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A closer look at what’s in Murphy’s $56.6 billion NJ budget, from taxes to spending
New Jersey lawmakers are poised to send a $56.6 billion fiscal year 2025 budget to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week.
Supreme Court will take up state bans on gender-affirming care for minors
The Supreme Court jumped into the fight over transgender rights, and will hear an appeal from the Biden admin seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.
Senate staffer says Egypt trip planning for NJ’s Bob Menendez got ‘weird’
A Senate staffer testified at a bribery trial that planning for Sen. Bob Menendez’s 2021 trip to Egypt and Qatar got “weird.”
Smith & Wesson can’t ignore NJ subpoena in deceptive advertising probe
Smith & Wesson, the gun manufacturer, must comply with a New Jersey subpoena as officials investigate whether the company engaged in deceptive advertising.
Tobacco-like warning label for social media sought by US surgeon general
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people's lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.
New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor testifies for government in Sen. Bob Menendez prosecution
New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor testified Wednesday at Sen. Bob Menendez 's bribery trial that the Democrat sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to the post after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
Ex-NJ official testifies Sen. Bob Menendez confronted him twice over criminal case
A former New Jersey attorney general testified Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial that the Democrat twice tried to discuss a pending criminal case with him.
Dispute over mailed ballots in NJ county delays outcome of congressional primary
Whether to count more than 1,900 mail ballots cast in Atlantic County will be up to a judge after their envelopes were unsealed prematurely.
1,900 New Jersey ballots whose envelopes were opened early must be counted, judge rules
A state judge on Friday ruled that some 1,900 mail ballots in a New Jersey county whose envelopes were prematurely opened should be accepted and counted.
NJ executive used pro-Trump newspaper to launder $67M, feds say
The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, is accused of taking part in a multi-year scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars
Teens gone wild: NJ attorney general says it’s shore town’s fault
New Jersey's attorney general on Friday blamed a Jersey Shore town for not having enough police officers patrolling its boardwalk over the Memorial Day weekend, when the force was overwhelmed and the city temporarily closed the walkway.
At bribery trial, NJ senator cast as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy
A former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain at his bribery trial Friday, saying he tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt.