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Homeland security and terror threats are back on the front burner for the presidential campaign after an explosive device blew up in New York City on Saturday night, injuring 29 people, following incidents in New Jersey and Minnesota earlier in the day. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seized on the New York blast within hours as part of his public safety-oriented message, even front-running authorities in declaring that a "bomb" had gone off.
WASHINGTON - New Jersey welcomed 275 Syrian refugees in the past 12 months, even as the state was one of only two in the nation that refused to help in the resettlement effort. The refugees were among the 11,491 from Syria who settled in the U.S. as President Barack Obama met his goal of accepting 10,000.
It's hard to imagine someone like Melissa Crews of Bedford, New Hampshire, voting for Donald Trump in the presidential election. But the former Democratic voter says that's what she intends to do.
Missouri lawmakers are set to expand Gov. Jay Nixon's already historic status as the state's most overridden governor, a record the Democrat earned after years of clashing with a Legislature under virtually unchecked Republican control. Since Nixon took office in 2009, lawmakers have overridden 83 of his vetoes of bills and budget expenditures - nearly four times the combined total of all other governors' overrides dating back to Missouri's territorial days in the early 1800s.
There's one familiar hot-button issue primed for a rapid-fire jabbing as this year rolls into next. Get ready for a full-court press on raising the minimum wage.
Donald Trump is pledging that the government he appoints will bring sweeping change to Washington's culture. So far, that promise comes with a heavy New Jersey accent.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended GOP nominee Donald Trump's seemingly shifting position on immigration Sunday, saying good leaders don't get "stuck in cement" on issue positions when presented with changing information. Christie told CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that, if elected, Trump will prioritize deporting the approximately 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes in the U.S. After that, Trump would take a "pause" before deporting the remaining approximately 8 million people in the U.S. illegally.
Donald Trump is pledging that the government he appoints will bring sweeping change to Washington's culture. So far, that promise comes with a heavy New Jersey accent.
Gov. Chris Christie's veto Tuesday of a bill that would phase-in a $15 minimum wage for New Jersey has not ended the battle as Democratic legislative leaders now vow to put it on the 2017 election ballot as a constitutional amendment. But a behind-the scenes fight has already been waged over the bill, with big-time business interests who pushed lawmakers and Christie to oppose it, while unions and other interests lobbied for it.
The gubernatorial campaign of former Goldman Sachs executive and U.S. ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy is asking state election officials to investigate Mayor Steve Fulop, alleging Fulop is financing a gubernatorial campaign of his own with funds intended for his mayoral re-election "in clear defiance of New Jersey law." Fulop is widely believed to be gunning for the Democratic nomination for governor next year but he has not declared his candidacy.
In this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo, Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Lepage said Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, he intends to seek "spiritual guidance" in hopes of quieting a controversy he created when he left an obscene message on a Democratic lawmaker's voicemail and then said he wished he could challenge him to a duel and point a gun at him.
Donald Trump will make a quick visit to Mexico on Wednesday, meeting with the president of a nation he derided as the home of rapists and criminals. The trip is a politically risky move for the Republican presidential nominee less than 10 weeks before the election.
Hillary Clinton has pulled the race card on Donald Trump and the Tright* is outraged. Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot and the left is outraged.
Top White House officials met representatives of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns to "ensure a smooth transition to the next administration" which will take office on January 20, 2017. This is the first time that the President Barack Obama government has held a meeting with members of both campaigns to discuss the transfer of power that will take place after the November presidential election, White House Deputy Press Secretary Jennifer Friedman told EFE news on Thursday.
Top White House officials met on Thursday with Democratic and Republican presidential campaign representatives to discuss preparations for transferring power to whomever wins the Nov. 8 election, a White House spokeswoman said. The meeting was led by Denis McDonough, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, and included Ken Salazar, the former Interior Secretary who is leading the transition team for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is the transition chair for Republican candidate Donald Trump, the White House said.
Gov. Chris Christie is facing a deadline to act on raising New Jersey's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in the next year and to at least $15 over the next five. The Republican Christie has criticized the proposal, which the Democrat-led Legislature sent to him in June.
A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie said the governor lied about his knowledge of his administration's involvement in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, according to a new court filing. Christie aide: 'He lied' about Bridgegate A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie said the governor lied about his knowledge of his administration's involvement in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, according to a new court filing.
A surprising number of people who donated to former Republican primary candidates are jumping ship to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton rather than giving money to her rival, Donald Trump. Donors who contributed $200 or more to the campaigns of Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are overwhelmingly more likely to also have donated to Clinton than Trump, according to a New York Times report .
Bill Killion, the campaign manager for Congressman Leonard Lance, is leaving New Jersey to work for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. "This should tell you everything you need to know about the race in the 7th district," said Joshua Levin, campaign manager for Lance's Democratic challenger.