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Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill that President Joe Biden signed on Saturday.

President Biden signed a bipartisan gun measure on Saturday, saying “Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved.” Most of its $13 billion cost will help bolster mental health programs and aid schools.

The deal, negotiated by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, could be the most significant federal action on gun violence in nearly three decades

Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month’s mass shootings, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.

“I went into sudden cardiac arrest because the blood was no longer pumping,” recalled Leigh Pechillo of Southington. Pechillo remembered the massive heart attack she suffered on Mother’s Day in 2014. What she suspected was heartburn turned out to be much more, a widow-maker heart attack. “I was LifeStarred to the hospital and they did find a 70% blockage,” said...

The American Heart Association is hoping to bring attention to women’s heart health with National Wear Red Day. Heart disease is the lead cause of death for both women and men, but signs of this problem show more in men.

After months of political negotiations and gridlock, President Joe Biden spoke on Saturday morning to celebrate the passage of his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill late Friday night.

There is a lot of talk about President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic plan known as the Build Back Better Agenda, but do you know what’s actually included in the bill? Here are five things you should know about Biden’s Build Back Better proposal.

The Senate approved the plan Tuesday with a 69-30 vote.

After much delay, senators have unveiled their $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

President Joe Biden announced that he and a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators have reached an agreement on an infrastructure package

President Joe Biden’s vision of his presidency is quickly taking shape.

After the Senate narrowly passed President Biden’s COVID-19 relief package along party lines, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the president remains hopeful for bipartisanship on future legislation. “He remains open and remains hopeful about the opportunity for bipartisan work moving forward.”

A bipartisan, bicameral group of Senators and Congresspeople discussed the framework of a proposed COVID-19 relief bill. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, says not assurances have been made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that this bill could be brought to the Senate or House floor.

Joe Biden is signaling that he plans to move quickly to build out his government.

Connecticut lawmakers took up 19 healthcare-related bills on Thursday. Many were aimed at chipping away at the cost of healthcare. Backers of a bipartisan bill to reform health insurance, bring down prescription drug prices, and set limits on healthcare cost increases said it will bring real relief to residents. “The prescription drug prices that we’re paying in Connecticut are some…

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Thursday with President Donald Trump and other critics of the tech industry, the Senate’s most vocal detractor offered a challenge: Sell your WhatsApp and Instagram properties to prove you’re serious about protecting data privacy. It may have been more than Zuckerberg expected from his private meeting with Sen. Josh Hawley, a conservative Republican from...

State officials are reacting to a report of an idea to bring a casino to Hartford.

The Trump administration’s ban on goods produced by a Chinese tech giant would seem to have little to do with rural America. But rural cell service providers across the U.S. are almost entirely dependent on the company, Huawei, which produces inexpensive wireless communications equipment, NBC News reported. These small telecom companies now face billions of dollars in costs or the...