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A Rising Generation Asserts Itself On Climate Change

Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world are skipping school Friday, for what organizers call a Global Climate Strike. The young activists are protesting as the U.N. prepares to hold its Climate Action Summit on Monday in New York City. The strike's figurehead is 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who traveled from Sweden to New York on an emissions-free sailboat . A little over...

Classical Music Highlight: 'Autumn' In A New Way

The View That Launched American Art

New York Public Finance Commission Hearing Overshadowed By Arguments On Fusion Voting

Tempers flared at a public hearing of a commission formed to enact a public campaign financing system for New York. But the tensions centered not on that proposal, but on the commission’s decision to also consider whether to end fusion voting, which allows candidates to run on multiple ballot lines.

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Nassau Police Ask For Public's Help In Oceanside High School Stabbing

Navy To Investigate Possible PFAS Contamination Around Groton Sub Base

Ganim Calls For Supervised Voting In November

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim says he plans to write the secretary of the state and request supervised balloting for the November mayoral election.

Connecticut's First Black Supreme Court Chief Justice

By Editor • 2 hours ago

Richard Robinson, chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, talks about his life, the law and the urgent need for civil discourse in our country. Our guests:

Richard Robinson, chief justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Julian Ku, Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, Hofstra University

Deal Reached To Keep Millstone Power Plant Afloat

By Davis Dunavin • 18 hours ago

Connecticut regulators have approved a contract between the owner of the Millstone nuclear power plant and the state’s two major electric distribution companies.

East Hampton To Test Wells For Possible Contamination

By Desiree D'Iorio • 19 hours ago

Health officials on Long Island will test private wells in East Hampton for drinking water contaminants.

In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

By Glen Weldon • 19 hours ago

There is nostalgia, and there is Downton Abbey.

Nostalgia bathes the past in a golden light that falls patchily, shining clear and steady on what was tidy and genteel, while leaving an era's ugliest, most brutal recesses sunk in shadow.

All-Female Crew Sails The Atlantic To Study Women’s Health

By Bill Buchner • 21 hours ago

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A Long Island native will set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in October with an all-female crew of 11 to study the impact that plastic pollutants have on women’s health.

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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong says his office would be better equipped to defend immigrant workers if state lawmakers expand it to include a civil rights division.