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With today being the deadline for the US Congress to come up with a DACA deal, Dreamers are urging Connecticut lawmakers to stand up for young undocumented immigrants. Nearly 800,000 people who were brought to the US as infants and children could be impacted and now the concern is that Dreamers are on borrowed time as Congress, so far, has failed to make a decision.
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: Dan Meiser, owner of the Oyster Club at 13 Water St. in Mystic, speaks with executive chef James Wayman on April 16, 2014.
The mother of a woman killed when a speeding Amtrak train hurtled from the tracks in May 2015 told a Senate committee on Thursday that she is seething over the prospect of more delays in installing speed controls that could have prevented that wreck and dozens of others. Technology executive Rachel Jacobs was among eight passengers killed when the Washington-to-New York train crashed in Philadelphia.
Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the new Milestone Apartments on Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport in 2016. HUD Secretary Julian Castro was on hand to attend the ribbon cutting along with Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Chris Murphy, Congressman Jim Himes, Mayor Joe Ganim and other town and state officials.
Attorney Alexander Copp and Attorney Susan Bysiewicz, representing Jane Miller, of Brookfield, who was expelled last year from the Republican party and was re-admitted to the GOP Tuesday, July 19, 2016 speaks to the media. less Attorney Alexander Copp and Attorney Susan Bysiewicz, representing Jane Miller, of Brookfield, who was expelled last year from the Republican party and was re-admitted to the GOP Tuesday, July 19, 2016 speaks ... more Connecticut's former top election official, Susan Bysiewicz, is closing in on a presumptive run for governor and has abandoned her pursuit of a state Senate seat, Hearst Connecticut Media has learned.
Two Democratic U.S. senators said they have fresh concerns over clinical trials conducted by Philip Morris International Inc as it seeks U.S. clearance to market its iQOS electronic tobacco product as less risky than cigarettes, according to statements both senators provided to Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man uses a Philip Morris iQOS e-cigarette in Tokyo, Japan May 12, 2017.
To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: In this Feb. 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of mayors in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Trump says he's "looking forward" to being interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he wants to release the transcript of the committee's closed-door interview with Donald Trump Jr., joining Democrats on the committee who have pressed to make it public. Grassley said he will now move to release all of the panel's interviews involving the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Trump Jr., the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol at the start of the third day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday snapped at Senate Democrats who hounded her repeatedly over whether President Trump said some countries were "shithole countries" in a meeting last week. Nielsen was testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee, where five Democrats each made a point of asking her about Trump's reported comment.
A U.S. Army veteran from Connecticut has filed a lawsuit against the Veterans Administration for leaving a scalpel in his abdomen for four years after he had surgery in 2013. Glenford Turner, 61, had been complaining about abdominal pain ever since he underwent a radical prostatectomy four years ago.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin gave a scalding opening remark about our country's current political state during the 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Connecticut Convention Center Monday morning. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin gave a scalding opening remark about our country's current political state during the 33rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Breakfast at the Connecticut Convention Center Monday morning.
Bridgeport resident Glenford Turner says the scalpel was only discovered years later, after he suffered from long-term abdominal pain. He sued the VA in U.S. District Court last week, seeking unspecified compensatory damages.
In this Dec. 22, 2017, photo, 6-year-old Melanie Oliveras González stands on the porch of her house, in front of a handful of electric cables knocked down by the winds of Hurricane Maria, in Morovis, Puerto Rico. Morovis has been without power since hurricane smashed into the island in November.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, looks over his papers as he walks to the Senate Chamber to deliver a speech about the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, looks over his papers as he walks to the Senate Chamber to deliver a speech about the future of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
A damaged Amtrak passenger train car is lifted from the tracks at the site of the derailment of an Amtrak train in Dupont, Wash., Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass on Monday, killing several people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday.
President Trump thought about dealing out quick justice to his Supreme Court pick after learning that he criticized him, according to a report. The commander-in-chief became upset and talked about rescinding the nomination of Neil Gorsuch after he met with Connecticut Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal and told him that Trump's attack on the judiciary were "disheartening" and "demoralizing," the Washington Post reported Monday.