By Janine L. Weisman | Editor-in-Chief
Good Friday morning!
The Providence forecast calls for a party sunny day today with a chance of rain, mainly after noon with a high near 71. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
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High tide in Warwick is at 8:30 a.m. and 8:54 p.m. Low tide is at 1:48 a.m. Sunrise is at 6:01 a.m. Sunset is at 7:28 p.m.
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U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse join state and local officials to cut the ribbon on South Kingstown’s new South Shore Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Perryville station on Ministerial Road at 11:30 a.m.
Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks at 2 p.m. at the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Department of Rhode Island’s 91st annual convention at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick.
The Cannabis Control Commission meets at 2 p.m. for its first public session since appealing a recent court ruling that temporarily paused the process of reviewing and awarding retail cannabis licenses.
Stacks of tax return documents received by a state worker. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
On the day state and federal income taxes were due, the Rhode Island called on Gov. Dan McKee’s administration to reimburse public workers forced to refile because of recent W-2 errors.
A digitally colorized scanning electron microscope image shows HIV-1 particles on the surface of a human lymphocyte. (Photo by C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus/U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
By Alexander Castro
During National STI Awareness Week, the Rhode Island Department of Health has some good news to share: An assortment of sexually transmitted infections seem to be entering a period of decline after years of upward movement.
The Rhode Island Department of Health headquarters in Providence. The agency is set to receive more than $2 million across seven federal grants in a Thursday announcement from Rhode Island’s congressional delegation. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
By Alexander Castro
Rhode Island’s hospitals, universities, state agencies and community health providers are set to receive a sizable gift from the feds: more than $18 million in health and medical research funding, Rhode Island’s Congressional delegates announced Thursday.
Bonneville County residents cast their votes during the May 21, 2024, primary election at The Waterfront Event Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (Photo by Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun)
By Jonathan Shorman | D.C. Bureau
As the midterms approach, Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to expose noncitizen voters and compile lists of voting-age Americans. It’s the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE program, an online tool that can verify U.S. citizenship by checking names against a host of government databases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo courtesy of CDC)
By Ashley Murray
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will nominate Erica Schwartz, who served in the president’s first administration, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a seat left vacant for months after his last director said she was ousted in a rift over childhood vaccines.
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