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Munis rally after weaker-than-expected jobs report
The Bond Buyer - New York
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August 1, 2025
Municipals were firmer, underperforming a U.S. Treasury rally after a weaker-than-expected jobs report increased the odds of a rate cut at the Federal Reserve's next meeting. Equities sold off. Municipal yields fell four to seven basis points,...
Rhode Island FC unveils new uniforms
WPRI 12 - Rhode Island
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July 25, 2025
by: Melanie DaSilva Posted: Jul 25, 2025 / 08:55 AM EDT Updated: Jul 25, 2025 / 02:59 PM EDT PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island FC unveiled its new alternative uniforms on Thursday that pay homage to the Ocean State. The new “Vapelli Sport Wave...
State AGs Take the Lead on Privacy Enforcement as Federal Action Stalls
JD Supra - California
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August 1, 2025
With the continued absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation after nearly 20 years of debate, state attorneys general (AGs) are increasingly asserting their role as primary regulators in the data privacy space. These state-level actors...
Utility Bills Hit Record Highs Under Trump
Truthout
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August 1, 2025
Experts say Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is likely to drive up energy prices even higher. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation....
Maine joins states suing Trump administration over intimidation of health care systems over transgender youth care
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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August 1, 2025
Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump’s administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a lawsuit filed Friday. The complaint comes after a month...
The Road To Independence: The Townshend Acts
The Porterville Recorder - California
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(Editor's Note: The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026 of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The series is being...
US singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame: ‘It shocked me out of depression. I had this spiritual awakening’
The Guardian
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August 1, 2025
Four years ago, Tyler Perry’s stepfather offered him a job in the office of his dog-training company in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Perry had little else to fill his time: he was 29 and living in his mother’s basement, uncertain what he should do...
Trump nominates former private equity executive Edward Forst as GSA administrator
FedScoop - Washington D.C.
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August 1, 2025
President Donald Trump has nominated Edward Forst, a longtime financial services executive, to serve as the next administrator of the General Services Administration. The nomination was received in the Senate and referred to the Homeland Security...
Rhode Island incubator helps turn diverse abilities into entrepreneurial opportunities
WJAR - Rhode Island
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WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — The newest NBC 10-Citizens Bank Champion in Action was named Thursday. A $50,000 grant was awarded to the Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council in the category of building employment pathways for diverse abilities....
Blue states challenge Trump's restrictions on gender-affirming care
KTAL News - Texas, Louisiana
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August 1, 2025
More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general announced a lawsuit challenging recent moves by President Trump’s administration to severely restrict access to gender-affirming health care for anyone under 19, including in states where treatment is...
Member of popular ‘80s glam metal band undergoes major surgery
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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August 1, 2025
Scott Snyder, the bassist for the band Great White, recently underwent surgery to remove a large brain tumor. That’s according to Snyder’s sister-in-law, Victoria Anders, who started a GoFundMe to help cover expenses. To date it has raised a...
AG Campbell sues to block attacks on transgender youth medical care
MassLive - Massachusetts
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August 1, 2025
A lawsuit filed against the Trump administration Friday by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and her counterparts in 15 other states aims to preserve medical care for transgender youth that she said the federal government was trying...
Millionaires multiply across the U.S.
GMToday - Wisconsin
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NEW YORK — As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. As a college student, she dropped out because she couldn’t afford tuition. In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that...
Rhode Island School District Reports Third Incident Involving Bus Monitor
School Transportation News
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July 24, 2025
Barrington Public Schools in Rhode Island reported its third incident involving a former school bus monitor, reported WJAR 10. According to the news report, the district’s acting superintendent, Chris Ashley, said in a letter to families on Monday...
Self discusses future succession possibilities for KU basketball
Lawrence Journal-World - Kansas
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Kansas head coach Bill Self talks about the Jayhawks’ seeding during a press conference following the NCAA Tournament selection show on Sunday, March 16, 2025 at Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas will face Arkansas in the first round in Providence, Rhode...
Rhode Island Native Launches Science-based Skincare Brand for Streamlined Results
Rhode Island Monthly
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July 24, 2025
Becky Martin recently launched GRAES, a new skincare company designed to streamline the beauty routine. (Photos courtesy of Jennifer Manville and Josh Robitaille at Jennifer Manville Photography) For Cranston resident Becky Martin, figuring out...
Bizarre Artifacts Found From The Revolutionary War Era
Grunge
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July 29, 2025
Human beings have always been a little strange, and that was no different during the Revolutionary War period. So when archaeologists find artifacts from that era, every now and then, they are a bit, well, weird. The kind of things that make you...
Forward Madison add to midfield, sign Rhode Island FC's Isaac Angking on loan
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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MADISON, Wis. -- Despite struggles earlier this season, Forward Madison are still firmly in the playoff picture and have won two of their last three matches. Sitting just four points behind eighth place Portland Hearts of Pine, the Mingos hope a...
Our favorite local music from July
WBUR - Massachusetts
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Album covers clockwise from top left: Vintage Lee's “Grease Pack” (Courtesy Cody Remillard and Christian Korpi); "The Swell Slice" (Courtesy Swelltune Records); Yana's “Talk About” (Courtesy Caity Krone); Will Paquin's “I Work So Hard” (Courtesy...
Menopause Protections Are Now Law In Just One State
Oprah Daily
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August 1, 2025
Aside from the physical and emotional symptoms, one of the hardest things about menopause is the lack of support for anyone going through it. Luckily, that will soon change for women living in one U.S. state. The small-but-mighty Rhode Island...