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Michelle Chapman, AP Business Writer Stocks in many companies that source at least some of the goods from China have skyrocketed on Monday as US and Chinese officials announced they have reached a contract that rolls back most of the recent tariffs and have called a 90-day truce in the trade war to allow more consultations to resolve the trade dispute. US trade representative Jamieson Greer said the US agreed to lower the 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 30% to 115 percentage points, but China agreed to lower the US goods rate by 10% to the same amount.…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A new report released Monday shows that many Tampa Bay families have more than $100,000 in living, with almost half of their families struggling to buy the basics. Annual Asset Limits, Income Constraints, Employed (Alice) Report revealed that the household survival budget for four-family infants and toddlers in Pinellas County has risen to $108,480. In Sarasota County, it swelled to $104,424, the report said. Alice reports that the survival budget reflects the lowest cost of living and work in today’s economy. Includes housing, childcare, food, transportation, healthcare and basic smartphone plans. Five Florida Big Lot stores…
One man who appeared at Idea Exchange Pinellas on Friday had not been tested for HIV and hepatitis C for over a decade. Another unemployed person said they need to take control of their health.They didn’t need to name them. You simply need to be screened for two illnesses to follow the volunteers in the AA pop-up canopy using blood taken from your fingers.Over 50 people participated in a free outdoor health screening at 16th Street S in St. Petersburg on Friday. The event is intended to provide screening for behaviors that include homelessness, unemployed, and intravenous drug use. Approximately…
Kingdom Security said “now I’m experiencing something different.”Food retailers have seen a “significant” increase in pensioner shoplifters last year.Kingdom Security’s retail director John Nussbaum said his staff are looking at “a different kind of shoplifter now” as the cost of living “pushing people through things they’ve never seen before.”Kingdom Security, which provides security services to hundreds of stores across the country, including supermarkets, convenience stores and shopping malls, has been receiving weekly shoplifting reports from across the UK, involving “people who can’t afford food.”He states:“For us over the past 12 months, we have this different level of crime right now,…
FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) – Lee County deputies continue their efforts to search for a man who went missing almost a year ago. Eric Wall, 43, left his Fort Myers home on foot on June 18, 2024, and was unable to return to his family. Credit: Lee County Sheriff’s Office The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said Eric is still missing after immediate investigation and search efforts conducted by detectives. Miami University football player involved in the fatal Lago crash On Saturday, members of the main crime unit, missing persons units, analysts, marine and AG units, and dive team members gathered…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida High School senior passed away Friday after being caught in RIP current a few days before graduating. Sebastian River High School said he was “tragically caught up in a RIP current and pulled under the water for a few minutes” when he went to the beach with a group of upscale mates after school. “Despite long efforts to revive him, he died in the hospital shortly after the incident,” a school official said in a Facebook post. Miami University football player involved in the fatal Lago crash The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office told…
Bad News, Beach Fans: Seaweed Monsters are expected to return and be bigger than ever.Scientists at the University of South Florida predict that people scientists called Sargassum, a point that tracks floating seaweed mats called Sargassum, could be the state’s worst seaweed season. The latest report, published on April 30, projects 40% more seaweed than previous record turmoil in 2022.The seaweed masses stacked on the beach and gather around the marina and docks also form earlier than usual in the remote seawater. Bloom began in March and reached unprecedented levels by the end of April, said Chung Min-fu, a professor…
Priority said that policy “regains control of our borders and closes the book with eerie chapters for politics, the economy and our nation.”British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer announced a massive amount of stricter immigration policies on Monday, pledging to reduce the total number of people migrating to the UK.Announcing the publication of the white paper, he told reporters at a Downing Street briefing:Starmer’s speech reformed the UK after losing one of the safest seats on the runcorn just 10 days after Labour suffered a massive set-off in the May 1 local elections.On May 2, Academic, writer and voter Matthew Goodwin…
Amanda Seitz and Seung Min Kim, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a massive executive order on Monday that would set a 30-day deadline for drug makers to cut costs for US prescription drugs or face new restrictions on what the government pays. The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to mediate a new price tag for the drug. If the transaction is not reached, a new rule will be kicked, linking the prices of those that the US pays drugs to lower the prices that other countries pay. “We’ll be…
A 1,000-pound manatee, a 1,000-pound woman who had recovered from a boat strike at Florida State Park earlier this year after an employee left her and she was locked up, owned earlier this year, according to a federal government inspection report. On January 23, employees at Ellie Schiller Homo Sassa Springs Wildlife State Park began draining manatee pools to provide care. According to the report, staff left the unadmitted manatee because the pool was drained and the pool was drained. According to a USDA inspection report dated March 5, the pool was drained faster than expected when no one was…