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With extra cash, Fairfax Co. contemplates ways to bring in more tourists 11/28/2025 04:22pm • With millions of new dollars to help attract tourists to Fairfax County, leaders in the Northern Virginia suburb are recommending a grant program for local businesses and the possibility of upgrading sports fields to make it a more attractive place to host events. During a Board of Supervisors E What a federal ban on THC-infused drinks and snacks could mean for the hemp industry 11/28/2025 12:27pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The production lines at Indeed Brewing moved quickly, the cans filling not with beer, but with THC-infused seltzer. The product, which features the compound that gets cannabis users high, has been a lifeline at Indeed and other craft breweries as alcohol sales have fallen in rec Paris' Louvre museum to increase ticket price for visitors from outside the EU 11/28/2025 11:39am • PARIS (AP) ��� Paris' Louvre museum has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul of the building whose degradation has been exposed by the Oct. 19 crown jewels heist. The measure comes as other major cultural sites ac Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach 11/27/2025 03:02pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Santa Fe has long referred to itself as ���The City Different��� for its distinct atmosphere and a blending of cultures that stretches back centuries. Now, it's trying something different ��� something officials hope will prevent a cultural erosion as residents are priced out Brazilian police crack down on $4.8B tax evasion and money laundering scheme 11/27/2025 11:35am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazilian police launched Thursday a police operation to dismantle a major tax evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector. The group under investigation is the country���s largest tax debtor, owing more than 26 billion reais ($4.8 billion), authorities said. Local and Bulgaria withdraws 2026 budget proposal following street protests 11/27/2025 07:30am • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Bulgaria���s government announced Thursday that it is withdrawing its 2026 draft budget, following street protests at home over steep tax increases included in the budget, and warnings from abroad. The surprise move was announced by the leader of the ruling center-right GERB Thousands protest in Bulgaria before budget with steep tax increases gets final approval 11/26/2025 10:43pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Thousands took to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria���s capital, Wednesday to denounce steep tax increases in next year���s draft budget before its final vote in parliament. The opposition coalition We Continue the Change ��� Democratic Bulgaria organized the rally, which drew The Latest: West Virginia National Guard members shot near White House 11/26/2025 08:48pm • Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation���s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence. The West Virginia governor initially said the troops had died, but later walked back the statement to say the office was ���receiving conf Higher fees for foreigners visiting US national parks stokes tourism concerns 11/26/2025 05:54pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) ��� A $100-per-person charge for foreigners entering Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and other popular national parks is stoking apprehension among some tourist-oriented businesses that it could discourage travelers, but supporters say the change will generate money for cash-strapped Immigrant with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is detained by ICE 11/26/2025 04:46pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts woman who was once engaged to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains in ICE custody two weeks after being arrested on her way to pick up the son she shares with her former fiance. Bruna Ferreira, 33, was driving to her son's school Canada's prime minister announces supports for lumber, steel sectors hit by U.S. tariffs 11/26/2025 04:11pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday new supports for the steel and lumber industries hit hard by U.S. tariffs. U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on steel and softwood lumber, long subject to U.S. tariffs, is currently taxed at 45% after the Trum Brazil���s Lula sanctions an increase in tax exemptions for low-income people 11/26/2025 12:57pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian President Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva on Wednesday sanctioned a bill that exempts people earning up to 5,000 reais ($940) a month from income taxes, more than doubling the current exemption and meeting a key priority of his 2022 election campaign. ���A promise made, UK's unpopular Labour government tries to fight back with a tax-raising budget 11/26/2025 12:18pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease cost-of-living pressures. But the budget's contents were leaked half an hour before Prince George���s Democrats choose Kevin Harris to fill vacant District 27 Senate seat in Maryland 11/26/2025 09:47am • It���s a done deal. The Prince George���s County Democratic Central Committee chose Del. Kevin Harris (D-Charles and Prince George���s) on Tuesday night to fill the District 27 Senate seat vacated this month by Michael Jackson, who is now the State Police superintendent. The Democratic Central Sellers in other countries struggle to maintain US customers as holiday shopping season starts 11/26/2025 09:15am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� At Fleece & Harmony, a woolen mill and yarn shop in bucolic Belfast, Prince Edward Island, in Canada, owner Kim Doherty used to be able to send yarn skeins to U.S. customers across the border with little fanfare. The yarn orders usually met an import tax exemption for packages