By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications Robin Wordsworth of SEAS explains why just-announced landing site excites researchers It’s been an exciting week for Red Planet developments: One robot successfully landed on Mars and another got its long-awaited landing spot, the…
Hanukkah recalls story of the Maccabees
Tonight is the beginning of the celebration of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates dedication, resilience, and identity. While this is not ordinarily a solemn holiday in the modern Jewish faith, and usually is marked by festivities for children, latkes,…
NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3 at approximately noon EST. NASA will air a live event from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST…
Montclair University launches innovation for undecided students
Montclair State has launched University College, an innovative academic home for students where they can pursue the interests that will launch academic and career success. Beginning in fall 2018, students who are not certain about their choice of major will…
New Jersey lawyer pleaded guilty to money laundering
A former New Jersey lawyer admitted his role in a money laundering scheme. Michael W. Kwasnik, 49, of North Miami Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler in Camden federal court to Count 12 of a…
President George H.W. Bush, dead at 94
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose popularity peaked with the military victory that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, but then soured as a weak economy prompted voters to toss him out of the White House after a…
Border agents are still taking children from their parents
Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents, claiming they are protecting kids from criminal abuse or neglect but advocates say it’s zero tolerance by another name. The Trump administration has quietly resumed separating immigrant families…
The Gateway Family YMCA Offers Programming to Help Provide Equal Opportunities for All
In many cases here in America, the zip code you’re born into may have the ability to determine your future. Sometimes these divisions exist mere miles from each other, in zip codes that are just one number apart. However, The…
Romeo, the world’s loneliest frog
The Sehuencas water frog is a fully aquatic frog that was once abundant as tadpoles on the bottom of small streams or rivers, and in ponds in montane cloud forest of Bolivia, but since biologists collected Romeo 10 years ago,…
A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6.
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy. by Eva Ruth Moravec, special to…
Food Drive at The Gateway Family YMCA
Share what you can! The Gateway Family YMCA is collecting non-perishable food items and toiletries for those in need in our local communities this winter. Together with our members, volunteers, friends and partners, we make our community stronger by focusing…
New Jersey law enforcement won’t help ICE
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today issued a directive to all state, county and local law enforcement agencies in New Jersey limiting the types of voluntary assistance that their officers may provide to federal civil immigration authorities, including Immigration and…
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Moscow project
By The Washington Post President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Thursday in New York to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate project that Trump and his company pursued at the same time he was…