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Angry U.S. lawmakers say the White House needs to quickly fill a vacant cybersecurity post after reports surfaced of hackers tapping drone military aircraft.

Lawmakers express frustration that no action was taken on the vulnerability of U.S. drones until this year, even though the problem of the video feeds had been known since the 1990s.

Without dissent, a key Senate panel took a big step Thursday toward reversing last February's U.S. Supreme Court decision that blocked a special land status for the Narragansett Indians - and many other tribes across the country.

Without dissent, a key Senate panel took a big step Thursday toward reversing last winter's U.S. Supreme Court decision that blocked a special land status for the Narragansett Indians -- and many other tribes across the country.

Rhode Island stands to get more than $130 million worth of special projects in the coming year - ranging from the replacement of the Pawtucket River Bridge to the creation of an Alzheimer's disease treatment program at Butler Hospital - as part of a catch-all, $446.8-billion spending bill that has been sent to President Obama's desk for his ...

It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice - no one gets official season's greetings from Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian.

Well into the fourth hour of Thursday's hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, it was Rep.

There's no substitute for local news. Today's ProJo has a picture of conservative leader Chris Young baring his tonsils and lower abdomen in the cause of hollering loud enough to shut down another health care forum.

A trio of congressmen on Tuesday pushed for capping credit-card interest rates, at a time when consumers are out spending money on holiday purchases.

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano , a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, appeared with U.S. Rep.

Ray Di Pasquale, president of the Community College of Rhode Island , will attend President Obama's job summit on Thursday.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's recent dispute with Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin may have made headlines around the world, but neither man is likely to play a major role in settling the big public policy issue at the root of their feud.

They have filled the State House lawn, crowded onto buses to rally in the nation's capitol, and waved signs in health-care town halls.

Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Sunday disputed key details of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's account of their 2007 communication about whether the congressman should take Communion, given his support for abortion rights.

Someone may have awarded Little Rhody three new congressional districts while we weren't looking.

Updated at 11:50 a.m. EST Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce a Pentagon-wide investigation of the Fort Hood shooting, a defense official confirmed to CBS News .

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped a former senior defense official to lead a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings, The Associated Press has learned.

Michael J. Gardiner is hoping to bring his personal campaign for a more "centrist" Republican party - and his views on the national health-care debate, abortion, illegal immigrants and same-sex relationships - to the ballot next year as a candidate for Rhode Island's 2nd District Congressional seat.

Activist and civil rights activist Cesar E. Chavez will be honored with the creation of a mini-grant program in his name during the 6th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Birthday Celebration Breakfast on Friday, March 27 at 8:30 a.m. at the Airport Radisson Hotel located on Post Road in Warwick.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said he was "not going to dignify with an answer" Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin's public comments that Kennedy could not be a good Catholic and still support abortion rights.