JERSEY POLITICS

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans huddled behind closed doors Tuesday to plot the path forward for the unified control of government they won in the November elections, though GOP senators said …

Tanisha Garner, a resident of Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, is raising her three daughters in an apartment building steps from the Passaic River, the environmentally damaged river that looks like the …

A state corrections officer has pleaded guilty to beating a man at a Woodbridge sex offender treatment facility — an attack his family described as “a gang-style assault” in a …

New Jersey students’ English and math test scores saw modest improvement this spring, though performance remained below prepandemic levels and broad achievement gaps between demographic groups were mostly unchanged, state …

WASHINGTON — Republican members of a U.S. House Judiciary Committee panel scrutinized the head of the Department of Homeland Security agency tasked with processing legal pathways to immigration during a …

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was shot and killed Wednesday morning outside the Hilton in midtown Manhattan, where he was set to address investors. A manhunt is now underway for …

Jill Norton, an education policy adviser in Massachusetts, has a teenage son with dyslexia and ADHD. Shelley Scruggs, an electrical engineer in the same state, also has a teenage son …

Sen.-elect Andy Kim joined a group of nurses Tuesday to support their drawn-out fight for a contract with Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, noting that his mom was a …

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats in closed-door elections Tuesday selected leaders for their caucus, and elevated Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar to the No. 3 spot and New Jersey Sen. Cory …

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department called on every state, school and district on Tuesday to adopt policies on cellphone use in schools. The department asks schools to have well-thought-out …