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NEW YORK (AP) — When No Labels’ critics got the loudest, it was Joe Lieberman who came to the group’s defense. The former Connecticut senator was a founding chairman of the centrist organization that focused, above all, on promoting bipartisanship in national politics. Despite its benign stated mission, No Labels inflamed many people across politics by working to recruit a …
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A blender from the 1960s, a restored 1936 piano. What I learned from clearing out my childhood home
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been eight months since I closed the door for the last time to my childhood home in suburban New Jersey and said goodbye to more than a half century of memories. I sometimes still struggle to let it go. Mom passed away in February 2023 after a brief battle with cancer. My sister and I …
Read More »US Rep. Andy Kim sues over what he calls New Jersey’s ‘cynically manipulated’ ballot system
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates who have the support of political party leaders and should be scrapped, U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, who’s locked in a primary contest for U.S. Senate against the state’s first lady Tammy Murphy, said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The suit seeks to upend New Jersey’s unique primary …
Read More »New Jersey officer accused of excessive force pleads guilty to misdemeanor counts in federal court
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey police officer has pleaded guilty to federal charges of having used excessive force in two separate arrests several weeks apart a few years ago. Paterson officer Kevin Patino, 32, of Wayne, New Jersey, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Newark to two misdemeanor counts of violating an individual’s civil rights. He was …
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