filed a complaint with the Board of Ethics against Senator Valarie Lawson (D-East Providence), who is also Vice-President of the Nat...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - While Rhode Island's lieutenant governor is under investigation by the state Ethics Commission for failing to disclose a trip he took to Taiwan last year, the practice of polit...

By ERIC TALMADGE, The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) - North Korea appears to have tested a new short-range missile - and President Donald Trump's resolve to keep it from doing more of the same in the fu...

Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned Thursday amid an ongoing scandal over a no-bid book deal steered to the University of Maryland Medical Center, according to a statement. By Kate Sull...

By Karl de Vries and Caroline Kelly, CNN   (CNN) — The 2020 Democratic field is taking shape, with candidates revealing their intentions on a seemingly everyday basis. Here’s a look a...