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What to Know About the Bill to Repeal Social Security Taxes 04/23/2024 08:00pm • When tax time rolls around each year, some older Americans are surprised to discover that a portion of their Social Security benefits are taxable. Since the government doesn't automatically withhold taxes from benefits, it could mean some beneficiaries end up owing the IRS in April. Meanwhile, the S Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial 04/23/2024 06:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he's in New York for his criminal hush money trial. The presumptive GOP nominee was hosting former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, one of the country's most influential politicians, at Trump Tower on Tue A far-right German EU lawmaker's aide is arrested on suspicion of spying for China 04/23/2024 10:29am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A man who works for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said Tuesday. The detention came less than 24 hours after three people were arrested for spying for China in a separate German case. Th Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it's a pre-Olympics sweep 04/23/2024 07:57am • PARIS (AP) ��� French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the River Seine on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ������social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April morning, around 30 t Modi is accused of using hate speech for calling Muslims 'infiltrators' at an Indian election rally 04/23/2024 07:22am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India's main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims ���infiltrators" ��� some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election. The remarks at a campaig Trump called this visa 'very bad' for Americans. Truth Social applied for one 04/23/2024 12:03am • MIAMI (AP) ��� The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term. Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behin Suspect arrested in break-in at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's home, police say 04/22/2024 08:46pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Police in Los Angeles arrested a suspect following a break-in at the home of Mayor Karen Bass early Sunday, officials said. The suspect was arrested shortly after smashing a window to get inside of Getty House while it was occupied, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a st 11 of the Best Investing Books for Beginners 04/22/2024 08:00pm • Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to educate yourself with a great investing book. Money touches everything we do, so learning how to properly inv Review of UN agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff 04/22/2024 06:06pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the Editorial Roundup: United States 04/22/2024 03:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: April 18 The Los Angeles Times on Mike Johnson's Ukraine aid bill Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has been maddeningly slow in pushing the House to approve badly needed aid for Ukraine as it resists Russian aggression. But this week he sa The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements 04/22/2024 03:04pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president ���orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt��� the 2016 presidential election. Defense attorneys countered, calling Trump ���innocent��� and saying the Manhattan di Israel's military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Hamas attack on Oct. 7 04/22/2024 02:56pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday because of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in Israel's history. Maj. Gen. Aharon Mexico's leading presidential candidate stopped by masked men who ask for help in stemming violence 04/22/2024 12:56am • TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) ��� Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico���s leading presidential candidate while she was traveling between campaign stops Sunday to ask that she address the violence in the southern state of Chiapas if she wins the June 2 election. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia She Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs 04/22/2024 12:23am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� Ecuador���s fledgling president got a resounding victory Sunday in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. An official quick count showed that Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted ���yes��� to all nine questions fo Pro-China President Muizzu's party sweeps Maldives parliamentary elections, preliminary results say 04/21/2024 11:37pm • MALE, Maldives (AP) ��� Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's political party has swept parliamentary elections in a strong endorsement of his pro-China foreign policy, according to preliminary results reported Monday by local media. The People's National Congress won 70 out of 93 seats in Sunday's vo