AHMAD KHALIL ELSHAZLY, 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 92 months of imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and…

The Branford Democratic Town Committee posted a graphic on Monday from Have A Gay Day stating, “The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students.”

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday its official repeal of a Biden administration Title IX rule that allowed sexual orientation and gender identity to be included in classifications that were illegally protected in school programs funded by…

Sen. Chris Murphy wants you to believe the greatest crisis facing America right now is ICE standing near a school bus stop. His new trio of bills aims to wall off playgrounds, daycares, and bus stops from immigration enforcement, folding them into a broader…

With her abrupt retirement Central Connecticut State University President Zulma Toro last week joined the parade of executives going out the door of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, having declined to defend herself against complaints…

The matter has not yet been decided in court, but there assuredly will be winners and losers. The U.S. Federal government, its back put against the wall by a Connecticut law that questions the authority of the federal government to operate in certain Connecticut…

Stephanie Thomas sat down with Paul Bass on WNHH and offered Connecticut the same line she has been selling for months: she is a steady hand in a storm someone else created. The interview in the New Haven Independent is not an accounting of how this Secretary…

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former Connecticut school construction official Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release — even though Diamantis was not in the courtroom. A jury convicted Diamantis…

Attorney General William Tong joined a comment letter today to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin seeking to slow federal immigration enforcement while wrapping the effort in the language of compassion.

Public Act 26-41, the “convertible pistol” ban Governor Ned Lamont signed on May 26 and Democrats sold as commonsense gun safety, was supposed to take effect today. Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley granted preliminary injunctions in the…

Connecticut’s public schools just got another bad report card. Defending Education’s September 2026 Rankings on Integrity in State Education (RISE) put the state 43rd out of 51, tied with Delaware.

Samantha “Sam” Nestor, Weston’s first selectwoman, is the Democrat nominee for Connecticut’s 26th Senate District, the seat State Senator Ceci Maher is leaving. “Sam’s Banned Book Club” is advertised on the “Sam Nestor for State Senate” page. The copy writes…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week the indictments of ten aliens for voter fraud in Minnesota alone, as well as charges and guilty pleas involving 12 individuals – including three illegal aliens – for election crimes throughout the nation.…

So, Chuck Schumer is pretending that the Republicans will try to do what the Democrats actually did in several previous elections (including the last midterm, 2022, viz., AZ, GA, NV), and would have liked to do in this midterm, but can’t. Everybody knows…

State Sen. Rob Sampson has done something incumbents almost never do. He has publicly challenged his Democrat opponent to a debate — and he has offered to let Jack Perry pick the subject list. “I dispute those accusations, and I believe many of them seriously…

It is time to set goals for the Stamford Public Schools. The Board of Education (BOE) has the potential to increase the achievement trajectory.

More provisions of Connecticut’s artificial intelligence (AI) law, Public Act 26-15, take effect today (Oct. 1), with broader workplace requirements scheduled to begin next year.

Connecticut’s new “protected areas” law took effect Thursday, and the people who backed it spent the day in Hartford celebrating with the advocacy groups that lobbied for it. CT Students for a Dream, which organizes in part to protect illegal aliens, brought…

Connecticut wants to tighten a program that can raise the cost of electricity. Before moving ahead, the state should answer a basic question: What are customers already paying for it? DEEP’s comparison starts with electricity prices that already include RGGI…