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What took him so long? That’s the question we should be asking about President Trump’s decision to remove troops from Syria. If you paid attention to Donald Trump’s comments on foreign affairs during the 2016 campaign, you heard a lot of pronouncements like the following: “The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE....

When my colleague at the Newark Star-Ledger John Farmer started off in journalism more than five decades ago, things were very different. After covering a political event, he'd hop on the campaign bus, pull out a typewriter, and start banging out copy. As the bus would pull into a town, he'd ball up a finished page and toss it out the window. There a runner would scoop it up and rush it off to a telegraph station where it would be blasted back to the home office. At the time, reporters thought this method was high-tech. Now, thanks to the...

NEW YORK The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., has lost at least $11.5 million in advertising in the past year, according to a letter to staffers from Publisher George Arwady, which predicts the paper will have to undergo serious cutbacks and plans to ask its four unions for work-rule changes in their current contracts. "As a result of several years of such trends, your newspaper is losing money -- a lot of money. If you’ve attended any of my employee meetings, you've been hearing about this situation in detail for some time," Arwady wrote in the letter to numerous employees before...

Circulation of the Nation's 20 Biggest Newspapers The Associated Press Published: Nov 3, 2003 Average weekday circulation of the nation's 20 biggest newspapers for the six months ended Sept. 30, as reported Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes are from the comparable year-ago period. 1. USA Today, 2,246,996, up 0.7 percent 2. The Wall Street Journal, 2,091,062, up 16.1 percent (a) 3. The New York Times, 1,118,565, up 0.5 percent 4. Los Angeles Times, 955,211, down 1.1 percent (b) 5. The Washington Post, 732,872, down 1.9 percent 6. New York Daily News, 729,124, up 2.1 percent...

<p>Feel like a trip to Florida?</p> <p>That's where the New Jersey Supreme Court seems to be taking us. The decision yesterday to let Frank Lautenberg run for the U.S. Senate on the Democratic ticket raises the prospect of a repeat of the Bush-Gore contest two years ago.</p>

May 27, 2002 Satire on Patsy Cline Trips Up ColumnistBy FELICITY BARRINGER f ever a news item cried out for attention, it was the one that appeared on April 9 on the Web site of the Cybercast News Service. Entitled "Patsy Cline Music Deemed `Dangerous' to Women," the article reported the latest findings of social science: "A top researcher says a new study strongly suggests the music of country singer Patsy Cline contributes to depression, suicide and violent behavior by women." Ten days ago, the work of Dover Smeed found that larger audience. Lawrence Hall, a columnist for The Star-Ledger...