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Aaron Rodgers rejoins the Jets and is expected to attend their game vs. Chiefs, AP source says
Aaron Rodgers attended a team meeting at the New York Jets’ New Jersey hotel Saturday night and is expected to attend the game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The four-time NFL MVP had been healing and...

Chicago is keeping hundreds of migrants at airports while waiting on shelters and tents
CHICAGO (AP) — Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation’s busiest airports is Chicago’s unsettling response to a growing population of asylum-seekers arriving by plane. Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at...
Missing inmate who walked away from NJ halfway house recaptured, officials say
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey have announced the recapture of a man who failed to return to a halfway house after serving a prison sentence for attacking and seriously injuring his parents more than two decades ago. The New Jersey Department of Corrections...

Emerging election issues in New Jersey include lawsuits over outing trans students, offshore wind
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republicans are seizing on flashpoint issues in this year's election, aiming to energize voters over the state's lawsuits against school districts to stop them from outing transgender students to their parents as well as stoking skepticism toward offshore wind...

New York City area gets one of its wettest days in decades, as rain swamps subways and streets
NEW YORK (AP) — Rain walloped the New York metropolitan area with a startling punch Friday, knocking out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranding drivers on highways, flooding basements and shuttering a terminal at LaGuardia Airport for hours in one of the city's wettest days in decades....

Man deliberately drives into a home and crashes into a police station in New Jersey, police say
INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man deliberately drove his SUV into a home and the offices of a municipal police department last week, authorities announced Friday. No one was injured in the crashes, both of which took place on Sept. 20, the Warren County...

Menendez tells Senate colleagues he won't resign, remains defiant amid bribery charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez remained defiant in the face of federal bribery charges on Thursday, telling a room full of his Senate Democratic colleagues that he has no plans to resign. Speaking behind closed doors at the Capitol, Menendez echoed his previous...

Second Republican presidential debate draws fewer viewers than first, with 9.5 million watching
NEW YORK (AP) — The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5 million tuning into Wednesday night's event. The debate was the second in a row that the front-runner, former President Donald Trump,...

Report: High-risk problem gambling fell slightly in New Jersey even as sports betting took off
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — High-risk problem gambling in New Jersey declined slightly even as sports betting took off in the state, according to a report issued Thursday. But the report by Rutgers University and paid for by the state's gambling enforcement division found that such...

Christie calls Trump 'Donald Duck,' DeSantis knocks former president and other debate takeaways
Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the party’s primary debates. The contest's dominant front-runner — former President Donald Trump — skipped the event again. With less than four months until the...
