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

Conservatives on social media ripped Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Wednesday after he questioned President Donald Trump's HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill.

Patrick Kennedy is painting a different – albeit only mildly convincing – picture of his cousin, who is Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democrats are increasingly concerned that U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, usually a staunch foe of President Trump’s policies, could break with the party and support one of the president’s most controversial cabinet picks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those aimed at slowing climate change and encouraging use of electric vehicles.

One of Donald Trump’s most controversial and vulnerable cabinet picks struggled to account for his shape-shifting views, vowing to serve at Trump’s pleasure.

A Trump administration order to pause federal spending on Tuesday led to bureaucratic bedlam in Rhode Island and across the country as state government officials tried to assess the local impact of suddenly turning off federal spigots.

Long Island environmentalists offered mixed reviews of Lee Zeldin's answers during his Senate confirmation hearing for EPA administrator.

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

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says in remarks as the Senate considered the nomination of Pete Hegseth to serve as Defense Secretary in the second Trump administration post cloture that concerns about the nominee's potential for being drunk,

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJAR) — Rhode Island's two Senators voiced ... balances built into the Constitution.” Meanwhile, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to Twitter on Saturday, saying: Both ...