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Byline: Jim Geraghty J.D. Vance is an exceptionally confident pick by Donald Trump for his running mate - some might say an overconfident pick. Out of all the names considered [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty President Biden isn't leaving his reelection campaign willingly. Democrats should abandon their hopes that some cadre of party elders - Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chuck [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Barring some unlikely and unexpected events, Donald Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. The former president has won Iowa and New Hampshire, [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty In retrospect, itÇÖs remarkable that an 81-year-old president with lousy job approval ratings, and who many expected would serve only one term, ended up being challenged only [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Oct. 6, 2023: Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif), freshly ousted as House speaker, tells reporters outside his former office: 'No, I'm not resigning. I'm staying, so don't worry. We're [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Even by the standards of today's Washington, this video from Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D), is the most incendiary and provocative statement you'll ever see from a [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Immediately after being sworn in as the country's 86th attorney general two years ago, Merrick Garland pledged to his new colleagues, 'Together, we will show the American [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty If you pay attention to what Warren Buffett thinks, you're probably doing it for investment advice, not geopolitical predictions. But there's something more than a little unnerving [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty When a deeply troubled city chooses to double down on all the policies that aren't working, it's like watching sailors on a sinking ship bailing water in [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty The discovery process in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News has been downright humiliating for the network. Numerous texted and [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Judging from China's saber-rattling about Taiwan and combativeness toward the United States, including sending the occasional spy balloon floating overhead, the Chinese government under Xi Jinping is [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty When a politician spends 2022 campaigning for a lot of Republican candidates, meeting with top GOP donors and even getting swiped by former president Donald Trump over [...]

Byline: Jim Geraghty Just what is the Biden administration's current policy toward Saudi Arabia? Hard to tell. The White House and Riyadh traded gibes on Thursday, following President Biden's recent [...]

WASHINGTON - New Jersey would gain more than $57 million in federal highway funding next year under a proposal that would change the government's formula for distributing transportation dollars, according [...]

WASHINGTON - Jesse Zymet heard 'lefse,' and his face fell. He paused. He pondered. He asked for the definition: a traditional Norwegian flat bread made from potatoes and flour. 'I'm [...]

Few people know what an escritoire is, much less how to spell it. But for River Vale eighth-grader Jesse Zymet, the French-derived word for a writing desk was no problem [...]

WASHINGTON - Lt. Gen. John Abizaid may not be as visible or well known as his immediate superior, Gen. Tommy Franks, but his role is every bit as key in [...]

WASHINGTON - Funding for Amtrak is likely to face another difficult battle this year on Capitol Hill, as Northeast senators from states that extensively use the system face off against [...]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday on whether the federal government should be ordered to release the names of hundreds of individuals detained in terrorism investigations. [...]

WASHINGTON - An energy company's political action committee has asked the campaign of Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., to return $7,000 it contributed in excess of the legal limit. The [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - When Sen. Robert G. Torricelli dropped his bid for reelection last month, pundits across the country reached for one vivid pop culture metaphor: Tony Soprano. According to [...]

WASHINGTON - Tuesday afternoons are usually a busy time in the office of Sen. Robert G. Torricelli. Senators return to Washington from their home states, and the chamber begins voting [...]

WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, and Sen. Jon S. Corzine, a New Jersey Democrat, don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of political issues. But they and a [...]

WASHINGTON - Hoboken's young, well-off residents are getting a new older, extremely well-off neighbor: U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine. The New Jersey Democrat, who until now has lived in Summit, has [...]

WASHINGTON - A federal program that provides grants to fire departments, the pet project of Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-Paterson, is being denied $150 million by the White House in a [...]

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Robert G. Torricelli testified under oath for the first time Monday about his relationship with a Cresskill businessman who illegally funneled $53,700 to his 1996 campaign. [...]

WASHINGTON - EPA Administrator and former Gov. Christie Whitman said Monday that her agency would make sure materials dumped off Sandy Hook comply with a strict standard set in 2000, [...]

WASHINGTON - Governor McGreevey met Tuesday with Sens. Jon S. Corzine and Robert G. Torricelli to discuss ways to counter three recent decisions by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The [...]

He may have sung 'New York, New York,' but Frank Sinatra will always be linked with his hometown of Hoboken, ZIP code 07030. Now, that connection will become literal. The [...]

WASHINGTON - If Amtrak shuts down rail service nationally next week, it could have a serious effect on local commuter railways like New Jersey Transit, the rail service's president warned [...]

WASHINGTON - In the fourth round of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Thursday, River Vale seventh-grader Jesse Zymet met his match: 'roriferous.' From the moment he was asked [...]

A seventh-grader from River Vale advanced to the third round of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Wednesday in Washington. Jesse Zymet, 13, passed the first round when he [...]

Centuries-old remains of at least six Native Americans unearthed on Liberty Island and Ellis Island may soon be returned to four tribes. The remains were found, in some cases, decades [...]

Congress is expected to cast a skeptical eye at a plan by the U.S. Postal Service to permanently close little-used post offices. Postmaster General John E. Potter announced in April [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Sen. Bruce Springsteen of New Jersey? Turns out the 'Draft Springsteen' campaign was just dancing in the dark. Springsteen released a statement [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - President Bush's choice as the Environmental Protection Agency's top cop, veteran New Jersey official John Peter Suarez, appeared to win over key [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - The National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled its secret weapon against Sen. Robert G. Torricelli: A Web site that quacks. Torricelli is [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - New Jersey Sens. Robert G. Torricelli and Jon S. Corzine expect to don heavy-duty protective gear next week when they travel to [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - The man heading the Senate Ethics Committee probe into Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., said it is unlikely that the allegations of [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - A comprehensive study of the collapse of the World Trade Center will cost $40 million and could take more than two years, [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - On the day President Bush signed a bill waiving the income tax liability of families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - The air smells like a chlorinated swimming pool, the plants haven't been watered in three months, and the office suites look like [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco requested $916 million from Congress on Thursday to cover New Jersey's costs in responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - If you've sent a letter to your senator or congressman in the last few days, it may be a while before anyone [...]

By WENDY RUDERMAN, Trenton Bureau and JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - The House on Friday swiftly passed a bill to rescind a 1995 policy fostered by Sen. Robert [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service A former press spokesman for former Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg who also worked on Sen. Jon Corzine's Senate campaign says he turned down an [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - Ten years after a blaze claimed the life of a Paterson fireman, the city's former mayor and current Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - Two New Jersey Democratic lawmakers are among the top three recipients of Cuban-American political contributions over the past 22 years, a comprehensive [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - New Jersey's congressional delegation has mixed feelings about President Bush's decision to support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem [...]

By JIM GERAGHTY, States News Service WASHINGTON - Three months ago, it seemed as if Sen. Robert G. Torricelli's title had officially changed to 'embattled senator.' The federal probe into [...]