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Opinion: Trumbull has a unique chance to reinvent itself as something more than a postwar suburb Tom Broderick FacebookTwitterEmail A view of South Edgewood Avenue in Trumbull.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media Trumbull has a unique chance to reinvent itself as something more than a postwar suburb by following through on its 2014 Plan of Conservation and Development and building a people-focused, walkable center. Trumbull is a beautiful town with a wonderful quality of life, but it’s also a collection of homes in search of a place. With the strip malls in the “town center” cur...

Operation Pedro Pan: Cuba's Mass Exodus Of Children Explained By Marina Manoukian/Feb. 24, 2021 4:47 pm EDT For two years in the 1960s, Operation Pedro Pan, also known as Operation Peter Pan, resulted in thousands of Cuban children being relocated to the United States. With the help of the Catholic Welfare Bureau and the U.S. State Department, Cuban parents were able to send their children off in the hopes of finding a better future. And since this implied a rejection of communism, the United States was eager to accept children, and later their families, making the overall operation "the la...

The ‘leucistic’ penguin, whose cells no longer create melanin, landed right by Belgian wildlife photographer Yves Adams while he was on an expedition to capture shots of a colony of king penguins in the South Atlantic.

A yellow-and-white penguin with no black on it has been spotted for what is thought to be the first time ever. A wildlife photographer captured shots of the “never before seen” bird among thousands of black-and-white penguins on a South Atlantic island. Yves Adams said: “I’d never seen or heard of a yellow penguin before. There were 120,000 birds on that beach, and this was the only yellow one there.” Mr Adams, from Belgium, was leading a...