Booker aide tapped for cannabis panel after NAACP pressure

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday named a staffer for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and member of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network to the new state commission charged with setting up and regulating recreational marijuana.

Pennsylvania nears 1 million virus cases amid rocky vaccine push

With health officials on alert, Pennsylvania learned that it will not get nearly as many fresh doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as the federal government initially projected.

New Jersey schools should be all in person in fall, Murphy says

There should be no option for remote learning, and all students should be back in person when the new school year starts in September, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday.

Biden administration releases images of Texas border facilities housing migrant children

U.S. Customs and Border Protection shared two videos and 44 photos of the processing centers, located in Donna and El Paso, that are housing unaccompanied migrant children.

US officials to hold talks in Mexico on migration amid surge at border

A surge of migrants has hit the U.S. southern border with Mexico. Several top U.S. advisers on border and immigration issues will meet with Mexican officials on Tuesday.

Trump adviser says former president is starting his own social media platform after permanent ban from others

After being banned from social media for “inciting violence” ahead of the Jan. 6 riot, a senior adviser to former president Donald Trump says Trump has plans to make a comeback online by creating his own social media platform.

President Biden, VP Harris visits CDC, meets with Asian-American leaders on Atlanta trip

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are wrapping up a visit to Atlanta on Friday addressing two major crises in America: the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating violence against Asian Americans.

New Jersey allows restaurants, some business to expand capacity to 50% on Friday

New Jersey allowed restaurants and some businesses to expand their indoor capacity to 50% starting Friday as the Garden State continues to see a manageable decline in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.

'Our silence is complicity': Biden condemns anti-Asian hate after call for passage of COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are offering solace to Asian Americans and a reeling nation as they visit Atlanta just days after a White gunman killed eight people, most of them Asian American women.

Biden looks to double vaccine goal as US clears 100 million shots since Jan. 20

The U.S. on Friday cleared President Joe Biden’s goal of injecting 100 million coronavirus shots, more than a month before his target date of his 100th day in office.

VIDEO:  Biden stumbles multiple times, falls as he boards Air Force One

President Biden stumbled twice and fell as he climbed the stairs to Air Force One on Friday morning at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Judge rules some body cam video from George Floyd's 2019 arrest admissible in Derek Chauvin trial

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled Friday some evidence related to George Floyd's 2019 arrest, including a portion of the accompanying body camera video, is admissible in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in Floyd's death. 

Birx says she still thinks about Trump’s comments on injecting disinfectant ‘every day’

Former White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx says she’s still wrestling with the memory of former President Donald Trump’s remarks on injecting disinfectant.

21 states sue Biden in attempt to revive Keystone XL pipeline

Attorneys general from 21 states on Wednesday sued to overturn President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Manhattan DA's probe heats up with Trump's taxes in hand

With former President Donald Trump's tax returns finally in hand, a team of New York prosecutors is sending out fresh subpoenas and meeting face-to-face with key witnesses, scrutinizing Trump's business practices in granular detail.

Vanessa Bryant shares court documents revealing names of deputies who photographed fatal crash

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has shared a 12-page document revealing the names of the deputies who took and shared photos of the fatal helicopter crash that took the life of Kobe, their daughter Gigi and seven others.