21 h. ago Pope Leo declares his first miracle after divine intervention in Rhode Island

Pope Leo XIV has declared his first official miracle, crediting a divine intervention that happened on American soil.

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5 d. ago What to know about the Grand Canyon as wildfires burn, claiming a historic lodge

Millions of people visit the Grand Canyon each year

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9 d. ago Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator

Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floorThe Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”, the US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. “It is defending a $700-plus billion [annual] subsidy” of not being charged for the health and environmental damages caused by burning fossil fuels. “I think the more people understand that, the more they’ll be irate [that] they’ve been lied to.” But, he added, “Democrats have not done a good job of calling that out.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rhode Island man faces charges after threatening to kill Trump, Bondi and Stephen Miller on Truth Social

Law enforcement discovered the man ‘hiding in the bathtub’

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1 week ago WWE superstars Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch's home damaged in horror £9k burglary

Police have claimed that it happened at around 2.30am, and just hours before the pair were on live television as part of WWE's Monday Night Raw show on Netflix in Providence, Rhode Island

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2 w. ago Inside Taylor Swift's WILDEST 4th of July parties from drunken karaoke to THAT mortifying Tom Hiddleston shirt

Perched above the windswept Rhode Island coast, Taylor Swift's $17 million Watch Hill mansion played host to the most iconic Fourth of July weekends of the summer.

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2 w. ago How Rhode Island finally pushed a partial assault weapons ban over the finish line

It took 10 years, but Rhode Island politicians finally found a way to ban the sale, manufacturing and distribution of certain assault weapons

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4 w. ago Rhode Island lawmakers pass bill to ban sales of assault weapons

Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled state House has advanced legislation that would ban sales of certain semiautomatic rifles

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4 w. ago Judge rules Trump administration can't require states to help on immigration to get transport money

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in transportation funds from states that don’t agree to participate in some immigration enforcement actions

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