PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 5 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * 'Bridge' of stray stars reveals active merger of two galaxy clusters * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Using one of the most detailed sets of observations ever of a galaxy cluster 700 million light-years from Earth, astronomers have captured the faint glow of stray stars in the process of being ripped from their home galaxy and absorbed into another. The 'bridge' of diffuse light -- spanning roughly   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Amo Applauds Edesia's Progress in Bringing Back RI Jobs and Ramping Up Food Aid Production * Providence, RI - TODAY, House Foreign Affairs Vice Ranking Member Gabe Amo (D-RI) released the following statement on Edesia Nutrition's announcement about the State Department's resumption of funding for the production and delivery of ready-to-use-therapeutic food (RUTF) aid: "Rhode Islanders know that sa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Amo Joins Local Importer Hurt by Trump's Tariff Chaos and Looming SNAP Impacts on School Meals * WOONSOCKET, RI - TODAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) joined Ace Endico New England, a local food importer and supplier of school lunch programs, to highlight how President Donald Trump's tariff chaos and the Big, Ugly Law are impacting Rhode Islanders. "Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs are making it   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Amo Tours Rhode Island Veterans Home Amidst Trump's Attacks on Those Who've Served * BRISTOL, RI - YESTERDAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) visited the Rhode Island Veterans Home, which provides quality social, medical, rehabilitative, and residential care to Rhode Island war Veterans. President Donald Trump's staff cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) along with cuts to Medicaid, Supplemen  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * AMO WIN: NWS Staffing Partially Restored in First Step to Ensure Extreme Weather Safety * PROVIDENCE, RI - TODAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) issued the following statement on the National Weather Service (NWS) receiving permission to hire 450 staff after President Donald Trump and the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" unilaterally and unnecessarily cut roughly 15% of the NWS workforce  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2025: * * * Amo, Ross Lead 88 Democrats in Opposing Trump's Cuts to EPA Office Keeping Americans' Air Clean and Water Safe * Today, House Science, Space, and Technology Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC) led 88 of their colleagues in demanding answers as to why President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrato  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The Attorneys General of Washington, California, New York, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, D.C., and Harris County, Texas, have submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, expressing their staunch opposition to the agency's recent Interim Final Rules, which rescind vital regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Aug. 6, 2025, entitled "Business Employment Dynamics in Rhode Island - Fourth Quarter 2024": * * * From September 2024 to December 2024, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Rhode Island were 31,503, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 27,276, the U.S. Bureau o  more

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, Aug. 8 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * Bryant secures National Science Foundation grant to conduct student-led climate resilience research in Tanzania, Germany By Emma Bartlett Bryant's Robert Patalano '08, Ph.D., recently received a four-year grant through the National Science Foundation's International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program to support student research in Tanzania and Germany. Starting in the summer of 2026, three un  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Congress Passes Reed's Bill to Curb Abusive Mortgage "Trigger Leads" & Stop Unwanted Spam * WASHINGTON, DC - After a late Saturday night legislative session, U.S. Senator Jack Reed's (D-RI) Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act is finally headed to the president's desk. The bipartisan bill, co-authored by Bill Hagerty (R-TN), targets abusive " trigger leads " -- a term for when credit reporting agenc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration's Unlawful Restrictions on Violence Against Women Act Grants * Rhode Island -- A federal court today issued a preliminary order blocking the Trump-Vance administration from enforcing many of the new unlawful r  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Administrator Zeldin Completes Region One Swing, Visiting All Six New England States * WASHINGTON - On Monday, August 4, 2025, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin completed his travel to EPA's Region One where he visited Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine on the heels of his first stops in Massachusetts, to meet with regional staff a  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 7 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Even a few mutated cells can significantly impact how blood cancers develop, study finds * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A team of researchers led by a Brown University cancer biologist found that when they introduced mutated blood cancer cells into mice and tracked them over time, the cancer cells affected not only non-mutated cells, but also the entire blood-forming system. In a federally funde  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 6 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Frances Moriniere: Rising early to advance sleep research in dream job * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Frances Moriniere has always been a morning person, so the early-bird shift has been a perfect fit for the rising Brown University junior during her sleep research lab summer internship. Guided by the oversight of renowned sleep researcher Mary Carskadon, a Brown professor of psychiatry and huma  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Servives Administration for Children and Families Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation issued a document titled 'State-Research Partnerships to Address Policy Questions about Child Care and Early Education: Voices from the Field.' The document, OPRE Report #2025-051, was authored by Kelly Maxwell, Lisa Brewer-Walraven, Nicole Chiello, Colleen Graber, and Heidi Rosenberg. This highlight is based on a panel discussion f  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2025: * * * In Houston, Senator Whitehouse Warns of Nationwide Economic Risks from Extreme Weather-Driven Insurance Crisis Houston is on the front lines of a nationwide insurance affordability and availability crisis that threatens to devastate property markets and crash the entire U.S. economy * Houston, T.X.--Today  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 6 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Initiative at Brown's Annenberg Institute aims to advance research on schools and climate change * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- To inform national education policy and practice, a new initiative at Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform is aiming to advance research on issues at the intersection of education systems and the changing climate, including school disruptions caused by  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Leapfest Tests Skills of U.S., International Paratroopers * U.S. Army and international paratroopers jumped against each other during Leapfest, Aug. 2, 2025. Hosted by the 56th Troop Command of the Rhode Island Army National Guard, the event is the largest and oldest global static line parachute training event and competition. The competing paratroopers jumped from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter and used MC-6  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 4 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * National Science Foundation renews Brown's national mathematics institute with $16.5 million * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A new $16.5 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will enable Brown University's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) to continue its mission of supporting groundbreaking research at the intersection of computati  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * New Whitehouse Letter to Chief Justice Roberts Raises Alarm on Justice Department Ethics Stunt * Justice Department broke Judicial Conference norms by weaponizing private comments to cook up phony ethics filing against federal judge who is investigating DOJ for contempt Washington, D.C. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter last week to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 5 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2025: * * * NSF Invests $74 Million in 6 Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will invest more than $74 million in six U.S. mathematical research institutes. The NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes focus on the mathematical sciences and their broad applications in all fields of science, technology, and m  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 6 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Photos: Students master their mediums in summer art courses at Brown * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- As thousands of Brown students scattered for the summer to places far and wide, some who remained on the quieter campus enrolled in Summer Session courses, including classes offered through the University's Department of Visual Art. Dozens of students immersed themselves in intensive seven-week un  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Whitehouse Join Hirono in Introducing Bill to Give Workers Time Off to Vote * WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, on the 60 th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and 15 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Time Off to Vote Act, legislation that would require employers--upon the request of   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Whitehouse Join Hirono in Introducing Bill to Give Workers Time Off to Vote * WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, on the 60 th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and 15 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Time Off to Vote Act, legislation that would require employers--upon the re  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Blasts RFK Jr. for Cancelling Vaccine Development * WASHINGTON, DC - This week, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an anti-vaccine crusader, cancelled almost $500 million in federal contracts to develop mRNA vaccines to protect the U.S. against future viral threats. U.S. Senator Jack Reed noted that this baseless move by Secretary Kennedy will weaken Am  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Demands Answers on Special Treatment of Convicted Sex Offender Ghislaine Maxwell * WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is demanding a formal explanation from the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas last week. Ms. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year pris  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Seeks Investigation into Firing of BLS Director U.S. Senator Jack Reed is calling for a special investigation into President Trump's abrupt firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) following a jobs report that shows the economic damage sparked by Trump's tariffs and failing fiscal policy. Reed, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and H  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Slams Trump's Reckless Threat to Drastically Raise Rx Drug Prices on U.S. Consumers * WASHINGTON, DC -- During a CNBC interview yesterday, President Trump announced his intent to impose a 250 percent tariff on pharmaceuticals. If implemented, this action would cost Americans billions of dollars, disrupt the drug supply chain, and put patients' access to life-saving drugs at risk. President T  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Statement on "Unusual" Prisoner Transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell * WASHINGTON, DC - After Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas this week, shortly after meeting with President Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, U  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Schumer, Whitehouse Lead Senate Opposition to EPA's Dangerous Rollback of Power Plant Pollution Standards Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), led 30 of their Senate colleagues in urging Environmental Protect  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 [Category: Political] -- Democracy Forward, an organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following news release: * * * Trump-Vance Administration Releases $6 Billion in Funds for Public Schools After Legal Challenge Forces Action * Rhode Island -- Just days after a coalition of school districts, educators, and families filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance adm  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2025: * * * Whitehouse Slams Trump Plan to Terminate Solar for All Program, Warns of Economic and Climate Harms Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after public reporting revealed the Trump Administration's plan   more