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Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US and Israel 07/16/2024 11:10am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered. Three g Police in Kenya use tear gas to break up new protests calling for the president to resign 07/16/2024 10:41am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Police in Kenya hurled tear gas canisters on Tuesday to break up protests in Nairobi and several other towns and cities accusing the president of poor governance and demanding his resignation, despite his dismissal of nearly the entire Cabinet last week. Businesses in Nairobi Baltimore officials sue to block 'baby bonus' initiative that would give new parents $1,000 07/16/2024 10:16am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Baltimore���s mayor and city council have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a proposal that would let voters decide whether to give all new parents a one-time $1,000 ���baby bonus��� meant to help alleviate childhood poverty from birth. The complaint was filed Thursday, according Soros' Open Society Foundations say their restructuring is complete and pledge $400M for green jobs 07/16/2024 09:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic organizations that billionaire investor George Soros has built up since the 1970s, revealed its first new major commitment on Tuesday after a years-long internal reorganization, pledging $400 million over eight years to support green econ Trump's economic plans include proposed tariffs, tax cuts and no taxes on tips. Details are scarce 07/15/2024 11:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The first night of the Republican National Convention kept its official focus on the economy Monday even after Saturday���s shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania in which former President Donald Trump was injured. Speakers argued that Trump would fix inflation and bring back prospe Donald Trump enters Republican convention hall with a bandaged ear and gets a hero's welcome 07/15/2024 11:17pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Two days after surviving an attempted assassination, former President Donald Trump appeared triumphantly at the Republican National Convention's opening night with a bandage over his right ear, the latest compelling scene in a presidential campaign already defined by dramatic turn President Joe Biden says it was a 'mistake' to say he wanted to put a 'bull's-eye' on Donald Trump 07/15/2024 10:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden told NBC News in an interview Monday that it was a ���mistake��� to say he wanted to put a ���bull's-eye��� on Republican nominee Donald Trump, but argued that the rhetoric from his opponent was more incendiary while warning that Trump remained a threat to dem Fairfax Co. offering partial reimbursement for flood mitigation projects 07/15/2024 10:00pm • It hasn't rained much across the D.C. region recently, but Fairfax County in Virginia is offering to reimburse residents and renters for flood mitigation projects. The county's Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMAP) launched earlier this month as part of a plan to incentivize renters and prop New England fishermen sentenced in complex herring fraud case 07/15/2024 09:58pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Several commercial fishermen in New England have been sentenced in a fraud scheme that centered on a critically important species of bait fish and that prosecutors described as complex and wide-ranging. The fishermen were sentenced for ���knowingly subverting commercial fish Federal judge dismisses Trump classified documents case over concerns with prosecutor's appointment 07/15/2024 09:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. Hours later, special counsel Jack Expert calls NRA's spending policies a 'dumpster fire' as gun group's civil trial begins a new phase 07/15/2024 08:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The second phase of the trial in a civil lawsuit against the National Rifle Association began Monday in Manhattan, with New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group's finances. In addition, the Democrat wants Wayne 8 Best Warren Buffett Stocks to Buy in 2024 07/15/2024 08:00pm • Warren Buffett bought his first shares of stock at age 11 back in 1941. Over the next 83 years, the "Oracle of Omaha" has used his value investing prowess to amass a fortune worth about $138 billion, even after donating more than $56 billion to charity. 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