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Baseball Luxury Tax 12/23/2023 12:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Major league teams that had to pay luxury tax during the 2003-2023 seasons, as obtained by The Associated Press (tax suspended for pandemic-shortened 2020 season): YearNYYLADBosCubsDetSFWasSDLAANYMPhiAtlTorTex2023$32,399,36619,423,29739,693,954100,781,9326,977,3453,159,5365,535,492 Key takeaways from AP���s look at the emerging wave of sports construction in the US 12/23/2023 01:08am • A new round of stadium construction is underway for professional sports teams across the U.S., and taxpayers will be helping to pay the multi-billion-dollar tab. The wave of construction has seen teams chasing both repairs and luxurious additions. Some teams have sought new public funding for the Plans abounding for new sports stadiums across the US, carrying hefty public costs 12/23/2023 01:05am • Standing on a portable stage erected at home plate of the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers recently praised the professional baseball team as an ���essential part��� of the state's ���culture and identity��� and ���economic success.��� With fanfare, Evers then signed off on $500 Biden's hydrogen tax credit unveiled as administration tries to jump start industry 12/22/2023 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers Friday, in a massive effort to build out an industry that some hope can be a cleaner alternative to fossil fueled power. The U.S. credit is th Former Kenyan minister and 2 others charged with fraud over hospitality college project 12/22/2023 04:21pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Kenya���s anti-corruption commission Friday charged the country's former tourism minister and two others with economic crimes for the alleged fraud of tens of millions of dollars in inflated costs for the construction of a hospitality college. Najib Balala, former principal s Nevada rangeland taxed by wild horses, land managers plan to round up thousands of the animals 12/22/2023 02:47pm • WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) ��� U.S. land managers are planning to round up more than 2,800 wild horses across four Nevada counties beginning next week in an effort to reduce pressure on the drought-stricken rangeland. The Bureau of Land Management announced details of the operation Friday, saying the cur The top prize in Spain's 'El Gordo' Christmas lottery goes to tickets with the number 88008 12/22/2023 07:32am • MADRID (AP) ��� Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 will be celebrating Friday. They have each won 400,000 euros ($440,000), or some 325,000 euros after tax, in the top prize of Spain���s huge Christmas lottery. People across the country tuned into the television, radio and intern What Washingtonians read most at DC's public libraries in 2023 12/21/2023 09:30pm • This year, the D.C. Public Library saw the highest number of items circulated with more than seven million items borrowed, streamed or downloaded. "The ways in which people are reading are changing pretty dramatically," said Richard Reyes-Gavilan, D.C. Public Library executive director. "So adult A voter pushed Nikki Haley to call Donald Trump a 'grave danger' to the US. Here's how she responded 12/21/2023 06:30pm • ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) ��� Nikki Haley stopped short Thursday of answering one Iowa voter's question the way he'd hoped. Asked by 44-year-old Jacob Schunk to label Donald Trump a ���grave danger to our country,��� Haley ticked through criticisms of the former president ranging from foreign policy to Longtime Chicago Alderman Ed Burke found guilty of corruption 12/21/2023 06:17pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A federal jury convicted former Alderman Ed Burke on 13 corruption counts Thursday after hearing allegations the longest-serving City Council member in Chicago history with a 54-year tenure had used his power to win private law business from developers. The jury of nine women and th Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148 million in defamation case 12/21/2023 05:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, acknowledging severe financial strain exacerbated by his pursuit of former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election and a jury���s verdict last week requiring him to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers Descendants fight to maintain historic Black communities. Keeping their legacy alive is complicated 12/21/2023 03:25pm • DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C. (AP) ��� Sallie Ann Robinson proudly stands in the front yard of her grandmother���s South Carolina home. The sixth-generation native of Daufuskie Island, a once-thriving Gullah community, remembers relatives hosting meals and imparting life lessons on the next generation. ��� Locked out of local government: Residents decry increased secrecy among towns, counties, schools 12/21/2023 02:18pm • Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they���d raise property taxes by 57%. ���There had never been a mention of that,��� Trump transformed the Supreme Court. Now the justices could decide his political and legal future 12/21/2023 09:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump touts his transformation of the U.S. Supreme Court as one of his presidency's greatest accomplishments. Now his legal and political future may lie in the hands of the court he pushed to the right. With three Trump-appointed justices leading a conservative majority Where in Maryland are customers buying the most cannabis? 12/21/2023 08:54am • Marylanders have been buying cannabis since it became legal on July 1, 2023, with a sales tax rate of 9%. Following a new report from Comptroller Brooke Lierman, WTOP knows where people are buying it the most. Central Maryland has the largest number of dispensaries and that's where the most money