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Republican Tim Sheehy won his party’s nomination to run for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday.

Caryn B. Davis is an architectural and landscape design photographer and author of a new book entitled Connecticut Gardens: A Celebration of the State’s Historic, Public and Private Gardens. This hour, on Where We Live, she joins us to talk about the gardens around the state you’ll want to check out.

TaShun Bowden-Lewis, Connecticut’s first Black chief public defender, was fired after months of disagreements between her and the agency’s oversight body, accusations of workplace misconduct and a contentious hearing in April. Her lawyer said they see her reinstatement as the only adequate resolution.

NASA is shifting the way the Hubble Space Telescope points. The change is a work-around for a piece of hardware that's become intolerably glitchy. Officials say Hubble will continue to do 'ground breaking science,' for about another decade.

Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, says that without an appropriate response from American Airlines, the civil rights organization will be forced to reinstate an advisory against the airline.

A panel of advisers to the FDA voted against the potential use of MDMA for treating PTSD.

The Hartford Flood Compensation program has issued 335 checks for flood relief, mostly to residential homeowners, totaling more than $4.5 million, according to state Comptroller Sean Scanlon.

The Netflix series “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment” about a prison reform program in Arkansas is getting pushback over exploitation and filming rights.

South Dakota voters are heading to the polls for its primary election. With presidential races locked up, nearly half of registered voters have little to weigh in on. One group aims to change that.