By Kimberly Rau The Gamm Theater concluded its 2024-2025 season with a special production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches,” a stunning, raw perspective of the AIDS epidemic that swept through America in the 1980s and early 90s. Kushner wrote “Angels in America” in two parts, “Millennium Approaches,” playing now, and “Perestroika,” which…… MORE
LISTEN: State leaders react to the passing of Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio.… MORE
Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.… MORE
The Associated Press A federal judge on Friday heard arguments on a request to further block President Donald Trump ’s administration from freezing trillions of dollars of grants and loans that fund everything from clean energy programs to bridge repairs to emergency shelters. U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, who already approved a temporary restraining order…… MORE
CVS Health steered through rising costs in its insurance division to handily beat profit expectations on Wall Street.… MORE
Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.… MORE
President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address sounded a lot like his first, with a sweeping indictment of the country he inherits and grand promises to fix its problems.… MORE
President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.… MORE
Hundreds of people were evacuated from stores in Seekonk and traffic halted for a brief time on I-195 in Seekonk after construction crews hit a six inch gas line at a construction site off Fall River Avenue.… MORE
Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday.… MORE
