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The survey, conducted annually, is based on telephone interviews carried out during the month of August with a national sample of 1,000 Jews over age 18. Questions included topics such as respondents' political stances, their level of satisfaction with the new US administration, antisemitism, US-Israel relations, Jewish identity, and religious pluralism in Israel. Of the respondents, 9% were Orthodox Jews, 16% Conservatives, 2% Reconstructionists, 31% Reform Jews and 39% considered themselves "just Jewish."
The Sanders bill goes into detail about the type of coverage offered, which would pay for emergency surgery, prescription drugs, mental healthcare and eye care without a copay. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is introducing a bill Wednesday that would expand the Medicare program to all Americans, covering a range of medical services paid for by higher taxes.
Joe Arpaio has not set foot in a courtroom since July, has not sat behind his old, famous desk at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office for more than nine months, but still, he is never too far from a headline. President Donald Trump pardoned him.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would guarantee health care coverage for all Americans, a measure that already has the support of at least 15 other Democratic senators. Sanders' Medicare for All Act would allow all individuals to receive coverage by expanding the program.
Joe Manchin, one of the so-called red-state Democrats invited to a bipartisan White House dinner Tuesday billed as the kickoff of an effort to revamp the tax code, recalled Vice President Mike Pence's unfavorable comparison of the federal system of taxation with the Bible during a recent visit to West Virginia, Manchin's home state. Pence, Manchin recalled, observed that: Pence spoke about taxes in late August at a state chamber of commerce event at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
Parts of Florida inched back toward normal with workers restoring power, clearing roads and replenishing gas supplies, even as teams scoured the state's southernmost islands and authorities warned of mass devastation. Residents drifted back from shelters and far-away havens Tuesday to see Hurricane Irma's scattershot destruction.
When it comes to the progressive Left, there are figures like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren . Yet, at a more local level, you cannot ignore New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is running for a second term this year.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach took President Donald Trump's voting commission to New Hampshire on Tuesday for a meeting that was designed to justify fears of rampant voter fraud that he -- and the President -- claimed was responsible for Hillary Clinton's narrow win over Trump there last year. But Kobach was greeted with a tongue-lashing from New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner -- the nation's longest-serving elections official.
Former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon is a revolutionary, not a reformer. So it stands to reason that his efforts to remake the GOP in a more nationalist image must begin with burning things down.
A week after concerned Republicans promised quick work to shield young, unauthorized immigrants from President Donald Trump's decision to end their federal protections, lawmakers have tied themselves in knots trying to figure out how to proceed - with only six months to find a way forward. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., pulled back a petition he had initiated to force the House to take up legislation to protect so-called Dreamers.
Music lovers can catch Sen. Tim Kaine , D-Va., on the harmonica and Sen. Lamar Alexander , R-Tenn., on the piano this Friday night. Their band The Amateurs are performing at the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion , a music festival this weekend in Bristol, a community that straddles the Virginia-Tennessee state line.
In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli speaks during an interview by Maria Bartiromo during her "Mornings with Maria Bartiromo" program on the Fox Business Network, in New York. Shkreli's lawyer says his client's caustic online rants shouldn't be taken so seriously.
The image of Donald Trump looming ominously behind Hillary Clinton still disturbs me on a visceral level. He may have belittled his previous opponents , but he never threatened to lock them up.
Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, the Microsoft co-founder, pause before being honored for their philanthropic work in France this April. SEATTLE - Melinda Gates is calling on world leaders to step up global aid funding, saying "a loss of U.S. leadership" is resulting in "confusion and chaos" in some of the most vulnerable corners of the planet.
Before previewing scenes from his new documentary, "The Vietnam War," at the Kennedy Center, filmmaker Ken Burns illustrated the division the unpopular war fomented in the United States decades ago with a neat audience gambit. First, he asked those who had served to stand.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was in New Hampshire on Tuesday to look into the state's same-day voting system. And in the wake of their inquiries, the liberals of MSNBC were up in arms with claims of voter suppression and denials of voter fraud existing at all.
DENVER Cary Kennedy, one of a handful of Democrats vying for the nomination for Colorado's governorship in 2018, on Tuesday unveiled a plan to bring single-payer health care to Colorado in the vein of what Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., has floated for years. Under her proposal, all Coloradans would pay into the state's Medicaid program, Health First Colorado, or the state employee health plan.
The City Council on Tuesday approved a five-year capital budget that includes almost $20 million for the Central Avenue Extension between the current end at Erlanger Hospital to Amnicola Highway across from the Boathouse Restaurant.