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PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 28 on the U.S. News & World Report's Best State 2018 rankings, last in New England, U.S. News announced Tuesday. The ranking was based on thousands of data points and weighted states’ rankings in eight metric categories: health care, education, economy, opportunity, infrastructure, crime and corrections, fiscal stability, and…