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N.J. voters share what issues matter most to them

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NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin speaks with voters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, about what matters most to them as they filled out their election ballots.



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Nov. 4, 2025, 6:06 PM EST / Updated Nov. 4, 2025, 6:35 PM ESTBy Phil HelselA UPS plane with three crew members aboard crashed as it was taking off late Tuesday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, officials said.UPS Flight 2976 crashed around 5:15 p.m. local time after departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.”At this time, we have not confirmed any injuries/casualties,” UPS said in a statement.A spokesperson for Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said injuries had been reported. “It crashed on takeoff. Multiple injuries,” the spokesperson, Allison Martin, said in a message.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asked for prayers for the plane’s pilots and crew. “The situation is serious. Please pray for the families affected. I’m headed to Louisville now,” he said on X. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, was headed to Honolulu, the FAA said.Video from the scene showed a fire and black smoke rising from an area appearing to be near the tarmac. Police encourage people in areas north of the airport to the Ohio River to shelter in place.Greenberg said in a phone interview with NBC affiliate WAVE of Louisville that the plane’s fuel load was causing the fire on the ground.“All of our emergency resources are on the scene right now,” he said.UPS has a large presence in Louisville. UPS Air Operations is headquartered in the city, where it also has its main hub.UPS began its overnight air service with its main hub at the airport, known by the letters SDF, in 1982. UPS is the biggest employer in the Louisville area, with around 25,000 people working for the company there. There are around 400 flights arriving and departing each day at its hub, the city says on its website.The FAA said it would investigate, along with the National Transportation Safety Board.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.Madison Lambert and Insiya Gandhi contributed.
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Oct. 12, 2025, 8:19 PM EDTBy Rohan NadkarniLate in the evening on Sept. 27, the Penn State Nittany Lions were undefeated and ranked No. 3 in the country and had a two-touchdown lead on then-No. 6 Oregon in the fourth quarter of a home game.Fifteen days after having lost that game in overtime — and then losing two more games in which they were favored by at least 20 points — the Nittany Lions are 3-3, and they have fired coach James Franklin despite owing him more than $49 million.“Penn State owes an enormous amount of gratitude to Coach Franklin who rebuilt our football program into a national power,” Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft said in a statement. “He won a Big Ten Championship, led us to seven New Year’s Six bowl games and a College Football Playoff appearance last year. However, we hold our athletics programs to the highest of standards, and we believe this is the right moment for new leadership at the helm of our football program to advance us toward Big Ten and national championships.” Franklin’s firing is quite stunning even in the chaotic world of college football, both because of the money left on his contract and the team’s recent success.Franklin, 53, is the second winningest coach in Nittany Lions history, behind only Joe Paterno. Last season, he led Penn State to the semifinal of the College Football Playoff, and the team finished the season ranked fifth in the final Associated Press poll — the Nittany Lions’ best finish since 2005. Penn State entered August ranked No. 2 in the country by the AP, it and very likely could have been ranked first had it hung on to defeat Oregon instead of losing in overtime. After the loss to the Ducks, the Nittany Lions lost twice more — on the road against the UCLA Bruins as a 24.5-point favorite and at home to the Northwestern Wildcats as a 21.5-point favorite. The two losses came by a total of six points but weren’t close enough to save Franklin’s job.Penn State hired Franklin, who previously coached at Vanderbilt, ahead of the 2014 season, initially signing him to a six-year contract.In 2021, after Franklin had led the Nittany Lions to three 10-win seasons (and their first since 2009), the school signed him to a 10-year extension through 2031. Penn State will now pay Franklin the $49.7 million remaining on that deal to step away from the program, according to USA Today, only nine months after he was one game away from a national championship appearance.The buyout is the second richest in college football history behind the more than $76 million Texas A&M owed Jimbo Fisher after it fired him in 2023. More from SportsSuper Bowl contenders are falling apart. But Detroit isn’t.An NBA star’s family fought for years to help their brother. Now they want to help others.A quarterback’s old team dumped him. His new team is reaping the benefits.While Franklin delivered six 10-win seasons, including three straight from 2022 to 2024, he also struggled in marquee matchups. After the loss to the Ducks in late September, Franklin fell to 4-21 in games against opponents ranked in the top 10 of the AP poll, including 1-18 against Big Ten foes. “I get that narrative, and it’s really not a narrative — it’s factual. It’s the facts,” Franklin said after the Oregon defeat. “I try to look at the entire picture and what we’ve been able to do here. But at the end of the day, we got to find a way to win those games. I totally get it. And I take ownership. I take responsibility.”Two people who could be candidates for Nittany Lions job are two other Big Ten coaches, according to The Athletic: Indiana’s Curt Cignetti and Nebraska’s Matt Rhule. Whomever the school ultimately hires will be trying to lead Penn State to its first national championship since 1986.Rohan NadkarniRohan Nadkarni is a sports reporter for NBC News. 
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Nov. 11, 2025, 1:35 PM EST / Updated Nov. 11, 2025, 3:06 PM ESTBy Allan Smith and Raquel Coronell UribeWhen President Donald Trump hosted Republican senators for lunch at the White House on Oct. 21, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, came prepared. Moreno, who was born in Colombia, has become a key voice on policy involving the Latin American nation — and one that’s deeply critical of the current left-wing president, Gustavo Petro. Two days before the lunch, Trump, at odds with Petro for months, posted on social media that Petro was “an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs” in Colombia. Trump said he was stopping all U.S. aid to the country and told reporters he would soon announce new tariffs on Colombia. Moreno wanted to encourage Trump to take a more targeted approach — directly aimed at Petro. To do so, the senator brought along a document titled “The Trump Doctrine For Colombia and the Western Hemisphere.” In addition to five policy ideas, the one-page outline featured large images of Petro and Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, in orange prison jumpsuits. The images appear to be generated by artificial intelligence. NBC News obtained the memo from a person familiar with the episode.Now that document is at the center of an even further strain in diplomatic relationships between Colombia and the U.S. On Sunday, the publication Cambio Colombia first reported on the existence of the document when it discovered that the White House had posted a photo from the Oct. 21 event showing James Blair, a deputy chief of staff, holding Moreno’s memo. Petro posted on X that he was recalling the Colombian ambassador to the U.S. for the second time in a month and demanding to know why he is being portrayed “as if I were a prisoner,” calling the print-out “a brutal disrespect” to his supporters and nation. And on Monday, Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio told journalists in Santa Marta that her government had “sent verbal notes to the United States through our diplomatic representation” to “request clarification regarding” Moreno’s memo.The episode also marks the latest chapter in the use of fake images in politics. The Trump administration has made extensive use of AI-generated images and videos in online political messaging, with the president himself often sharing them on social media. The White House directed NBC News to Moreno’s office for comment. Moreno’s office declined to comment.Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is a key voice on Republican policy toward Latin America.Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileMoreno, who was born in Bogota and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, is among a few lawmakers advocating on Colombia policy to the president. A Treasury Department official told NBC News that both Moreno and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who endorsed Trump’s call to impose new tariffs on the South American nation, have been backchanneling on Colombia to the White House for a while, with their advocacy culminating at the Rose Garden lunch in October. This person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been heavily involved as well.Tensions between the two nations have risen in recent months with the U.S. building up its military deployment in the Caribbean in an effort to target Venezuela. U.S. forces have killed dozens aboard boats officials say are trafficking drugs into the U.S. as lawmakers in both parties have called for the Trump administration to share evidence to support its claims.Moreno’s memo called for the president to designate more cartels as foreign terrorist organizations; target Petro, his family and associates for further sanctions; and launch an investigation into Petro’s campaign finances, among other measures. The proposal did not include advocacy for new Colombian tariffs or the cutting off of aid to the country. It also did not call for the U.S. to engage in a regime-change effort.Moreno’s document is below. (NBC News added in the watermarks indicating the images are fake.) Three days after the lunch with senators, the Treasury Department announced sanctions against Petro, his family and a government official over allegations of involvement in the global drug trade, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying in a statement that Petro “has allowed drug cartels to flourish and refused to stop this activity.” Petro has strongly denied involvement with the drug trade and has said he will fight the sanctions in U.S. courts.Trump has yet to announce new tariffs on Colombia. And CNN reported last week that there has been no interruption yet to U.S. assistance to the country.Petro, a socialist, accused the U.S. of killing a fisherman last month in one of its attacks on a boat the U.S. claimed was involved in drug smuggling. The U.S. revoked Petro’s visa during the United Nations General Assembly in September after the Colombian leader spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York and called for U.S. soldiers to resist Trump.Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks in Bogota on Oct. 24.Ovidio Gonzalez / Colombian Presidency via AFP-Getty ImagesWriting for Time magazine, Petro on Sunday countered Trump’s claims, saying that his government had delivered “record cocaine seizures” and that the U.S. government’s support “was crucial in this fight.”“Whatever the attitudes of the current administration, I will continue to pursue a counter-narcotics and broader security policy that is in the interests of Colombians and Americans alike,” he wrote.Petro himself has called out Moreno as leading the charge against him. After the Trump administration announced the sanctions on him last month, Petro posted on X that Moreno’s “threat has come true.”Separately, Moreno pushed back on claims Petro made that he and Trump sought to overthrow him in a coup.“That’s 100% completely false,” Moreno wrote on social media last month. “The United States wants the people of Colombia to have a free and fair election, as scheduled, without any influence from outside agitators or narco traffickers.”Colombian officials who spoke with NBC News said they believed the country avoided new tariffs because of the advocacy of some Colombians in government and in business who are close to both Moreno and Trump-allied lawmakers in South Florida. Andrés Pastrana, who was the president of Colombia from 1998 through 2002 and aligned with the right, said Moreno and Republican Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Gimenez and Mario Diaz-Balart, all of Florida, have had “big influence” in convincing the Trump administration. He also said the U.S. should not equate all Colombians with Petro and his views, adding that imposing tariffs on the entire country could carry a significant “political risk” and help to “re-elect the left” by giving Petro the ability to tap into nationalistic fervor. Allan SmithAllan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.Raquel Coronell UribeRaquel Coronell Uribe is a breaking news reporter. Julie Tsirkin and Michelle Acevedo contributed.
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