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A Republican former mayor in Connecticut has suspended her campaign for governor on Thursday, after evidence surfaced that she fraudulently used a city credit card for her own personal use.

According to CT Insider, former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart has been accused by a third-party law firm investigation of "using her city-issued card to pay for membership in a social club, clothes for her personal use and supplies for her daughter's birthday party, among many other purchases."

"The investigation, commissioned by the city of New Britain, adds additional detail to recent media reports about Stewart's improper use of public money," said the report. "Before Thursday, Stewart had declined to explain what appeared to be tens of thousands of dollars in personal charges on her city-issued card, blaming the media and her opponents for the story while promising to address the specifics at a later date."...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is raising alarms over the quality of staffers the Republican Party is vetting in preparation for a second Donald Trump administration.

“He's just going to have a bunch of creepy weirdos working in the White House that are intent on destroying government from the inside and pursuing their super creepy, weird political agendas,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Raw Story.

Murphy’s not alone. In response to the far-right Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — a sweeping blueprint for a future Republican president to upend the federal workforce as we know it — a handful of House Democrats have formed a working group to combat the sweeping changes for which conservatives are calling....

A massive fire ripped through a two-family home in Connecticut, leaving four young children dead and nearly a dozen others displaced, officials said. The blaze broke out around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday at a residence in Somers, a quiet town about 25 miles outside Hartford, NBC Connecticut reported. When firefighters and first responders arrived at the scene on Quality Avenue, they found the entire duplex already engulfed in flames. Somers Fire Department Chief John Roache said crews initially struggled to gain access to the residence but confirmed several rescues occurred. At least one person escape......

PHILADELPHIA — As expected, Republican David McCormick received the endorsement of the Pennsylvania GOP Saturday in his second run for the U.S. Senate. What a difference a year makes. That the Republican Party is fully behind the Gulf War veteran and former hedge fund CEO is in contrast to last year, when McCormick, 57, lost a close GOP primary race to celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. After much speculation, the native of Washington, Pennsylvania, who now has homes in Pittsburgh and Connecticut, officially entered the Senate race last week, after nearly 100 prominent Republicans wrote a public lett......

Republicans and Democrats alike have been blasting the planned mega-merger this week of the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf.

But one leading merger critic — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) — wasn't so enthusiastic about discussing a recent campaign donation he received from the PGA's political action committee.

“I’m really focused on what can be done, what is appropriate to do about the merger, given the possibility, the goal of sports-washing by the PGA," Blumenthal said Thursday when asked by Raw Story whether he would return or otherwise dispose of the $1,000 the PGA Tour Inc. Political Action Committee contributed to his re-election campaign committee in October, according to Federal Election Commission records....

SantaCon reveler Chris Paprocky wore the requisite red suit but passed on the white beard. “I don’t want it to interfere what I’m doing,” the Long Islander explained Saturday on Eighth Ave. “Eating! Drinking!” The annual booze-fueled celebration of the upcoming Christmas holiday started early for the 22-year-old from Stony Brook, who grabbed his first drink on the train into Manhattan around 9 a.m. “Just for the special occasion,” said Paprocky, accompanied by five friends. “Just some Michelob Ultras. Just keeping it light.” The event, billed on its website as “a charitable, non-political, non......