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A filmmaker sets out to investigate a poaching ring and discovers a tangle of environmental-justice issues in the New York City waterway.

More employees are seeking better wages and a better work/life balance, forcing companies to change the way they treat their workers.

Blumenthal joins fight, demands improvements to Seymours Kinneytown Dam, inoperable fish ladder Michael P. Mayko FacebookTwitterEmail U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks with others prior to a news conference next to the hydroelectric power station on the west side of Kinneytown Dam, in Seymour, Dec. 28. Blumenthal joined state and local officials to address concerns regarding the dam’s safety and its fish ladder.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media SEYMOUR — The fight to fix the deteriora...

Property buyers in certain areas will have to wait nearly 200 times longer than others to have local authority searches done despite the rush to complete before the stamp duty holiday ends. Such local logjams have created a postcode lottery that risks landing buyers with a tax bill of up to £15,000. Councils have backed The Telegraphs campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended to work through the backlog. Buyers have also been forced to buy indemnity insurance in case councils can...

Blumenthal joins fight, demands improvements to Seymour’s Kinneytown Dam, inoperable fish ladder By Michael P. Mayko FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks with others prior to a news conference next to the hydroelectric power station on the west side of Kinneytown Dam, in Seymour, Dec. 28. Blumenthal joined state and local officials to address concerns regarding the dam’s safety and its fish ladder. Photo: Ned Gerard / Hearst...

crevasse. at the end of this year the bush tax cuts will expire and tax rates will go up. if you pay 10% now, youll pay 15%. if you pay 35%, youll pay nearly 40%. six million americans will lose unemployment insurance. and the so-called sequestration cuts, the $1.2 trillion to cuts in services and defense, they start too. if congress doesnt make a deal, the economy will go back into recession. as our economic strike team member reminded us, the debt ceiling has to pass congress on that...

outfront tonight, secret talks. secret talks in congress to save america from fiscal implosion. secret talks happen all the time, and 99% of them fail. but we are rooting for the 1% chance that these finally succeed. because america needs a grand bargain to prevent our debt rising to twice the size of our economy and to prevent a recession really, really soon. today fed chief ben bernanke, the man who has twisted and turned to get interest rates to zero to try to help this country said...