Star Career Academy silent after abrubt shutdown as students seek answers

It was another day of silence from Star Career Academy a day after the adult trade school with multiple campuses in New Jersey and New York suddenly shut its doors. Students who received word of the closing via email on Tuesday were met by security guards at the school's New Jersey locations in Brick, Clifton, Egg Harbor and Newark as well as the affiliated ServFast Computers campus in Toms River.

APNewsBreak: VA whistleblower resigns, citing retaliation

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee who told Congress the agency was using unauthorized wait lists for mental health care in Colorado has resigned, saying he was subjected to retaliation for speaking out. Brian Smothers told The Associated Press Wednesday the VA had opened two separate inquiries into his actions and tried to get him to sign a statement saying he had broken VA rules.

Reports: Haley, McMaster being considered for major cabinet positions in Trump admin

Could South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley or Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster be joining the newly-forming administration of President-elect Donald Trump? According to Joe Scarborough, former Florida congressman and host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, sources close to him say Haley is being considered for Secretary of State alongside former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

EDITORIAL: Wisniewski a worthy option as governor

It was beginning to look like Phil Murphy would scare away every Democratic hopeful for governor in 2017 before the race even began in earnest. EDITORIAL: Wisniewski a worthy option as governor It was beginning to look like Phil Murphy would scare away every Democratic hopeful for governor in 2017 before the race even began in earnest.

Jenkins exits US House leadership, may mull governor’s race

Kansas congresswoman Lynn Jenkins will be leaving a position on the House Republicans' leadership team when the newly elected Congress convenes in January. Jenkins said Wednesday that she is stepping down as GOP conference vice chairwoman to focus on health care and tax reform legislation.

Police: Drunk driver clocked at 100 mph

South Burlington police say they were monitoring traffic on Interstate 189 early Wednesday morning when Curtis Britt, 21, of Winooski, blew past going over 100 mph. When he pulled over, police say Britt also showed signs of impairment and had a blood alcohol content just over the legal limit of 0.08.

Give life ‘everything you’ve got’

Walter Cronkite, born this month in 1917, once said that he "can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." To use the music industry as an example; though there is now a fast-track to recognition in the form of televised competitions - spinning red chairs, that's all I'll say - a majority of music careers are still defined by the artist's ability to fight tooth and nail for their relevance.

Senator Carper releases statement on U.S. Postal Service 2016 financial losses

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper , top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service reported a net loss of $5.6 billion in fiscal year 2016. According to the release, this report came after the Postal Service faced the first rate decrease in almost a century with the court-mandated expiration of the emergency surcharge put in place after the Great Recession - which was apparently the only measure keeping the Postal Service from financial collapse over the last two years.

Morning Digest: Rick Scott flirts with a Senate bid against Bill Nelson

Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... Donald Trump has announced that Steve Bannon-former head of the online racist platform Breitbart-will be a senior adviser in... a- FL-Sen : Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who will be termed out in 2018, might not be done with politics just yet. As early as last year, not long after he narrowly won re-election, Scott reportedly began telling backers he might run against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

Some Bizarre Ideas on What to Do Next

Apparently, people are so frustrated and outraged by Trump's victory, they've begun contemplating some fairly radical strategies to thwart or stop him. In their most wildly optimistic moments, they even imagine forcing Trump from office, forcing him to resign the presidency and return to real estate or show business, or whatever the hell he was doing before he decided to enter politics.

Senate Dems Ready for New Leader, GOP Staying With McConnell

Senate Democrats are turning to Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Brooklyn-bred partisan infighter with a pragmatic streak, to steer them into the Donald Trump era. Republicans are sticking with the genteel Kentuckian, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who lacks Schumer's instinct for soundbites but has been a brutally effective legislative tactician.

Trump-supporting senator: Professor hurled ‘profanity-laced…

Then-presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with Sen. Bob Corker during a campaign event July 5, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Republican Sen. Bob Corker took a stroll by his lonesome along Stringer's Ridge in his home state of Tennessee Sunday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman probably wasn't shocked that at least one fellow hiker on the trail recognized him.

Kris Kobach, Immigration Hard-Liner, Could Be Trump’s Attorney General

Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state whose hard-line immigration stance has caught the attention of President-elect Donald Trump, could be a candidate for attorney general. Kobach, already a member of Trump's transition team, advised Trump on immigration policy, one of the Republican's top priorities, throughout the campaign and added Trump's promise to build a wall along the southern border to the Republican Party's national platform.

Dan K. Thomasson: FBIa s screw-up cana t go ignored

It's still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI's unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton's performance with presidential election voters, who this past week opted to elect her opponent, Donald Trump. What certainly is, however, is whether the bureau as a whole or its director, James Comey, are allowed to skate in what was one of the most bizarre and outrageous missteps in the history of the nation's top law enforcement agency - a flagrant abuse of its own policies and proprieties that clearly had the potential for seriously damaging Clinton's chances.

How Democrats, media are pushing ‘white nationalism’ on Trump team

Alan Dershowitz, who is a famed professor of law and advocate of human rights, defended Stephen Bannon today against accusations that the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News is an anti-Semite. In an interview today with Steve Kornacki of MSNBC, Dershowitz said that there is "no evidence to support that" Bannon is anti-Semitic.