Coast Guard families are enduring hardships as active duty personnel and civilian employees live without pay during the government shutdown.

Connecticut’s insurance industry has been taking stock of its year, and a new report says the state should still pride itself on being the insurance capital of the world.

Another weekend came, and another crop of revelations regarding President Donald Trump came with it. First out was The New York Times ' report that the FBI grew so worried the president might be acting in Russia's interests that it secretly launched a counterintelligence investigation. That happened after Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, according to The Times .

Many women who become pregnant miscarry without knowing it. Yet miscarriage is not something we, as a society, often talk about. Why? This hour, we take an in-depth look and we also hear from you. Have you or a loved one ever miscarried? Where did you turn for support?

On Monday, Imagine Dragons played the Halftime Show at the College Football National Championship Game. The reviews were... not great . In fact, the performance has raised the question: Is Imagine Dragons the worst band ever? And: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure-style, science fiction, psychological thriller film. It's streaming on Netflix, on some devices, as a standalone movie in the Black Mirror television series. The Nose has seen... a number of

Elle . Marie Claire . Cosmopolitan . For generations, magazines such as these have informed the world's women, serving as fashion manuals, as well as vestibules between the conventional and taboo. This hour, we look back on the history of these publications, and talk about the challenges faced by many women's magazines today.

Beer drinkers will not get to sample brand new creations from their favorite breweries during the government shutdown.

New England cuisine is characterized by local farm-to-table producers, and each year Yankee Magazine scours our landscape to celebrate the best artisan New England products through the Editors’ Food Choice Awards.

On a brisk winter day, Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 , gestured towards the spot where a tank in Boston's North End burst, releasing a tsunami of hot molasses into the streets 100 years ago, on January 15, 1919.

This common houseplant is native to the lush mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. It was brought to Europe in the 1800s. In the early 1920s, a Los Angeles-based nursery grew thousands of seedlings and selected the 10 best for use in breeding. It's from these plants that we have many of the modern day African violet varieties.