Gina Raimondo

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who’s overseeing the funding distribution, said that universal access to broadband internet would be akin to the electrification of rural America during the 1930s.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days

GOP Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire said Donald Trump is “crazy” and joked that if the former Republican president was admitted to a mental hospital, “he ain’t getting out!”

Raimondo is responsible for promoting the nation’s economic growth domestically and overseas.

The U.S. supply of computer chips has fallen to alarmingly low levels, raising the prospect of factory shutdowns.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC she is confident that every household will be connected by the end of the decade – if not sooner.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the House needs to “immediately” pass a bill supporting U.S. production of semiconductor chips, to ease the shortage.

The Chinese Communist Party has previously said that it does not engage in industrial espionage. 

Rhode Island dropped “Providence Plantations” from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings. Providence Plantations is written in the script in marble near the State House dome and on bronze plaques in the entryway. The state seal with the full former name is on the rotunda floor, the elevator doors, door numbers and directional signs. It’s...

The Port of Los Angeles’ decision to impose fines on lingering cargo containers was “a last resort,” but it’s working, Executive Director Gene Seroka told CNBC.

More than 190 solar companies wrote a letter to the Department of Commerce amid a call for tariffs to be extended to Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

President Joe Biden’s administration says it is making $3 billion in economic development grants available to communities — a tenfold increase in the program paid for by this year’s COVID-19 relief bill

Family care is keeping women out of the workforce and the U.S. must address it to remain competitive in the labor market, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo dismissed comments from Chinese President Xi Jinping as tough talk on Thursday, saying it won’t deter the U.S. from its goals.

Gov. Daniel McKee has signed an executive order that extends Rhode Island’s state of emergency for the coronavirus pandemic until next month.

Commerce Secretary Raimondo’s prediction is rosier than that of some analysts, who believe the chip shortage or its knock-on effects may still be felt in 2023.

AT&T hired an ally of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to lobby officials over President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee on Wednesday nominated Providence City Council President Sabina Matos as his lieutenant governor, who if confirmed by the state Senate, will be the first person of color in state history to hold the job. About 80 people initially applied for the job, but the Democratic governor said at a news conference that Matos shares his…

Democrat Dan McKee has been sworn in as Rhode Island’s 76th governor. McKee was sworn in Tuesday after former governor and fellow Democrat Gina Raimondo officially joined President Joe Biden’s cabinet as U.S. commerce secretary after winning Senate confirmation. The 69-year-old has served as the state’s lieutenant governor since 2015. He is a lifelong resident of Rhode Island and...