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Your Local Post Office will be Closed to Celebrate Labor Day

 

Full Retail and Delivery Service will Resume on Tuesday

 

 

PROVIDENCE, RI -  Postal Service employees across the state will celebrate Labor Day as all Post Offices will be closed on Monday, September 4, 2023. There will be no delivery of mail on the 4th, with the exception of guaranteed overnight parcels. Full retail and delivery services will resume on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

As we celebrate our nation’s labor force, if you’re considering a new career or looking for work visit www.usps.com/careers and you can search, by state, for available jobs near you. As the Postal Service’s Delivering for America Plan transforms USPS into the premier shipping provider in the nation, we need your help moving the nations mail and are currently hiring for positions in your area.

Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson is back in a Utah courtroom today. A judge is set to hear arguments today on whether prosecutors in the case should be disqualified because of a conflict of interest. Lawyers for Robinson say a key prosecutor has a family member who was present at the time Kirk was shot. They argue that impacts impartiality and the prosecution's decision to seek the death penalty.        President Trump doesn't have any immediate plans to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. Before leaving the White House for Florida on Friday, Trump said there's no reason to use it at this time, adding, that if he "needed it, it's available" to him. Protests in Minneapolis have continued, with one today at an ICE facility -- it's just one of several in the area since the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent earlier this month.        Millions across the country could see some heavy snowfall this weekend. The highest snow totals are expected from New England down to parts of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia could also see large snow fall totals, which could create travel issues in the busy I-95 corridor. The snow could start to fall as early as tonight into tomorrow morning.        Virginia Senate Democrats are inching closer to a newly drawn congressional map that will probably give them a larger majority in the House. If voters support the amendment in a special election, which is expected to be on the spring ballot, the Legislature would be able to redraw the state's congressional map before midterms. Democrats currently have a six-five edge in the state's congressional delegation, looking to control either a ten-one or nine-two split for the new map.        Former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced is getting a pardon from President Trump. A White House official confirmed to The Hill that Trump will pardon Garced, who was arrested in 2022 for allegedly bribing people to finance her 2020 campaign. The White House says President Biden weaponized the DOJ against Garced after she endorsed Trump in 2020.        The Chicago Bears' NFC Divisional Round playoff matchup against the Los Angeles Rams could be a cold record-breaker. Brutal cold temperatures are expected for Sunday game doesn't kick off until 6:30 p.m. Eastern. Forecasters say temperatures could be hovering around minus-ten degrees. The coldest game in NFL history was the so-called "Ice Bowl" in 1967, when the thermometer hit 13-degrees below zero.       

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