Associated Press

A look at some of the top stories of the year in the Garden State.

The president's last-minute objections are setting up a defining showdown with his own Republican Party in his final days in office.

Nurses in overtaxed hospitals are afraid that people aren't taking precautions as coronavirus cases surge, and they especially fear what's next.

The actions bring to 49 the number of people who Trump in the last two days has granted clemency either through pardons or sentence commutations.

Republicans led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have resisted $2,000 checks as too costly. They have not said if they will block the vote.

More than 5 million people passed through the nation’s airport security checkpoints between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

The job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs.

Realizing this year's unique dynamic, hospitals asked adults, organizations and schoolchildren to either make or buy holiday cards and send them to their patients.

Trump's presidency is reflected in a broad range of numbers representing everything from the U.S. death toll during the pandemic to the miles of his “big, beautiful wall."

The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.

President Trump pardoned 15 people, including GOP allies, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a massacre.

The 4-3 decision said the state constitution's privacy protections are greater than the U.S. Constitution's and that those protections extend to vehicles.