“As President Trump said, he thinks Ms Wiles and Mr LaCivita are doing a phenomenal job and any rumors to the contrary are false and not rooted in reality,” a Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement to The Guardian regarding the status of campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, who have recently become […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A New Jersey Black man will spend at least two and a half years behind bars after fatally punching a racist white man who called him the N-word after assaulting his wife with his bicycle, which happened after the white man had allegedly been harassing his family for months. Anthony Collins, 41, […]
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In front of the audience, Vance tried to defend himself, saying he was “just trolling,” before walking back his denial to insist “that doesn’t mean what I said is in any way untrue.” Vance explained that it was important to “have a little fun” when you might end up as a political prisoner in your […]
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The so-called “fake attachment” to Trump that Dans is complaining about must’ve at one point seemed real to him, as Dans previously touted the project’s connection to the former president during a radio interview. On a May 2023 episode of the We the People Convention podcast, Dans boasted about having “great relationships” with Trump and […]
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The so-called “fake attachment” to Trump that Dans is complaining about must’ve at one point seemed real to him, as Dans previously touted the project’s connection to the former president during a radio interview. On a May 2023 episode of the We the People Convention podcast, Dans boasted about having “great relationships” with Trump and […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Adonis page / Getty A white supremacist was arrested this week in New Jersey, the Justice Department (DOJ) revealed Thursday. The DOJ reported that 18-year-old Andrew Takhistov was apprehended on Wednesday at the Newark Liberty International Airport where he was waiting to board a plane to Paris before going to Ukraine […]
Read MoreClosing arguments are set to begin Monday afternoon in the corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat accused of selling out his public office in pursuit of lucrative bribes. The charges are among the most serious ever brought against a sitting U.S. senator. The government has accused Mr. Menendez and his […]
Read MoreLast September, a prominent white-collar defense lawyer met with federal prosecutors in Manhattan in a last-ditch effort to stave off an indictment against his client. The client was Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, one of Congress’s most powerful members and the subject of a corruption investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern […]
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After calling just four witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey rested their case late Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, setting the stage for jurors to begin deliberations in his international bribery conspiracy trial early next week. Mr. Menendez, 70, said that he decided against testifying in his own defense for two […]
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New Jersey is heating up faster than any other state in the Northeast, pacing a region with rapidly rising temperatures, according to data gathered by a nonprofit research organization. The cause of New Jersey’s dubious distinction is most likely a combination of factors, including the warming of the ocean bordering the coastal state and overdevelopment […]
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According to the report, Kennedy’s alleged sexual deviancy doesn’t end there. When he was still married to Richardson, he sent his friends nude photographs of women on several occasions. His friends told Variety that they believed he had taken the pictures himself, although they weren’t sure the women had consented to being photographed or having […]
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Senator Robert Menendez’s sister testified on Monday about their parents’ journey from Cuba and the family’s practice of storing cash at home, offering justification for a habit he has said explains at least some of the roughly $480,000 F.B.I. agents seized during a search of his New Jersey home. The sister, Caridad Gonzalez, was 8 […]
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After seven weeks of trial, federal prosecutors rested their case on Friday against Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat accused of conspiring to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, cash and other bribes in return for the senator’s willingness to dispense political favors at home and abroad. Defense lawyers are expected to […]
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Senator Robert Menendez’s lawyers have cast him as a man who was duped by his dazzling wife, Nadine Menendez, and unaware of the gold bars and cash she kept in her locked bedroom closet — or the deals she made to get them. Now, as they prepare to rebut claims that the senator was at […]
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Amid a torrent of criticism about the recent spate of chaotic commutes, officials of Amtrak and New Jersey Transit laid out a plan on Thursday to identify and fix the problems plaguing their operations. The two railroads, which share the tracks of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor from Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan to Trenton, N.J., pledged to […]
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In March 2019, an aide to Senator Robert Menendez drafted a letter that used strong language to criticize the president of Egypt and the country’s human rights record. Mr. Menendez declined to sign it. Mr. Menendez, then the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he wanted to try a less confrontational approach, […]
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New Jersey Transit service was disrupted once again on Monday evening, with travel suspended in and out of Pennsylvania Station for nearly an hour because of a report of a problem with Amtrak overhead wires in one of the Hudson River tunnels. Service was suspended at 6:37 p.m. and resumed shortly before 7:30 p.m., but […]
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After a month and a half of testimony from government witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez this week are expected to begin rebutting the web of corruption charges facing New Jersey’s senior senator, once one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are likely to wrap up their case against Mr. […]
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After a month and a half of testimony from government witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez this week are expected to begin rebutting the web of corruption charges facing New Jersey’s senior senator, once one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are likely to wrap up their case against Mr. […]
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The intense and unusually early heat wave that has blanketed much of the Northeast for the past week continued on Sunday to scorch New Jersey, where excessive heat warnings or heat advisories were in effect in most of the state, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures throughout the region were more than 10 degrees […]
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Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing for toxic chemicals in the air. They detected spikes in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, most likely from leaks, or from natural-gas-burning buses. They found plumes of nitrous oxide, possibly from wastewater. […]
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New Jersey’s senior U.S. senator is on trial, charged with taking bribes in exchange for political favors. A federal judge has declared the state’s method of conducting primary elections fundamentally unfair. And on Monday New Jersey’s attorney general charged one of the state’s most formidable Democratic power brokers with racketeering. A state famous for explosive […]
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George E. Norcross III, who was indicted on Monday on charges of racketeering, has never held elected office but has wielded immense political power in New Jersey for decades. A Democrat, he rose to prominence in Camden, N.J., after dropping out of Rutgers University in the late 1970s. His father helped him start a small […]
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On an otherwise pleasant day in May 1957, my father received two unwelcome visitors at his tool-and-die factory. They were F.B.I. agents acting on years of informants’ tips that Dad had been a Communist Party member. The agents intended to use that information as leverage to turn my father, too, into a snitch. I learned […]
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One politician grumbled in the courtroom, sounded off to the reporters who gathered outside and seemingly nodded off in full view of the jury. The other has followed the courtroom action avidly, his head twisting as if watching a tennis match, and occasionally broken into song in the hallway. Indeed, while both men face possible […]
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The trial of Senator Robert Menendez was paused on Thursday after the judge announced that one of the senator’s co-defendants, Fred Daibes, a New Jersey real estate developer, had tested positive for Covid-19. The judge, Sidney H. Stein, said it was “the expectation and the hope of the court” that the trial could resume Monday, […]
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Jose Uribe, a star government witness with a checkered past, is expected to testify on Tuesday for a third day at Senator Robert Menendez’s bribery trial as the focus of the proceeding shifts toward a series of face-to-face meetings that Mr. Uribe had with the senator. Mr. Uribe, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to […]
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While Mace claimed that her choice of wardrobe was because she had been “demonized for my vote and for my voice” and would “do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences,” it drew many puzzled reactions. An unhappy Mace told her staff that the people who didn’t understand it were probably “Trump […]
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Jose Uribe, the businessman who testified that he had bribed Senator Robert Menendez in return for his help in quashing criminal matters involving two of Mr. Uribe’s friends, will be back on the witness stand Monday with a key question looming: Did he and the senator ever discuss the alleged deal? Mr. Uribe has emerged […]
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More than two years after Elias Irizarry breached the U.S. Capitol with other Trump supporters, he wrote a letter to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan as he waited for her to determine his sentence. “I want to make clear that I am not writing to make excuses or defend my actions,” he told Judge Chutkan, of […]
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Until recently, Jose Uribe was an obscure New Jersey businessman who had been caught up in what prosecutors say was a sprawling and lucrative bribery scheme involving Senator Robert Menendez and others. But after Mr. Uribe pleaded guilty in March to trying to bribe Mr. Menendez and agreed to cooperate with the authorities, he vaulted […]
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