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Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson speaks in support of a California bill aimed at protecting workers from forced arbitration and nondisclosure agreements during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., May 9. The state Senate approved the bill, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, left, and sent it to Gov. Jerry Brown, last week.

States reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressAugust 26, 2018

In this July 12, 2018 photo, Bob Johnstone, CEO of MJM Yachts, sits inside an MJM boat docked in Newport, R.I. Johnstone was negotiating the sale of a 53-foot, 2.2 million yacht to a buyer in Monaco when the European Union announced a 25 percent tariff on American-made boats as retaliation for American tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. American boat makers are getting pummeled on multiple fronts by tariffs and stand to be among the industries hardest-hit in an escalating trade war. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)

American boat makers feel the crunch from Trump tariffs

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressAugust 5, 2018

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is applauded as she begins her participation in a "fireside chat" in the Bruce M. Selya Appellate Courtroom at the Roger William University Law School on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, in Bristol, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Ginsburg airs views on judiciary

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressJanuary 30, 2018

In this Friday Dec. 1, 2017, photo, 93-year-old Mary Derr sits on her bed near her robot cat she calls "Buddy" in her home she shares with her daughter Jeanne Elliott in South Kingstown, R.I. Buddy is a Hasbro's "Joy for All" robotic cat, aimed at seniors and meant to act as a "companion," it has been on the market for two years. Derr has mild dementia, and Elliott purchased a robot earlier this year to keep her mother company. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Scientists work on robo-cat with AI to help seniors

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressDecember 19, 2017

Protesters gather outside a meeting where a climate change report was to be released, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, in Providence, R.I. The Environmental Protection Agency kept of its three scientists, who had been expected to discuss the report on the health of Narragansett Bay, from speaking at the event.

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EPA keeps scientists from speaking

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressOctober 23, 2017

In this Oct. 7, 2017, photo provided by Susan Jutras, Joe Jutras stands with his world record breaking, 2,118-pound squash, following a weigh-in at Frerichs Farm in Warren, R.I. Jutras has become the first grower in the world to achieve a trifecta in the three most competitive categories in the hobby of growing gargantuan foods, having broken world records for largest pumpkin, longest gourd and now, heaviest squash. Susan Jutras via A

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Great pumpkins! Grower wins trifecta of giant food titles

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressOctober 10, 2017

In this June 13, 2017 photo, pedestrians walk by a display of a 1966 Shelby 427 AC Cobra at the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, R.I. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)

Car lovers’ Newport: 2 museums highlight design on wheels

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressJune 20, 2017

Ursula Ward, the mother of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd, becomes emotional as she listens to her attorney speak about her son during a media availability at her attorney's office Friday, April 21, 2017, in Boston. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was convicted of Lloyd's 2013 murder and was serving a life sentence without parol when he hung himself in his jail cell early Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Judge orders evidence preserved in Aaron Hernandez prison suicide

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressApril 21, 2017

In this Jan. 6, 2009, file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, holds a Bible during the mock swearing-in ceremony for his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.

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Kennedy on Trump: ‘We’re not an authoritarian country’

by Michelle R. Smith Associated PressFebruary 12, 2017

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2012, file photo, a buyer looks through his auction catalog while standing in a room full of computers during an auction of the remnants of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's bankrupt video gaming company, 38 Studios, in Providence, R.I. A judge approved a 16 million settlement with the final defendant in the 38 Studios case on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, ending the lawsuit over Rhode Island's failed 75 million deal with company. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

by Michelle R. Smith Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressFebruary 10, 2017