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(09/12/13 3:06pm)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker remains the favorite over former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan for the Oct. 16 special election to fill the New Jersey Senate seat formerly held by Frank Lautenberg.
(09/11/13 10:00pm)
State senator Barbara Buono, who represents New Jersey's 18th Legislative District, is the Democratic candidate for governor. She will face incumbent Chris Christiein the Nov. 5 election.
(09/11/13 2:47pm)
Click the button for our coverage of the 2013 elections for New Jersey Senate and Governor.
(09/10/13 9:46pm)
Eliot Spitzer ’81, who left the New York governor’s mansion in disgrace after a prostitution scandal, lost Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Comptroller of New York City in a tight race against current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, The New York Times called the race for Stringer, who received 51.8 percent of the vote. Spitzer received 48.2 percent of the vote.
(09/10/13 8:21pm)
Prolific filmmaker Woody Allen will be speaking on campus on Oct. 27 in an event hosted by Friends of Princeton University Library. His visit is the latest in an ongoing relationship with the University, to which he has been donating his personal papers since 1980.
(09/04/13 12:39pm)
Robert S. Mueller III ’66 stepped down from his position as FBI director today, leaving the position to former Justice Department official James B. Comey. Mueller began working at the Federal Bureau of Investigation a week before the attack on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, according to hisFBI biography. He originally thought he would be working on stopping organized crime, public corruption and white-collar crime, hetold the Los Angeles Times. However, because of the attack, Mueller geared the Bureau’s efforts toward becoming an intelligence-gathering agency focused on stopping terrorism.
(09/02/13 8:19am)
Following President Obama’sSaturdayannouncement that he will seek Congressional authorization to retaliate against the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against its own people, The Daily Princetonian spoke briefly by phone to U.S. Representative Rush Holt, a former arms control expert for the State Department, to discuss his position on the Obama administration’s case for intervention in Syria. Holt explained that, in his view, a compelling case had not yet been made for intervention and that U.S. action must happen within a multilateral framework.
(08/28/13 8:20pm)
David Petraeus GS'87 will return to Princeton this October for the first time since he resigned from his post as CIA director nearly a year before.
(08/13/13 8:12pm)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker won the Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s party primaries for New Jersey senator, and he becomes the heavy favorite to win theOct. 16special election for the seat formerly held by Frank Lautenberg, who died in office in June.
(08/11/13 8:09pm)
New Jersey will hold a special Senate primary election on August 13 to determine the two candidates who will run to fill the seat of former New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died in June at the age of 89. The two winners of the Tuesday primary will compete in a special election for senator on October 16.
(08/10/13 8:08pm)
Fifteen Princeton faculty, including president emerita Shirley Tilghman, have endorsed Congressman Rush Holt, Jr. as the Democratic candidate for the vacant U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey.
(08/10/13 8:06pm)
U.S. Rep. Rush D. Holt, Jr., formerly of U. Plasma Physics Laboratory, seeks Senate nomination
(08/10/13 8:04pm)
As front runnerinRepublican primary, SteveLoneganadvocates limited government
(08/10/13 8:00pm)
University professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obamaon Thursday,The Times of Trenton reported. Kahneman, a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at the University, is a Nobel laureate in economics.
(08/05/13 7:50pm)
The Washington Post Co.announced a deal todayto sell its namesake newspaper to billionaire Jeff Bezos’86 for $250 million.
(07/22/13 5:08pm)
In a rare mention of her alma mater, First Lady Michelle Obama ’85referred to the Universityas "probably the iviest of the Ivy League” while addressing high school students at an event heldThursdayin Chicago. She also stressed the importance of the support systems in helping her navigate an unfamiliar world of privilege at Princeton.
(07/09/13 9:55am)
Susan Patton's forthcoming book will be called "Smarten Up!: Words of Wisdom from the Princeton Mom" and is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2014, publisher Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday.The announcement followsindications from a Simon & Schuster publicistand Patton on Friday suggesting that an agreement between the two parties was expected early this week.
(07/08/13 9:53am)
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer ’81, who has spent the past five yearsrehabilitating his imageafter a prostitution scandal cost him his political career, has announced he will run for the Democratic Party's nomination for New York City Comptroller.
(07/05/13 9:52am)
The publisher Simon & Schuster is expected to announce next week that it has contracted a book deal with Susan Patton ’77.
(07/05/13 9:51am)
University students studying or interning in Brazil and Turkey remain safe and largely insulated from the political protests there, according to interviews conducted with students abroad. Most students interviewed for this article said they thought the American media has overstated the risk posed by the riots to American tourists traveling in those countries.