Authorities are looking for four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

New Jersey primary voters chose their nominees — and President Donald Trump notched a win in his endorsement belt — in one of two high-stakes governor's races being held this year.

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted on federal charges alleging she “forcibly impeded" immigration officers during a skirmish outside a New Jersey detention center.

U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s race for governor.

The New Jersey gubernatorial primary has emerged as a crucial test for Democrats seeking to regain Latino support nationally.

Nearly a dozen candidates will compete in New Jersey on Tuesday for the chance to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention facility on a trespassing charge, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had pursued the case out of political spite.

President Donald Trump implored voters in New Jersey’s primary for governor to vote for Republican Jack Ciattarelli when early in-person voting begins Tuesday and said the state was ready for a change from years of Democratic control.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado.

The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue.

Democratic and Republican candidates for New Jersey's primary for governor are offering a glimpse of where the general election campaign could go.

A federal judge in New Jersey ordered Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver released on her own recognizance during the congresswoman’s first court appearance on assault charges stemming from immigration officials’ attempt to arrest Newark’s mayor at a detention facility.

Federal prosecutors allege Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey pushed and grabbed officers while attempting to block the arrest of the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention facility.

New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor says she’s charging Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault after a skirmish with federal officers who arrested the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention center.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.

The head of the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agency has recognized the right of members of Congress to visit detention facilities —even unannounced.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges.

Democrats have long focused on immigration when courting Latino voters in states like Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey and Florida, where generations of Latin American immigrants have settled and gained permanent legal status.

An immigration detention center in New Jersey is at the center of tensions between three congressional Democrats and the Trump administration after the arrest of Newark’s mayor outside the facility.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is denying that he trespassed at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest.

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week.

New Jersey’s governor’s race this year, one of just two along with Virginia, is emerging as a proving ground for Democrats struggling to find a message that can win over voters.

Less than a week into his presidency, the Trump administration is touting deportation efforts and has published new rules making it easier to remove people.

A New Jersey fire chief says two firefighters were killed and five others injured battling a blaze inside a docked cargo ship carrying more than a thousand vehicles.

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect.

Authorities have apprehended the suspect charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting and wounding two Newark police officers.

An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey's largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule.

With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country’s most prominent writers on race, Howard University in Washington, D.

“You can’t cut El Paso without cutting Juarez, and you can’t cut Juarez without cutting El Paso.”In other developments Tuesday, Illinois Gov. Also, the University Medical Center of El Paso erected heated isolation tents to treat coronavirus patients. El Paso County recorded about 1,400 new cases Tuesday, just short of the previous day's record of 1,443. Other Mexican border cities have complained about people entering from U.S. cities that are suffering from virus outbreaks. Dr. Hector Ocaranza, the city and county health authority in El Paso, said the heavily Latino city's family-based culture has been a contributing factor in the spread.

Officials in New Jersey's largest city began offering bottled water Monday to residents who may have been drinking tap water contaminated with lead for months or possibly years. NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) - Officials in New Jersey's largest city began offering bottled water Monday to residents who may have been drinking tap water contaminated with lead for months or possibly years. Newark is taking the advice of the US Environmental Protection Agency and providing bottled water from four city centers, Mayor Ras Baraka and Gov. No safe level of leadThere is no safe level of lead in drinking water, experts say. The EPA recommended the same in its letter, which was meant to "address concerns" and inspire enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act.