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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.

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.

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 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.

First responders from across Rhode Island and Massachusetts came together Monday evening to surprise a toddler battling cancer.

The city of Warwick, Rhode Island, rallied behind the owner of Don’s Pizza after a battle with stage 4 cancer forced him to close.

A ten-year-old and his mother’s friend made things a little easier for hospital workers in Westerly, Rhode Island, following a snowstorm on Monday.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo’s (D) installation as President Joe Biden’s commerce secretary will be a downgrade for the U.S. economy but an upgrade for Rhode Island.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) broke her own virus recommendations by dining at paint and wine bar after urging residents to stay home.

Gov. Gina Raimondo (D-RI) is facing a backlash for a photo showing her at a wine and paint night after urging residents to avoid nonessential activities.

The Democrat stronghold in New England weakened after a few lower-ticket 2020 election surprises, including an entire state’s legislature flipping to red and two House speakers being ousted by Republicans.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday left in place an agreement that allows Rhode Island residents to vote by mail through November’s general election without getting signatures from two witnesses or a notary.

Rhode Island state officials said a technical glitch was to blame for 176 tax refund checks being mailed out bearing the signatures of Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney.

Thursday, in an interview with WPRI, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) said that both President Donald Trump’s tweet floating delaying the 2020 election and his sending federal offices to quell protests in Portland has led her to the conclusion that the president is “insane.”

Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order to pursue a “reparations process” for African-Africans and indigenous people. 

Rhode Island is dropping the latter part of its official name on state documents, per an executive order signed by Gov. Gina Raimondo (D).

An illegal alien has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after leading a drug trafficking operation in Rhode Island that trafficked fentanyl and cocaine. 

A Rhode Island middle school social studies teacher was arrested on Saturday morning in connection to the vandalism of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island.

About 100,000 mail-in ballots applications were returned as “undeliverable” in Rhode Island’s recent primary election, according to state records.

A Rhode Island doughnut shop announced via social media that it would no longer offer police or military discounts because of recent accusations of racism and social injustice against a local police department.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said Monday he was pulling back hair salons and barbershops from reopening in the state on Wednesday, May 20, in order to align with Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D).

The Catholic bishop of Providence, RI, Thomas J. Tobin, has challenged the authority of the state to shut down the religious worship of its citizens.

Leaders of universities and colleges in Rhode Island argued this week that the Chinese virus pandemic affirms the importance of the campus experience. Many leaders said that they are eager to reopen their campuses for students and faculty for the upcoming fall semester.