HARTFORD, Conn. — Following the recent election results, many LGBTQ+ people are feeling frightened and uncertain about the future. A rally in support of the community is planned on Sunday at Blue Back Square in West Hartford and is expected to attract hundreds from around Connecticut and beyond.

The event starts at 11 a.m. and is planned to ...Read more

Buckle up, America.

President-elect Donald Trump has burst back onto the Beltway political scene, sparking outrage from critics and glee among his loyal followers by tapping controversial characters like Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk for his second-term Cabinet.

Just days after scoring a decisive election win, Trump has moved...Read more

The Biden administration is weighing a last-ditch push for an international agreement that would restrict financial support for foreign oil and gas projects before critical talks start in Paris.

Landing the deal is seen as essential to deliver on a promise President Joe Biden made his first year in the White House. But administration officials ...Read more

Russia’s war in Ukraine, which will reach its 1,000th day next week, must be brought to an end in 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview aired on Saturday.

“We, from our side, must do everything so that next year, this war ends by diplomatic means. This is very important,” Zelenskyy told “Suspilne” radio. ...Read more

With President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, numerous public health leaders are voicing fears that the nation’s premier health agencies will be weakened at a time when the country faces rising threats from infectious diseases, emboldened industry ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race for President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary, offering a late boost to the candidacy of the Cantor Fitzgerald LP CEO as the incoming Cabinet takes shape.

Musk said on his social media platform X that he saw Lutnick as a disruptor compared to Key Square Group LP ...Read more

Voters in two red states agreed to increase their minimum wage in steps to $15 an hour and to require employers to give workers paid sick time, and a third red state also approved sick leave.

But a proposed $18-an-hour base wage in California failed, as did initiatives in two states to change the hourly rate for workers who earn tips.

The ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's victory should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they'd hoped.

A flurry of Biden administration initiatives and court rulings against them have left millions of borrowers uncertain about their future payments. Many federal student loans, in fact, are stuck in a period ...Read more

When Ken Griffin decamped from Chicago, the billionaire financier left behind $94 million in ritzy condos and penthouses that once shattered price records and trumpeted his status as the richest man in town.

The homes are now emblematic of something else. Real estate bargain hunters are descending on Chicago, after an exodus of a wealthy elite ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s top health official is prompting questions from policy watchers over how the pick will handle the range of key health policies that would fall under his purview.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and leading vaccine skeptic, has been vocal on his ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Kids missing school is a longstanding problem in Baltimore. But new data obtained by The Baltimore Sun and FOX45 shows absenteeism in city schools is more dire than previously known — with thousands of students missing a third, half, or majority of the school year.

Data shows around 11% of Baltimore City school students — more...Read more

Voters in several states this month delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that had seen strong momentum in recent years.

Ranked choice voting, which allows voters to rank political candidates by preference, is used statewide in Alaska and Maine and in major U.S. localities such as New York City and ...Read more

SEATTLE — When Gabriel Foster saw the election night results lurch toward former President Donald Trump, he broke down in tears.

"My big-picture reaction is horror and heartbreak," said Foster, a Black queer trans activist based in the Seattle area who is the executive director of the national philanthropic organization Trans Justice Funding ...Read more

Donald Trump’s resounding election to a second term as U.S. president sealed the deal on a new world disorder.

The liberal, rules-based order that had shaped the rules of the game since World War II was already on its heels. It had proved wholly unable to prevent, punish or halt Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, a violent war in Sudan ...Read more

Feeling stuffy and ready to reach for NyQuil, Benadryl, or Sudafed PE?

Not so fast.

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed ending the use of oral phenylephrine, a common ingredient found in many cold and allergy medicines — and some pharmacies already are yanking the popular products off shelves.

Florida researchers have been ...Read more

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government avoided collapse after a secretary resigned in protest over alleged racist comments made during Cabinet meetings.

Schoof and leaders of the four-party governing coalition held an emergency meeting that ran late into Friday night, the latest fallout from antisemitic attacks on Israeli football fans...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department failed for the seventh straight year to score a clean financial audit, highlighting the challenge of tracking the finances of a sprawling organization that has $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities.

Auditors overseen by the Pentagon Inspector General once again declared the department�...Read more

As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday six more human cases of infection: five in California and one in Oregon — the state’s first.

A seventh presumptive California case is awaiting confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All of ...Read more