Susan Haigh

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  • Norwich City Hall is decorated for the annual “Light Up City Hall” event in Norwich, Conn., Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Scenes from Hallmark movie Sugar Plum Twist were filmed at City Hall. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)Arts & Entertainment

    Connecticut cashes in on Hallmark Movie status to drive kitschy Christmas tourism boom

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • Robert F. KennedyPolitics

    After lengthy delay, Trump administration releases $3.6 billion of funding for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • post officeLaw

    Supreme Court to hear Texas landlord’s lawsuit against the Post Office for failing to deliver mail for 2 years

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • LundayLaw

    Coast Guard revises policy on ‘a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups’

    By Konstantin Toropin, Lisa Mascaro, and others
  • David SteinerEconomy

    Trump’s postal chief says cuts have gone too far: ‘we cannot cost-cut our way to prosperity’

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • Mark Bain, who is part of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, rubs his hands together as he checks the level on his oil at home in hopes that he will have enough oil to outlast the shutdown, in Bloomfield, Conn., Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Energy

    It’s not just SNAP, the government shutdown also threatens home heating aid for millions of low-income families

    By Susan Haigh, Marc Levy, and others
  • CORRECTS BYLINE TO REV. JOHN UDO-OKON, NOT SUSAN HAIGH – In this photo provided by the Rev. John Udo-Okon, people wait in line for free food at the World of Life Christian Fellowship International food pantry in the Bronx borough of New York on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (Rev. John Udo-Okon via AP)Economy

    Long lines form at food pantries after SNAP payments were suddenly cut off due to the government shutdown

    By Susan Haigh, Dylan Lovan, and others
  • Joni ErnstEnvironment

    Calling the Post Office’s switch to EVs a ‘textbook example of waste,’ GOP wants to waste millions of dollars already spent on transition

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A car enters the drive at Day Kimball Hospital, July 18, 2022 in Putnam, Conn. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)Health

    Rural hospitals brace for $1 trillion Medicaid cut in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: ‘If we do see a cut of that, it’ll be difficult to keep the doors open’

    By Margery A. Beck, Susan Haigh, and others
  • David Steiner, president and chief executive officer of Waste Management Inc. smiles while speaking at the OPEC Oil Embargo +40 conference hosted by Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. To mark the 40th anniversary of the OPEC oil embargo, leading CEOs, technology innovators, policymakers, and military leaders are participating in a summit to discuss the state of American energy security. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    USPS’ new postmaster general is a FedEx board member and former Fortune 500 CEO. But union leaders say he’s the ‘last type of person’ who should be in charge

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Avelo Airlines Andrew LevyFinance

    Budget airline Avelo will fly deportation flights for ICE—but carrier’s hometown mayor calls it ‘deeply disappointing and disturbing’

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Overland Park, Kan.Politics

    Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to privatize the U.S. Postal Service after years of billion-dollar losses. Unions say it’s a ‘terrible idea’

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for his nomination to be Transportation Secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Politics

    Transportation secretary’s memo to tie funding to marriage and birth rates is called ‘bizarre and a little creepy’

    By Jeff McMurray, Susan Haigh, and others
  • Retail

    Cold Stone Creamery is facing a legal battle after a New York woman discovered that her ‘pistachio’ ice cream contained no real pistachios

    By Susan Haigh and The Associated Press
  • FILE – This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)Personal Finance

    IRS is sending out automatic COVID stimulus payments. Here’s who is getting them

    By Susan Haigh, Adriana Morga, and others