Tag: Joe Biden
Reed secures $500K for community nonprofit arts group AS220
PROVIDENCE – Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., helped secure a $500,000 earmark for AS220’s Creative Workforce Development program, the senator announced Wednesday ahead of his...
Raimondo says R.I. gubernatorial experience helps her as U.S. commerce secretary
PROVIDENCE – Gina M. Raimondo is no stranger to making big decisions.
But the leap from Rhode Island governor to heading federal economic strategy as...
Morgenthau latest R.I. Democrat to run for U.S. Congress
PROVIDENCE – A former member of then Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s Homeland Security Advisory Board and current deputy assistant secretary for travel and tourism...
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
ATLANTA – Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting "the sacred right to...
Faces change, differences remain
GOVERNMENT
Talk about a sudden turn.
For six years, the General Assembly – or at least one chamber of it – was controlled by House Speaker...
U.S. to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy...
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation's strategic reserve to help bring down...
Biden to keep Powell as Fed chair, Brainard gets vice chair
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden announced Monday that he's nominating Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, endorsing Powell's...
Roads, transit, internet: What’s in the infrastructure bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden plans to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit,...
Biden to continue FEMA virus aid for states until April 1,...
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is extending the federal government's 100% reimbursement of COVID-19 emergency response costs to states, tribes and territories through...
11 states file suit against Biden’s business vaccine mandate
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Attorneys general in 11 states filed suit Friday against President Joe Biden’s administration, challenging a new vaccine requirement for...
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