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UNH Poll: Few R.I. residents plan to spend more than last...
PROVIDENCE – Few Rhode Islanders are planning to spend more on holiday gifts in 2024 than they did last year, according to a poll...
Stocks and bitcoin jump after Trump’s victory. So do worries about...
NEW YORK (AP) – The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk's Tesla, banks and bitcoin are all storming higher Wednesday as investors bet on what...
Sheldon Whitehouse wins a fourth term in the U.S. Senate; Amo...
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse won reelection to a fourth term to the U.S. Senate and Democrats held on to both U.S. House seats in Rhode...
Poll: Support for rejection of R.I. constitutional convention grows
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island voters are likely to reject a constitutional convention, according to a new University of New Hampshire poll released Monday.
The Ocean...
Steward Health Care announces closure of 2 Mass. hospitals
BOSTON (AP) – Steward Health Care announced Friday that it is closing two hospitals in Massachusetts because it received no qualified bids for the...
Calamari chef from Democrats’ 2020 convention says he’s a Trump backer
WASHINGTON (AP) – The "calamari comeback" chef who delighted viewers of the last Democratic National Convention might not be coming back.
John Bordieri was dubbed...
Orsted wants out of $300M forfeiture for scrapped New Jersey offshore...
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) – Offshore wind power company Orsted A/S is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it agreed to...
McKee fires staffer for anti-Israeli statements
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee fired one of his Statehouse staffers after it was discovered the employee posted pro-Palestinian political opinions online, WPRI-TV...
First CD1 poll shows independent voters have power to influence election
Democrat Gabe Amo appears to have an 11-percentage-point lead over Republican Gerry Leonard Jr. in the 1st Congressional District race, but undecided, independent voters...
McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a...
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust...