The Latest Breaking News from Jim Himes

WASHINGTON — Three flying objects were downed over North America in as many days and another was reportedly spotted over a Chinese port city, showing how “unidentified aerial phenomena” are keeping the world on edge since entering the international mainstream in the past two weeks.

Officials briefly shut down air traffic over Lake Michigan but reopened it after an hour. Concerns are high in Washington about a large-scale Chinese aerial surveillance program.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes will succeed the ousted Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

As the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity prepares to disband, it released a 30-minute movie narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Connecticut Republicans are hoping to unseat at least one of the state’s five incumbent Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives

A House committee is holding hearings to examine how to make it easier for small businesses to get a more diverse workforce.

First, her father was lured back to Rwanda under false pretenses and jailed

The House passed provisions that would allow cannabis businesses to use banking services; the Senate may not agree.

The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd’s murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America’s intelligence agencies