By Dana DiFilippo | Senior Reporter
Happy Saturday!
Here's what we learned this week:
Families marked the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with stories and calls for justice.
Nearly 7,000 NJ residents who survived 9/11 have received free medical treatment via a Rutgers University program.
A legislator wants his Statehouse colleagues to leave their phones at the door and pay attention during voting sessions.
The State Commission of Investigation warned deed fraud will worsen if policymakers don’t expand safeguards.
NJ’s auditor found state health officials lag months behind in required nursing home inspections.
An Elizabeth woman chronicled her journey through ICE detention.
More immigrants are choosing to self-deport, leaving family behind.
Advocates, clergy and others have mobilized to help immigrants during the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.
A federal judge upheld Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s order barring ICE from some state property.
Another federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed over his arrest outside an ICE jail last year.
Other federal judges revoked a key permit for a proposed $1B underwater pipeline project.
Sherrill remains mum about the investigation into her second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell.
A woman places roses on the name of a victim of the 9/11 attacks during the commemoration ceremony on the 25th anniversary at Memorial Plaza in Manhattan, NY on Sept. 11, 2026. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)
And from D.C. and elsewhere:
9/11 changed how America surveils its citizens.
President Trump escalated his trade war with Canada by launching new tariffs.
The Trump administration aims to exclude many noncitizens from the census.
Republicans ended their midterm convention vowing to keep control of Congress.
Trump’s plan to pay every American adult $5K if the GOP prevails in the midterms would cost $1.2T and ‘explode’ the deficit, economists warn.
States sue the feds after the Trump administration rolled back protections for endangered species.
Have a great weekend!
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