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Ruggerio was the longest-serving lawmaker in Rhode Island
The nonpartisan demonstration focused on calling out billionaires. Organizers said their aims were to put power back in the hands of people
The Providence mayor is proposing to increase property taxes and other city revenue in order to fill the budget gap left by a settlement with the state over the city’s school department
A power struggle in the city’s troubled police department has blocked an interim chief from serving permanently, and cost her predecessor a job
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At a senior center in Providence, Sen. Jack Reed and Rep. Seth Magaziner blast Trump-era cuts to Social Security staffing and services, urging Americans to “take them at their word” and push back before it’s too late
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For 57 years as a player, coach and administrator, he made an enormous impact on Brown and college rugby
A ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals this week cleared the way for President Trump to re-fire federal employees who had been reinstated to their jobs last month by a lower court
The hospital filed a lawsuit in March
The investigation previously covered activities at the Warren Alpert Medical School and is now expanded to the entire university from the period of Oct. 7, 2023 to the present
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The news comes a few days after the Rhode Island School of Design announced the State Department had revoked one of its international student’s visas