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Gov. Phil Murphy is strongly encouraging all New Jerseyans – regardless of vaccination status – to wear masks indoors in certain high-risk situations. But the governor has not issued any sort of mandate on the issue at this time. With new cases of COVID-19 over 1,000 on Thursday and nearly 1,000 on Friday, Murphy and state health officials are warily watching the path of the delta variant

Voters will decide next Tuesday which Republican will face Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in November. Whoever it is, he will immediately be an underdog. Murphy's popularity has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic; Democratic voter registration now outnumbers Republicans by more than 1 million; and Murphy has raised and spent the most money of all candidates. That all bodes well for Murphy to win a second term. But Murphy isn't looming as large in the Republican primary as former President Donald Trump.

Gov. Phil Murphy is urging people who attended President Donald Trump’s fundraiser in New Jersey on Thursday to get tested for the coronavirus and self-quarantine after Trump tested positive. Trump announced just before 1 a.m. Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump contracted COVID-19 and is quarantining at the White House — hours after he attended a re-election fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster, possibly exposing attendees.

( headline Dad Refuses to Take His Son for Psych Evaluation After Harmless School Incident. Then He Received a Letter That Left Him in Disbelief ) A New Jersey father defended his son, Ethan, after a simple pencil-swirling incident nearly resulted in the boy’s suspension earlier this year because a classmate claimed he was spinning it like a “gun.” Following intense media scrutiny, school officials reportedly backed off and it looked like the situation would just blow over. Then Michael Chaplin says he received a stunning letter from New Jersey’s Department of Child Protection and Permanency and Department of Children...