In a revelation that straddles the line between sober preparedness and sublime absurdity, NJTODAY can confirm that the United States Department of Defense maintains a formal, detailed plan for the containment and eradication of a zombie apocalypse. The document, CONPLAN 8888, titled “Counter-Zombie Dominance Operations,” outlines a comprehensive military strategy for a threat its own authors call “completely impossible.”

The House Ethics Committee's investigation into Rep. Tom Malinowski's failure to disclose dozens of stock transactions on time has concluded that he violated significant rules, but it remains unclear what the panel will do to him if he returned to the House of Representatives after a special primary election on February 5. The independent Office of Congressional Ethics found "substantial reason to believe" that Democratic Rep.

The reports coming out of Flemington, New Jersey, this afternoon were not of a riot, but of a quiet severance. At two o’clock precisely, as a kind of secular church bell tolled, over one hundred souls laid down their tools, closed their books, and stepped away from their registers. They marched along Reaville Avenue and Route 202 not with the fury of a mob, but with the deliberate pace of citizens withdrawing their consent.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good on a Minneapolis street was not an anomaly. It was a predictable escalation in a campaign of state violence that has seen U.S. immigration agents pull their triggers with alarming frequency across the nation since January 2025. Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother, was shot in the head by an ICE agent after dropping her son at school; her death was immediately shrouded in the now-familiar fog of official obfuscation.

A new survey of trash in America’s most treasured landscapes has revealed a sobering truth: the nation’s protected sanctuaries are drowning in plastic. Data released recently by the 5 Gyres Institute shows plastic now constitutes nearly 85% of all waste recorded across U.S. national parks, with tiny, toxic microplastic pellets and fragments making up more than half of that total.

In the grand and tawdry theater of American politics, where principle is so often the first casualty to power, a fresh and expensive farce is unfolding in New Jersey. A lobbying leviathan, armed with a war chest of $39 million, has trained its cannons on a former congressman for the sin of a seven-year-old vote to feed and shelter migrant children.

In a final, defining act of political cowardice, outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy pocket vetoed a trio of landmark immigrant protection bills, delivering a profound betrayal to advocates and vulnerable families and cementing a legacy where his professed ideals consistently buckled under pressure. The governor’s silent killing of the legislation—via pocket veto—came despite furious, last-minute pleas from a national coalition of over 200 faith leaders who framed the decision as a moral test.

One year ago today, a sitting president looked upon the scarred walls of the Capitol, upon the memory of officers bleeding on the marble, and saw not an atrocity to be condemned but a constituency to be cultivated. With a stroke of his pen, Donald Trump did not merely pardon approximately 1,560 individuals convicted for their roles in the violent attempt to nullify an American election.

By the time you read this, the United States may be at war with its closest allies or embroiled in a bloody conflict in Minnesota, because the unpredictable tyrant in the White House is unrestrained by reality, respect, or responsibility. In a political climate defined by maximalist pledges, the "America First" slogan championed by neofascist President Donald Trump continues to resonate with a significant portion of the US electorate, channeling frustrations over trade, immigration and national sovereignty.

From the packed aisles of a university theater in Wayne, New Jersey, a familiar, raspy indictment of the American condition echoed this evening, cutting through the political fog with the clarity of a bell and the bite of a saw. Senator Bernie Sanders brought his Fighting Oligarchy tour to the Garden State, and the faithful, in numbers so great they spilled out of doors meant to hold nearly a thousand, came to bear witness not merely to a speech, but to a diagnosis of a national sickness.

Another January, another parade of well-meaning quotations from Why Martin Luther King Jr. 's 1963 March on Washington. We will hear, again, the sonorous echoes of "I Have a Dream." Politicians will speak of harmony. Corporations will post his image. And in this ritual, we will continue to do precisely what the establishment of his day did: we will neuter a radical prophet, sanding down the sharp edges of his message until it poses no threat to our comfort.

by Megan O'Matz | ProPublica A judge in Milwaukee brought a 13-year quest for justice by a grieving father to a close on Thursday, accepting a plea deal for two men charged criminally for their role in the killing of his teenaged son. Robert W. Beringer and Jesse R. Cole pleaded guilty to felony murder under a deferred prosecution agreement that allows them to avoid jail time yet publicly stand accountable for their actions leading to the 2012 death of Corey Stingley.

The history of human progress can be measured in power—the power to shape nature, to build industries, and to light the future. In the year 2025, history quietly turned a monumental page. For the first time, the electricity generated worldwide by the sun and the wind surpassed that from coal, the sooty bedrock of the industrial age. This was not a forecast or an aspiration, but a present fact.

By James J. Devine Governor Phil Murphy stood before the state this month and declared, “We were who we said we’d be — and we did what we said we’d do.” It was a fitting epitaph for an administration adept at crafting a narrative of progressive triumph. Yet for New Jerseyans living the reality of the state’s most entrenched failures, this farewell rings hollow.

A single Saturday-night ultimatum on Truth Social from President Donald Trump, demanding a deal to purchase Greenland under threat of escalating tariffs, has abruptly shattered months of trade progress and forced European leaders into a corner, pitting them against their closest ally over the forced takeover of an allied territory. The global economy teeters on edge, as stumbling into war looms a distinct possibility, but Trump scored a success by  finally getting the Epstein files off the front page.

For decades, the dream of a "warp drive," a technology that could bend the fabric of space to achieve faster-than-light travel, has been confined to science fiction. The dream of faster-than-light travel fuels science fiction, disguised as warp speed, hyperdrive, or subspace. It is the engine of epics like Star Trek, where the USS Enterprise streaks between stars, turning our vast galaxy into a stage for adventure.

The government will tell you the typical American household brought in $83,730 last year. They will call this "median household income." They will note it is stable. They will present this as a fact, and in the sterile language of statistics, it is. But walk down any Main Street in America and ask the people there about stability. They will tell you a different story.

The machinery of justice, designed to turn with the heavy, deliberate gears of impartial fact, has seized. At the center of the deadlock is the killing of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, shot in her SUV by a federal immigration officer on Jan. 7. Now, the Trump administration is employing every lever to ensure the man who pulled the trigger, ICE agent Jonathan Ross, is not truly investigated, by putting his own employer and their political allies solely in charge, effectively placing a wall between the act and any independent state scrutiny.

In a move that has shaken the foundations of the transatlantic alliance, President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs against eight of America's closest NATO partners, demanding they acquiesce to the U.S. purchase of Greenland—a self-governing territory whose people and sovereign government have resoundingly said is not for sale. The escalation, treating allied nations as economic adversaries in a real estate negotiation, marks one of the most severe tests of the 75-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization in its history.

While political rhetoric trumpets the return of American automotive dominance, a quiet revolution on the streets of Cyprus—and Berlin, and London—reveals a more sobering reality. The United States, having pioneered the modern electric car, now watches from behind a wall of tariffs as the global market it once led passes it by. The competition between America's Tesla and China's BYD is no longer about who has the best technology, but who can build the most compelling car for the global middle class.

In a move that has exposed the tangled and often hypocritical loyalties of progressive politics, Sen. Bernie Sanders has issued his first-ever endorsement of a New Jersey Democrat who once supported him for president. The recipient is Analilia Mejia, a candidate in the crowded special election primary to replace former Rep. Mikie Sherrill. This endorsement, a seemingly routine act of political support, is in fact a stark departure from a yearslong record of calculated neutrality in the Garden State, where Sanders has repeatedly stood aside while his most ardent local supporters were steamrolled by the party machine he often decries.

The chaotic 12-way Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District has dramatically crystallized into a stark three-way battle, following a week of scorching personal attacks that have exposed the profound ethical and personal baggage carried by two leading establishment figures. On one side, a bruising and costly civil war has erupted between genocidal, carpet-bagging, former congressional stock trader Tom Malinowski…

A federal immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis has resulted in the detention of several enrolled members of sovereign tribal nations, prompting accusations of racial profiling and treaty violations from tribal leaders who say their citizens, who are U.S. citizens by birthright, are being mistakenly targeted. The operation, which has surged thousands of federal agents into the area, was initiated by the Trump administration and has been met with widespread local protest and legal challenges.

In a lawsuit that reads like an open wound, the State of New Jersey has formally accused one of its own municipalities, Clark Township, of operating a police department for years as a de facto border patrol with a singular, ugly mission: to keep Black and brown people out. The civil complaint, filed by Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights, alleges that this was not a matter of rogue officers but a systematic campaign directed from the very top of the town's government.

The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office has moved to dismiss all remaining indictments against Atlantic City Schools Superintendent La’Quetta Small and Atlantic City High School Principal Constance Days-Chapman, a decision that spares the city’s first family further criminal trials and leaves unresolved accusations of a systemic cover-up. The request, submitted to a judge on Friday, follows the acquittal last month of Mayor Marty Small on charges he beat his teenage daughter with a broom and made terroristic threats…