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State lawmakers are expected to gavel in for a special session Monday to reconsider several bills that were vetoed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Malloy rejected seven bills that passed by large margins in the General Assembly this year. Lawmakers can override the governor’s vetoes by a two-thirds vote...

On Friday night, about 525 miles from where White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was being booted from a restaurant called the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., the owner of an Old Saybrook restaurant was riding out the evening rush at her identically named eatery. It was a typically busy...

After 28 years, the Isiah 58 Outreach street ministry is shutting down. Tom and Sue Healy say they handed out their last rounds of soup and hot dogs on June 16. The Healys have been traveling to New Britain two or three Saturdays a month to tell the poor about the Bible and then distribute food...

Panamá realizará un nuevo trámite a los migrantes a los que les cancelaron las visas Panamá (EFE).- El Servicio Nacional de... The post PANAMÁ: Nuevo trámite a migrantes sin visas appeared first on Periodico Identidad Latina.

Una ONG confirma que los tribunales de Texas ya no están separando familias migrantes Austin (EE.UU.) (EFE).- El director d... The post EEUU: En Texas no separan familias migrantes appeared first on Periodico Identidad Latina.

Washington, (EFE).- El expresidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama (2009-2017) viajará a Madrid el próximo 5 de julio para participar en la primera edición de la Cumbre sobre Economía Circular e Innovación, que se celebrará en la capital es... The post EEUU: Barack Obama viajará a España el próximo 5 de julio appeared first on Periodico Identidad Latina.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors have canceled their planned interview with Stormy Daniels Monday, according to Daniels’ attorney. In a tweet late Sunday, attorney Michael Avenatti said prosecutors were canceling their meeting with the adult film actress because of media attention. “So I was just informed by the US Attys office that they are cancelling the mtg tmrw scheduled with me and my client (for weeks) because the press found out about the mtg and they can’t handle a few […]

(CNN) — An Arizona woman has criticized Walgreens on social media, saying a pharmacist at the chain refused to fill her prescription for a medicine prescribed to induce miscarriage after she was told her 9-week-old fetus had stopped developing. Walgreens says it allows pharmacists to step away from filling a prescription “for which they have a moral objection,” but that they are required to “refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager on duty to meet the patient’s needs in […]

TORNILLO, TX — Protests over family separations are expected to continue Monday, as questions linger over when and how more than 2,000 separated immigrant children will be reunited with their families. Over the weekend, crowds gathered in Texas to protest the Trump administration’s policy. In the meantime, President Donald Trump doubled down on his message, sending a barrage of tweets Sunday that railed against current immigration laws and called for deportation of people without judicial proceedings to thwart what he referred […]

Farm Aid’s annual music and food festival is coming to Connecticut for the first time. The festival featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Chris Stapleton and more will be at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford in September. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.  Corporate America Increasingly Avoids Gun-Industry Business The event also features Sturgill Simpson, Kacey Musgraves, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and Particle Kid. More acts will be announced.  Donations, Volunteering Surge at Border Asylum-Seeker Center “Family farmers are the backbone of our country,” Farm Aid president and founder Willie Nelson said in a statement. “But today, they are endangered. Whether we live in cities like Hartford or the rural areas of New England, each of us has the power to create positive, lasting change in our farm and food system and strengthen farm families to help them stay on the land for generations to come.” Reserved tickets are $279.50, $179.50 or $109.50, while lawn tickets are $54.50.  15-Year-Old Migrant Boy Runs Away From Texas Facility You can buy them at LiveNation.com and by phone at 800-745-3000. A limited number of pre-sale tickets will be sold beginning at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 26, at farmaid.org/festival.Photo Credit: Getty Images

A person was shot outside of a home on Maple Street in New Haven late Sunday night.Detectives remained at the scene early Monday morning, searching for evidence and knocking on neighbors’ doors. Corporate America Increasingly Avoids Gun-Industry Business Police have not released much information about the victim or the person’s condition, but they said the public is not in danger. Donations, Volunteering Surge at Border Asylum-Seeker Center Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com

The southbound lanes of Interstate 91 were closed between exits 14 and 13 in Wallingford because of a crash involving two tractor-trailers carrying bottled water and watermelon, but only the left lane is now closed.One tractor-trailer is in the median and the other tractor-trailer is on the side of the right shoulder. Donations, Volunteering Surge at Border Asylum-Seeker Center State police say there are minor injuries. The cause of the accident is under investigation. 15-Year-Old Migrant Boy Runs Away From Texas Facility Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com