The United States was in mourning Wednesday in the aftermath of the country’s latest mass killing, a teenage gunman’s assault on an elementary school in the southwestern state of Texas that left at least 19 children and two adults dead. It was one of the deadliest rampages at a school in the country’s history. The […]Read More
Cicilline, Espaillat, Fitzpatrick, Harris, Kaptur, Quigley Introduce Bipartisan Ukrainian Protection
Legislation would grant Ukrainians currently in the US Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Prevent Deportation WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives David N. Cicilline (RI-01), Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Andy Harris, M.D. (MD-01), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Mike Quigley (IL-05) introduced H.R. 6892, the Ukrainian Protection Act of 2022, legislation to grant Ukrainians currently in […]Read More
Cicilline Urges Colleagues to Show Solidarity with the Ukrainian People,
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today spoke on the House floor before voting to pass H.Res 956, Supporting the People of Ukraine, a bipartisan resolution supporting the people of Ukraine as they fight Vladimir Putin’s illegal, unwarranted invasion. Thank you, and thank you Chairman Meeks for […]Read More
VOA News WASHINGTON –U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to have a telephone conversation Saturday as tensions continue to grow amid concerns that Russia is ready to mount an invasion of Ukraine. Washington has received intelligence reports that the invasion could happen as early as Wednesday. The U.S. Embassy in […]Read More
VOA News – Jamie Dettmer Britain joined the United States on Friday in urging foreign nationals to evacuate Ukraine while there are still commercial means to do so. The British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated its advice shortly after the country’s defense minister, Ben Wallace, flew out of Moscow after talks with senior Kremlin […]Read More
Human Rights, Economic Ties Drive Decisions to Boycott – or
VOA – Ralph Jennings SAN FRANCISCO — As much as China and the International Olympic Committee have pushed for the Olympic Games to be a neutral event, political controversy and boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics started months before Friday’s opening ceremonies. But not everyone’s enmeshed in politics. Boycott supporters, including human rights groups, […]Read More
China’s Pandemic Olympics Begins, With Lockdown and Boycotts
VOA News The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago launched a locked-down Winter Olympics on Friday, proudly projecting its might on the most global of stages even as some Western governments mounted a diplomatic boycott over the way China treats millions of its own people. The opening ceremony began just after the […]Read More
QUIT — A flood in Ecuador left at least 18 dead, including some swept away by the current when a group of people was on a sports field in an upper area of the capital, the Risk Management Secretariat reported Tuesday. In a Twitter message, the agency reported that there were “14 people dead, three houses […]Read More
Cicilline Meets with Rhode Island’s Michael Druckman and David Gehrenbeck
While in Kyiv, Ukraine on a congressional trip with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) met with Barrington native Michael Druckman, who currently serves as the Resident Program Director for Ukraine at the International Republican Institute (IRI), and Providence native and Classical High School graduate David Gehrenbeck, Counselor for Political Affairs […]Read More
US Senate Contemplates ‘Mother of All Sanctions’ if Russia Invades
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate has come together to produce what the chairman of the body’s Foreign Relations Committee has dubbed “the mother of all sanctions” to be levied against Russia in the event of a new invasion of Ukraine. According to committee chairman Robert Menendez, senators are on the cusp of […]Read More
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