Please attend our forum entitled “The Attack On Voting Rights And The War On Black People,” on Thursday, September 11, 2026, 7:00pm at New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange, 144 Norman Street, East O...

Keshia Golden says she fatally stabbed Calvin Sidney in 2022 when he attacked her after their baby shower. Now a mother to a 3-year-old, Golden still faces murder charges in a case her lawyers argue a...

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As voting rights are under attack at the federal level, we need state-level protections now more than ever. It is crucial for our democracy to pass the John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act (A1715/S282)...

Immediately after Donald Trump concluded a press availability with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, MSNBC host Ali Velshi admitted he was stunned by the president's rambling...

A brave teenager filmed MAGA secret police brutalizing him and other teenagers, and bragging about a $30,000 kidnap bonus. So no, we don't have to respect ICE or whoever.

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More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.

More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.

The Voting Rights Act Turns 60

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We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories.

It’s an unspoken rule in state prisons that staff and inmates should avoid drinking the water, current and former inmates told NJ Advance Media.

Donors with NJ ties include pharma companies, private prison operators and a firm that paid millions to settle federal foreign bribery charges.

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

The most dramatic effort to remake the post-World War II trade system was underway — until it wasn’t.

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Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences

We’ve now seen Volume 1 of Jack Smith’s report, released just after midnight when Judge Aileen Cannon’s order prohibiting DOJ from making it public lapsed.

Donald Trump has pledged to pursue the “largest deportation effort in American history." Now, mixed-status families are bracing themselves. Erika Andiola and Viviana Andazola Marquez are just two examples of those whose stories illustrate what happens when mixed-status families get caught in the crosshairs of America’s broken immigration system. Andazola Marquez, whose father was deported in 2017 after 27 years says, “the Trump administration wants to pursue immigration policy by fear…in practice the only thing he does is terrorize a lot of hard-working families like mine.” Andiola says that her mother will be fighting deportation under Trump. “Deporting a 66-year-old great-grandmother…How is that going to make anybody safer?”

President-elect Donald J. Trump picked the South Dakota governor to head the Homeland Security Department, which includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The funds allow states like California to create barriers to stop the spread of fires