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Jersey man’s Senate race in Pennsylvania is too close to call

May 17, 2022 11:22 pm

Mehmet Oz, a Donald Trump endorsee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania who was until recently a resident of Cliffside Park, is locked in a too-close-to-call Republican primary against hedge fund manager Dave McCormick. With most of the state reporting at...

Menendez splits from Biden admin over Cuba, Venezuela policies

May 17, 2022 3:23 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, broke with President Joe Biden on foreign policy issues twice in as many days this week: first over the continuing normalization of relations with Cuba, and today...

McKnight, Schaer, Wimberly introduce resolution supporting federal anti-lynching law

May 11, 2022 12:44 pm

A month after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, Assemblymembers Angela McKnight (D-Jersey City), Gary Schaer (D-Passaic), and Benjie Wimberly (D-Paterson) have introduced a resolution in the State Assembly in support of the new national...

Statements on the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade

May 3, 2022 10:46 amMay 4, 2022 1:57 pm

Last night, Politico released a leaked draft majority opinion written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, a 1973 case that established the constitutional right to abortion. Though the draft is not necessarily final...

Poll: New Jersey’s Mehmet Oz, two others, locked in tight race for GOP U.S. Senate nod in Pennsylvania

April 27, 2022 12:07 pm

New Jerseyan Mehmet Oz has a razor-thin 3-point lead in his bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Pennsylvania’s May 17 primary election, a new Monmouth University Poll shows. Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and TV personality from Cliffside Park,...

Jersey man returns to Bergen County for U.S. Senate fundraiser

April 13, 2022 11:55 amApril 13, 2022 2:11 pm

TV medical personality Mehmet Oz, until recently a resident of Cliffside Park, is returning home to Bergen County tonight for a high-dollar fundraiser to support his bid for the United States Senate in Pennsylvania. The listed hosts of the event...

Happy Birthday, Nicholas Brady

April 10, 2022 12:01 amApril 10, 2022 10:57 pm

Nicholas Brady, New Jersey’s oldest-living former United States Senator, will celebrate his 92nd birthday on Monday. Brady served in the U.S. Senate for nearly nine months in 1982, following the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams. He also served as U.S....