Category Archives: Politics

MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - After campaigning on his power to halt efforts to grant Rhode Island driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally, the st...

WPRO News Representative Patricia Morgan (R-Coventry, Warwick, West Warwick), along with members of the House Minority Caucus, will introduce legislation during the 2017 session giving the legal right...

Electors cast their votes for Hillary Clinton at the Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s four members of the U.S. Electoral College...

WPRO News’ Anita Baffoni interviews Governor Gina Raimondo in her office at the Rhode Island State House. By Anita Baffoni WPRO News Rhode Island has a lot of momentum going into 2017 according ...

The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s members of the Electoral College are scheduled to meet at the State House to cast their vote...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - An elector from Rhode Island who once worked for the Obama administration’s National Security Council is taking a leadership role in calling on federal intelligence agenc...

The front door of Comet Ping Pong pizza shop, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. A fake news story prompted a man to fire a rifle inside a popular Washington, D.C., pizza place as he attempted to &#...

More than a century of Republican control in Scituate ended on Election Day, as a team of independent candidates took four of the five top spots in this year's town council race. They did it combining...

Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)   ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - It’s more than a month before Donald Trump even enters the White House, but Joe Biden says h...

(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)   JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The government should cancel its multibillion-dollar order for new Air Force One presidential planes, Donald Trump decla...