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Apple customers have complained they are struggling to access their savings - just over a month after it launched its high-yield account. The tech giant unveiled its new savings product in partnership with Goldman Sachs that offers a 4.15 percent interest rate - around 10 times the average yield offered by mainstream banks. Reports suggest it attracted as many as $1 billion in deposits four days after launching. But now savers are reportedly having trouble accessing their funds - or transferring cash between accounts. Nathan Thacker, who lives outside Atlanta, told the Wall Street Journal he had been trying and...

They also discovered a partially mummified 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child.For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have discovered a new fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a cache of ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts uncovered in the Qumran Caves on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book of the 12 Minor Prophets” scroll, first discovered in 1961. It contains verses from Zechariah 8:16-17 and Nahum 1:5-6. The minor differences in the wording compared...

J. Stewart Cook I can just picture Donald Trump skipping down “ANY STREET,” USA, with a basket of “deplorables” in his hand. And, obviously, so can Hillary Clinton! But, seriously, where did Hillary (or rather, who in her political camp) ever got the idea that attacking Donald Trump’s supporters by referring to them as “deplorables” would gain her political points. Was this some sort of “reverse psychology?” Illumination, she thought. They will “see the light” and have some sort of an “epiphany,” an experience of sudden and striking realization that they could not see before! They will join my...

BALTIMORE — Hillary Clinton may have been unwise... But she wasn’t wrong. If anything, when it comes to Trump’s racist support, she might have low-balled the number. ..... But this isn’t a matter of gratuitous name-calling. This election has proved that there is much more racism in America than many believed. It came out of hiding in opposition to the first African American president, and it has been welcomed into the open by Trump. The American National Election Studies, the long-running, extensive poll of American voters, asked voters in 2012 a basic test of prejudice: to rank black and white...

But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from America: Rather proclaim it, Ryan, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And filthy dollars for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the Election: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And...

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(IsraelNN.com) Although the committee which expanded the health basket to cover 90 more medications in 2008 noted that at least 160,000 Israelis will be able to obtain medicine free of charge, it also noted that some 300,000 others will not be allowed the benefit. Committee head Professor Mordechai Fineru said that only one out of every three sick citizens will be able to take advantage of the expanded assistance, noting that the limited budget could not cover all the needs. The total cost of this year's basket is approximately NIS 450 million. "Some of the pubic will be happy with...

3/1/2006 - WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (AFPN) -- An Air National Guard rescue unit successfully tested the world’s first multi-person rescue basket, a cage-like device that, once certified, can carry up to 15 people. “We really could have used this after hurricanes Katrina and Rita,” said Lt. Col. Brad Sexton, a program manager in the Air National Guard-Air Force Reserve Command Test Center at Tucson, Ariz. The colonel was one of the first to fly in the Heli-Basket, a 4-and-a-half foot by 8-and-a-half foot metal cage that hangs on a 125-foot cable below an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. After the three...