Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, National Guard officer, and presidential candidate, spoke today at Politics and Eggs breakfast event in New Hampshire, where she told an audience that ‘simple acts of Aloha’ can begin effort toward national unity because the…
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Trump rival pans military money move
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is criticizing President Donald Trump over the diversion of $3.6 billion in funds allocated for military construction that will instead be used to pay for his silly border wall. Weld is challenging Trump for the…
Constitution Day celebration at Stockton University
Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst and author of the 2019 biography “The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts,”will be the keynote speaker at the annual Stockton University Constitution Day program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.17 in the…
St. Cecelia’s sex assault priest gets 4 years in prison
A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to four years in state prison for sexually assaulting a teenage girl while he was a youth group adviser at a church in Woodbridge Township, during the early 1990s. Father Thomas P. Ganley, 64, of…
Trump swipes $3.6 billion from military for border wall
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is diverting $3.6 billion of military construction funds to 11 wall projects on the southern border with Mexico, according to defense officials and a letter from Esper to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senate Minority Leader…
Fireworks found in bar blow up Labor Day parade plans
Police arrested a man after several pipe bomb-like devices were found near the route of a Labor Day parade that Governor Phil Murphy Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy were scheduled to attend Monday. Thomas Kaiser, 55, of…
Dorian kills five, Trump complains about news
Hurricane Dorian pounded the northern Bahamas for 36 hours, and left five people dead and 13,000 houses severely damaged, but none of that is so badly battered as President Donald Trump’s tender ego. The Category 4 storm slowed almost to…
September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
The Gateway Family YMCA wants families to understand how adopting healthy habits together can help reduce childhood obesity UNION COUNTY, NJ – September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and while the dangers of childhood obesity are well chronicled, many families…
Officials deny chaos, insolvency & reality diminish safety
After six people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a West Texas shooting incident, Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said that mass shootings “absolutely are a homeland security threat.” Meanwhile, McAleenan and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter…
Mass shooting in Texas follows weaker gun law
A deranged shooter targeted shoppers and vehicles at shopping centers in Texas, only days after Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation weakening the Lone Star State’s gun laws. The suspect, described as a white male in his 30’s, was shot and…