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TALHASSEE — After the Florida House and Senate budget contracts exploded last week, House Speaker Daniel Perez said he was willing to consider other ideas beyond sales tax to reduce state spending.Perez said he would negotiate, but he criticized the Senate Speaker for “breaking our words” and accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of being “feared” for having a tough conversation. “The governor has no intention of having a conversation,” Perez said. “There’s no difference between him and the seventh grader in Miami-Dade County.” Perez’s major sales tax cut plan was at the heart of the fight over Florida’s budget. On Tuesday,…

Steve Karnowski and Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press WAVERLEY, Minnesota (AP) — Minnesota Farmer Dangressing is not ready to be upset by President Donald Trump’s trade war. Farm Country voted heavily for Trump last November. Now, Gresting and many other farmers are eagerly eagerly waiting for the Republican president’s dispute with China and other international markets. China typically buys about one row of four Minnesota soy crops, bringing $13 billion in soybeans from the US in the past year to around $13 billion. It’s an important market as more than half of soybeans are exported internationally, and about half of…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – A day after his release from hospital, Phoenix Ichner, 20, first appeared at Leon County Courthouse. Tallahassee police said Ichner passed through the FSU campus on April 17th. He wounded six other people while taking the lives of both Robert Morales and Til Chava. Who is Phoenix Echner from FSU shooting game, Florida’s assistant degree? He faces murder charges and is held without being held. “You’ve been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of first-degree murder, but the probable cause has already been determined,” Judge Monique Richardson told court Tuesday. Ichner’s face…

The metropolitan area added nearly 3.2 million people between 2023 and 2024, led by overseas arrivals, according to the Census Bureau.The population of the US metropolitan area grew faster than the country as a whole from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024, reaching approximately 3.2 million, or about 1.1%, to 293.9 million. According to the US Census Bureau, the national population grew by nearly 1%, just over 340 million.”Increasingly, the population growth in metropolitan areas is shaped by international migration,” said Christie Wilder, demographicist in the Census Bureau’s Population Division. She said the births still add people, but higher…

TALHASSEE – Describing the law as “essentially overloaded,” the federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking a 2023 Florida law aimed at preventing children from participating in drug shows.A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hamburger Mary at the Central Florida venue in its 2-1 decision, in a First Amendment challenge to the law. The state appealed in 2023 after US District Judge Gregory Presnell issued a temporary injunction.A majority opinion on Tuesday said, “By providing only vague guidance on which performances ban, the law (the law) exercises shotguns when the First Amendment…

Analysts say US skepticism about communist China stems from Beijing’s promising history of reform, but did not realize them.The agreement reached by the US and China effectively suspends the battle for trade between the two biggest economies in the world, but analysts say there is little to resolve the fundamental differences.Following the two-day negotiated marathon in Geneva, the US and China issued a joint statement on May 12, reversing the massive tariffs they recently imposed on each other.Washington will reduce tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, while Beijing will reduce tariffs from 125% to 10%. The contract is…

Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press Business Writer US retail egg prices fell in April from a record price that hit earlier this year, according to government data released Tuesday. According to the consumer price index, the average price of Grade A eggs fell to $5.12 last month after reaching a record $6.23 in March. It was the first month to month fall in egg prices since October 2024. Overall, the average price for eggs of all sizes fell 12.7%, a sharp monthly decline since March 1984. File – February 16, 2025, Egg cartons sit at the counter in the kitchen inside…

Saudi Arabia has pledged $600 billion in US investment, including approximately $142 billion in arms deals.Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – When President Donald Trump arrived in the Saudi Arabian capital on May 13, one of his first actions was to deal with the Gulf business elite and promote the United States as a major destination for investment in a new era shaped by his “America First” agenda.Trump has revealed that a three-day tour of the Middle East, which is parked in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, is to make a deal.At the Saudi US Investment Forum at the…

US chip maker Nvidia will partner with AI startup Humain, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, to ship 18,000 chips to countries in the Middle East to help power new data center projects. The partnership was revealed on Tuesday as part of a White House trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. With the help of foreign investment, Saudi Arabia has been working to develop artificial intelligence capabilities and strengthen its cloud computing infrastructure. “AI, like electricity and the internet, is an essential infrastructure for every country,” said Jensen Huang, founder of Nvidia. “Together with human…

ATLANTA (AP) — The injunction remains in effect except for the Florida drug show ban enforcement after a federal court of appeals ruled Tuesday that the law is likely to be unconstitutional. A three-person judge panel in the 11th Circuit voted 2-1 to support a lower court decision that explained Florida law. The case is currently scheduled to return to the Central District of Florida and undergo a federal bench trial. Attorney Melissa Stewart, who represents Hamburger Mary, a drug-themed casual dining restaurant, said she is excited to continue to be protected as the Floridian’s initial right to amendments continues.…