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Deadliest Days of Summer for Teen Drivers: Safety Measures Make a Difference – Rhode Island Current
RI News Today - Rhode Island
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August 13, 2025
The last few weeks of summer, heading into Labor Day weekend, can sometimes mean vacations and driving more miles on the road for all people, including teens. Traffic crashes are the No. 1 cause of death for teens, and the crash rate for teen...
Rhode Island Now One of 12 States Cracking Down on Crypto ATM Fraud – Herb Weiss
RI News Today - Rhode Island
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August 11, 2025
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer, aging issues Rhode Island joins 11 other states in enacting laws or regulations to protect consumers from fraud at cryptocurrency ATMs, addressing the disproportionate impact on older adults. According to the...
Matched with Rhode Island’s top employers, local students take first steps toward future careers
Brown University News - Rhode Island
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August 12, 2025
This July and August, interns are working full-time for seven weeks, fully embedded in the daily operations of the departments they’ve joined, Gacasan said. Brown Athletics interns are shadowing strength and conditioning coaches, assisting with...
Newport County Residents to Benefit by Rhode Island Foundation Grants to Local Non-Profits
RI News Today - Rhode Island
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August 12, 2025
Photo: Volunteers prepare meals for the Senior Lunch Program at the Little Compton Community Center Rhode Island Foundation awards $375,000 in grants for services to Newport County residents Dozens of nonprofit organizations serving Newport County...
Healthcare groups aim to counter growing ‘national scandal’ of elder homelessness
Medical Marketing and Media
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At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then she moved in with her brother in Florida, until he...
Rare Shark Found in Westerly
Fun 107 - Massachusetts
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August 19, 2025
Though Taylor Swift has yet to make an appearance at her Westerly, Rhode Island home this summer, there has been a lot of action near her property in 2025. Back in January construction crews were seen adding an addition to her second floor, then...
Scientists standing by to rescue rare manatee spotted in cold New England waters
NECN - Massachusetts
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A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade and scientists want to monitor its condition to see if a rescue is necessary before it succumbs to the cold water or lack of food, they said...
Inside the URI tools keeping Rhode Island ahead of the next big storm
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. In June, the state Legislature’s fiscal year 2026 budget included $200,000 of $400,000 in proposed funding for the...
Alex Kuo January 19, 1939 - June 11, 2025
San Juan Islander - Washington State
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Alex Kuo, age 86, died in June 2025, in Anacortes, Washington while vacationing on Lopez Island, a watery landscape he loved and visited for over forty years. For the last three years, he called Spokane, Washington his home. Alex was born in...
Trump, Pirro want to charge 14-year-olds as adults
KNSS - Kentucky
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August 19, 2025
As part of his efforts related to crime in Washington D.C., President Donald Trump recently said that he believes criminals as young as 14 should be prosecuted as adults, and U.S. Attorney for the district, Jeanine Pirro, agrees that juvenile...
Rhode Island: How many seasonal farmworker visas were requested by Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting employers in 2024
Ocean State Today - Rhode Island
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August 8, 2025
Jennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/meet-the-dhs-digital-service-champions-may-2018-caee7dade2bJennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director, U.S. Citizenship and...
Technology, History, and Summer Camp at the Rhode Island Computer Museum
WLNE - Rhode Island
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August 8, 2025
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE)- For more than 30 years, the Rhode Island Computer Museum has been collecting and cataloguing the evolution of technology. And technology sure has changed fast! From the punch cards of the 1930s to the desktop of today, we...
Morning Notes: JPT Film & Event Center brings blockbuster films, live music to close out summer
What's Up Newp - Rhode Island
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August 19, 2025
Good morning, Newport! 👋 Today is Tuesday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2025. There are 134 days left in the year. 🚨 You need to know As summer winds down, The JPT Film & Event Center is ramping up with a diverse lineup that spans decades of cinema...
Letters: Reading. Writing. New schools: The science is clear
The Westerly Sun - Rhode Island
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Reading. Writing. New Schools. “Just Follow the Science!” The research shows that reading proficiency soars when students have new schools! Reading specialists, reading coordinators, and principals will testify to the fact that reading scores, and...
Scientists standing by to rescue rare manatee sighted in cold New England waters
Associated Press
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August 12, 2025
BOSTON (AP) — A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade and scientists want to monitor its condition to see if a rescue is necessary before it succumbs to the cold water or lack of food,...
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
Tom's Hardware
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August 14, 2025
OpenAI's GPT-5 AI model is significantly more capable than predecessors, but it's also dramatically — about 8.6 times — more power-hungry than the previous GPT 4 version, according to estimates based on tests conducted by the University of Rhode...
URI offering new programs for the 2025-26 year
The University of Rhode Island
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August 19, 2025
Posted on August 19, 2025 Undergraduate and graduate programs meet industry needs and offer students flexibility KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 19, 2025 – Fall semester classes begin at the University of Rhode Island on Sept. 3, and this academic year the...
Donald Trump is reducing funding for LGBTQ+ health, research & arts programs: “It’s unconscionable”
LGBTQ Nation - California
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August 14, 2025
Since returning to office, Donald Trump has overseen sweeping federal funding cuts to LGBTQ+ organizations across the U.S., forcing community centers, crisis lines, and health programs to fight for survival. This month, he signed an executive...
Seth Magaziner highlights Alzheimer’s advocacy and food security initiatives in Rhode Island
Kent County Times - Rhode Island
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August 8, 2025
U.S. Congressman Seth Magaziner, who represents Rhode Island’s 2nd district, shared updates on social media on August 8, 2025, regarding community health initiatives and policy discussions.In a post from August 8, Magaziner described his...
TGIF: Ian Donnis’ Rhode Island politics roundup for Aug. 8, 2025
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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August 8, 2025
If the ‘Taylor Swift tax’ is getting you down, you can snap up a Wyoming ranch bigger than Rhode Island for a cool $79.5 million. Welcome back to my Friday column. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, threads and X. Here we go. *** Want...