WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday vowed there would be “no change” to rules for 401(k) plans, seeking to douse speculation that the Republican tax overhaul bill being drafted by Congress would include new limits on retirement savings. “This has always been a great and popular middle class tax break that works, and it
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USAWASHINGTON — As more states and counties take immigration policy into their own hands, California is stepping up its fight to protect immigrants in the country illegally by not only refusing to detain immigrants slated for deportation, but now also by declining to tell federal immigration officials when they will be released from local jails.
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USABy Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to travel to India in January, he announced Monday following the highly successful visit on the Indian leader to Israel earlier in the year Netanyahu would be the first Israeli prime minister to visit India since Ariel Sharon went to New Delhi in 2003. Sharon’s trip
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Middle EastAs expected, Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition won a decisive victory in Sunday’s early election to extend its hold on power, and to continue efforts to lift constraints on the military imposed by the country’s pacifist constitution. “This is a very big victory given to us and I have to face this victory
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InternationalPackaged vegetable products sold at Walmart, Aldi, Trader Joe’s, Target and other major retailers in the U.S. and Canada are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. California-based Mann Packing said the recall of minimally processed vegetable products is in response to a single positive result found on one of its products
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International, USAThe Trump administration has failed to place new sanctions on Russia, further deepening allegations the president is soft on Russia. New sanctions resoundingly flew through both chambers of Congress in July, President Donald Trump signed the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” on August 2. The bill called for fresh sanctions not only on Russia
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International, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The intersection between government and religious and/or political beliefs is in the news with growing frequency, including debates over government-mandated birth control coverage in insurance policies, and the question before the Supreme Court of whether a baker must make a wedding cake for a gay couple when that violates
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of the early lessons taught to Americans under the heading of civics concerns the separation of powers and checks and balances. It was an innovation when written into the Constitution close to the end of the 18th century, and continues to operate. Donald Trump’s problems with Congress, despite his party’s
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – We can thank a Sunday school teacher in Buffalo, New York, for the fact that Donald Chafetz of El Cajon is one of the best-known authorities in the United States on stamps and postal covers of Israel and environs. Chafetz, editor of The Israel Philatelist, an
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Knesset member Yehuda Glick had this to say at the “Jordan is Palestine Conference” held at Menachem Begin Heritage Center on October 17: “The concept of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria doesn’t exist anymore, and anyone who is genuine knows that. It is wrong, dangerous, and not
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Middle East, Steve KramerFormer US President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website on Sunday. “I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at his ranch
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International, USAAll five of America’s living former presidents took the stage Saturday at a benefit concert in Texas to raise money for victims of the hurricane-ravaged southern US and Caribbean. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter appeared together onstage for the national anthem, then took their seats
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USAWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration has faced an unprecedented level of “hostility” from the press. Mrs. Sanders was responding to comments from New York Times White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who called the perceived tension between the media and the White House “overstated.” “I know Glenn well, but you
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USAThirty-eight women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment, in the wake of similar accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. According to Los Angeles Times, the women claimed they had negative encounters with the 72-year-old Bugsy writer, with a number of them speaking on the record over the allegations. The women
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