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Liberal groups opposed it, but conservatives praise the Trump administration’s latest plans to give housing programs such as Section 8 more control.The proposal cuts the Federal Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD) and sends money to the state to run them. It also needs to reduce rental assistance by 40%, introduce a two-year limit on rental assistance for healthy adults, and terminate the housing voucher program.Essentially, Florida will have more control over how HUD dollars are used through block grants.Much of the rise in HUD spending over the past few years has been under the Biden administration during Covid.In April…

TAMPA — When Jimmy Gardner was arrested 18 months ago on trafficking allegations, Tampa officials quickly promoted his past illegal incarceration and ties with Democratic politicians.Police and prosecutors accused Gardner, 58, of offering to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex, choking her when she resisted his progress. The news of his arrest has become a small political sensation. It also attracted the attention of federal prosecutors.But last month they dropped it. Ultimately, the government lost confidence in the credibility of the accuser who admitted at a pretrial meeting that he lied in all statements to investigators at the previous meeting,…

STARK, Fla. — A Skyal murderer once scrutinized the Spanti Alkiller for possible links to the OJ Simpson case, which riveted the country in the 1990s, was executed in Florida Thursday for the murder of a woman who died in a room at a Tampa Motel.Glenn Rogers, 62, was declared deadly injected at a Florida prison near Stark and died at 6:16pm, authorities said. He was convicted in Florida in 1995 of the murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother whom he met at a bar.He also handed out another death sentence in California for the 1995 stranglehold murder.…

Several sectors in the state, from Florida’s aerospace industry to local housing developments, are feeling the impact of higher tariffs.A recent website post by Northeast Florida Career Source talks about how Northeast Florida manufacturers are dealing with the impact of tariffs.Lakeray, who heads the North Florida Manufacturers Association, told Florida every day that his group members are already dealing with higher tariff costs.”One member of the Jacksonville area had unexpectedly increased raw material prices due to new tariffs. The member received a steel shipment from China to the US. Along the way, he was slapped with tariffs that quickly went…

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) – More than 40 people have been arrested after lawmakers responded to reports of an argument and found a ring of chicken fights in an illegal game, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office announced. Deputies responded to the 14,000 block of SW 192nd Avenue on Friday, May 16th about 4pm on several people engaged in a physical altercation. MDSO said the deputies arrived on the scene and found that individuals were not only fighting, but also engaged in illegal game chicken fights. Credit: Miami-Dade Sheriff’s OfficeCredit: Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office When the agent was on the property, we saw a…

According to developer Equinor, about 30% of the project is already complete.New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on May 19 that the Trump administration agreed to lift the stop order on a major wind project off the New York coast, which has been pending since last month.The project, Empire Wind, was approved by the former Biden administration last year, but Home Secretary Doug Burgum suspended it for review on April 16, citing inadequate analysis at the time of approval.Hochul announced that President Donald Trump and Bulgham have allowed the project to resume after engaged in “countless conversations” between developer Equiner…

Experts say CCPs continue to underreport the scale of the outbreak as they spread to Hong Kong and Taiwan. China’s official COVID-19 infection rate doubled in April, according to the latest report from health authorities in the Communist government. Meanwhile, since early May, Chinese citizens across the country have reported a new wave of respiratory infections, causing hospitals to become overcrowded once again.Experts who spoke in the Chinese version of the Epoch Times say the ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) has continued to cover and downplay the true scale of the country’s Covid-19 outbreak, with Hong Kong and Taiwan…

While state law requires parity, Republican pollers are rare in Michigan’s biggest city, a study from a nonprofit found. Research released this month showed that Democratic voting workers far outperformed Republican pollers in the precincts of Michigan’s biggest city during the November 2024 election.Researchers at the Michigan Fair Election Institute (MFEI), a nonprofit organization for educational institutions, conducted the study based on official government records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).Detroit hired 4,176 pollers (also known as election inspectors) in the November 2024 election. Of these, 2,994 were Democrats, 504 were Republicans, and 678 either blanked the party’s…

Victoria’s state budget records its first operational surplus since Covid-19, but net debt remains a burden Victorian patients will pay for years to come.Victoria’s treasurer Jaclyn Sims is springing a $600 million forecast operating surplus for 2025/26.But that’s $1 billion lower than what was forecast in December, and independent economist Saul Eslake said forecasts for net operating surplus for next year’s fiscal year should be met with a “big yawn.””Victoria cannot begin to pay off her debts. In fact, unless she operates a cash surplus, she cannot begin to stop adding to her debt,” he told AAP.”I would have been…

Many details have not been revealed yet.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to provide an update on Covid-19 policies this week.FDA commissioner Dr. Marty McCurry and Dr. Vinai Prasad, who heads the FDA centre regulating vaccines, will discuss “an evidence-based approach to COVID vaccination” on May 20th.The FDA has directed its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to request comment and did not respond to requests for details.The event will be called City Hall and will start at 1pm.Prasad said in a video released by the FDA on May 8 that the vaccine will…