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National Republicans targeted more than half a dozen races in New England as pickup opportunities this year, but they picked up none.

Republican Allan Fung has more than an eight-point lead over Democrat Seth Magaziner in the race for Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District, according to a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll.

Republican Allan Fung is leading his Democrat challenger, Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, by six points in the Ocean State’s battleground Second District, according to a poll released Thursday.

A member of House Democrat leadership contradicted attacks by the party’s campaign arm on Rhode Island Republican Allan Fung on Thursday, according to Punchbowl News.

A 77-year-old man tragically fell to his death in Milwaukee after the drawbridge he was walking over opened.

Republican candidates, bolstered by a bleak economy, have opportunities to flip seats in New England that could leave the region specked in a Rust Belt-looking red after the midterms.

A Providence, Rhode Island, strip club was recently robbed of a huge amount of cash, most of which was in one-dollar bills.

Rhode Island State Sen. Tiara Mack (D) has doubled down on her upside-down twerking video where she encourages constituents to vote for her.

Rhode Island State Sen. Tiara Mack, a Democrat representing District 6, opted to encourage Rhode Islanders to vote for her by posting a video of herself twerking upside down in a bikini, describing it as a “promised senator thirst trap.”

Analysts from two separate groups that predict the probable outcome in U.S. House of Representatives races moved Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District in favor of the Republican candidate.

Republican Allan Fung is leading all of his potential Democrat opponents in a congressional race in the deeply blue state of Rhode Island, according to a new poll.

Sixty-nine percent of Rhode Islanders say President Joe Biden should not run in 2024, a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found Monday.

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee (D) signed legislation this week banning ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds and giving current owners of said magazines six months to surrender them.

Commercial Fishermen are feeling the effects of President Joe Biden’s economy as the price of diesel, a fuel widely used by commercial fishermen, has skyrocketed in the New England region, according to a report. 

An entire family in Coventry, Rhode Island, was saved from extreme danger recently because their special companion knew exactly how to help.

An illegal alien MS-13 Gang member, wanted for burglary, was captured in Providence, Rhode Island after having escaped police custody. 

The Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, excluded white students from attending a guest speaker event, allowing only those who “identify as a student of color or multiracial” to attend.

Anthony Lombardi and Mario Comella were enjoying a bike ride in Coventry, Rhode Island, when they heard fire alarms going off.

Two longtime Democrats, Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) and Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), announced they would not seek reelection for another term in Congress, becoming the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth Democrats to leave the House, putting their party’s chances of keeping the majority in greater peril.

The state updated its guidance to allow COVID-positive employees to continue working if their facility is “facing a staffing crisis.”

President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s job approval numbers are barely above water in California and Rhode Island, two states that typically vote for Democrats in presidential elections, according to CIVIQS’s rolling job approval average.

President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s job approval numbers are underwater in 45 states and close to underwater in two overwhelmingly blue states, according to CIVIQS’s rolling job approval average.

Rhode Island is one of the latest states to reintroduce a mask mandate, which went into effect on Monday. 

Gladys Hankerson of Delray Beach, Florida, spent the past 20 years calling the wrong phone number, a tiny mistake that turned into something special.

A whistleblowing middle school teacher says she faces a “culture of intimidation” after being forbidden to teach — despite a shortage in teachers — due to her exposing her school district’s “radicalized” critical race theory (CRT) curriculum.

A Rhode Island teacher who exposed her school district’s “radicalized” CRT curriculum says she has been called to a “pre-disciplinary administrative hearing.”

A local NEA teachers’ union has filed a lawsuit against a school board and a parent to block the release of Critical Race Theory and gender theory records.

Democrat Strategist Blasted for Tweet About Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Coronavirus Diagnosis: ‘You Meant Your Words

A member of Black Lives Matter in Rhode Island said he is giving Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse until next Friday to resign from an “all-white” club.

A Rhode Island white middle school teacher described how her school district’s “radicalized curriculum,” steeped in Critical Race Theory, has “created racial tensions among students and staff where none existed before.”

Democratic members of the Texas state legislature have fled the state for the second time this year to deny Republicans a quorum to pass voting integrity legislation — flying maskless to Washington, DC, undermining a vote on the right to vote.

The University of Rhode Island (URI) has decided to keep two murals depicting the events of World War II. The school had initially planned to remove the murals last year, after students complained they lacked diversity. The university states that it will add “necessary context” to inform students that “the original intent of the murals to depict life on campus at the time they were created.”

A beach club that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is an alleged member of is defending itself after “inaccurate and false” reports surfaced that it is an “all-white” club with no racial diversity among its members.

“I am ashamed of Senator Whitehouse and his affiliation with this racist club. Him coming out and speaking about ending systemic racism while belonging to a ‘whites only’ private club is hypocrisy as it worst,” Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island Brother Gary Dantzler

At least two teachers in Rhode Island who support the teachings of critical race theory did not receive the outcome they expected after they offered bonus points to students who chose to offer testimonies on an anti-critical race theory state House bill.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, both of whom are vaccinated, gave each other a kiss through their face masks as he departed Joint Base Andrews to make a trip to Rhode Island.