The top federal prosecutor in New Jersey says she has launched an investigation into Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and state Attorney General Matt Platkin over the state’s directive to local law enforcement not to cooperate with federal agents conducting immigration enforcement. Alina Habba, appointed last month by President Donald Trump as the interim U.S. attorney for the state, announced the investigation on Thursday evening on Fox News. “I want it to be a warning for everybody that I have instructed my office today to open an investigation into Governor Murphy,...

Walter Emanuel Jones feels that suiting up to play the Black Ranger in “Power Rangers” was no mistake; it was an “honor.” Jones is responding to comments made by “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” head writer Tony Oliver, in which Oliver said the casting team made a mistake in casting the Black and Yellow Power Rangers. The “mistake” in this instance mainly being putting a black actor in a black suit and an Asian actor in a yellow suit. In an April 7 episode of Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries “Hollywood Demons,”...

Ally Venable already has a rep for fast and nasty guitar licks and a soulful voice. Think Susan Tedeschi by way of AC/DC. On her sixth album, Money and Power (due out April 18), the East Texas musician wants to shine a light on her lyrics, too. She credits Buddy Guy and Sister Rosetta Tharpe for inspiring her to play “a form of protest music,” she recently told The Arts Fuse. “That’s an important mission, and it was one of the goals in making this album, especially the title track.”...

CLAYSVILLE, Pennsylvania — When Shawn Steffee took to the podium at the Range Resources field office this month, he stood in front of a crowd of over 500 people, including local elected officials, energy workers in the natural gas industry, and luminaries such as the company’s CEO and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Steffee, the business manager for Boilermakers Local 154 and a local legend in the labor community, said he decided this moment, with Burgum as a captive audience, called for him to speak not from prepared remarks but from...

The crowd inside Franklin Music Hall Saturday night was, in many respects, a standard mass of heavy metal mayhem. Pumping fists, brutal mosh pits, a man the size of an NFL linebacker charging to the concession stand, begging for napkins to stop the blood pouring from his split eyebrow. But dotted around the frenzied audience in Philadelphia was an unfamiliar sight — tiny bodies hoisted onto shoulders, their little heads banging to the beat, their short arms extended to form the cutest devil horns you’ve ever seen. It’s official: Killswitch...

A Pennsylvania family is mourning the loss of their father and his two sons after all three were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in what police called a 'horrific tragedy.' The family of three were fatally struck by the high-speed Acela train, which can reach speeds of up to 150mph, bound from Boston to Richmond, Virginia, at around 6:10 pm near Bristol Station. Christopher Cramp, 56, and his two sons, David, 30, and Thomas, 24, were identified as the victims in the tragic incident by friends and family...

Three members of the same family were fatally struck by an Amtrak train traveling through Pennsylvania, prompting an hours-long suspension of service between Philadelphia and New York’s Penn Station, officials said The Acela high-speed train was traveling from Boston to Richmond, Va. when the incident occurred on Thursday around 6:10 p.m. near Bristol Station, by Prospect and Beaver streets. Just minutes prior, around 5:58 p.m., local authorities received a call about a group of people on the tracks. Bristol Borough Police Chief Joseph Moors said officers were approaching the area...

Global markets slid further and Wall Street was on track for another day of crushing losses Friday after China responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest set of tariffs with some of their own. Futures for the S&P 500 fell 3.6% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 3.4%, falling below the 40,000 mark. Nasdaq futures tumbled 4%. That follows Thursday's losses for the three major U.S. indices, which ranged between 4% and 6%. Thursday's wipeout was Wall Street's worst day in five years. Markets...