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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is refusing to address reports he is romantically involved with a former Democratic political operative running a Soros-funded media network masquerading as independent media. Murphy, who recently announced separation from his wife after nearly two decades together, was recently photographed having a cozy dinner with Tara McGowan, the founder and publisher of Courier Newsroom, a progressive media group that has received millions of dollars in funding from liberal mega-donors such as George Soros. McGowan has long held ties with the Democratic Party, working on former President Barack Obama's re-election campaign before serving in top positions at...

It is simply wrong to let the government take one person’s property away in order to hand it to another private owner with more political power.’ An often-criticized precedent from the Supreme Court 20 years ago that gives local governments permission to literally confiscate a landowner’s property and give it to someone else who may have more political influence could be overturned through a new case pending before the justices. It is the Institute for Justice that has been fighting on behalf of Bryan Bowers, a New York landowner whose property was “seized” by a local government agency. It was...

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman has been arrested in Waterbury after allegedly kidnapping her stepson and holding him captive for over 20 years, according to police. On Feb. 17, crews responded to a fire at a home on Blake Street in Waterbury. Two people, 56-year-old Kimberly Sullivan and a 32-year-old man, were inside the home at the time. Sullivan was able to evacuate safely, and firefighters helped the man out. While being evaluated by EMS for smoke inhalation, the victim allegedly disclosed to first responders that he intentionally set the fire in his upstairs room by using a lighter,...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WTNH) — Gov. Ned Lamont hit the road on Wednesday, visiting New Britain to promote a $300 million plan he says will deliver free preschool for many of the state’s working and middle class families.“We’ve got to make sure we take the lead here in the state of Connecticut,” Lamont said in remarks delivered at a preschool center on the campus of Central Connecticut State University.

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — In one week’s time, Gov. Ned Lamont went from vetoing nearly $3 million in funding for nonprofit organizations to signing a revised bill that provided the exact same funding – only by a slightly different mechanism.The $3 million in funding that the governor vetoed and then ultimately signed will go to an array of nonprofit organizations including Planned Parenthood, various LGBTQ+ groups around the state and agencies providing services for immigrants and refugees.

Maybe it can fire some of its 7,000 administrators.. Harvard has a $53 billion endowment. That’s a little less than the annual budget of the state it’s in. But still the wealthy woke uni is crying poverty over what it calls “substantial financial uncertainties driven by rapidly shifting federal policies.” Those are weasel words since what Harvard is really worried about are administration cuts driven by wasteful fake research spending and crackdowns on tolerance for campus antisemitism. And Harvard has good reason to be worried about both of those things. Harvard has the money to persevere, but instead, it’s pausing...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy was spotted at a Washington, DC, watering hole on a date with a progressive media mogul and strategist who’s boosted his efforts as a leading anti-Trump politician in Congress — just months after the Connecticut Democrat announced he and his wife were separating. Murphy, 51, was caught “cuddling” with Courier Newsroom publisher Tara McGowan, 39, last Monday by the bar at the Red Hen, located just one mile north of Capitol Hill in the district’s Bloomingdale neighborhood, a source told The Post, sharing a photo of the pair’s romantic rendezvous. The source said Murphy wrapped...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A federal lawsuit has been filed against Capt. Tyrell McCoy, the former appointee for Hartford police chief, according to documents from the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.McCoy, who is a Captain with the Philadelphia Police Department, withdrew his name from consideration on Feb. 1, just one week after being appointed by Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — The sister-in-law of the cannibal victim Angel Gonzalez shared her emotional response following the release of the cannibal killer in February.Talitha Frazier, Gonzalez’s sister-in-law, says she can’t forget. Tyree Smith killed Gonzalez with an axe in Bridgeport on Dec. 15, 2011. He then proceeded to remove an eyeball and part of the man’s brain and ate them.

Connecticut Democrats are attempting to “fight back” against President Donald Trump’s landslide national election and a White House agenda that has already included multiple pro-life initiatives. One of two bills passed by the state legislature last week through an emergency certification process awarded $800,000 in Connecticut taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood of Southern New England for the purpose of stockpiling abortion-inducing drugs. The other emergency bill – which provides funding to organizations impacted by the Trump administration’s policies – awards yet another $2.8 million to Planned Parenthood, making the abortion vendor “the biggest nonprofit beneficiary of the legislation,” reported CT...

Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on “immediate administrative leave” as university investigates allegations.. A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, is a member of Samidoun, an organization sanctioned by the U.S. government in October in an announcement that described it as a "sham charity" and a "front organization" for the Popular Front...

Still very few people know about this... In 2014, Senator Chris Murphy bragged about the United States successfully overthrowing Ukraine's government: "I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part, Yanukovych from office." "We have not sat on the sidelines. We have been very much involved. Members of the Senate have been there. Members of the State Department have been on the Square." "The Obama administration passed sanctions. The Senate was prepared to pass its own set of sanctions, and as I've said, I think that the clear position of the United States...

A Connecticut student who graduated with honors in June is now suing her former high school, claiming she can't read or write and is failing college as a result of her alma mater's poor curriculum. Aleysha Ortiz was born in Puerto Rico and moved with her family to Hartford, Connecticut, when she was 5 years old. She graduated through the school program despite reading at a kindergarten or first grade level as a sixth grader, according to reporting by CNN. During her last month at Hartford Public High School, after she disclosed she was attending the University of Connecticut in...

Elon Musk just revealed that the government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines—and not a single submarine was built. When investigators asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea. “There’s a case where I think Senator Collins was telling me about how she gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, got no extra submarines, and then held a hearing to say where the $12 billion go. “And they were like, we don’t know. That was it. I mean, basically, stuff is so crazy. Only the federal government could get away...

Democrats are facing new charges of election fraud going back to 2021, despite their party pushing back on election integrity and voter fraud claims since the 2020 presidential election. While Democrats have long criticized Republicans who are concerned about election integrity by smearing them with the pejorative label “election deniers,” new allegations regarding election fraud are being made against Democrats. Five Democratic Party members in Bridgeport, Conn., and Philadelphia have been criminally charged with numerous counts of voter fraud on both the state and federal levels regarding mail-in ballots. Bridgeport had to redo primary and general elections last year after...

A man committed to a psychiatric hospital for up to 60 years for killing his victim with an ax before eating his brain and one of his eyeballs has been granted conditional release. The written decision was issued Friday by the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board after a hearing earlier in the day where the board heard extensively from a team of psychiatric doctors and clinical professionals with the Whiting Forensic Hospital who have worked with Tyree Smith. Smith did not attend the hearing in person at the advice of his attorney, citing the intense media attention the case received...

The University of Pennsylvania announced it would require standardized test scores for undergraduates in the upcoming admissions cycle. The school says the change will bring 'clarity and transparency to the application process.' Another Ivy League institution has elected to reinstate mandatory standardized testing after making it optional for undergraduate applicants since the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, the University of Pennsylvania announced it would require SAT or ACT scores in the upcoming admissions cycle in order to bring “clarity and transparency to the application process.” ... ”Beginning with the 2025-2026 undergraduate admissions cycle, Penn is reinstating a standardized testing requirement for...

An X account with the handle “@laratrumppage” (not to be confused with the real page of President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, @LaraLeaTrump) made a post calling for border czar Tom Homan to arrest Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, completely triggering Murphy on Friday: “It takes some f***ing gall to have Vance lecturing Europe on ‘free speech’ when at the exact same time the Trump regime is threatening Democrats back home with arrest if they even explain people’s rights to them,” Murphy wrote, along with a screenshot of the fake Lara’s post.

<p>Sen. Chris Murphy thinks that Democrats have been too timid when it comes to shaming their political opponents.</p>

Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, while fuming for six minutes about Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chair Elon Musk on Monday, accused the department of seeking to pull teachers from classrooms after it announced plans to review the Department of Education’s spending. Democratic members of Congress tried to force their way into the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Education after DOGE was asked by President Donald Trump to uncover wasteful spending within the department.