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A slow-moving nor’easter battered the Jersey Shore on Sunday, driving seawater into coastal streets and forcing local fishing fleets to remain docked as warnings stretched along the Atlantic seaboard. The storm, crawling northward along the coast, combined high tides with sustained onshore winds to push water into low-lying areas from Cape May through Monmouth County.Continue reading “Nor’easter lashes Jersey Shore with flooding, high winds”

President Donald Trump, a coward and a liar who got out of Vietnam with five draft deferments—including a bogus bone-spurs claim—keeps posting artificial intelligence-generated pictures of himself as a Medal of Honor-winning four-star general — and angry veterans are calling on Congress to do something about it. Veterans and other critics are calling Trump aContinue reading “Draft-dodger Donald Trump demoted two of America’s most celebrated World War II generals”

Lt. Governor Dale Caldwell’s resignation drew reactions from political and civic leaders across New Jersey, including Democrats who said the investigation’s findings made his continued service untenable and Republicans who had demanded his departure before the inquiry was completed. Whether the charges are valid or not, Caldwell decided to get out of the way ofContinue reading “Government gossip gets going on high gear”

Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned Friday, a day after Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on him to step down following an independent investigation that substantiated sexual harassment and repeated violations of state ethics policies. Caldwell, 66, submitted his resignation Friday afternoon, Sherrill announced at a news conference. The Democratic governor had given Caldwell until Friday toContinue reading “Caldwell called it quits”

Nearly 30% of New Jersey schools sit within a mile of a known brownfield site. The children inside have no way to know what’s in the soil. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that 44% of pre-K-12 schools across the United States are located within one mile ofContinue reading “New Jersey schools sit on or near toxic hazards. What can you do about it?”

Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign Tuesday after an independent investigation substantiated allegations of sexual harassment and found he repeatedly violated state policy, giving him until Wednesday to step down. The investigation, initiated by the state’s Chief Ethics Officer and conducted by a former state attorney general, found Caldwell engagedContinue reading “New Jersey governor calls on lieutenant governor to resign after investigation finds sexual harassment”

New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District gets what may be its only look at the two major-party candidates Sunday night, when Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. and Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett meet for a Rider University-sponsored debate — but NJTODAY has uncovered a 674-page Democratic research report painting Kean as an out-of-touch multimillionaire career politician whoContinue reading “DCCC research reveals Tom Kean Jr.’s record ahead of Sunday debate”

Utah’s Republican United States Senator, John Curtis, called on the Judiciary Committee leadership to investigate the business dealings of presidential family members, urging the panel to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden to testify about whether they used their proximity to power for private gain. In a three-page letter sent Monday to Chairman ChuckContinue reading “Republican senator wants to investigate presidential family profiteering”

An 18-year-old Hightstown man has been arrested and charged in connection with two assaults on women in the borough, including the alleged sexual assault of a 34-year-old woman earlier this month, authorities said Thursday. Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta D. Marbrey and Hightstown Police Chief Frank Gendron said an investigation by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s OfficeContinue reading “Christian Arevalo arrested as Hightstown masher”

While much of the nation’s attention is on the court order restoring White House access to top media outlets, an Iowa state judge on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper. The decision handed down by Judge Scott J. Beattie is the latest inContinue reading “Judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit in Iowa”

by Benedict Vigers Americans’ perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread. That figure is up 10 percentage points from last year and well above readings in the 72% to 79% range between 2010 and 2025. Democrats’ perceptions ofContinue reading “Gallup: Record-high 89% of Americans think their government is corrupt”

An independent committee of human rights lawyers and scholars says the $667 million verdict against Greenpeace was the product of a fundamentally unfair trial, citing judicial bias, a tainted jury and a “wildly exorbitant” damages award unsupported by evidence. A 40-page report released by the Independent Trial Monitoring Committee concluded that Energy Transfer’s lawsuit violatedContinue reading “SLAPP lawsuit violated Greenpeace’s rights to a fair trial, lawyers say”

Van Drew, Smith and Kean have largely supported the president as two former Navy flag officers accuse Congress of failing service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln New Jersey’s three Republican members of Congress are heading into the November election closely associated with President Donald Trump as two retired Navy admirals running for Congress elsewhereContinue reading “NJ Republicans stick with Trump as admirals condemn treatment of sailors in Iran war”

A poll conducted by Republican pollsters shows incumbent Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is planning to make false accusations against his Democratic opponent, Rebecca Bennett, according to a survey released Tuesday. The poll, which was commissioned by the Kean campaign or one of several allied dark money PACs, tested a series of negative statements about Bennett,Continue reading

President Donald Trump’s joint fundraising committee sent an email this week promising recipients “high-priority, need-to-know information that is not readily available for everyday Americans.” It told readers to sit down before reading, to make sure they were alone, and to ensure that “NO Leftists” could see over their shoulder. The email’s claim of “information thatContinue reading “Trump email promising ‘secret’ information just asks for $20”

The president of the United States is openly considering dismantling the 77-year-old military alliance that has been the cornerstone of American foreign policy since the Second World War, and he appears to believe he can do it by himself, without so much as a by-your-leave from the Congress that holds the purse strings and theContinue reading “Trump may pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization”