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The popular debit cards that Medicare Advantage plans give older adults as a perk for signing up may be cutting off their access to some public assistance because of conflicting interpretations on what counts as income.

Ire­land has rejec­ted Israeli calls for its UN peace­keep­ing troops to with­draw from Lebanon, insist­ing it will not evac­u­ate them even as Israel intens­i­fies its air cam­paign against the mil­it­ant group Hizbol­lah.

If you want to cast a ballot in this year’s presidential election, the deadline to register to vote is Monday.

(Bloomberg) -- Chevron Corp. paid $6.25 billion in taxes and shared oil production to Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea in 2023, three times more than the company paid to the US government. Chevron revealed the figures for the first time in a filing today under Section 1504 of the Dodd Frank Act, which was finalized in 2020 and had a publication deadline of this week.

The classic example of chutzpah is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan. With the 2024 presidential election, we have a new way to illustrate the point: the candidate who condones violence, dehumanizes his opponents and whips his supporters into a frenzy, then turns around to condemn the harsh rhetoric of his opponents and call for peaceful discourse. Following the second attempt on his life in two months, Trump blamed Democrats for casting him as a threat to American democracy.

The chairs of three House committees accused President Biden of committing impeachable offenses during his tenures as vice president and as president.

'Why now that there is a deal on the table, did they choose to kill him?' a relative of a hostage asked. While the impact of Haniyeh's death is hard to predict, it may soften Israel's position now it has achieved an 'image of victory'