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How to Supersize Your IRA Balance 11/07/2014 12:00am • There is no limit on how much money you can accumulate in an individual retirement account. Most people (99 percent) have IRA balances of $1 million or less, but a few taxpayers have significantly more. A recent Government Accountability Office report estimates that 7,952 people have between $5 and Oregon immigrant who hid in a church gets arrested 11/06/2014 11:10pm • GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An immigrant activist who took refuge at an Oregon church more than a month ago to avoid deportation has been arrested on federal charges of illegal re-entry.Francisco Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago, was a Boehner warns Obama on immigration 11/06/2014 08:48pm • DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blunt post-election warning, House Speaker John Boehner cautioned President Barack Obama on Thursday against taking sweeping action on immigration without congressional approval, saying "when you play with matches you take the risk of burni France's Hollande faces grilling on unemployment 11/06/2014 07:40pm • PARIS (AP) -- Halfway through his term, French President Francois Hollande used a rare prime-time TV appearance Thursday to double down on his pledge not to run again if he makes no headway cutting France's stubbornly high unemployment.It was only the embattled president's second prime-time TV inter Business Highlights 11/06/2014 06:40pm • The Associated Press ___Analysts: How GOP Congress could boost US economyWASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters made clear Tuesday that they're worried about the economy, despite steady job gains, a robust stock market and faster economic growth this year.So what can -- and should -- the now-dominant Republican Postal Service adds Sunday delivery for holidays 11/06/2014 06:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Postal Service will deliver packages on Sundays in major cities and high volume areas during the holiday season.Seven-day delivery will run from Nov. 17 through Christmas Day in response to anticipated growing demands.The agency expects 12 percent growth in its package bu Review: Adapting to new Google email is a chore 11/06/2014 04:56pm • TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- My first reactions to Google's new email app, Inbox, boiled down to one part frustration, one part irritation. It's meant to make your life easier, but it's more complicated to use than Google's Gmail app.With Inbox, you keep your Gmail email address an 100,000 workers protest Belgian labor reform 11/06/2014 04:43pm • RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- About 100,000 workers marched across Brussels Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures, and the demonstration ended in violence when people set fire to cars and threw cobblestones and police responded with tear gas and wat Rockville restaurant makes case to keep alcohol license after violations 11/06/2014 04:10pm • The highest volume restaurant in Montgomery County made the case to keep its alcohol license on Thursday, months after an undercover police operation found underage drinkers and an off-duty restaurant employee too drunk to walk on her own. Montgomery County Police and the county’s Departme USC embraces late bye before big finish 11/06/2014 03:40pm • DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Southern California needs a break, and the timing couldn't be better for coach Steve Sarkisian.Sarkisian is giving the Trojans this week off from practice, and they will reconvene Saturday to begin preparations for their Nov. 13 game against Califor Peter’s Take: Voters Repudiate County Board Majority 11/06/2014 02:30pm • Peter’s Take is a weekly opinion column. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ARLnow.com. In Tuesday’s County Board election, Arlington voters again rendered a decisive verdict on major priorities and practice German government heeds call to increase spending 11/06/2014 02:08pm • BERLIN (AP) -- The German government announced Thursday that it plans to increase spending in a sign that it is giving in to critics who have called for Europe's biggest economy to do more to spur growth.Wolfgang Schaeuble, the country's finance minister, said he would top up the budget by 10 billio Leak shows scale of Luxembourg's sweet tax deals 11/06/2014 02:08pm • RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- Luxembourg, one of the world's wealthiest nations, came under fire Thursday after leaked documents allegedly revealed the extent to which it has attracted multinationals and the super-rich with sweet tax deals, depriving other countries of valuable tax re Leak shows scale of Luxembourg's sweet tax deals 11/06/2014 02:08pm • RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- Luxembourg, one of the world's wealthiest nations, came under fire Thursday after leaked documents allegedly revealed the extent to which it has attracted multinationals and the super-rich with sweet tax deals, depriving other countries of valuable tax re GOP Congress to weigh legal pot in DC 11/06/2014 01:10pm • BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The national marijuana legalization debate is moving into the backyard of a Republican-controlled Congress, now that the District of Columbia has voted to legalize growing, possessing and sharing small amounts of pot.Voters in Oregon and Alaska also ap