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The first public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022.

Criminal referrals could be announced sooner than expected by the Jan. 6 panel

The House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will vote Monday on plans to issue criminal referrals and other recommendations.

From the basement of his home, Dennis Culliton, the founder and executive director of The Witness Stones Project, holds a witness stone for Tome, a man enslaved at the Deacon John Graves House in Madison, Connecticut. Culliton has made hundreds of Witness Stones in his basement as part of an “educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities.” Tome’s stone was placed at the Graves house a few days later during a ceremony on December 05, 2023. (Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public)

As CT learns more about its ties to slavery, students shape efforts to ensure the stories live on

Experts are uncovering Connecticut’s ties to slavery. But students are also chronicling stories of northern enslavement right where they live.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, center, walks out after a bilateral meeting with China's Defense Minister Dong Jun on the sidelines of the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue summit at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore on Friday.

U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs hold first official meeting in Singapore

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart met for the first time in Singapore on Friday, as Washington and Beijing seek to head off potential conflict in the region.

'The Substance' is imaginary, but feminine self-hatred is real in this body horror

In The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aerobics TV star who turns 50 and is promptly ousted from her gig in Hollywood. She and Margaret Qualley duke it out in this excruciating body horror tale.

In a scene from the German TV series Miss Merkel, actress Katharina Thalbach, playing the amateur detective based on the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, takes a closer look at her pug Helmut.

In 'Miss Merkel,' Germany's former chancellor is a crime-solving amateur detective

The German crime fiction series, based on novels of the same name, depicts former Chancellor Angela Merkel as an Agatha Christie-style small-town detective who solves crimes out of sheer boredom.

Politics chat: The Harris-Walz campaign is gearing up for the DNC

After a whirlwind four weeks, Democrats gather in Chicago at the DNC to rally around the new Harris-Walz ticket.

FILE: Corey Paris (D-Stamford) and Christine Palm (D-Chester) go over notes before speaking on the student loan debt bill on March 27, 2023, at the Legislative Office Building, Hartford, Conn.

CT Democratic convention delegate predicts enthusiasm for Harris-Walz ticket, not a repeat of '68

State Rep. Corey Paris is one of the Connecticut delegates attending the convention in Chicago. Paris said the enthusiasm for the Harris-Walz ticket promises to be a tide that will lift the boats of many Connecticut Democrats in November’s election.

Q&A: OpenAI on rival DeepSeek and partnering with the government

OpenAI — the company behind ChatGPT and a big part of Stargate — is partnering with the U.S. National Laboratories. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke with OpenAI's Chris LeHane, here are the highlights.

Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris applauds as her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Takeaways from Tim Walz's introduction to the national stage

The Minnesota governor spoke alongside Vice President Harris Tuesday night for the first time as her running mate, and made clear what he brings to the campaign.

U.S. goes after Mexican cartel leaders' drug profits in fight against fentanyl

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen unveiled new financial sanctions against La Nueva Familia Michoacana, part of a Biden administration effort to target and seize fentanyl profits.

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