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Connecticut's COVID-19 positivity rate on Wednesday was 4.11%. State officials report 115 people hospitalized, a decrease of 13 people over the last seven days.

Addiction experts are calling on lawmakers to advocate for more federal funding and a change in strategy to fight the opioid epidemic.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was one of several officials calling for a more robust federal response to the monkeypox outbreak at a news conference Monday.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is providing more details on new legislation geared toward reforming the Electoral Count Act and preventing future attempts to overturn presidential election results.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Cassidy Hutchinson testified she asked those involved if the story was true and they did not dispute the account of Trump growing "irate" when told that he had to return to the White House.

The Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol will hold its sixth hearing tomorrow after previously announcing there would be no more hearings until July.

The president's signing comes just over a month after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults.

Connecticut hardened its legal protections this year to protect abortion access and the right of people seeking reproductive healthcare from out of state.

Immigrant rights groups from across Connecticut rallied in front of the Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford on Thursday.