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Crowds turned out at the Statehouse Monday night to protest the deportation of a Rhode Island Kidney doctor detained at Logan Airport last week.

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Immigration

Lawyers Challenge Customs Officials’ Constitutional Authority to Deport Brown Medicine Kidney Doctor

Updated complaint asks federal judge to reinstate work visa, allow for immigration court proceedings for Dr. Rasha Alawieh

May 7, 2025

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Nancy Lavin

Advocates from OurSchoolsPVD pose for a photo at the Rhode Island Statehouse.

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Education

Rhode Island Lawmakers Consider Making Ethnic Studies a High School Graduation Requirement

Supporters say the proposed course would empower students by centering underrepresented histories, despite political pushback from the Trump administration

May 7, 2025

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Luis Hernandez

The Johnson & Wales campus in Providence Credit: Michael Carnevale / RIPBS

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Education

Johnson & Wales Lays Off 91 as Declining Enrollment Forces Deep Cuts

Facing a $34 million budget deficit and a student body half the size it was in 2011, the Providence-based university says layoffs—mostly at its flagship campus—are needed to stabilize finances

May 7, 2025

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David Wright

A student takes a photo of insects and leaves in a Petri dish during a class biodiversity hunt.

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Climate & Environment

A Hunt for Urban Wildlife Around Boston and Cities Worldwide

May 6, 2025

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Vivan La

NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center has its directorate in Woods Hole.

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Climate & Environment

More Than a Quarter of Staff Gone at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center

At least 27 percent of staff who worked at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center when Trump took office are no longer with the agency. The Woods Hole lab is at the center of the regional fisheries operations

May 6, 2025

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Gilda Geist

A pair of boots shows a placard for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Potts of Tiverton during the ‘Boots on the Ground’ installation at Fort Adams State Park in Newport over Memorial Day Weekend in 2021. Potts was killed in action in Taji, Iraq, on Oct. 3, 2004. Over 7,000 pairs of boots are displayed each year, each representing a U.S. service member killed in action since the post-9/11 global war on terror.

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Community

Rhode Island General Assembly OKs Renaming Sakonnet River Bridge After Fallen Tiverton Veteran

May 6, 2025

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Alexander Castro

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ office says a meeting in Boston with Canadian leaders could happen in ‘the near future,’ according to a news release.

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News & Culture

Northeast Governors Invite Canadian Leaders to Summit on Cross-Border Relationship

May 6, 2025

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Annmarie Hilton

The First Student bus yard in Providence as seen from Route 10.

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Education

It’s Not 1977 Anymore. That’s Why Study Commission Wants More, Smaller School Bus Districts

Joint study panel wants to increase the state’s five school bus districts to nine

May 6, 2025

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Alexander Castro

The plaintiff G.M.G was arrested and detained March 26 and has been held at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls ever since, The Trump Administration wants to send him to El Salvador.

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Immigration

ACLU Seeks to Halt Rhode Island Barber’s Deportation Under 18th Century Law

The ACLU argues the Trump administration’s revival of the Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelans, including a Central Falls barber with a pending asylum claim, is unconstitutional and dangerously overbroad

May 6, 2025

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Christopher Shea

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha at a news conference Monday, May 5, 2025.

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Health

Neronha Co-Leads 20-State Lawsuit to Block Cuts to Federal Health Department

Rhode Island’s AG says the sweeping changes to HHS — including mass layoffs and regional office closures — are illegal and threaten critical public health services across the state

May 6, 2025

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Ian Donnis