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The leader of a New Haven mosque — implicated more than a decade ago in a scheme to fraudulently obtain religious-worker visas for immigrants who worked other jobs — was taken into custody by federal immigration agents last week and is awaiting deportation to his native Pakistan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The long-running fight in the General Assembly between luxury upstart Tesla and the state's auto dealerships is back again, with the electric carmaker saying Connecticut is closing the door to innovation and new technology.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There are such things as amicable breakups, but more often than not parting ways engenders hard feelings, particularly when one side is perceived as having set the breakup in motion and not having been completely open about it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano sat down with the Capitol Watch podcast Monday to discuss a wide variety of topics. The conversation covered everything from hunting bears to adding a casino in the state to crumbling foundations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The CIA alerted the FBI to a troubling pattern of contacts between Russian officials and associates of the Trump campaign last year, former agency director John Brennan testified on Tuesday, shedding new light on the origin of a criminal probe that now reaches into the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

As officials hunted for accomplices of a suicide bomber and Britain's prime minister warned another attack could be "imminent," thousands of people poured into the streets of Manchester in a defiant vigil Tuesday for victims of a blast at a pop concert — the latest apparent target of Islamic extremists...

MGM Resorts International launched a digital ad campaign Tuesday, again pushing for more competition if the state decides to expand casino gambling off two Native American reservations in southeastern Connecticut.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A bill providing for workplace accommodations for pregnant women cleared the House of Representatives Tuesday over objections from some Republican lawmakers who said the measure was unnecessary and would hurt small businesses.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Connecticut could join 37 other states and the District of Columbia in offering early voting under a provision approved by the House of Representatives Tuesday. But there are several caveats: the state Senate would have to approve the idea this year and the House and the Senate would each have...

A new 18-hole disc golf course will open Saturday morning at Nichols Field on Falls Road, becoming the first course in Middlesex County for the growing game. The project is about three years in the making.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share