Gov. Murphy: 2.6 million ballots already cast in NJ

A week until Election Day and more than 2.6 million ballots have already been cast in New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday. That amounts to 67% of the voter turnout in 2016 and stems from the state holding its first mostly mail-in election. 

Fear and anxiety spike in COVID-19 hot spots across US

About half of U.S. states have seen their highest daily coronavirus infection numbers so far at some point in October, and the country as a whole came very close to back-to-back record daily infection rates on Friday and Saturday.

Man arrested for threatening federal judge in NJ

A New Jersey man who has sued the United States for allowing “Socialists and Muslims” to hold jobs in federal government was charged with threatening a federal judge.