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Acting under a law that generally limits the terms of interim US attorneys to 120 days, a panel of judges appointed one of Habba’s subordinates as her successor.
Federal judges in New Jersey on Tuesday opted not to appoint former Trump attorney Alina Habba as the state's top federal prosecutor on a permanent basis.
A New Jersey woman is concerned about what's next after her partner and more than a dozen migrant workers were taken to the controversial ICE facility Delaney Hall.
The 2-1 ruling is a win for the private prison company that filed the lawsuit, CoreCivic, which operates the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Elizabeth.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said New Jersey cannot ban the detention of immigrants awaiting deportation within its borders, agreeing with private prison operator CoreCivic that it "destroys the federal government's marketplace" for detention facilities crucial to immigration enforcement.
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Morris County became the epicenter of hysteria Monday as the series of quakes — ranging from a magnitude 0.7 to 2.0 — rocked the Randolph area five times and nearby Mendham once in the roughly 17-hour span, according to the US Geological Survey. “There was just this loud boom,” one resident recalled to News 12 New Jersey.
A new weather alert system is now in place in more than a dozen parks in Paterson, New Jersey. After two lightning-related deaths in other parts of the state, the hope is to let people know when weather could turn dangerous before it's too late.