Cory Booker

Investor optimism over the possibility of federal cannabis legalization has contributed to a strong rally in beaten-down pot stocks.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey drew tears from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court hearing with the words, “You are worthy,” and others like them.

“I’m not letting anybody in the Senate steal my joy,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. “I just look at you, and I start getting full of emotion.”

“This is not normal. It’s never happened before,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said. “We are on the precipice of shattering another glass ceiling … I just feel this sense of overwhelming joy.”

Three members of Congress announced Sunday that they had tested positive for breakthrough infections of COVID-19.

Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without agreement

Democrats and Republicans have failed to come to a police reform agreement after the loudest outcry in years over killings of Black Americans.

Wednesday may have been one of the most consequential days of President Joe Biden’s first term in office.

President Biden has proposed a $3.5 Trillion economic package as a way to stimulate the pandemic-era economy. However, the package has faced hurdles from both sides of the aisle. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk speaks with U.S. Senator Cory Booker about what this plan could mean, and who would pay for it.

A day before families are set to receive their first advance child tax credit payment, a group of Democratic lawmakers are calling for it to be made permanent.

The racial wealth gap in the U.S. is more of a chasm. “Baby bonds” have become one proposal to help close the great divide.

Regina LaBelle, the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, urged “swift passage” of the EQUAL Act.

A group of senators proposed a plan Monday to get rid of the co-called step-up in basis and tax unrealized capital gains at death.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has named a staffer for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and member of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network to the new state commission charged with setting up and regulating recreational marijuana

Democrats push to make $3,000 child tax credit permanent as new research shows expanded credit lifts 10 million children above or closer to the poverty line.

The senators said the AI-equipped cameras from Netradyne raise privacy and surveillance concerns.

Many states have legalized marijuana to some degree. A trio of senators wants to repeal the federal cannabis prohibition and provide relief for pot convictions.

NBC10’s Cydney Long visited multiple polling places in New Jersey on Election Day as voters weigh in on recreational marijuana and the races for U.S. president and U.S. Senate. Some people voted in person while others dropped off their ballots that were already mailed to them.

Election Day this year marks the end, not the start, of voting across New Jersey as voters decide on the president, Senate, House and whether to legalize recreational marijuana.

With more than 58 million people who have cast their ballots across the country, more early ballots have been cast now compared to the 2016 election. A new law in New Jersey says that some of those ballots will begin to be counted this week. NBC10 South Jersey Bureau Reporter Cydney Long has the details.