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WASHINGTON 鈥?President Donald Trump vowed Monday to boost U.S. manufacturing by cutting the $64 billion trade deficit with Mexico as he showcased products made in all 50 states 鈥?everything from a fire truck to a baseball bat.No longer are we going to allow other countries to break the rules, to steal our jobs and drain our wealth, Trump said at a White House event that spilled from the East Room to the South Lawn.Shortly after Trump remarks, the U.S. trade representative released an 18-page report about its goals for updating the decades-old North Americ stanley cup an Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. In addition to reducing the trade deficit, the administration wants to insert a chapter on the digital economy into the deal. It also wants to strengthen labor and environmental obligations, as well as amending the stanley cup rules of origin so that more of the products traded come from the United States and North America.Facing an investigation into his campaign ties with Russia and a tax and health care agenda struggling to make headway as quickly as promised, Trump is turning his focus to trade this week. Administration officials are to meet Wednesday with economic officials from China, a nation the president has accused of dumping steel on the global market to hurt U.S. steelmakers. The White House emphasis on trade follows a string of other recent theme weeks on energy, job-training and infrastructure that mostly failed to stanley cup draw much attention away from th Lgkh Iran to raise uranium enrichment beyond nuclear deal limits
UMAN, Ukraine AP 鈥?Thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flocked to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year Sunday, ignoring international travel warnings as Russia struck more targets from the air and mobilized its citizens to stem losses in the war that has entered its eighth month.The pilgrims, many traveling from Israel and further afield, converged on the small city of Uman, the burial site of Nachman of Breslov, a respected Ha stanley cup sidic rabbi who died in 1810.The streets of one of Uman central neighborhoods were packed with men of all ages wearing traditional black coats and long side curls. Some ch adidas og anted prayers. Others screamed, shouted and danced. Advertisements and directional signs in Hebrew blanketed the area.Some visitors, like Nahum Markowitz from Israel, have been making the journey for years and weren ;t about to let the war get in the way this year. We are not afraid. If we come to Rabbi Nachman, he will protect us for the whole year, said Markowitz, who has been visiting Uman since 1991, when the collapse of the Soviet Union made the pilgrimage accessible to foreign visitors.Besides, he said, he is already familiar with the risk of war and the wail of sirens that comes from living in Israel.The city, 200 kilometers 125 miles south of the capital, Kyiv, typically a adidas originals ttracts thousands of pilgrims for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, which begins in the evening Sunday and ends on Tuesday.The Ukrainian embassy to Israel repeatedly urged those plan