Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has used his social-media and political savvy to gain national prominence, is in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term of the late Frank Lautenberg, along with two Democratic congressmen and a Republican former mayor.
Newark officials have released dozens of internal emails related to a $100 million grant to the city's schools made by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The chaos happened at a routine City Council meeting, where some members were trying to swear in Shanique Speight to fill in a vacant spot on the council.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's communications director Anne Torres stepped down just a little more than a week after the mayor drew flak from fellow Democrats for criticizing the Obama campaign.