Officials in Providence are looking beyond the Rhode Island capital’s leading role in slavery.
Deb Hardy
Staff Writer
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Sydney man admits pushing gay American off a cliff in 1988
Scott White appears in Australian court Monday for a sentencing hearing after he pleaded guilty in January to the murder.
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Herschel Walker, other candidates test skipping debates
Football great Herschel Walker has gone to great lengths to dodge tough questions during his run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
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Arrest warrant issued in Alabama for missing jail official
Authorities say she may have helped an ‘extremely dangerous’ murder suspect to escape.
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Fed to fight inflation with fastest rate hikes in decades
Making it costlier to borrow — for a car, a home, a business deal, a credit card purchase — will compound Americans’ financial strains and likely weaken the economy.
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Ex-ABC anchor Gibson prodded out of retirement for podcast
Charles Gibson had essentially disappeared from public view since his 2009 retirement.
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New Zealand welcomes back tourists as pandemic rules eased
Travelers from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries were let in Monday for the first time in more than two years.
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U.S. Department of Justice files challenge to Alabama transgender law
The law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to affirm their gender identity.
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Former Idaho lawmaker found guilty of raping intern
Friday’s verdict followed a dramatic trial in which the young woman fled the witness stand during testimony, saying ‘I can’t do this.’
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UN works to broker civilian evacuation from Mariupol
The mayor of Mariupol said the situation inside the steel plant that has become the city’s last stronghold is dire, and citizens are ‘begging to get saved.’