Out of all 50 states, Massachusetts received the highest score. New Jersey, not so much. New Jersey’s unemployment rate of 4.8% is better than only six states and the District of Columbia.

A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2025, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Columbia Settles Lawsuit On Ranking For $9 Million.

U.S. has no legal basis to continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, say attorneys, who ask judge to reconsider his release from ICE custody.

Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.

U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz of New Jersey ruled on June 11 that Khalil cannot be detained or deported by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's determination that he threatened American foreign ...

Meet the five New Jerseyans who signed the Declaration of Independence: Abraham Clark had served in the Continental Congress ...

Mahmoud Kahlil, a Columbia graduate and Palestinian activist, was released after more than three months in immigration detention.

Columbia activist's lawyers appear in New Jersey court over ju­ris­diction of his case BY Associated Press and Spectrum News Staff New York City UPDATED 4:55 PM ET Mar. 28, 2025 ...

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown ...

Several hours later, at 1:40 a.m., he was transferred to Elizabeth, New Jersey. At 11:30 a.m., he was driven to John F. Kennedy Airport, and at 2:45 p.m. boarded a flight to Dallas, Texas.