Tuesday delivered a string of high-profile victories for Democrats in gubernatorial races. Democrat Ralph Northam decisively won the Virginia governor’s race in what had become a nail-biter of a contest, defeating Republican Ed Gillespie in the election to replace outgoing Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe. Northam, currently Virginia’s lieutenant governor, held a comfortable lead in many […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has called off the search for three U.S. Marines who are missing after their tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the sea Saturday off Australia’s east coast. Twenty-three other people aboard the MV-22 Osprey have been rescued. A Marine Corps statement says they have begun a recovery effort in coordination with […]
WASHINGTON — The sister of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is in China courting wealthy people to invest $500,000 in luxury apartment towers outside New York City as part of a program that would grant them permanent U.S. residency. Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of the president’s top White House […]
The 600-year-old White Oak that has stood in Bernard, New Jersey since long before the U.S. was formed is now being cut down. The huge Oak, in the past has been the site of formal pictures and has been routinely used as a landmark for driving directions. The tree, which already stood in place before […]