He's already lost 40 pounds after no-longer-secret lap-band stomach surgery, and it's perfectly timed for a presidential run. There will be the inevitable grand tale of the Incredible Shrinking Chris Christie — the humanizing interviews, the many side-by-side photos — and it will play into one of his recently acquired political strengths: women have started to like him.
This Tuesday is stressful — what with the Supreme Court tension and North Korea wanting to meet us at the flagpole at 3 p.m. It's all a bit much, really. So you should probably meet Pedro Quezada, the immigrant father from New Jersey who just won the $338.3 million lotto jackpot.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not going to the Conservative Political Action Conference, but he is going to implement the expansion of Medicaid called for under Obamacare.
Frank Lautenberg's official withdrawal from a re-election bid signals the end of a bizarre proxy feud between the 89-year-old Senator and the Newark mayor, who jumped into the race two months ago — boldly, as usual.
Just when we thought it was going to be Chris-Christie-yells-at-a-doctor day, Brennan's otherwise very serious confirmation hearing on Thursday afternoon was interrupted — after the Code Pink protestors — by several Christie jokes. Yes, really.
The Newark mayor came under heavy, anonymous fire just hours after he filed paperwork to run in 2014 for New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg's seat — a seat he publicly committed to taking... even though Lautenberg hasn't given it up yet.
Christie's media blitz this morning — including the cover of Time — could signal a shift in tone (and policy) for the New Jersey governor and his ever-growing national profile.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
An inmate in New Jersey managed to shoot three officers early this morning, and details remain unclear, but the incident has already steered the ongoing gun conversation on Twitter today.
The Newark mayor might have to buy a website for that not-so-secret Senate run he hasn't announced yet from one of his top advisors. Or maybe they could work out a deal, because the advisor has owned the domain name since 2010.
The Internet's been buzzing lately with speculation that Newark Mayor Cory Booker will challenge Chris Christie in next year's governor's race or make a bid for a Senate seat opening in 2014.
A new fantasy poll — albeit a very legitimate one — says Christie could beat Bruce Springsteen, the state's beloved bard and the governor's own personal hero.
Police had to resort to pepper-spray after a procedural move by Mayor Cory Booker caused angry citizens to storm the stage in protest—and should cause tremors in a possible fight against Chris Christie.
We think we may have found the award for the grossest repercussion that Hurricane Sandy has left behind: the damaged New Jersey plant dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of partially-treated human waste water into the New York Harbor.
Athena is the name of the winter storm that is currently bringing slushiness to the Northeast. This new storm-lady has gotten some attention in the aftermath of Sandy, given Sandy's altogether extensive nastiness and damage left behind.
Reuters on African penguins, The New York Times on fake beaches, NPR on Norfolk, VA and rising sea levels, The Washington Post on geoengineering, and The Daily Climate on women in climate science.
Hurricane Sandy threw a monkey wrench into New York and New Jersey's voting logistics by flooding polling sites, cutting power at others, and rendering some unusable. But we are humans and we have plan b's, and these are the ways New Jersey and New York responded:
In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, there's some worry in New Jersey that people won't be able to cast their ballots on electronic voting machines. In the interest of preparedness, Gov. Chris Christie has authorized some funny alternative methods for people to exercise their right to vote.
It's the most unrequited relationship in politics, but last night it showed signs of thaw.
The images of Sandy that are dominating the airwaves have morphed from darkened skylines and flooded subway tracks into a new kind of menace: pictures that hearken back to the disastrous economic troubles of the 1970s of cars waiting on endless lines for gasoline
Of course President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie care about taking care of people without power or whose homes were washed away by Hurricane Sandy. But what's in their best interest politically lines up quite nicely, too.
Today in books and publishing: New Jersey book columnist discovers the Internet; lesbian pulp novelist Tereska Torrès dies; Schwarzenegger, Olympia Snowe, and a Scientology insider tell all.
The Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, was arrested along with seven other people as the FBI prepares to unleash formal charges following a months-long corruption investigation.
No bounce yet for Obama, but he's still leading in New Jersey. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The New Jersey governor may have appeared at the GOP convention last night, but a poll from his state shows Obama with a strong lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
A Pew national poll shows Obama with a 10-point lead, the suburbs are tricky for the candidates, and New Jersey and Connecticut lean Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's national prominence suggests he's got ambitions higher than running the city, but, until Thursday, he's always kept his cards close to his vest about that.
When a New Jersey building super spotted an apartment lacking in furniture and clothing but filled with surveillance equipment and Muslim literature, he assumed it was a terrorist hideout, but what he had discovered was a New York police safe house.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Mitt better pick carefully, New Hampshire is tight, and New Jersey is blue. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker apparently loves speaking directly to the public, which is good because he's sure having a hard time getting anyone else to do it for him.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has discovered the secret of how to get journalists to read press releases: Just be hilariously self-deprecating, and claim, for example, that David Letterman called you fat 327,832 times.
The video of Chris Christie yelling at a guy on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore showed the New Jersey governor in a less than flattering light, but as one incisive commenter points out, it's the light that usually reveals a person's true self.
Bummed that the New York State Senate isn't as down with reefer as Gov. Mario Cuomo, Jon Stewart looked across the Hudson on The Daily Show las night to see if he could find his marijuana fix in the Garden State.
The initial report came in around 4 p.m. on Monday. An explosion on a yacht named Blind Date sent 21 passengers adrift off the coast of New Jersey, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Only hours before Nicki Minaj was scheduled to perform at Hot 97's Summer Jam concert, The Twitters blew up with the news that the chart-topping, neon-beehive-wig-wearing M.C. would not show.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker sure had a rough week last week and even though he has plenty of good to show for it, his controversial Meet the Press appearance caused enough strife in his own office that his communications director quit on Tuesday.
This is sort of troubling: After a three-month review, the state of New Jersey found that the NYPD did nothing wrong when it spied on Muslim businesses, mosques, and student groups.
Somehow a baby going through security at Newark's Liberty International Airport didn't get screened properly on Friday. Surely this kind of thing must happen from time to time, right?
In late March, there was broad agreement that George Zimmerman should be arrested for killing Trayvon Martin. Now white people and black people are divided over whether Martin was unjustly killed. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
Today in questions you didn't ask but are damn well getting the answers to, a Public Policy Polling survey ranked the 50 U.S. states by popularity among voters nationwide. And while Hawaii placing No. 1 in this little popularity contest wasn't a shock, that the Golden State ranked last was.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the gay marriage bill passed by the state assembly Thursday, as he promised, the Associated Press reports.
Everyone will get what he wants in New Jersey when it comes to gay marriage, except the gay people who want to get married.
The New Jersey Senate just passed a gay marriage bill by a vote of 24-16, but Gov. Chris Christie has said he'd veto such a law, so it's still unlikely we'll see same-sex marriages there in the immediate future.
New Jersey State Assemblyman Alex DeCroce collapsed and died in the Statehouse late on Monday night, just hours before lawmakers were set to begin the new legislative year.
A Brooklyn man who pleaded guilty on Thursday to selling organs on the black market had a huge profit margin as he bought kidneys from Israelis for $10,000 and sold them to Americans for $120,000 or more.
Why the New Jersey governor isn't running and how the hype started
Towns begin the cleanup process as estimates indicate damages of more than $7 billion
Bloomberg's Jonathan Alter tweets that the governor is fielding focus groups
He'll be the "authentic" Republican who'll attack Obama's policies, not his personality
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