WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here’s what they are and what you need to know about them: Tariffs are a tax on importsTariffs are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Instead of offering to buy U.S. Steel, Japan will “invest heavily” into U.S. Steel, said President Donald Trump, and offer it’s latest technology, to “make a better quality product in the United States” in a “mutually beneficial deal”, according to Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in a news conference…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — AP — The NCAA has changed its participation policy for transgender athletes, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth only. The change came on day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The NCAA’s revised policy…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) Austin – A proposal creating a school choice voucher program has been passed by the Texas Senate. The vote on Senate Bill 2 took place less than a week after the Texas Senate Education Committee moved the bill forward. The legislation would create education savings accounts providing parents $10,000.00 of state funds per student…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Steven Nelson has been executed by Lethal Injection this evening for the murder of the Reverend Clint Dawson in 2011. The execution was confirmed by Rev Jeff Hood who is reported to have been Nelsons spiritual adviser and was in the death chamber according to USA today. Nelson is the second death…… MORE
SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport say a Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing on the tarmac apparently struck the tail of a parked Delta aircraft Wednesday morning. In a post on X, the airport said there were no injuries and minimal impact to airport operations. A Delta spokesperson said that its Boeing…… MORE
Numerous NBA pundits on sports talk shows say the Mavericks have improved their chances of winning a championship after trading Doncic for Anthony Davis. Credit: (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) DALLAS — Why would any team trade away a 25-year-old generational talent, who just led them to the NBA Finals seven months ago, and is still in…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory. Trump made the provocative comments at the start of meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where the two leaders were expected to discuss the fragile ceasefire and hostage deal in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. Trump…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears on track to become the nation’s health secretary after winning the crucial support of Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor who says Kennedy has assured him he would not topple the nation’s childhood vaccination program. In a starkly partisan vote Tuesday,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence, has moved a step closer to Senate confirmation. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted behind closed doors Tuesday to advance Gabbard’s nomination to the full Senate for a vote. Gabbard is a former Democratic congresswoman and one of Trump’s more divisive…… MORE
