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The lawsuit, which seeks to block the shutdown of work on the offshore wind project, was announced the same day as a similar suit by Ørsted. ... Read full Story
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Senate Democrats asked CT Chief Justice Raheem Mullins to ban ICE from arresting people anywhere where judicial proceedings are taking place. ... Read full Story
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Bye, who became commissioner in 2019, is retiring from state service to pursue a career working with children and families in health care. ... Read full Story
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What started as a weekly gathering of women to pray at Seaside Park grew into a movement that spread to Chicago, North Carolina and Italy. ... Read full Story
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AUKUS is the strongest, most effective plan for the United States to deter China’s malign behavior in the Indo-Pacific. ... Read full Story
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Emissions of CO2, the most prevalent greenhouse gas, rose by 1.5% in 2023. That was driven largely by outages at Millstone nuclear station. ... Read full Story
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While CBIA found business opinions were fairly consistent from 2024, what changed in 2025 was uncertainty about state and federal policy. ... Read full Story
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Gov. Ned Lamont said CT's new hourly minimum wage will go into effect Jan. 1. Only Calif., Wash. and N.Y. have higher rates. ... Read full Story
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It is disturbing to read opinion pieces in various publications that promote unsubstantiated Hamas claims, use ‘‘Palestinian genocide’ as accepted fact. ... Read full Story
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Real change to challenge regressive car-centric urban landscapes requires public transit that is accessible, reliable, and affordable. ... Read full Story
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Early voting began Tuesday and runs through Sunday in 21 communities with Democratic or GOP primaries for nominations to municipal offices. ... Read full Story
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During her first stint as commissioner from 2007 to 2011, the agency struggled with meeting kids’ basic service needs, according to reports. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 16, 2025 is:
debunk • \dee-BUNK\ • verb
To debunk something (such as a belief or theory) is to show that it is not true.
// The influencer remained enormously popular despite having the bulk of their health claims thoroughly debunked.
Examples:
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.
