The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to ...

Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate ...

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, acc ...

Conservatives on social media ripped Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Wednesday after he questioned President Donald ...

Whitehouse asked Kennedy to make "indisputably clear that you support mandatory vaccinations against diseases where that will keep people safe." ...

Congressional delegation and RIDOT have different views regarding the availability of Washington Bridge funding.

The veteran Rhode Island Democrat won’t say which way he’ll vote on one of President Trump’s most controversial cabinet ...

Whitehouse and Kennedy attended law school together at the University of Virginia where they hiked, hunted and rafted the ...

Sheldon Whitehouse held up a photo of home state Rhode Island with hypothetical flooding as a result of sea level rise. “Fossil fuel pollution is the cause of that," he said. "It will change the map ...

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, for example, asked about basic climate science, including what impact carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have on the atmosphere.

Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked. "Senator, while I am someone who believes strongly that we should work with the scientists, leaving the science to the scientists, the policy to the ...