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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…

Beijing hopes the Yuan will settle the dollar as the world’s best international currency, but China’s currency is facing a steep uphill battle.ExplanationFor several years, financial media have speculated about when the Chinese yuan would replace the US dollar as the world’s best international currency. Bankers and currency traders call it “global reserves.”Beijing has kept its desire to see this happening without keeping a secret. Now, in the face of sensitive trade negotiations with Washington, Chinese authorities have downplayed such ambitions. And because the possibility is always exaggerated, certainly, and far from the inevitable.As an export-oriented economy where sales to…

Brandon Simpson’s bedroom in his New Hampshire home was decorated with photos of yachts and beaches.From a young age he wanted to leave the cold for the sun and sand. He recently survived his dream. He almost made plans, packed up the car and headed south in August 2021 with his lifelong friend and Simpson’s rescue dog Kona. Within a few years he built a life in Fort Lauderdale, loved at night, and worked at a restaurant he spent time at the beach.Simpson went out to celebrate his 28th birthday and headed home shortly after 2:28am on April 28th. He…

The Department of Defense has instructed the commanders to identify service members with a history of gender violations that have not progressed under a new policy banning transgender forces.“A commander who knows a service member of a unit with a history of gender discomfort, or symptoms consistent with gender discomfort, will direct individual medical record reviews of such service members and confirm compliance with medical standards.President Donald Trump said people who express “false ‘gender identity'” were unable to meet military service standards, and defense officials later promulgated new policies that were hampering the service of the military who were experiencing…