Category Archives: Politics
Joe Biden teases possible 2020 run: Save your energy, ‘I may need it in a few weeks’
Former Vice President Joe Biden teased a possible 2020 run after taking the stage at a firefighters conference to chants of “Run Joe run!” Photo via CNN. By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) —...
Mar 12, 2019
Manafort gets 47 months, judge cites mostly ‘blameless’ life
This courtroom sketch depicts former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, center in a wheelchair, during his sentencing hearing in federal court before judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va., Thurs...
Mar 08, 2019
House approves abortion rights bill
Representative Anastasia Williams and other bill sponsors speak to reporters after passage. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By Tessa Roy, WPRO News After roughly four hours of debate, the Rhode Island ...
Mar 08, 2019
Lawmakers adjust proposed RI Senate rule changes
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio. photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island state Senate leaders have adjusted proposed rule changes that some lawmakers complained would ...
Mar 07, 2019
Manafort scheduled to learn sentence for tax and bank fraud
Alexandria VA Detention Center By MATTHEW BARAKAT ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - When former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced for tax and bank fraud , U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III will...
Mar 07, 2019
GOP senator reveals she was sexually assaulted when she served in the military
Video via CNN By Elizabeth Landers and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Freshman Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona revealed Wednesday that she was raped while she served in the military. McSally, who is ...
Mar 06, 2019
This Week at the State House
photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons By WPRO News and the Associated Press Attorney General proposes narcotics cases changes Attorney General Peter Neronha is proposing that possession of sma...
Mar 01, 2019
Senate committee votes in support of DCYF director
Dr. Trista Piccola, director of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee has voted unanimously in support of reapp...
Mar 01, 2019
Lawmaker introduces 3 gun control bills
The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Bills that would enact stronger gun control laws in Rhode Island have been introduced in the General Assemb...
Mar 01, 2019
MTM fined $1 million, contract renegotiated
MTM President and CEO Alaina Macia answers questions from the House Oversight Committee. Photo by Tessa Roy, WPRO News. By Tessa Roy, WPRO News After over 1,300 complaints of elderly and disabled pati...
Feb 28, 2019
