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Lawmakers propose taxing dealers and manufacturers of guns, ammunition to fund Maryland trauma system 01/18/2024 10:42pm • Some Maryland lawmakers are proposing legislation to tax dealers and manufacturers of guns and ammunition to fund the state���s trauma system. Del. Bernice Mireku-North (D-Montgomery), who will sponsor the Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act in the House of Delegates, said an excise tax wo Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped by customs over a luxury watch after arriving in Germany 01/18/2024 09:16pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped for hours by customs at Munich Airport after entering Germany with a luxury watch that was potentially to be auctioned at a charity event. The former movie star and California governor was stopped for a routine check after arriving Wednesday, customs Solidly GOP Indiana doesn't often see competitive primaries for governor. This year is different 01/18/2024 09:13pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� In a state as solidly Republican as Indiana, the May primary is the real competition. Four months out, five candidates are still jockeying for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in an unusually crowded field. Annual campaign finance reports filed Wednesday reflect a multimillion We could see the world's 1st trillionaire in the next decade. Here are some of today's richest 1% 01/18/2024 08:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%. In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade ��� as DC residents find dream home in new affordable housing development 01/18/2024 08:10pm • The big chunk of land in Northwest D.C. that sat vacant right across from the Shaw-Howard University Metro station for decades has now been turned into a mixed-use development that, on Thursday, the city officially cut the ribbon on. ���We engaged the community early and often, and we were ab A county official vetoes a stadium tax for an April ballot, affecting Kansas City Chiefs and Royals 01/18/2024 07:45pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Jackson County Executive Frank White vetoed an ordinance Thursday that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the April ballot to fund sports stadiums for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals. ���This proposed sales tax would generate over $2 billion Can I Get a Business Credit Card Without a Business? 01/18/2024 07:00pm • Business credit cards offer convenience as well as unique perks and rewards, and they help keep business expenses separate from personal ones. To carry a business credit card, you may not need to be the owner of a formal business -- everything from freelancing to house-sitting can help you qualify. Airport Costs to Splurge On and Avoid 01/18/2024 07:00pm • Too much time at the airport can result in spending more money than you anticipate. There are times, however, when it can make the entire travel experience more pleasant. A 2023 J.D. Power study found that passengers who said they were delighted with their airport experiences spend an average of $44 Hunter Biden agrees to private deposition with Republicans after months of defiance 01/18/2024 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president's son, who had insisted on testifying publicly. The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that the two parties have agreed for Hu Lawyers for Trump urge the Supreme Court 'to put a swift and decisive end' to ballot removal efforts 01/18/2024 06:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the Supreme Court ���to put a swift and decisive end��� to efforts to kick him off the 2024 presidential ballot over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. In a written filing, Trump's lawyers called on the cour Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland 01/18/2024 05:33pm • RIO VISTA, Calif. (AP) ��� After years of secretly snapping up farmland for a new city northeast of San Francisco, the CEO of a company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires pitched voters Wednesday on his vision for a walkable, affordable community that would appeal to their California pride. Jan S The federal debt tops $34 trillion and some in Congress want a commission to find ways to tackle it 01/18/2024 05:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation���s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress won approval Thursday from a House committee. House Republicans are making the bill a priority, and the chairman of the House Budget Committee said � GOP lawmakers approve a 'flat' income tax for Kansas, but a governor's veto looms 01/18/2024 04:35pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Thursday passed a broad package of tax cuts promoted as widespread relief that the Democratic governor is likely to veto because she says it favors the wealthy and threatens the state���s budget in the future. The opposing viewpoints kept the t Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen backs anti-LGBTQ bill and tax cuts in state of the state address 01/18/2024 04:14pm • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� In his second state of the state address to Nebraska lawmakers, Gov. Jim Pillen on Thursday covered everything from praising the state's response to recent winter storms to supporting a divisive bill that would restrict transgender student participation in high school sports a A last sticking point in border security negotiations is humanitarian parole. Here's what that means 01/18/2024 04:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden is closing in on a Senate deal on border security and Ukraine funding as the White House tries to resolve one of the last major sticking points: whether to preserve the president���s authority to allow migrants into the U.S. for special cases during emergencie