Northern Highlands, NJ
Obituaries
Saddle River Billionaire, Mediacom Founder Rocco Commisso Dies At 76 Saddle River Billionaire, Mediacom Founder Rocco Commisso Dies At 76 Saddle River Billionaire, Mediacom Founder Rocco Commisso Dies At 76
Saddle River Billionaire, Mediacom Founder Rocco Commisso Dies At 76 Rocco B. Commisso, one of New Jersey’s richest residents and the billionaire founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Mediacom Communications, has died at age 76, the corporation announced in a statement that also ran as his obituary on the Vander Plaat Vermeulen Memorial Home website.  Commisso, of Saddle River, NJ, was listed on the Forbes 400 and had a reported net worth of $5.6 billion in 2025, according to Forbes. He was widely regarded as one of the most successful Italian immigrant entrepreneurs in the nation’s history, Mediacom said. Born in 1949 in Marina di G…

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by Cecilia Levine
National Interest
Mother Killed By ICE Agent Mourned As Video, Witnesses Dispute Trump Admin. Claims Mother Killed By ICE Agent Mourned As Video, Witnesses Dispute Trump Admin. Claims Mother Killed By ICE Agent Mourned As Video, Witnesses Dispute Trump Admin. Claims
Mother Killed By ICE Agent Mourned As Video, Witnesses Dispute Trump Admin. Claims Loved ones are remembering Renee Good as a caring mother and passionate writer after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed her during the Trump administration's surge of federal law enforcement to the Twin Cities. Good was shot in a residential part of south Minneapolis at around 9:30 a.m. CST on Wednesday, Jan. 7. The shooting happened near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue, just blocks from where the 37-year-old lived. Donna Ganger, Good's mother, identified her as the victim to the Minnesota Star Tribune. "That's so stupid," Ganger said after learnin…

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by Chris Spiker
National Interest
Mugshot Shows ICE Detainee In NJ Jail Days Before He Died In Custody At Delaney Hall Mugshot Shows ICE Detainee In NJ Jail Days Before He Died In Custody At Delaney Hall Mugshot Shows ICE Detainee In NJ Jail Days Before He Died In Custody At Delaney Hall
Mugshot Shows ICE Detainee In NJ Jail Days Before He Died In Custody At Delaney Hall A 41-year-old man detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark died after suffering a medical emergency while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to ICE. Jean Wilson Brutus, a Haitian national, died on Friday, Dec. 12 from suspected natural causes, one day after entering ICE custody at the Newark facility, immigration officials said. Brutus was transferred to Delaney Hall on Thursday, Dec. 11 after being released from the Union County Jail in Elizabeth following an arrest for criminal mischief involving damage to property last month, ICE said.  His m…

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by Cecilia Levine
National Interest
Bosnian-Born Hartford Woman Admits To Hiding War Crimes To Get US Citizenship: Feds Bosnian-Born Hartford Woman Admits To Hiding War Crimes To Get US Citizenship: Feds Bosnian-Born Hartford Woman Admits To Hiding War Crimes To Get US Citizenship: Feds
Bosnian-Born Hartford Woman Admits To Hiding War Crimes To Get US Citizenship: Feds A Bosnian-born woman who formerly lived in Hartford has been found guilty of lying to get American citizenship after she hid alleged war crimes and violent acts from immigration officials, federal authorities said.  Nada Radovan Tomanic, who now lives in West Virginia, admitted to lying for years to gain citizenship, the US Attorney for Connecticut said on Friday, Nov. 14.  Federal investigators say Tomanic, 53, once served in the Zulfikar Special Unit of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s war. Court documents say she took part in the physical and psychological ab…

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by Josh Lanier
National Interest
Trump’s Disapproval Rating Grows, But Democrats Are Seen As ‘Out Of Touch’: New Poll Trump’s Disapproval Rating Grows, But Democrats Are Seen As ‘Out Of Touch’: New Poll Trump’s Disapproval Rating Grows, But Democrats Are Seen As ‘Out Of Touch’: New Poll
Trump’s Disapproval Rating Grows, But Democrats Are Seen As ‘Out Of Touch’: New Poll President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating is rising. But Democrats face their own trust gap, and control of Congress still looks like a dead heat. A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted Friday, Oct. 24 through Tuesday, Oct. 28 finds 41 percent approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, while 59 percent disapprove — the highest disapproval in this series since January 2021. The national online survey included 2,725 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points The broad dissatisfaction with Trump has not yielded a clear Democratic edge…

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by Joe Lombardi
Riverhead, NY
Breaking News
ICE Custody Awaits Salvadoran Woman Who Fled Fatal Riverhead Crash, DA Says ICE Custody Awaits Salvadoran Woman Who Fled Fatal Riverhead Crash, DA Says ICE Custody Awaits Salvadoran Woman Who Fled Fatal Riverhead Crash, DA Says
ICE Custody Awaits Salvadoran Woman Who Fled Fatal Riverhead Crash, DA Says A 46-year-old woman was indicted for allegedly fleeing after striking and killing a pedestrian on Long Island. Silvia Alvarez DeReyes, of El Salvador, was arraigned in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, Oct. 28, in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Riverhead that killed 45-year-old Ever Eli Damian Mazat earlier this month. Investigators determined that Alvarez DeReyes was driving a Toyota Corolla northbound on Flanders Road around 7:20 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, when she hit Mazat as he crossed in a marked crosswalk, prosecutors said. The vehicle came to a brief stop before leaving the scene,…

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by Michael Mashburn
National Interest
‘Your Countries Are Going To Hell’: Trump Lectures World Leaders During UN Address ‘Your Countries Are Going To Hell’: Trump Lectures World Leaders During UN Address ‘Your Countries Are Going To Hell’: Trump Lectures World Leaders During UN Address
‘Your Countries Are Going To Hell’: Trump Lectures World Leaders During UN Address President Donald Trump used his United Nations stage to scold allies, slam the UN’s relevance and taunt delegates, telling them, “Your countries are going to hell,” as he veered off script and ran well past his allotted time. Speaking at the General Assembly on Tuesday, Sept. 23 in Manhattan, Trump repeatedly questioned the institution’s value and cast himself as a fixer where diplomats failed. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked, deriding what he called “strongly worded letters” and “empty words.” He added, “It’s sad I had to do these things instead of the United Nations …

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by Joe Lombardi
National Interest
Tougher US Citizenship Test Coming Tougher US Citizenship Test Coming Tougher US Citizenship Test Coming
Tougher US Citizenship Test Coming The US citizenship test is about to get more challenging. The Department of Homeland Security will bring back the more demanding 2020 civics exam, expanding what applicants must know about American history and government, while keeping the English portion as is. In a notice filed Wednesday, Sept. 17 and slated for Federal Register publication this week, the department said that the "United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reimplementing the 2020 Naturalization Civics Test with some modifications." The agency noted that, "This notice does not change the English la…

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by Joe Lombardi
National Interest
ICE Eyes Major Expansion With 300 New Offices Nationwide: Report ICE Eyes Major Expansion With 300 New Offices Nationwide: Report ICE Eyes Major Expansion With 300 New Offices Nationwide: Report
ICE Eyes Major Expansion With 300 New Offices Nationwide: Report US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is gearing up for a major footprint expansion, pursuing roughly 300 new offices across the country to house a surge of new enforcement officers and lawyers, according to a new report. The Washington Post published a story late Thursday afternoon, Sept. 18, saying that senior ICE officials have asked the General Services Administration to secure sites “as fast as possible” to support plans to add more than 10,000 employees, and that internal GSA teams have created standing “ICE Surge” planning meetings to speed the buildout.  No leases had be…

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by Joe Lombardi
Elkton, MD
Breaking News
Citizenship Yanked After Maryland Man’s Horrific Child Rape Conviction Exposed: DOJ Citizenship Yanked After Maryland Man’s Horrific Child Rape Conviction Exposed: DOJ Citizenship Yanked After Maryland Man’s Horrific Child Rape Conviction Exposed: DOJ
Citizenship Yanked After Maryland Man’s Horrific Child Rape Conviction Exposed: DOJ A convicted child rapist in Maryland has been stripped of his US citizenship after federal prosecutors revealed he repeatedly raped a girl under 14 and lied to immigration officials to hide his crimes, the Justice Department announced. Jorge Antonio Graciano Lara lost his naturalization status after a federal judge in Maryland granted the Justice Department’s motion to revoke it this week, according to federal officials. The government filed its suit in November 2024, arguing that Graciano Lara should never have been granted citizenship because of his September 2017 conviction for second-de…

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by Zak Failla
National Interest
Over 110K Join London Anti-Immigration Rally; Elon Musk Warns Crowd: 'Fight Back Or Die' Over 110K Join London Anti-Immigration Rally; Elon Musk Warns Crowd: 'Fight Back Or Die' Over 110K Join London Anti-Immigration Rally; Elon Musk Warns Crowd: 'Fight Back Or Die'
Over 110K Join London Anti-Immigration Rally; Elon Musk Warns Crowd: 'Fight Back Or Die' More than 110,000 people filled central London for an anti-immigration protest, one of the largest nationalist gatherings in decades. The “Unite the Kingdom” rally on Saturday, Sept. 13, was billed as a “festival of free speech” but ended in violence. Crowds stretched for miles, with protesters waving Union Jacks and St. George’s Cross flags as they marched across Westminster Bridge to Whitehall, seat of the prime minister’s office and government departments, according to the Guardian. @10newsau Hundreds of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in a larg…

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by Josh Lanier
New Haven, CT
Breaking News
Twice-Deported Man Accused Of New Haven Jogger Sexual Assault; DNA Ties Him to Texas Case: Cops Twice-Deported Man Accused Of New Haven Jogger Sexual Assault; DNA Ties Him to Texas Case: Cops Twice-Deported Man Accused Of New Haven Jogger Sexual Assault; DNA Ties Him to Texas Case: Cops
Twice-Deported Man Accused Of New Haven Jogger Sexual Assault; DNA Ties Him to Texas Case: Cops A twice-deported man living in the United States illegally has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman jogging in a New Haven park. Investigators now say DNA evidence may tie him to another attack in Texas. Ludvi Carias-Interiano, 34, of West Haven, faces charges of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and first-degree unlawful restraint, New Haven police said. Authorities said a woman was jogging in Fort Hale Park on the morning of Aug. 9 when a man threatened her with a box cutter and attacked her, New Haven Assistant Police Chief David Zannelli said during a Sept. 12 news confere…

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by Josh Lanier