Woonsocket Radio News Room

 

Where: Woonsocket Harris Public Library

Time: 11am

Every Friday morning

 

Family Music for ages 6 & under on Friday mornings at the library. Every Friday at 11am. Bring your little one and sing along with Mr. Rowland or Anne Marie. They will bring their guitar, music shakers and more. Get your toes tapping to classic children's songs and new songs created by our musicians. 

 

Chris Wallace Goldstein

Children's Librarian 

Woonsocket Harris Public Library

303 Clinton Street

Woonsocket, RI  02895

401-769-9044 x2

 

 

 
More pro-Palestinian protests are breaking out on U.S. campuses. Texas state troopers on horseback are at the University of Texas at Austin campus today as the "Palestine Solidarity Committee" says it wants to establish a foot hole at the UT Austin campus. The school says the protesters will not be allowed to set up any camps. Meanwhile, police are trying to break up a similar tent protest at the University of Southern California.        Arizona's House of Representatives has voted to repeal a Civil War-era abortion law. State Democrats successfully pushed through a bill that repeals the 1864 that banned nearly all abortions. The bill now heads to the state Senate where it is expected to be passed early next month.       President Biden met with a four-year-old American girl who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Biden met today with Abigail Edan at the White House. She was captured during the October attack on Israel and later released last November as part of a hostage deal.        The U.S. is providing Ukraine with powerful long-range ballistic missiles known as ATACMS [[ attack-ems ]]. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan revealed to reporters the administration quietly shipped long-range missiles to Kyiv last month, and more will be included in the new military assistant package just signed into law. Ukrainian forces reportedly used the weapons to strike an airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine.        Airlines will soon have to give refunds for canceled and excessively delayed flights. The Department of Transportation announced the rollout of the new rules Wednesday that call for automatic cash refunds if a flight is canceled or delayed for more than three hours or six hours for international flights. Refunds of checked bag fees will also be required if a passenger's luggage is lost and not returned within 12 hours.        The NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs features three games tonight. In the East, the Boston Bruins will head to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs for game three. In the Western Conference, the Vegas Golden Knights will face off against the Stars in Dallas for game two of their series. , the Los Angeles Kings will play the Oilers in Edmonton in game two. The Oilers lead that series one game to nothing.       

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