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Mike Smith will ride Justify for a shot at the Triple Crown in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes. He’ll compete against nine other horse/jockey combinations — and all nine other jockeys will be men. In fact, over the past 48 years, more than 300 jockeys have ridden in Triple Crown races, and only six have been women. A female jockey hasn’t competed...

An investigation is underway after anti-Semitic graffiti was found alongside the word “Trump” at the Yale Law School Sunday.

Kim Kardashian West talks to Jimmy Fallon about whether or not the Wyoming ranch her husband, Kanye West, purchased means they’re ditching L.A. for good, why she always thought her reality was made for TV and how seriously she’s taking law school.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Harvard Law Review discriminates against whites and men when selecting its student editors and articles. The judge’s Thursday decision says the suit failed to identify anyone who was harmed by Harvard’s policies.

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish is on a roll, with a string of high profile film and television roles as her career blossoms. But Haddish, 39, remembers tougher times.

Kardashian West, who is now studying law while running her beauty business and continuing on reality TV, first learned of Barnett’s work when she stumbled on an interview with Alice Marie Johnson from prison and tracked down the Tennessee grandmother’s legal team, which included Barnett.

Two of the top Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly said Tuesday that the state has an obligation to consider ending religious exemptions from vaccinations for public school students.

Joe Biden spent a hot August day at his lakefront Delaware home watching hatred on display in Charlottesville, Virginia, where, days earlier, torch-wielding white supremacists had marched through town. A counter-protester advocating racial equality was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd. When President Donald Trump blamed the violence on “both sides,” the former vice president...

Joe Biden, the former vice president and U.S. senator from Delaware, has made it official: he is running for president. Biden posted this video delcaring his 2020 run for the Democratic nomination Thursday morning.

Paul Manafort, President Donald J. Trump’s campaign manager, was sentenced for the second time on Wednesday in federal court in Washington D.C., and is now facing a seven-and a half year prison term. The most recent sentence, on crimes that included money laundering, tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign lobbying work, added three and one-half years to his time...

Shortly after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was sentenced to an additional 3.5 years in prison, his attorney Kevin Downing said there was no Russian collusion on the part of his client.

At 3, Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism and doctors thought she may never be able to work a minimum wage job or live on her own. Last month, she became the first openly autistic person to be admitted to the Florida Bar.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam met quietly on Monday with top administration officials but gave no public signal that he intends to step down despite mounting pressure to resign over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

Stacey Abrams’ Democratic campaign filed a federal lawsuit Sunday asking a judge to delay vote certifications in Georgia’s unsettled governor’s race by one day and to make officials count any votes that were wrongly rejected. If successful, the suit would prevent officials from certifying county vote totals until Wednesday and could restore at least 1,095 votes that weren’t counted. The...

There was a political upset in the 26th Senate District after 22-year-old Democrat Will Haskell unseated Republican Toni Boucher, who was first elected in 2008.

Will Haskell is the new State Senator-Elect from the 26th District in Fairfield County and he’s only 22 years old.

Perez is a Dreamer, a DACA recipient who came to the U.S. from Mexico at 11 months old. Until last year the Quinnipiac law grad wasn’t allowed to practice law in Connecticut, so she worked to change it.

The next phase for Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be in the classroom. After his gubernatorial term is over, he will be teaching at Boston College Law School.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2006. He got his start in law school in Connecticut.

The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration...