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Amanda Milkovits
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Journalist in ⚓️ Rhode Island for
@bostonglobe Member of @FiveFreedoms
@IRE_NICAR
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Irish contractor agrees to plead guilty in $1.5 million ‘traveling conman fraud’ scheme. John O’Brien agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud, while prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 4 years and 8 months.
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Irish contractor agrees to plead guilty in $1.5 million ‘traveling conman fraud’ scheme - The Boston Globe
John O’Brien agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud, while prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 4 years and 8 months.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A suspect is in custody after a 29-year-old Connecticut woman was shot and killed in Providence on Thursday evening.

The case is the city's second homicide of the year. In 2024, Providence recorded 11 homicides for the entire year, and a total of 13 in 2023.

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Connecticut woman killed in Providence shooting, suspect to be charged, police say - The Boston Globe
Morgan Lynn Boss, 29, of Vernon, Conn., was pronounced dead at a residence on Broad Street. The homicide is the city’s second this year.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
Kristi Noem sits on a horse wearing a cowboy hat. In the background is Mount Rushmore.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
cpaxton.bsky.social Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 18h
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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NEW: In the first hours of grilling under oath about the failure of the Washington Bridge, a defiant DOT director Peter Alviti said outside companies "betrayed" their responsibility to catch the problems

Hearing is ongoing and story will be updated
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Grilled under oath, R.I. DOT director blames outside inspectors for failure of Washington Bridge - The Boston Globe
Multiple consultants hired to inspect the bridge were supposed to “do their damn job and didn’t,” Alviti said at a tense hearing
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November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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With shutdown over, Trump administration withdraws request to halt order for full SNAP funding. Solicitor General D. John Sauer withdraws a request that US Supreme Court halt the order of a federal judge in R.I. “because the underlying dispute here is now moot.”
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With shutdown over, Trump administration withdraws request to halt order for full SNAP funding - The Boston Globe
Solicitor General D. John Sauer withdraws request that US Supreme Court halt R.I. judge’s order “because the underlying dispute here is now moot.”
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November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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🎙️Podcast: Resilient R.I. state coral could play role in saving coral reefs amid climate change. RWU professor Koty Sharp says the northern star coral could offer insights to help protect tropical reefs as ocean temperatures rise
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Resilient R.I. state coral could play role in saving coral reefs amid climate change - The Boston Globe
Roger Williams University professor Koty Sharp says the northern star coral could offer insights to help protect tropical reefs as ocean temperatures rise.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte.

In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump

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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Moments before a single-engine airplane crashed onto a highway last month in Dartmouth, Mass., killing a Rhode Island couple onboard, the pilot told air traffic control he would be returning to the airport, per a new report from the NTSB.

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Pilot said he would return to airport moments before Dartmouth crash that killed R.I. couple, NTSB report says - The Boston Globe
Thomas Perkins, 68, and his wife, Agatha Perkins, 66, of Middletown, R.I., were killed when the plane crashed near Interstate 195 in October.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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In Warwick right now
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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fitzprov.bsky.social
Legal battle over SNAP benefits continues as Congress moves to end shutdown
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Legal battle over SNAP benefits continues as Congress moves to end shutdown - The Boston Globe
Legal battle over SNAP benefits continues as Congress moves to end shutdown.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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NEW: Everyone's been asking: what's going into the old Eastside Marketplace in Providence?

Whole Foods just signed a 20-year lease for the space, according to public records.

Here's what we know: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/11/m...
Whole Foods leases vacant Eastside Marketplace in Providence - The Boston Globe
The 33,800-square foot grocery store has been vacant since Stop & Shop closed 32 stores last year
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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fitzprov.bsky.social
A deal in D.C. gets a hard ‘no’ from Rhode Island. “I respect my colleagues on both sides,” Senator @reed.senate.gov said on X, “but the American people don’t deserve a preventable increase in health care costs.” -- Rhode Map by @danmcgowan.bsky.social
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A deal in D.C. gets a hard ‘no’ from Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
“I respect my colleagues on both sides,” Senator Jack Reed said on X, “but the American people don’t deserve a preventable increase in health care costs.”
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November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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As the federal government fiddles, neighbors feed neighbors in Rhode Island.
A little free library in Warwick, Rhode Island is turned into a little free food pantry
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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‘Food is love’: With SNAP payments in limbo, New Englanders are stepping up to help one another.
Hopeful story by @chrisgavin.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...
‘Food is love’: With SNAP payments in limbo, New Englanders are stepping up to help one another - The Boston Globe
In Rhode Island, a federal employee who has worked for nearly a month without a paycheck has set up a front-yard pantry to help out. “One day I’ll be in need, and the community will do the same,” she says
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November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Appreciate the Bristol Police with the most thorough investigation of a deer head left on someone’s doorstep.

(Not everything is a scene from The Godfather)
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Video shows ICE detaining man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...
Video shows immigration authorities detaining man having apparent seizure, holding toddler in car - The Boston Globe
A video of immigration authorities apparently trying to detain a man who is holding a toddler, while bystanders are yelling for his safety, has gone viral.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Trump administration seeks to block court order for full SNAP payments for November
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Trump administration seeks to block court order for full SNAP payments for November - The Boston Globe
In court documents filed Friday, government lawyers argued that the food stamps crisis was caused by the government shutdown and can only be solved by congressional action.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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PROVIDENCE — A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to provide full November funding for the national food stamp funding by Friday, reports my colleague @fitzprov.bsky.social.
Trump administration ordered to provide full funding for November SNAP payments by Friday - The Boston Globe
A federal judge in R.I. told the US Department of Agriculture to tap other federal funds to provide full funding rather than the partial funding that the agency had chosen to provide.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🎙️Podcast: @reed.senate.gov warns of Trump politicizing the US military. Reed, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, urges Republicans not to remain silent while “while the president transforms the military into his personal political tool”
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Senator Reed warns of Trump politicizing the US military - The Boston Globe
Reed, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, urges Republicans not to remain silent while “while the president transforms the military into his personal political tool.”
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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At Brown University, Condoleezza Rice says Putin is ‘the only person that matters’ in decision to end war in Ukraine

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At Brown University, Condoleezza Rice says Putin is ‘the only person that matters’ in decision to end war in Ukraine - The Boston Globe
The former Secretary of State also discussed the AI race with China and the Iraq War. “The lives lost there will never be brought back and for that, I still have regret.”
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Mamdani’s victory inspires ‘hope’ among New England Muslims, reports @bostonglobe.com’s Omar Mohammed www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/m...
Mamdani’s victory inspires ‘hope’ among New England Muslims - The Boston Globe
The first Muslim elected Mayor in New York City could galvanize a new generation of leaders in the region and across the country.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be among the first in which in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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NEW: Years ago, a retired nurse told @peterfneronha.bsky.social she lost her home after her hospital’s pension collapsed. Now Rhode Island’s AG is fighting to save two more hospitals — and maybe the state’s health system. My latest in this saga:

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With Prospect Medical, Rhode Island patients face a hospital crisis years in the making - The Boston Globe
The bankrupt for-profit hospital owner has threatened to close its two R.I. hospitals, leading the state to seek alternate buyers. “Have we reached the state of any port in the storm? Yeah, we have,” ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM