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Princeton, NJ -- Hillary Clinton is opening her state campaign headquarters in New Jersey this weekend. Her headquarters will open at 138 Nassau Street in Princeton. The grand opening celebration is Sunday, Sept. 18, noon-2 p.m., the Clinton Campaign announced Tuesday afternoon. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker will be in attendance. “Learn how you can help ensure four more years of progress by electing Hillary Clinton as our next president,” the Clinton Campaign said in an email. The Princeton Community Democratic Organization is currently open at that location, where residents are invited to drop in and sign up to volunteer to...

Without blood, it's just a stew. Stir in the ferric liquid and the French will happily inform you that you've made a civet — a term generally used to describe any stew or sauce thickened with animal plasma. At MIMI, a contemporary bistro doing some wondrously archaic things, chef Liz Johnson's civet calls for veal stock reduced with pig's blood until murky and syrupy like molten ganache. Sporting a deeper, more sinful flavor than demi-glace, the throwback sauce glazes three parcels of blood-sausage-stuffed freshwater eel that have been grilled over charcoal. As if the plump, slippery bastards weren't decked out...

Health & Food: Is Better Food the Prescription for a Healthier America? October 27 & 28, 2014 Convene Conference Center, 730 Third Ave., NYC For decades, a growing body of evidence points to food as the key to improving the health of our bodies, as well as the health of our communities and our environment. Our food choices are informed—consciously or not—by policy, society, economics, marketing and, of course, personal choice. Increasingly, food is being touted as a method of prevention, and a prescription for better health. Convening a diverse group of thought leaders, the James Beard Foundation Food Conference...

I am a catholic church organist. Yesterday morning before the 7:30 a.m. mass a boy came up to the choir loft alone. He sat reverently in the pew with a very serious look on his face. Not only did he sit very still but he seemed extremely interested in the mass. I found out later that he came to church with his aunt because he wants to be baptized and become a catholic. His parents never bothered to give him any religious instruction. Just seeing this young man and hearing his backstory gave me such hope for the future. To...

The phone rang, caller ID unknown. He let the phone call go to the answering machine. After the beep this is what he heard "Now that you have chosen Barack Obama as your presidential pick..."

A Times Union series that examined the lives, struggles and triumphs of transgender people in the Capital Region won a top reporting award from Sigma Delta Chi, a nationwide organization for journalism. Staff writer Paul Grondahl and photographer Cindy Schultz's project, "Transgender: A special report," took the feature reporting prize for newspapers with a daily circulation between 50,001 and 100,000. ... The series included 10 articles that featured question-and-answer exchanges with transgendered people. "In a small community like the Capital Region, it was asking a lot of them," Grondahl said. "We were lucky and privileged to have so many that...

Here’s a bold prediction for the new year. By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations — groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together to provide the full range of medical care for patients. Already, most insurance companies barely function as insurers. Most non-elderly Americans — or 60 percent of Americans with employer-provided health insurance — work for companies that are self-insured. In these cases it is the employer, not the insurance company, that assumes most of the risk of paying for the medical...

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A former U.N. weapons inspector nabbed in an online sex sting was convicted Thursday on six counts, including unlawful contact with a minor, for exchanging explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl in a chat room and then performing a sex act on himself. Jurors in Monroe County convicted 49-year-old Scott Ritter, of Delmar, N.Y., on six of seven counts. He was acquitted on a criminal attempt charge. Ritter exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as an underage girl and masturbated even after the undercover officer stressed during the chat that he was a minor, prosecutors...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Authorities in southwest Florida say a 17-year-old girl pointed a gun at her mother, pistol-whipped her and forced her to drive to a dealership to buy her a used car. The sheriff's office in Lee County said Monday that the teen has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, among other counts, and was being held at a juvenile detention center. The Associated Press doesn't identify minors charged with juvenile crimes. According to officials, the mother said she didn't want to press charges because her daughter had been accepted to...

NEW YORK -- From the early 1990s to just a couple of years ago, Laurie Dhue was a familiar face on network news. She has the distinction of being the only person to anchor at the three big cable networks -- CNN, MSNBC and most recently Fox News, where she served as anchor from 2000 to 2008 and also hosted her own weekend show. But behind Dhue's impressive careers, glamorous looks and rising star status, was a painful secret she hid for more than a decade. She was an alcoholic. She recently sat down with CBN News to discuss how...

A hulking teacher's union honcho whose big mouth got him bounced by cops from an Albany restaurant after he complained his quail was too small was previously reprimanded as a teacher after being accused of brazenly helping test-taking students cheat, officials said today. Food-lovin' lobbyist Paul Egan was named in a scathing 2000 report by the Department of Education investigator as helping a group of Bronx middle-school students taking a city-wide math exam get the right answers to the test by using "several different methods to cheat." The then-investigator, Edward Stancik, said Egan while proctoring the 1999 exam "purposely displayed...

WASHINGTON—The defiant tone taken by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak—and widespread confusion about the meaning of his speech—had White House officials stumbling for their next step in a crisis that was spinning out of their control. Egyptian antigovernment demonstrators listen to a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as tens of thousands gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square. There was widespread confusion about the meaning of his speech. Egyptian officials said Mr. Mubarak gave the Obama administration much of what it wanted: the delegation of presidential powers to the vice president, Omar Suleiman. They said Mr. Mubarak had all but been rendered...

Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database. In a keynote address to the mHealth Summit, which focuses on using mobile technology to improve health care, Gates said that improving survival rates among children under the age of 5 would benefit not just individual families, but societies and the planet as a whole. "The key thing, the most important fact that people should know and make sure other people know: As you save children under 5, that is the thing that reduces population growth," he said. "That...

ABE CAVIN QUEZADA, a 22-year-old aspiring music producer, lives with two roommates in a three-bedroom apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Mr. Cavin Quezada, who works as an unpaid intern at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, has kind words for his building, a renovated tenement near Marcus Garvey Boulevard, and for his apartment, for which he pays $500 a month and has a 10-by-6-foot bedroom. But as for the neighborhood, he is less enthusiastic. “Before this I was living in a loft in Bushwick,” said Mr. Cavin Quezada, who grew up outside Washington. “This apartment is nicer, and has more amenities,...

NEW YORK - By employing strategies known to lawyers as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich," Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the past three years - moving most of its foreign profit through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google's income shifting helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries. "It's remarkable that Google's effective rate is that low," said Martin Sullivan, a tax economist with Tax Analysts. "We know this company operates throughout the world...

Barack Obama, US president, will portray his state visit next week to India as a big net producer of jobs for the American economy, with several US companies expected to seal deals worth billions of dollars, say senior officials. Mr Obama’s three-day visit at the start of a tour of Asia will commence two days after the US midterm elections in which the Democratic party is forecast to receive a drubbing. EDITOR’S CHOICE Editorial Comment: Vacuous contest in the US - Oct-28 Free trade taxes Republican voters in Ohio - Oct-28 In depth: US midterm elections - Sep-15 Opinion: Presidency...

ALBUQUERQUE — President Obama expounded Tuesday on the reasons he became a Christian as an adult, telling a group of residents here that he was a “Christian by choice” and that “the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead – being my brother and sister’s keeper.” Mr. Obama, who has been criticized by conservative pundits who have questioned his Christian faith, gave a lengthy discourse on it in response to a woman who said she had three “hot topic questions” for him. The first was: “Why are...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS – Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal.</p> <p>Clinton, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis, said there was no mistaking that Republicans have tacked hard right and questioned whether former President George W. Bush would fit in among the party's candidates this year.</p>

Civic-minded New Yorkers yesterday came face to face for the first time with the future of voting, but glitches and gaffes -- and a shocking lack of privacy that left many ballots not so secret -- had many mourning the loss of the lever. The debut of the city's optical-scan voting machines -- the first change in the system in 80 years -- featured long lines, delays in opening polling places, clueless election workers and some brand-new machines on the fritz. "What are they going to do for a presidential election?" groused one Manhattan voter after casting her ballot at...

SANTA MONICA, CA — Citing new information about Google’s classified government contracts and the Internet giant’s admitted Wi-Spying activity, Consumer Watchdog today said it is more imperative than ever for the Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct hearings into possible privacy violations by Google. In a letter to Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Ranking Member Joe Barton, the nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group’s John M. Simpson wrote: “Based on today’s Washington Post, it appears that Google holds classified U.S. government contracts to supply search and geospatial information to the U.S. government. In addition, White House records show that Google executives...