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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell — her handpicked second-in-command — to resign Thursday night after a bombshell sexual harassment investigation revealed he tried to get his girlfriend promoted, made a revolting sexual comment to a staffer, and ignored repeated warnings over his inappropriate behavior. The explosive 61-page report released Thursday paints a picture of a politician run amok, detailing how Caldwell, 66, used his taxpayer-funded position to score expensive event tickets for his romantic conquests, pull strings to try to get his secret girlfriend a cushy state promotion, and task his own aides with...

The New York Times claimed there was “no single reason” for Sayfullo Saipov’s decision to drive a truck into more than 20 people in New York City Tuesday. TheNYT attributed his attack more to a lack of opportunity and financial trouble in a Wednesday profile of the terrorist, even though Saipov yelled “Allahu Akbar” while being apprehended by police and had a note pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.

The New Jersey hairdresser accused of hiring a hitman she met on Tinder to murder her ex-boyfriend and his teenage daughter was indicted Wednesday in connection with the contract killing plot. Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, faces two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in an attempt to commission a murder-for-hire, according to the Department of Justice Diiorio used her cell phone and tried to pay a confidential informant to kill her ex-boyfriend — a Philadelphia Police officer, Matthew O’Hanlon — and his 19-year-old daughter, a federal indictment filed Sept. 3 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania...

A New Jersey thief who bilked investors out of more than $650 million has been named one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters — the first Garden State resident to make the dubious list. Fugitive Rey E. Grabato II is accused of participating in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded some 2,000 investors, hundreds of whom were located in New Jersey, out of more than $650 million between February 2018 and January 2022, according to the FBI. The agency is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information that leads to Grabato’s arrest and conviction. Federal authorities issued an arrest...

OEM Bergen Engines has secured a contract to supply a 400MW power plant for a new AI data center on the US East Coast. Operating fully off grid in true islanded mode, it will be the first medium-speed reciprocating engine power plant in North America designed for AI-driven workloads. The installation will utilize 36 × 11.2MW Bergen medium-speed, lean-burn gas engines, each paired with Marelli high-efficiency alternators. The first batch is scheduled to ship in December 2025.

Roughly 6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote in New Jersey from 2023 to 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday.

Roughly 6,600 noncitizens were unwittingly registered to vote in New Jersey from 2023 to 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday. Roughly 400 of them improperly cast votes, she said. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state,” said Sherrill, a Democrat. She added that it is unclear which elections they voted in and said there was “no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed” as a result.

July 17 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on ​Friday ruled that New ‌Jersey's assault-weapons law barring the possession of ​AR-15 semi-automatic ​rifles and large capacity magazines ⁠containing more ​than 10 rounds of ​ammunition is unconstitutional. The ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd ​U.S. Circuit Court ​of Appeals marked the first ‌time ⁠a federal appeals court had ruled that a state's ​assault ​weapons ⁠ban violated the U.S. Constitution's ​Second Amendment by ​burdening ⁠the right to keep and bear ⁠arms ​for self-defense.

A welder miraculously walked away after his car exploded in a quiet New Jersey suburb on Monday morning — waking up residents to debris flying into their homes, according to authorities. A 28-year-old man was inside his vehicle on Congressional Lane in Totowa, about 20 miles from Manhattan, around 5:30 a.m. when it was suddenly blown apart, the Totowa Police Department said in a statement. The man was able to escape from the wrecked vehicle on his own and was taken to a local hospital for treatment and observation, cops said. The victim, who is a welder, was alert and...

A couple says their five-month-old infant was delivered alive at an abortion clinic in New Jersey — then trafficked for fetal organ harvesting. They named the little girl Clementine. Their allegations are detailed in the Center for Medical Progress’ new documentary, “What Happened to Clementine?” Filmmakers interviewed Tommy Kearns, Clementine’s father, and Clementine’s mother, who has chosen to remain anonymous. Clementine’s parents are wondering: Where is their child? Kearns told the Daily Caller: “If Clementine’s scalp is growing on the back of a lab rat, then the question is not scientific. It is about our child. How long is her...

Families in a New Jersey school district were left outraged after a cafeteria menu distributed for June displayed a watermelon graphic on Juneteenth — prompting school officials to condemn the image as racially offensive and demand immediate action from the district’s food-service contractor. Montclair Public Schools said the image appeared on a June cafeteria menu prepared by food-service provider Sodexo and sparked complaints from students, families, staff and community members. Superintendent Ruth Turner said those who saw the menu were “hurt, disappointed, and offended” by the graphic’s appearance alongside the June 19 holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the...

One of the ringleaders of the Delaney Hall mayhem is a former New Jersey early-childhood teacher, The Post has learned. Anti-ICE demonstrations have raged outside the federal immigration detention center in Newark since May 22, when 300 migrants inside went on a hunger strike over what they claimed were inhumane conditions. Ex-teacher Cassandra Magazino, a “nonbinary” radical activist who lives in Pompton Plains, immediately started clamoring to “free the detainees” and “abolish ICE.” “No concentration camps in New Jersey!” Magazino, 36, raged on Threads under the moniker “Rainbow Renegade,” which she’s used to organize the two-week long protest that’s resulted...

Another major company has had enough of high taxes and red tape from Democrat-controlled states.Samsung Electronics America is leaving its North American headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, and relocating to Plano, Texas.The move comes less than a year after the company opened its New Jersey facility, serving as yet another sign that big employers are voting with their feet and wallets against blue state policies.While the company has not announced any layoffs, about 1000 jobs could be affected by this decision.As part of this effort, we are relocating our U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to our existing campus in...

WOW!!! After violent leftist rioters were cleared outside of Newark ICE detention center by police, the supplies left behind by them are STAGGERING! Who is funding all of this?! It certainly looks like a massively organized operation, not a 'grass roots campaign' that just sprang up... Of course the MSM will NEVER LET YOU SEE THIS................. 1:43 VIDEO AT LINK..........

New Jersey police scooped up the Antifa rioters blocking ICE’s Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, late Sunday night. “ZERO tolerance for rioters,” said a post from the Department of Homeland Security after the police arrested many of the Antifa rioters. MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK................... DHS officials displayed their success in shutting down the rioters, who have harassed the ICE facility for months.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who earlier embraced protesters outside a federal immigration detention center in Newark, acknowledged early Sunday that some had engaged in “dangerous actions” against local police as escalating violence forced the city’s mayor to impose an emergency curfew. Protesters grew increasingly aggressive Saturday night as they threw projectiles, grabbed security barriers and set fires outside ICE’s Delaney Hall facility. Mayor Ros J. Baraka admitted some were arrested in possession of weapons, necessitating the curfew. The escalating violence created an embarrassment for Democrats like Sherrill who had embraced the protests just 24 hours earlier and asked ICE...

Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., R-N.J., has now confirmed an illness has kept him from voting on Capitol Hill since March 5 and says he plays to return to Washington, D.C., soon. However, neither he nor others have disclosed the details of his condition. In an interview with the New Jersey Globe, Kean said that in the next couple of weeks he will return to voting in the House and hit the campaign trail. “My doctors are confident that I’m on the road to a full recovery,” he also told the newspaper. Kean said the illness doesn't impact his cognitive health,...

The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has pumped the brakes on a vile vanity license plate that appears to target President Trump – and includes a string of now infamous numbers that seemingly call for his head. The state licensing agency, which approves vanity plates but rejects requests for political jabs or coded messaging, is yanking the controversial tag reading “FDT8647” after it slipped through the cracks for more than a year and eventually sparked online uproar, an MVC spokesperson told NJ.com. While the No. “86” is restaurant slang for getting rid of something, it has recently taken on a...

Dig deeper: In the video, an 8-year-old boy who was out fishing with his family is seen being attacked by the beaver. When the child tried to run back up the bank and out of the water, the beaver pursued the boy and ended up biting the child on his thigh. When the boy finally managed to get up, he threw the beaver back into the lake. Local perspective: Several people had been bitten by the beaver and ended up testing positive for rabies, according to the Mahwah Township Health Department.

Police accused a semi-truck driver from New Jersey of causing eight accidents on a Chicago highway before attempting to strangle another driver on April 28 in an alleged instance of road rage. Police alleged that the suspect was driving “recklessly,” which resulted in a string of collisions on I-57 northbound, according to an Illinois State Police (ISP) news release. The suspect, 25-year-old truck driver Hassan A. Moutassim of Jersey City, New Jersey, reportedly removed a driver from another crashed vehicle and allegedly started “battering the driver, including an attempt to strangle the victim,” the press release stated. The alleged victim...