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By the reckoning of the Department of Homeland Security, a war is being waged on America’s immigration officers. DHS reports a staggering 1,153 percent increase in assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel this year, with 238 attacks from January through November compared to 19 in the same period of 2024. Officials decry a climateContinue reading “Alleged war on federal agents forged by Trump’s Republican policies that provoked it”

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that “the transition to come must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people.” He added that he hoped President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, would ensure the transition quickly. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the legal assessment is complex and “we will take ourContinue reading “World leaders react to President Donald Trump’s theft of Venezuela’s oil”

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina submerged a major American city and exposed fatal flaws in the nation’s disaster response system, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) faces a profound transformation under the Trump administration, one that critics warn could return the country to a state of dangerous unpreparedness. Weather and climate-related disasters like floods andContinue reading “Ignoring Hurricane Katrina’s lessons, Trump is dismantling America’s disaster defenses”

In a case that reads less like a crime report and more like a rejected film script, four individuals stand accused of attempting to turn the safety net of travel insurance into a personal piggy bank, authorities announced Thursday. The alleged plot, which involved fictitious trips, phantom hospitalizations, and brazen duplication of paperwork, sought toContinue reading “Four indicted for travel insurance scheme involving phony foreign hospital stays”

In the quiet suburban sprawl of Edison, New Jersey, a political ceremony is poised to unfold with all the pomp one might expect. Mayor Samip “Sam” Joshi will raise his right hand on January 4, sworn into a second term before a gathering of supporters at the town’s new $12.7 million youth sports complex. TheContinue reading “Edison mayor transforms sweet smell of victory into “the stink of arrogance and greed””

In the first minutes of this newborn year, as the last echoes of “Auld Lang Syne” dissolved into the chill January air, New Jersey’s maternity wards became the stage for a quiet, profound, and oddly competitive human drama. Across the state, in institutions often better known for their billing departments than their bassinets, the annualContinue reading “New Jersey ushers in 2026 with new arrivals amid hospital fanfare.”

On its face, the legal announcement was a standard dispatch from the ongoing cleanup of the coronavirus pandemic, the $6 trillion slush fund created by Congress and Republican President Donald Trump, and the nearly $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that was sloppily disbursed. A tour company settled allegations that it improperly took pandemic reliefContinue reading “Whistleblower has political motivation to scour technical missteps of ideological adversaries”

In the grand theater of American politics, where incremental progress is often paraded as victory, a new act is unfolding in New Jersey. As the state’s minimum wage ticks upward to $15.92 an hour, a chorus of progressive Democrats is declaring the celebrated climb a mirage. They argue that even this hard-won number is aContinue reading “As the state’s minimum wage ticks upward, progressives say that it isn’t enough”

Driving in New Jersey will cost more in the new year as toll increases take effect on some of the state’s busiest highways and river crossings. Toll hikes approved for the New Jersey Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission will go into effect in the first week of 2026. TheContinue reading “Driving in New Jersey will cost more in the new year as toll increases take effect”

by Jonathan Shorman, New Jersey Monitor The U.S. Postal Service has adopted a new rule that could create doubt about whether some ballots mailed by voters by Election Day will receive postmarks in time to be counted. A USPS rule that took effect on Dec. 24 says mail might not receive a postmark on theContinue reading “New US Postal Service postmark rule to affect some mail-in ballots”

By Sean Summers | Unicorn Riot Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted in Georgia as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed on December 30, 2025, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in the years after the movement’s peak. The dismissal comes after more than two years of attempted prosecution that sought toContinue reading “Cop City RICO cases dismissed years after 61 activists charged as criminal conspiracy”

In the precise and solemn language of science, the verdict is delivered: humanity has never been closer to self-annihilation. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the most dire setting since its creation in the ashes of World War II. This is not a metaphor; it isContinue reading “As Doomsday Clock ticks forward, humanity chooses Armageddon over reason”

While millions of Americans suffer, two faces of the same corrupt system—Cory Booker and Donald Trump—have engineered a fraudulent, partisan shouting match designed to achieve one thing: absolutely nothing. Their performance is a masterclass in political theater, but Americans won’t find this entertainment worth the price when insurance premiums skyrocket. Trump, the blustering oligarch, screamsContinue reading “Cory Booker and Donald Trump ginned up the healthcare racket”

By James J. Devine As the holiday lights come down and Americans mark New Year’s Eve, the Trump administration is closing out the year by touting strong GDP growth and a buoyant stock market as proof of what the president calls the “greatest economy in the history of our country.” Those topline indicators, however, tellContinue reading “New Year’s Eve Reckoning: An economy that works for the rich, not for working families”

By Senator Bernie Sanders For months, the American people have watched the Republican Party run away from their own unpopular health care agenda. But now — finally — they have been forced to admit what the rest of us have known all along: Doubling Affordable Care Act premiums for 20 million Americans and throwing 15Continue reading “It’s good that Republicans finally want to talk about health care—but their ideas are absurd”

By James J. Devine As America approaches her Semiquincentennial on July 4, 2026, our nation is marking these 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence by shredding the Constitution of the United States, with President Donald Trump deploying armed military troops to cities, Congress ignoring attacks on its purse-string purview, and courtsContinue reading “Can fireworks illuminate a sky when the light of liberty has been extinguished?”

by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor Anyone looking to recover from holiday spending sprees might want to check with New Jersey’s treasury department. The state is holding onto $7 billion in unclaimed funds and property, waiting on their rightful owners to take it all back. Most is cash, but people have left everything from jewelryContinue reading “A fortune awaits forgetful residents at NJ’s unclaimed property office”

By Sharon Lerner | ProPublica Erin McCanlies was listening to the radio one morning in April when she heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to find the cause of autism by September. The Secretary of Health and Human Services said he believed an environmental toxin was responsible for the dramatic increase in the condition andContinue reading “RFK Jr. vowed to find the cause of Autism, then shut down research trying to do that”