The state will no longer tax feminine hygiene products like luxuries

Not so long after the GOP presidential nominee blamed his inability to answer tough questions on the possibility his questioner was menstruating, another Republican is taking strides to make period week a little bit easier.

On Friday, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) signed a law ( Read more... )

On Thursday night, Nov. 21, 2013, I pick up my friend Tom at his house on Main Street in Newtown, Conn. It’s my second night back in town, and my first visit back since my parents moved out three years ago after living here for 15 years. Things have happened since ( Read more... )

On a class trip in Connecticut, a girl and her classmates were chased through the woods and called the “n” word as part of a slavery reenactment ( Read more... )

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Each Wednesday, barber Anthony Cymerys sets up his chair in the shade of an oak tree in Hartford's Bushnell Park. For longtime clients, the homeless or those just down on their luck, the fee is always the same: a hug for a haircut ( Read more... )

Several people in Newtown have been on the receiving end of robocalls from the National Rifle Association. The calls started last week and many people on the other end of line are furious ( Read more... )

The father of one of the victims of the Newtown school shootings was heckled during a series of gun control hearings in Hartford, Conn. on Monday.

The hearings, which lasted several hours, brought out around 1500 people to the Capitol, including a number of NRA supporters as well as proponents on harsher gun control measures.

But the Connecticut ( Read more... )

Sandy Hook controversy: Is it wrong to sympathize with a killer?

A high school student is suspended for writing a poem in which she says she "understands" why Newtown gunman Adam Lanza committed murder.

"I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger," Courtni Webb, a 17-year-old high school student, wrote in her notebook ( Read more... )

A petition calling for TV host Piers Morgan to be deported from the US following his outspoken comments on gun control has attracted more than 69,000 signatures ( Read more... )

Conservative Columnist Doubles Down On Women Are To Blame For Newtown Argument

According to anti-feminist Charlotte Allen, a male janitor or “even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys” would have made all the difference in the Newtown massacre, simply because they are male National Review published Allen’s controversial piece on Wednesday, where ( Read more... )

Robin A.F. Olson has been quietly caring for stray and homeless cats at her home in Sandy Hook, CT for almost three years. But starting today, her nonprofit rescue, Kitten Associates, will open its doors to welcome children from the grieving Newtown community for private visits with its frolicking felines, so that they can shed the sadness around ( Read more... )