Mike Kelly

1 week ago | eu.app.com | Mike Kelly

4-minute readThe question seemed small, even inconsequential. Several weeks ago, the federal judge in Newark, hearing early arguments in the messy deportation case of a Columbia University student accused of leading pro-Palestinian campus protests, wanted to know who was in charge of the immigration detention jail in Louisiana where the student was being held. Were federal prison authorities running the place?

2 weeks ago | app.com | Mike Kelly

4-minute readThe long and tragic list of the dead from the seemingly endless Israeli-Palestinian war has a new face. His name is Amer Mohammed Saada Rabee. He was born in America, the son of Palestinian immigrants. He spent his first years in the Bergen County township of Saddle Brook before his parents returned to the West Bank. In other words, Amer has roots in the Middle East. But he is also an American citizen. Several relatives still live in New Jersey.

3 weeks ago | chroniclelive.co.uk | Daniel Hall |Mike Kelly

A 400-year-old Shakespeare First Folio is set to go on display for the first time in 27 years after it was stolen, damaged, taken to the US for sale, recovered and finally restored. The book was stolen from Durham University's Cosin's Library in 1998 and it reappeared at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC 10 years later. The man who had come to have it authenticated, Raymond Scott, from Washington, Tyne and Wear; raised the suspicions of experts.

3 weeks ago | app.com | Mike Kelly

4-minute readSen. Cory Booker, the silky-voiced Democrat from New Jersey and former presidential candidate, finally seems to have come out of hiding. It’s about time. Speaking for 25 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds, starting just after dinner on Monday and not stopping until after 8 p.m. Tuesday — the longest address in U.S. Senate history — Booker showed why many consider him one of the most adept, quick-on-his-feet orators in American politics.

3 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Mike Kelly

Sen. Cory Booker, the silky-voiced Democrat from New Jersey and former presidential candidate, finally seems to have come out of hiding. It’s about time. Speaking for 25 hours, five minutes and 9 seconds, starting just after dinner on Monday March 31 and not stopping until after 8 p.m. Tuesday — the longest address in U.S. Senate history — Booker showed why many consider him one of the most adept, quick-on-his-feet orators in American politics.