because he was part of the huge lawsuit against big tobacco in the 1990s and was hired by the state of Rhode Island to sue lead paint makers 20 years ago. Republicans tried to filibuster McConnell ...

Here's more about the Rhode Island judge at the center of the national ... makers and helped negotiate the multi-billion-dollar tobacco settlement, known as the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

The bill (LB285) from Sen. Dan Lonowski of Hastings would prohibit vape products that taste or smell like fruit, mint, candy ...

The country’s 23 Democratic state attorneys general log on at 4pm ET for a thirty-minute confidential video chat to coordinate their plans for pushing back against the Trump administration. They share ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine – The U.S. lobster industry's catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the ...

Rhode Island PBS Weekly is available to stream on ... trial attorney when he was in private practice doing asbestos cases, tobacco cases, things like that, became very prominent.

Obama- and Biden-appointed judges have blocked Trump policies on DEI, immigration, transgender “treatments,” and government ...

The film explores New England, a region in the northeastern United States comprising six states: Maine, New Hampshire, ...

Louisianans reported having asthma in their lifetime, slightly higher than the national average. See where other states stand ...

In many cases, laid-off seasonal employees had worked for the U.S. Forest Service for years or even decades — cleaning ...