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Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg News The important spring home sales season in the US, barely off the runway, is already splashing out. April is usually when transactions paint overdrive, warm weather for buyers and sellers. However, this year, seasonally adjusted data from Redfin Corp. transactions revealed that since Covid Loctdown in 2020, the number of signed contracts has already been seen as a low mark, down 3% from last April. The active list for April also swells to the highest level since 2019, suggesting that the home is piled up in the market. The annual price growth measured on completed purchases…

Medicaid is at a critical time. As they work on the federal budget, Washington lawmakers are considering massive, unfair reductions in programs that destabilize the world-class healthcare system that Florida has built and have intense outcomes for the most vulnerable people in our state. Mary C. Mayhew (Florida Hospital Association)Don’t get the wrong nature of the cut. They are not accounting tactics. They’re not tax cuts. It is also not a way to make Medicaid more efficient or cost-effective.They are already an extreme blow to the underfunded care system, with about one in five Florida residents, mostly pregnant women, low-income…

Liberal Sen. Andrew Bragg has called for clarity in the exemption that question why some lawmakers are exempt. Independent Thiel MP Dr. Monique Ryan joined a chorus of critics urging the Albanese government to reconsider its plans to double its superannuation balance, more than $3 million.She said the proposal could distort the retirement system, inflate housing prices and unfairly affect young Australians.In an open statement, Ryan said the government risked slamming its trust in the supersystem by charging through Congress with “unconscious plans.”The proposed changes will increase from 15% to 30% of revenue from an ultra-balance of over $3 million…

Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber, Anne D’Nynzio, Business Writer for the Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – For months, American consumers and businesses have heard that tariffs, a massive import tax on President Trump, will raise prices and hurt the US economy. However, the latest economic reports do not coincide with fate and darkness. Inflation actually eased last month, with jobs still strong in April. For now, this disconnect has companies and consumers struggling to reconcile what is expected, what the numbers are saying, what they are seeing on the ground. Trump and his supporters will quickly point out that his first…

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man has won a gold medal after winning a top prize of $10 million from a scratch-off game. The Florida Lottery has announced that 57-year-old Enricarebo has won the top prize from the Gold Rush Legacy Scratch-off Game at the Lottery’s Miami District Office. Albo has opted to receive the prize money as a $6,030,000 payment as a one-off payment. He purchased a $20 scratch-off ticket for seven tickets at 7520 NW 186th Street in Hialea. The store will receive a $20,000 bonus fee to sell victory tickets. More Florida Lottery Stories: Florida man…

Trump’s challenge to long-standing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment could change the 100-year precedent. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court appears to have split over whether lower court judges have stepped over their power to block the Trump administration’s attempts to limit birthright citizenship.Federal judges had placed a national bloc on President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove automatic citizenship status from non-citizens’ children born in the United States.The question at hand is whether a federal judge has been allowed to do this. The Trump administration has stepped over their jurisdiction over the issue, claiming that they weren’t.The decision would also…

Video above: Gas prices are low as millions prepare to travel on holiday weekends, AAA reports Tampa, Fla. (WFLA) – You’ll need to see other locations on the 4th July weekend with party hosts trying to book Airbnb for your anniversary. The company said it is deploying “anti-party technology” that uses machine learning to identify potential troublemakers and blocks bookings across the home. Gas prices go low as millions prepare to travel on holiday weekends: AAA “The system considers a variety of factors, including the type of listings being booked, the length of stay, the distance to the list from…

Gov. Jeff Landry said he called for an audit of the Orleans Correctional Facility to comply with the “Basic Prison Guidelines.”The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on May 18 that it increased its pay for information that led to massive prisoner arrests after fleeing New Orleans prison.Ten prisoners facing various charges fled the Orleans Parish Judicial Center around 1am on May 16th, violating the wall behind the toilet and fled across the interstate.Three of them — Kendel Miles, Robert Moody and Dokent Dennis — have already been recaptured while the remaining seven are still large.FBI special agent Jonathan Trapp…

Stan Choe, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. stocks are drifting down lower, but the value of U.S. bonds and dollars have fallen sharply Monday following the latest reminder that appears to be surged towards an unsustainable mountain of debt. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in morning trading after Moody’s ratings became the last of three major credit rating agencies. The Dow Jones industrial average was 38 points (down 0.1%) as of 10:05am Eastern time, while Nasdaq’s composites were 0.6% lower. Moody’s pointed out how the US government borrows more and more money to pay for it.…

MIAMI (AP) – Antonio Brown was temporarily taken into custody by police early Saturday after an argument in which gunshots were fired outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami, according to a former NFL star and video posted on social media. Miami police confirmed in a written statement that officers responded to the area around 3am after receiving warnings from the shot spotters of the gunshot detection system. Officer Chiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the department, said police had questioned some people but did not arrest them. No injuries were reported at the scene. The investigation continues, Delva said, and…