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For the first time in a generation, measles has killed in Pennsylvania. Two residents of Lancaster County, neither of whom had received the vaccine that makes this disease a ghost of the past, are dead. The last time the commonwealth buried someone from this scourge, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and the first PresidentContinue reading “After two Pennsylvania residents die of measles, Trump seeks fewer childhood vaccines”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, held a private meeting in recent weeks, according to a report in The New York Times. The meeting took place in a private space in New York City arranged by a mutual acquaintance of the two men, the Times reported. TheContinue reading “Jeffries-Kushner meeting signals post-election collaboration, analysts say”

On this night 250 years ago, the flame of American independence nearly flickered out. Against a backdrop of crushing defeat and overwhelming odds, Gen. George Washington executed a stealthy retreat across the East River that remains one of the greatest military escapes in history—a testament to leadership, expert seamanship, and a timely turn of theContinue reading “A nation’s narrowest escape: Washington’s ‘Midnight Miracle’ at Brooklyn”

The Trump administration has imposed sweeping sanctions on the Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I), designating it a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist.” The move, which targets a volunteer-run group that provides encrypted email and web hosting to activists, marks a sharp escalation in the use of post-9/11 counterterrorism tools against domestic political opponents—and has drawn fierceContinue reading “US sanctions Italian tech collective in politically motivated crackdown on dissent”

The New Jersey League of Conservation Voters awarded Gov. Rebecca ‘Mikie’ Sherrill an “A” for her first 100 days in office, praising what it called “swift and decisive environmental leadership,” but that glowing report card collides with her record as the self-described Blue Dog Democrat advances fossil fuel infrastructure, calls for dangerous nuclear power, cutsContinue reading “Environmental Group Gives Sherrill an ‘A’ Despite Pipeline Approval, DEP Cuts and Regulatory Rollbacks”

Gov. Rebecca “Mikie” Sherrill signed legislation Thursday requiring data center developers to disclose their water and energy consumption every six months, while simultaneously ending a $500 million tax credit program that former Gov. Phil Murphy created to lure artificial intelligence companies to the Garden State. The twin actions wete billed as a mark a sharpContinue reading “Sherrill’s weak data center reporting is barely better than Murphy’s subsidy”

In a spectacle that would make even the most cynical observer of American politics wince, the Honorable Tom Kean Jr. has unveiled his latest strategic masterpiece—a “Women for Kean” coalition, as if the mere presence of skirts in his corner might somehow shield him from the glaring facts of his own pathetic record. The event,Continue reading “The Great Skirt Chase: Kean’s desperate id to hide behind women’s petticoats”

Sixty-three years to the month after Martin Luther King Jr. summoned a nation to its better angels, thousands of Americans returned to the National Mall on Saturday—not to celebrate a dream fulfilled, but to mount a last defense against a republic actively unraveling. They march under a burning sun, in the very shadow of aContinue reading “Sixty-three years after the dream, marchers save the republic from the man who tried to burn it down”

Michael Bailey, a political scientist at Georgetown, recently told The New York Times that President Donald Trump is “easily the worst president in U.S. history,” after the convicted felon posted a chart disparaging his predecessors and placing himself above George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Trump’s stupid chart of ‘greatest’ presidents is aContinue reading “Experts say Trump is “easily the worst president in U.S. history.””

By Jay L. Zagorsky The number of Americans who file for bankruptcy is growing. More than 500,000 people took this step in 2025, nearly 50% more than in 2022. And the numbers have kept on climbing, with a 12% jump in June 2026 from a year earlier as many consumers struggled to pay their bills. I am a business school professor whoContinue reading “Signs of economic distress: Personal bankruptcy filings are soaring in 2026”

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The water came not from the sky but from the mountains, and it came with the force of a judgment long delayed. By the time the roiling wall of ice, rock and mud had finished its work along the Nepal-Tibet border, at least 160 people were dead and more than 680 remainedContinue reading “Climate crisis kills 160 in Nepal”

You didn’t see it go up. No public hearing, no notice in the mail, no town crier. Just a small black box bolted to a pole at the end of your street, its unblinking lens aimed at your bumper as you pull out of the driveway each morning. However, if you live in New Jersey,Continue reading “Over 1,500 cameras in New Jersey are part of a nationwide network of unwarranted mass surveillance”

A neo-Nazi anti-government extremist organization has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a school district that allows employees to respect students’ privacy rights by withholding information from their parents. Moms for Liberty, a far-right organization with a history of anti-LGBTQ activism, book-ban campaigns, and associations with extremists, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn aContinue reading “Book-burning neo-Nazi extremists file a lawsuit against Chatham schools”

A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. TheContinue reading “Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers funded a $533 million artillery plant that made nothing”

New Jersey’s childhood vaccine requirements have not changed despite the regulatory whims of President Donald Trump’s unqualified health administrators. A federal executive order signed on August 10 recommends fewer routine vaccines for children, a move that departs from decades of evidence and is likely to increase the risk of preventable illness and death to childrenContinue reading “New Jersey Health Commissioner: Evidence for childhood vaccines is unchanged”

by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor New Jersey is asking a federal judge to throw out the Trump administration’s legal challenge to a new state law banning immigration agents from wearing masks, a request it made in a new legal filing that is backed with more than a dozen sworn declarations describing masked federal agents chasing elementaryContinue reading “NJ residents share stories of masked ICE agents in push to retain mask ban”

A tragic fire claimed the lives of a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, while an adult male in the home managed to escape unharmed when a fire ripped through a home in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning, officials say. The front of the house is charred, and officials say the interior is completelyContinue reading “Trenton fire killed two children, destroyed home, displaced four families”

The body of a woman who jumped into the Delaware River to rescue a struggling girl was recovered Tuesday morning, on what would have been her 34th birthday, police said. Authorities and family are mourning the loss of Priscila Alvares Pereira Dos Santos, a mother of two who officials say died a hero. Dos Santos,Continue reading “Woman who drowned saving child in Delaware River recovered on her 34th birthday”

Imagine yourself waking up tomorrow and discovering your sex had changed from the one you’ve lived with throughout your life. If you had been a man, you have a woman’s body, and had you been a woman, you have a man’s physique. Then consider what it would be like if you were isolated, ridiculed andContinue reading “More than 60% of gender-nonconforming employees report experiencing discrimination or harassment at work”