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Scotts Valley mom Kristin Cosner, her mother Loretta Kuechle, and Don Smith joined more than 150 patients, survivors and their families on Capitol Hill on Monday to lobby Congress for initiatives that can improve outcomes for children with cancer.

BOOKING ON JOBS: Senator Jack Reed addresses a group of trainers in the Digital Literacy class at Cranston Central Library on Friday.

Unless Congress takes action before July 1 on one of a grocery list of "solutions," interest rates on federally subsidized student loans are going to double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, hammering more than 400,000 students in Florida and as many as 7 million nationwide.

The death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg makes the margin of error in Harry Reid's whipping for filibuster reform that much tighter, and it means that Reid might require the vote of Vice President Joe Biden to make it happen.

On Friday, June 21 at 2:30 p.m., state and local officials will gather for a celebration at 80 Samuel Rodman Street in South Kingstown - the site of 70 new affordable senior apartments.

The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths. We know that our government will continue with large-scale surveillance programs to prevent future terrorist attacks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Working people struggle and fight to form unions so their children can have better lives than they do.

President Obama called it crossing a "red line" and now plans to send arms to Syrian rebels, fighting for control of their country.

As the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board marks its 10-year anniversary since its formation under the SarbanesOxley Act , investors should be reminded that, under this law, public disclosure of pending disciplinary actions against audit firms is restricted.

If lawmakers can't come up with a solution, interest rates on federal student loans are set to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent starting July 1. When I graduate from college in December, I will join the 37 million Americans with student loan debt.

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed wants the state to review its employment services for the disabled after Rhode Island and the city of Providence were found to have violated the rights of developmentally disabled individuals for years by segregating them in two settings.

Governor Lincoln D. Chafee today announced his nomination of Dr. Kathleen C. Hittner to lead the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner, the first state agency dedicated solely to health insurance oversight.

Two bills were voted down by the Senate on Friday that would have halted the spike in rates on federal student loans, which are set to double on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8% .

The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths. We know that our government will continue with large-scale surveillance programs to prevent future terrorist attacks.

The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Carl Levin, has just voted down an amendment championed by Kirsten Gillibrand which would have stripped from the chain of command the decisions on prosecuting sexual assaults in the military.

Two Democratic senators used a Congressional hearing on Wednesday to condemn for-profit colleges as preying on active members of the armed forces to receive federal tuition aid by increasing enrollments but ignoring academic quality.

The congregation of Torat Yisrael is home again. Several years after deciding to move from its longtime home in Cranston, Temple Torat Yisrael's new house of worship on Middle Road in East Greenwich was dedicated Sunday afternoon.

Higher education is essential to both career prospects and the state's future, but college has grown less affordable in recent years.

"If the Democratic Party doesn't stand with the poor and the vulnerable then I don't know what the hell we stand for," says Rep. Jim McGovern.

For a fleeting moment, at least, lawmakers seemed to be coming around to the idea that the Pentagon benefits system has its limits.