New Jersey

an ICE agent's back
On Course
Immigrant students settle with govt over fake university
Aerial view of a Hindu temple next to a parking lot and greenery.
Caste in America
Lawsuits bring attention to caste discrimination in the US
Human rights
A Uighur poem of ‘unimaginable suffering’ travels from Chinese internment camp to New Jersey
A detainee talks with an employee in an exam room in the medial unit during a media tour at Northwest ICE Processing Center, one of 31 dedicated ICE facilities that house immigration detainees, in Tacoma, Washington, Dec. 16, 2019.
COVID-19
Immigrants in US detention fear spread of coronavirus
logos
TikTok apologizes to US teen after removing video critical of Chinese government
Every year, millions of Muslims from around the world descend upon Mecca, Saudi Arabia for the Hajj.
Religion
Politics complicate the hajj spiritual journey for some Muslims
Child drinking water
Health
Newark, NJ, has a lead contamination problem in its water
young adults make hot sauce
Food
In Camden, a hot sauce is helping young urban entrepreneurs fight poverty
Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants
Environment
Nuclear energy gets a ‘green’ boost in New Jersey
CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Pompeo’s nomination to be secretary of state on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2018.
Global Politics
Some senators still have lingering questions about Mike Pompeo as secretary of state
Arts, Culture & Media
Civil War Re-enactors
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Baraka’s Big Lies
Arts, Culture & Media
Dear Diary — It’s Paul’s Alter
Hudson generating station
Environment
More states join the fight to reduce global warming
For years, Shanghai has featured some of China's worst air pollution. Recent initiatives by the Chinese government, though, have begun to clean up some of the problem.
Economics
With the US pursuing fossil fuels, alternative, renewable forms of energy could be an even bigger boon to China
Christmas lights decorations are lit at the Halliwell family home in Roseville Terrace in Fairfield, Connecticut, on Dec. 20, 2017.
Culture
Peace on Earth? Not during New York suburbs’ Christmas light wars
Boxes of rice stream past on a food processing machine at Goya in New Jersey.
Economics
Ever think about where your Spanish rice comes from? A good bet it’s from Jersey.
baby
Development
The science behind ‘baby talk’
Pecan Acres
Economics
Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods
Ivy Mike
Conflict
What you need to know about modern nuclear war
17-year-old Jonathan, who has DACA status, had been planning his path to college. Then the Trump administration announced the end of DACA.
Conflict
High school is hard enough without having to deal with the loss of DACA
Xiyue Wang and Hua Qu with their son. Wang has been in prison in Iran for more than a year.
Justice
The wife of a Princeton scholar imprisoned in Iran worries about the fate of the Iran nuclear deal
Family of six sitting closely together on a sofa
Global Politics
The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the creator of the website Muslim Girl.
Culture
From facing Islamophobia, to creating a hit website that fights Muslim caricatures
People in crowd hold up cellphones
Global Politics
How Donald Trump ended up at a Bollywood-themed Hindu rally in New Jersey
A policeman takes a photo of a man they identify as Ahmad Khan Rahami, who is wanted for questioning in connection with an explosion in New York City, as he is placed into an ambulance in Linden, New Jersey, in this still image taken from video.
Conflict
Too soon to know if the captured NYC bombing suspect was ‘inspired by anyone’
VIDEO: Airplane from U.S. makes belly landing in Poland after landing gear fails
Environment
Solar power booming in the United States
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.
Election 2016
Here’s what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump’s RNC speech
Jumana Jaber's project called "Chemo Therapy and Chemical Weapons." The Syrian artist says it juxtaposes her experience with breast cancer in 2006 with the Syrian government's attacks on its people now.
Arts
A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn’t back home
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Education
Why school can be a rocky ride for some young Syrians in the US
NJ Farmer 1
Food
For African cooks, one New Jersey farmer has what they need
New York City's ‘Little Italy’. Mulberry Street, Lower East Side, circa 1900
Justice
A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians
sandy_immigrants
Development
Meet the undocumented workers who rebuilt New York and New Jersey after Sandy
Housing Works CEO Charles King, second from left, speaks out against the current quarantine rules put into effect in New York and New Jersey following Ebola fears in the region outside of Bellevue Hospital in New York on October 27, 2014.
Health
US medical workers strike back at strict Ebola quarantines
Dutch ecologist and dike designer Mindert de Vries stands on top of one of the new "soft" dikes being built near the Rhine River delta city of Dordrecht. Dutch innovations in flood control are helping reduce the adverse effects of older dike technologies.
Environment
With the waters rising, the Dutch find eco-friendly ways to keep them at bay
Global Politics
Obama Administration announces big spending package on transportation
Global Politics
Obama holds national infrastructure meeting
Arts, Culture & Media
Listeners respond: remembering the Grateful Dead
Courtesy of The Center for an Urban Future
Lifestyle & Belief
For New York City’s aging immigrants, it can be hard to create a community
On the Road
Arts, Culture & Media
A Berlin student transforms Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ into a set of Google driving directions
Sports
Why are Canadians cheering for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl?
Korean American activist Phyllis Kim at the Glendale, California, memorial for "comfort women."
Global Politics
A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan
Lifestyle & Belief
A Taiwanese immigrant’s first days in America were about getting by
Global Politics
The NJ governor’s staff aren’t the only politicos messing with traffic
The Khan family: Kamala Khan, aka "Ms. Marvel" (second left) with her brother Aamir, father Yusuf, mother Disha and friend Bruno.
Arts, Culture & Media
Meet the new Ms. Marvel — a female, Muslim, Pakistani superhero
Hurricane Sandy is seen moving towards the east coast of the United States on October 29, 2012.
Environment
In the year since Sandy, scientists grow more certain on reality of climate change
Business, Economics and Jobs
Some Filipino call center workers turn schedules upside down, embrace U.S. time
Exploring The Road to U.S. Action in Syria
Business, Economics and Jobs
Buford, Wyoming Renames Itself: ‘Delicious Filter Coffee Town’
Business, Economics and Jobs
Living on Call Center Time in the Philippines
Arts, Culture & Media
Painter draws inspiration from Walmart’s shelves
Global Politics
As push for gun reform wanes, financial costs continuing to build
Conflict & Justice
Panelists introduce high-tech prison reform at SXSW
Global Politics
House leaders reverse course, set vote for Superstorm Sandy aid