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Thousands of unaffiliated voters switched, took part in NJ primary election

By NJ Spotlight | Codea | 7/16/2025 12:11 AM

Democrats benefited more than Republicans. Can their advantage last into general election? The post Thousands of unaffiliated voters switched, took part in NJ primary election appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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No charges for police officer who killed Fort Lee woman

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/16/2025 12:09 AM

Shooting added pressure to change how police respond to mental health emergencies The post No charges for police officer who killed Fort Lee woman appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Senate inches toward funding clawback but may spare HIV/AIDS program

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/16/2025 12:07 AM

Congress faces Friday deadline to pass Trump rescissions package The post Senate inches toward funding clawback but may spare HIV/AIDS program appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Op-Ed: Sherrill warns about loss of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding in NJ

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/16/2025 12:06 AM

Democratic candidate for governor says reproductive health care at risk The post Op-Ed: Sherrill warns about loss of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding in NJ appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ Spotlight News: July 15, 2025

By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/15/2025 6:30 PM

We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Two deaths, house explosion amid NJ flooding Fatalities in Plainfield after car swept away during Monday’s rainstorm. Here’s why NJ’s summer storms are so intense Interview: Dave Robinson, New […] The post NJ Spotlight News: July 15, 2025 appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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‘Nobody seems to be happy’ with revised DEP flood rules

By NJ Spotlight | Genesis Obando | 7/15/2025 6:01 PM

Officials lowered controversial building elevation requirements, among other changes The post ‘Nobody seems to be happy’ with revised DEP flood rules appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Two deaths, house explosion amid NJ flooding

By NJ Spotlight | Genesis Obando | 7/15/2025 5:59 PM

Fatalities in Plainfield after car swept away during Monday’s rainstorm The post Two deaths, house explosion amid NJ flooding appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Here’s why NJ’s summer storms are so intense

By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/15/2025 5:57 PM

Interview: Dave Robinson, New Jersey State Climatologist The post Here’s why NJ’s summer storms are so intense appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Newark organization sues over new power plant

By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/15/2025 5:54 PM

Advocates say facility would sit in one of the most polluted areas of NJ The post Newark organization sues over new power plant appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Senate set to vote on slashing foreign aid, public media funds

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/15/2025 12:09 AM

Trump budget official says rescissions measure likely first of many looking to cancel already approved funding The post Senate set to vote on slashing foreign aid, public media funds appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Why NJ’s ranking among states is so up and down

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/15/2025 12:08 AM

Different ranking organizations focus on different attributes. Not all use reliable methods The post Why NJ’s ranking among states is so up and down appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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DEP scales back coastal protection rules at last minute

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/15/2025 12:06 AM

Late changes rile both environmentalists and business groups The post DEP scales back coastal protection rules at last minute appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ Spotlight News: July 14, 2025

By NJ Spotlight | NJ Spotlight | 7/14/2025 6:31 PM

We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Report: Murphy subpoenaed over housing migrant comments Trump administration continues legal action against Democratic leadership. How extreme heat poses major risk to pregnancy Investigative report by NJ Spotlight News […] The post NJ Spotlight News: July 14, 2025 appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ group creates pathways to construction careers

By NJ Spotlight | Genesis Obando | 7/14/2025 5:53 PM

Black Ladies of Construction Foundation offers training, certifications, job placement support The post NJ group creates pathways to construction careers appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Report: Murphy subpoenaed over housing migrant comments

By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/14/2025 5:52 PM

Trump administration continues legal action against Democratic leadership The post Report: Murphy subpoenaed over housing migrant comments appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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How extreme heat poses major risk to pregnancy

By NJ Spotlight | Joanna Gagis | 7/14/2025 5:50 PM

Investigative report by NJ Spotlight News and Climate Central The post How extreme heat poses major risk to pregnancy appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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NJ’s nurse home visiting program for new moms shows early impact

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/14/2025 12:14 AM

Long-term Family Connects NJ funding unsettled as state expected to reckon with federal cuts The post NJ’s nurse home visiting program for new moms shows early impact appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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Nurses acclaim Family Connects program, acknowledge challenges

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/14/2025 12:11 AM

The nurses visit new mothers at home within two weeks of hospital discharge The post Nurses acclaim Family Connects program, acknowledge challenges appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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DEP to meet critics of new coastal development rules

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/14/2025 12:09 AM

Agency seen trying to blunt opposition as deadline nears The post DEP to meet critics of new coastal development rules appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

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President Trump’s education cuts | Hey, NJ

By NJ Spotlight | Maire Crowe | 7/14/2025 12:07 AM

What the cuts could mean for NJ’s public schools The post President Trump’s education cuts | Hey, NJ appeared first on NJ Spotlight News. ... Read full Story

beauty

13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

by The List | Mar 03 2025

food

What It Really Means When You Hear A Bell Ring At Trader Joe's

by The Daily Meal | Jul 16 2025

health

Olivia Munn's Mom Also Had Breast Cancer, Highlighting Genetic Risks

by Healthline.com | Jul 15 2025

lifestyle

Katherine Schwarzenegger's drastic measures for step-parenting with Chris Pratt

by Hello! Magazine | Jul 16 2025

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Scenes from Alive by the Bay in its return to downtown Bay Shore

by greaterlongisland.com | Jul 16 2025

mental

Special Olympics Advocates: Don’t Leave This Community Out of Mental Health Discussions

by thehealthy.com | May 28 2025

metro

Zohran Mamdani facing key Dems at DC breakfast hosted by AOC after setting off political earthquake

by New York Post | Jul 16 2025

nutrition

Carnivore Diet: Expert Clinicians List the Foods, Effects, and Health Risks

by thehealthy.com | Jul 10 2025

opinion

Best of the Babylon Bee: GOP’s debt plan will transfer balance to 0% intro APR Capital One credit card

by New York Post | Jul 16 2025

politics

GOP rep: Everyone’s trying to find Epstein ‘nugget’ that doesn’t exist

by The Hill | Jul 16 2025

technology

Australia’s Navy tests gravity-based navigation tech to counter GPS signal spoofing

by Interesting Engineering | Jul 16 2025

travel

Inside Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, the new heritage centre telling the story of Maine’s Indigenous peoples

by Wanderlust | Jul 15 2025

upstate

Crews respond to plane crash in Knox

by NEWS10 ABC | Jul 16 2025

wellness

8 Best Shoes for Back Pain That Podiatrists Swear By in 2025

by Self.com | Jul 15 2025

world

Russia attacks 4 Ukrainian cities as time ticks down to U.S. peace deadline

by Global News | Jul 16 2025

Word of the Day

abject

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 16, 2025 is:

abject • \AB-jekt\ • adjective

Abject usually describes things that are extremely bad or severe. It can also describe something that feels or shows shame, or someone lacking courage or strength.

// Happily, their attempts to derail the project ended in abject failure.

// The defendants were contrite, offering abject apologies for their roles in the scandal that cost so many their life savings.

// The author chose to cast all but the hero of the book as abject cowards.

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Examples:

“This moment ... points toward the book’s core: a question of how to distinguish tenderness from frugality. Is ‘Homework’ about a child who took a remarkably frictionless path, aided by a nation that had invested in civic institutions, from monetary hardship to the ivory tower? Merely technically. Is it a story of how members of a family, protected by a social safety net from abject desperation, developed different ideas about how to relate to material circumstance? We’re getting there.” — Daniel Felsenthal, The Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025

Did you know?

We’re sorry to say you must cast your eyes down to fully understand abject: in Middle English the word described those lowly ones who are rejected and cast out. By the 15th century, it was applied as it still is today to anything that has sunk to, or exists in, a low state or condition; in modern use it often comes before the words poverty, misery, and failure. Applied to words like surrender and apology, it connotes hopelessness and humility. The word’s Latin source is the verb abicere, meaning “to throw away, throw down, overcome, or abandon.” Like reject, its ultimate root is the Latin verb jacere, meaning “to throw.” Subject is also from jacere, and we’ll leave you with that word as a way to change the subject.

Thousands of unaffiliated voters switched, took part in NJ primary election

No charges for police officer who killed Fort Lee woman

Senate inches toward funding clawback but may spare HIV/AIDS program

Op-Ed: Sherrill warns about loss of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding in NJ

NJ Spotlight News: July 15, 2025

‘Nobody seems to be happy’ with revised DEP flood rules

Two deaths, house explosion amid NJ flooding

Here’s why NJ’s summer storms are so intense

Newark organization sues over new power plant

Senate set to vote on slashing foreign aid, public media funds

Why NJ’s ranking among states is so up and down

DEP scales back coastal protection rules at last minute

NJ Spotlight News: July 14, 2025

NJ group creates pathways to construction careers

Report: Murphy subpoenaed over housing migrant comments

How extreme heat poses major risk to pregnancy

NJ’s nurse home visiting program for new moms shows early impact

Nurses acclaim Family Connects program, acknowledge challenges

DEP to meet critics of new coastal development rules

President Trump’s education cuts | Hey, NJ

13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

What It Really Means When You Hear A Bell Ring At Trader Joe's

Olivia Munn's Mom Also Had Breast Cancer, Highlighting Genetic Risks

Katherine Schwarzenegger's drastic measures for step-parenting with Chris Pratt

Scenes from Alive by the Bay in its return to downtown Bay Shore

Special Olympics Advocates: Don’t Leave This Community Out of Mental Health Discussions

Zohran Mamdani facing key Dems at DC breakfast hosted by AOC after setting off political earthquake

Carnivore Diet: Expert Clinicians List the Foods, Effects, and Health Risks

Best of the Babylon Bee: GOP’s debt plan will transfer balance to 0% intro APR Capital One credit card

GOP rep: Everyone’s trying to find Epstein ‘nugget’ that doesn’t exist

Australia’s Navy tests gravity-based navigation tech to counter GPS signal spoofing

Inside Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, the new heritage centre telling the story of Maine’s Indigenous peoples

Crews respond to plane crash in Knox

8 Best Shoes for Back Pain That Podiatrists Swear By in 2025

Russia attacks 4 Ukrainian cities as time ticks down to U.S. peace deadline

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