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A Yemeni child suspected of having cholera sits outside a makeshift hospital in the capital, Sanaa, earlier this month. World health authorities say that of the more than 1,300 people who have died of the disease, a quarter have been children.
It was "a momentous occasion," according to Connecticut River Museum Executive Director Chris Dobbs when a group of dignitaries and invited guests gathered to board the re-creation of Adriaen Block's boat Onrust last Thursday. Dobbs pointed out that it was, "400 years ago - 403 to be precise" since the original Onrust commenced its exploration of the Connecticut River ultimately exploring it upstream to just a little further north than present-day Hartford - a distance of approximately 60 miles from Long Island Sound.
With assistance from CWA, interpreters Ismail Charania of Norcross, Ga., and Clariselle Ocasio of Connecticut, , visited lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for better working conditions for all immigration court interpreters. The government is currently providing interpretation services through a low-road contractor, SOS International .
A marcher hands a sign-up sheet to a participant during the march and rally in support of immigrants on Nov. 21, 2016. Luis Barrios, an undocumented immigrant who lives with his wife and children in Derby, will get to stay in the United States for another 30 days.
Democrats on Thursday tore into the House GOP's vote to repeal ObamaCare, ripping their healthcare plan as a "tax cut for millionaires" and "immoral." The House narrowly passed the American Health Care Act by a 217-213 vote earlier Thursday afternoon.
Following the inclusion of $5 million for the National Coast Guard Museum in the federal spending bill working its way through Congress, several of Connecticut's congressional delegates are reviving a bill to create a commemorative coin that would help to raise money for the museum. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, on Wednesday reintroduced the United States Coast Guard Commemorative Coin Act, which would require the U.S. Treasury to create new $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins and half-dollar coins.
As the Connecticut Republican Party looks for a challenger in the 2018 race to take on Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Greenwich household name has been added to the mix, according to the Connecticut Post. Former "Fox & Friends" co-host and Greenwich resident Gretchen Carlson, 50, is being recruited to take on the liberal incumbent, a GOP insider told the Post.
On a conference call Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin says steel makers from Russia and China are stealing jobs away from American companies. "President Trump has said he supports buy America reform but he has not backed up those words with action," Baldwin said.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and colleagues in the Senate asked Wednesday for a review of 'sober homes' used by recovering addicts, to determine whether more federal oversight is necessary. "Unfortunately, there have been several recent overdoses that have occurred in Connecticut sober houses," Murphy said in a prepared statement.
"I bring you this assurance: "The United States of America strongly supports NATO and will be unwavering in our commitment to our trans-Atlantic alliance", Pence declared during the Munich Security Conference, according to the AP". Pence pointed to their shared "noble ideals - freedom, democracy, justice and the rule of law".
Even though the Metro-North New Haven Line broke ridership records in 2016, a recent report in the Republican-American revealed that Connecticut's three Metro-North branches all saw decreasing ridership last year, prompting members of Congress to demand improvements. The Waterbury, Danbury and New Canaan branches all saw declines last year, the Republican-American reported.
In this Jan. 24, 2017, file photo, Small Business Administration Administrator-nominee,former wrestling entertainment executive, Linda McMahon testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington,at her confirmation hearing. McMahon is on track to secure Senate confirmation to be the next leader of the Small Business Administration.
Leading Democrats, counterterrorism experts and even Iran's foreign minister have all asserted that Trump's travel ban will end up being used by the Islamic State to recruit new terrorists.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed the staff at the U.S. Education Department for the first time on Wednesday, and during it made a joke about bears. "No need to pull any punches.
While President Trump is still defending Vladimir Putin in public, American policymakers have finally awoken to Russian intervention in the U.S. democratic process-and are pumping tens of millions into a counter-propaganda initiative. The 2016 presidential campaign alerted the public to the concept of information as a weapon-and to its incredible effectiveness when used just right.
Democrats mad about Republicans refusal to confirm Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's seat will have a hard time blocking the nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to fill the vacancy, predicted Supreme Court observers. "The difference is that we are in the first two weeks of at least a four year term," Quinnipiac law professor John Pavia said Wednesday after President Donald Trump made his selection.
US President Donald Trump speaks before a signing ceremony for executive orders and memorandums in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2017, in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump boasted Saturday that his "very strict" crackdown on Muslim immigration was working "very nicely," amid mounting resistance to the order which has been branded by many as blatantly discriminatory.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, as he is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family while he formally signs his cabinet nominations into law, in the President's Room of the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2017. Defeated and in the minority, Democrats in Congress have few options to push their own agenda.
The new president delivered an inaugural address Friday that was straight from his campaign script - to the delight or dismay of different subsets of Americans. Trump gave nods to unity and began with kind words for Barack and Michelle Obama, but pivoted immediately to a searing indictment of the status quo and the Obama years.