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A Tornado Warning and a Severe Thunderstorm Warning in parts of New Jersey ended on Thursday evening. The National Weather Service Tornado Warning included parts of southwestern Monmouth County, southeastern Mercer County plus north central Ocean County and lasted until 6 p.m. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning, which ended at 7 p.m., was issued for partsContinue reading “Trenton Tornado?”

Neo-Nazi group Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has members who are currently military officers, elected officials, public employees and at least one is a national security expert with “Department of Defense Secret Security Clearance.” A hacktivist leaked the membership list of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to The Guardian, which showed some high-profile members haveContinue reading “Neo-Nazi group includes US military officers & politicians”

Prosecutors indicted the Trump Organization for a 15-year "scheme to defraud" the government and charged its chief financial officer with grand larceny and tax fraud in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon. Allen Weisselberg, former president Donald Trump’s longtime CFO, pleaded not guilty during a brief arraignment hearing that began about 2:20 p.m. Weisselberg walked intoContinue reading “Trump Organization & CFO indicted”

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a large-scale transportation bill that includes a provision that would allow researchers to access marijuana from state-legal dispensaries in order to effectively study impaired driving. After clearing committee last month, the chamber passed the legislation in a 221-201 vote. A Senate committee also recently advanced its versionContinue reading “Congress okays marijuana research”

The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to authorities on Thursday, as he and former President Donald Trump’s namesake company prepared to face the first charges from a investigation into tax fraud and other crimes. Weisselberg and the Trump Organization will be arraigned in a New York state court in Manhattan, once anContinue reading “Trump Organization’s CFO surrenders”

New Jersey Working Families, an independent grassroots organization fighting for a government that represents the people’s needs and values, has filed an ethics complaint against Senator Nicholas Scutari based on allegations that the lawmaker was a chronic absentee while being paid as Linden municipal prosecutor. The complaint, filed with the Joint Legislative Committee on EthicalContinue reading “No show job haunts lawmaker”

A Hunterdon County, New Jersey, man admitted receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse. Daniel Murphy, 48, of Lebanon, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of childContinue reading “Hunterdon County man admits to receiving child pornography”

Change the Chamber, a coalition of over 100+ student groups from across the country, supported by 28 environmental organizations including Public Citizen, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and the Sierra Club, is calling on corporations to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unless the nation’s largest business lobbying group takes meaningful steps to endContinue reading “Environmentalists call on businesses to leave US Chamber of Commerce”

Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby. Cosby, 83, flashed the V-for-victory sign asContinue reading “Bill Cosby released from prison as sexual assault conviction is reversed”

In its first legal challenge to an immigration policy filed during the Biden administration, the American Civil Liberties Union launched a federal class-action lawsuit that seeks to immediately block the long-distance transfer of ICE detainees from the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, N.J. The case was brought by the national ACLU, the ACLU ofContinue reading “ACLU challenging Biden immigration policy”

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal will resign to become the director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) enforcement division. SEC Chairman Gary Gensler selected Grewal to be the agency’s enforcement chief effective July 26, following a disappointing false start with his previous choice for the job. Gensler originally picked corporate attorney Alex OhContinue reading “New Jersey Attorney General leaving for SEC post”

One year ago, on September 23, 2020, Ariadne Schulz published this brilliant essay about the situation that has engulfed the nation. The political news is often presented in a binary manner that substitutes objectivity for fairness but in reality, Republicans are still destroying our nation with lies, cheating and financial advantages. Media reports cannot makeContinue reading “10 Ways Republicans are Destroying America and selling it off for parts.”

Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region face systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said as it released a new report. In the 160-page report, ‘Like We Were Enemies in a War’: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and Persecution of MuslimsContinue reading “Chinese Muslims face brutal oppression”

As Pride month draws to a close, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal is taking a series of unprecedented actions to recognize an ugly moment in the history of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office: the systematic targeting of gay bars by the Office’s Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (“ABC”) between 1933 and 1967. To rightContinue reading “Attorney General recognizes ugly history”

A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) provides for the first time an in-depth, nationwide examination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s abuse and retaliation against people who initiate hunger strikes in U.S. immigration detention to protest their conditions of confinement. Behind Closed Doors: Abuse and RetaliationContinue reading “Immigration officials abused hunger strikers”

John Oliver skewered health care sharing ministries Sunday night, but New Jersey has been trying to ban the faith-based scams since last year. Health care sharing ministries (HCSM) are organizations in which health care costs are shared among members who have common ethical or religious beliefs. These plans are not prohibited in New Jersey, butContinue reading “Health care sharing ministries are a legal scam”

The U.S. government does not have a policy to protect American veterans who are legal residents but not U.S. citizens so when they run into legal problems, these heroes are being deported back to their original countries. Ramon Castro, a U.S. veteran, started walking a 2,000-mile trek Monday morning — from Friendship Park in SanContinue reading “Heroes are being deported, so brother vet walks and talks”

American journalist Nathan Maung was released from detention in Myanmar but he claims that he was beaten and tortured during his confinement by military authorities. The United States citizen is due to fly out of the country on Tuesday, according to his lawyer Tin Zar Oo. A court dismissed the case against the Kamayut MediaContinue reading “American journalist tortured in Myanmar”

Lawmakers approved legislation to prevent childhood lead poisoning in New Jersey. This legislation requires a proactive lead inspection process for rental properties built before 1978, closing a loophole that allowed all single family/two family rental units to go uninspected. Before now, thousands of children were poisoned each year before lead was detected in a homeContinue reading “Legislation aims at childhood lead poisoning”

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on June 18, 2021, took a step toward denying Communion to prominent supporters of abortion rights, most notably Joe Biden, the nation’s first pro-choice Catholic president. Despite the objections of many of their own members, the Vatican, and the majority of the people in the church, the bishopsContinue reading “Bishops cancel Communion”