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Officials in New Jersey are investigating whether President Trump’s Thursday night campaign event at his Bedminster golf course violated state rules, the state’s governor announced. In a series of tweets posted Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy first excoriated the commander-in-chief and the Trump campaign for hosting the event after senior adviser Hope Hicks tested positive before revealing the probe. “The President & his staff acted recklessly in coming to New Jersey knowing that they had been exposed to someone with a confirmed positive test. We hope that no confirmed cases come out of the event in Bedminster,” Murphy’s first tweet began.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Vicente Fox paused for a long moment before answering a question on how long it would take Mexico to reach a stage where citizens no longer want to cross the U.S. border to seek work. "Generations," he finally said. "It's a long way to narrow the gap ... between incomes in Mexico and on the other side of the border," he said in a recent interview with Reuters. That income gap is the principal reason why hundreds of thousands of Mexicans cross the border with the U.S. illegally to seek work -- yet it rarely...

<p>THE budget proposal that Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson put forward last week wasn't the most visionary document ever advanced in the Capitol.</p> <p>But at least it tried to cover $5.9 billion of the state's budget gap. To offer it, the speaker had to cajole his Democratic colleagues into leaving their political comfort zone to propose cuts to health services, universities and local government.</p>