Stories tagged with: change
Hawaii increases hotel tax to help state cope with climate change
(HONOLULU) -- Hawaii has passed legislation to increase people staying at hotels to help the islands cope with the increasing pressures from climate change.The bill, SB1396, adds a 0.75% levy to existing taxes on tourist lodging within the state -- including hotels rooms, ...
FSU student survives shooting after losing sister in Parkland: Something has to change
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- When a gunman opened fire near the student union at Florida State University on Thursday, killing two and wounding six, for student Robbie Alhadeff, the tragedy on his Tallahassee campus brought him back to another school shooting.Alhadeff's sister, 14-year-old Alyssa, was ...
Democratic senators call for probe into possible insider trading over Trump tariff change
(WASHINGTON) -- Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from the White House over serious concerns that President Donald Trump's rollbacks on his tariffs and his social media posts earlier Wednesday may have been part of insider trading among White House allies.Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and ...
DC judges slam Trump pardons as revisionist myth, will not change the truth of Jan. 6
(WASHINGTON) -- In the days since President Donald Trump handed down pardons and commutations for the more than 1,500 of his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have ...