Robert Menendez

With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, U.S. Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have sponsored a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents who get...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) _ With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey are sponsoring a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal...

A revised $700 billion bailout package for the financial industry finally passed the House on Friday after several lawmakers _ including two New Jersey congressmen _ dropped their opposition to the proposal. The Garden State's delegation to the House...

Opinions of Bush administration's $700-billion proposal to bail out the financial industry. "Stunning and unprecedented in its scope and lack of detail." - Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) "Does nothing to address the root cause of the crisis." - Sen....

New Jersey's two U.S. senators voted Wednesday in favor of a reworked version of the historic bailout package whose rejection by the House sent U.S. financial markets into a tailspin earlier this week. The Senate version passed by a vote of 74 to 25....

Deeply unpopular in New Jersey but still able to rake in big bucks from donors, President Bush appeared at a private fundraiser Monday in Monmouth County on behalf of two Republican congressional candidates. The event, which was closed to the media, was...

general news and financial services. AP Photos NJMD102-103. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) _ Sen. Robert Menendez outlined his plan for economic recovery Friday, focusing on preventing foreclosures and helping out small businesses. The New Jersey Democrat, a...

Federal regulators rolled out the first pieces of their sweeping plan to end the nation's financial crisis Friday, moving to insure up to $2 trillion in money market mutual funds and temporarily barring investors from betting on the decline of financial...

Home prices. That's what the Bush administration's historic Wall Street bailout is really about. Falling home prices nationwide have acted like dominoes, knocking homeowners into foreclosure and taking down lender after lender, until the entire global...

With the race for the White House grown tight, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has begun using the issue of immigration to try to dent Democrat Barack Obama's lead among Latino voters, who could prove decisive in the Southwest. Polls have...

by Mark Silva In the event that you were waiting for the volatile debate over immigration to reemerge in the presidential election campaign, wait no more. The Obama campaign, fighting the McCain campaign in a bigtime TV ad war Colorado,......

When Glades County Jail officials brought medicine to Valery Joseph of West Palm Beach two weeks ago, they found him dead in his cell. Immigration officials were holding the Haitian nativepending an immigration hearing scheduled for July 3. A preliminary...