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The heavy rainfall in New Jersey is causing more problems than flooding.

The Passaic River receded from major flood stage down to moderate days after the city of Paterson was battered by storms.

KJ had told his mother he wanted to be a police officer or an influencer. He had just turned 10 in September.

ABC NewsThe 2024 primary season begins with Donald Trump well ahead of his Republican opponents on key measures of popularity, while Joe Bidens job approval rating has dropped to a low for any president in the past 15 years, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. With the Iowa caucuses Monday, the national survey finds Trump especially well rated by Republicans and Republican-leaning independents on three metrics: having the best chance to win in November, being a strong leader and being the partys mo...

ThePerryNews.comThe Iowa high school principal who was shot and wounded while trying to protect his students during a school shooting earlier this month has died from his injuries, according to the school district. Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger was among seven people injured in the Jan. 4 shooting. One student, 11-year-old sixth grader Ahmir Jolliff, was killed, authorities said. The suspected shooter -- a student at the high school -- died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound...

ABC NewsAll of the Ecuador prison guards and administrative employees who were being held by inmates were released, the country’s prison agency said Saturday night. As nationwide civil unrest unfolded in Ecuador, a total of 178 employees were taken hostage on Monday in at least five different prisons, according to the SNAI prisons agency. According to SNAI, one prison guard had been killed in the El Oro prison. The guards and staffers were being held by inmates in detention facilities in Azuay...

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry announced the cancellation of two departures ahead of tonight’s forecasted storm.

Seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images(BOSTON) -- A group of Jewish students at Harvard University has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the school has "become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment" and alleging the administration has failed to protect them. The lawsuit, on behalf of members of the Students Against Antisemitism Inc., was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston and asks a judge to compel the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university to enforce rules alre...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday publicly faulted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for not informing him earlier that he was hospitalized for complications from cancer treatment. When a reporter asked Biden whether it was "a lapse in judgment for him not to tell you earlier," Biden replied, "Yes." At the same time, when asked by a reporter if he still had confidence in Austin, Biden replied he did. Biden made his first comments on the contr...

Governor Murphy is set to visit the flooded areas in New Jersey on Saturday after another soaking rain overnight.