A 27 year old Eatontown resident has been charged with luring two 13 year old girls into his vehicle with the purpose of sexually assaulting them. Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said Nathan Cohen, 27, of Eatontown, is charged…
Author: Andrew Thompson
Pregnant women fleeing for their lives
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region war zone. Pregnant women are amongst the tens of thousands of people in need of assistance in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where fighting…
McCormick slams CBO minimum wage study
Lisa McCormick says a recent Congressional Budget Office study on the budgetary impacts of the proposed $15 an hour minimum wage introduced last month wrongly predicted negative consequences. McCormick said a more reliable study was done by the Center on…
GOP group scammed donor
A wealthy North Carolina financier of conservative causes who gave big bucks to support the right-wing group True the Vote in its effort to uncover voter fraud in the November election, but has since sued to get his money back. As the Washington…
There are only seven honorable Republican senators
Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Patrick J. Toomey (Pa.). It was the most bipartisan impeachment
Biden plans G7 virtual meeting
On Friday, February 19, President Joe Biden will join fellow G7 leaders for a virtual meeting in the first gathering of the economic powers since April 2020. This virtual engagement with leaders of the world’s leading democratic market economies will…
Capitol riot displayed inequality
When a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, surprisingly few police stood in the way. Potentially violent protests had been expected for days, but police appeared unprepared for an actual insurrection and not even prepared to keep…
Belgium bans bigotry, deports imam
Belgium officials are deporting a Turkish imam for “sowing the seeds of hatred” with homophobic comments on a social media platform. The social media platform facilitates the power to affect public opinion. In one of his posts, the Green Mosque’s…
Transportation commissioner restricts roads
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti has issued a commercial vehicle travel restriction on multiple Interstate highways in New Jersey starting at 8 a.m., Monday, February 15 based on the forecast for freezing rain and sleet. Winter…
43 senators betray the republic
Seven Republicans, two independents and all 48 Democrats in the US Senate voted to convict former President Donald Trump, but the chamber fell short of the two-thirds that would have been required for a conviction. Trump’s historic second impeachment trial…