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Home » TRAVEL NEWS » New York City, Las Vegas, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami: How Tourism Taxes Are Shaping Travel Across the United States, New Update for You Sunday, July 13, 2025From neon lights in Las Vegas to the towering skyline of New York City, America’s iconic destinations promise unforgettable adventures. Yet beneath the glitter and glamour lies a quiet truth every traveler should know: tourism taxes are reshaping how we explore the country—and how much it costs. Cities like Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami are leaning more than ever on hotel and lodging taxes to…

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction. Moore and other defendants faced up to 35 years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to defraud the government; conspiracy to convert, sell, convey and dispose of government property; and aiding and abetting in those efforts. The charges were…

Hundreds of cats, dogs rescued amid deadly Texas floods with help from volunteersAmid the heartbreak one week after the devastating floods in Central Texas, Linsey Davis reports on the animals saved and the Humane Society of North Texas volunteers who helped make it happen.July 11, 2025 Source link

Colorado grandmother crawls 14 hours to survive after injury in remote areaLinsey Davis reports on the remarkable survival story of a 75-year-old grandmother from Colorado, who crawled for 14 hours to seek safety after falling on her remote property and breaking her femur.July 11, 2025 Source link

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired at least 20 prosecutors and support staffers who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Saturday.Senior leadership at the department had already ousted most of the remaining prosecutors associated with the probes.A DOJ spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.In this Aug. 1, 2023, file photo, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith addresses reporters in Washington, D.C.The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILESome of staffers who have been identified through the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group” may not have had any…

Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study spanning decades.From 1959 to 2019, 1,069 people died in Texas in flooding, which is nearly one-fifth of the total 5,724 flood fatalities in the Lower 48 states in that time, according to a 2021 study in the journal Water. That’s about 370 more than the next closest state, Louisiana. Flooding is the second leading weather cause of death in the country, after…

A 20-year-old American from Florida was allegedly beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting his family in the West Bank, according to Palestinian health officials and his family.Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet was killed in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank.A second man was also shot dead in the attacks, according to the health ministry.Musallet was trying to protect his family’s land from Israeli settlers, who surrounded him for over three hours, blocking the ambulance from reaching him, according to his family. He died before making it to the hospital, they…

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country’s 250th anniversary celebration, when he heard what sounded like fireworks in the distance. “Did I hear what I think I heard?” Trump remarked as he spoke from behind a wall of thick, bulletproof glass. “Don’t worry, it’s only fireworks. I hope. Famous last words,” he quipped, drawing laughs and cheers.“You always have to think positive,” he went on. “I didn’t like that sound, either.”The comments, just days before the first anniversary of Trump’s near-assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania,…

This post provides the theoretical foundation and practical insights needed to navigate the complexities of LLM development on Amazon SageMaker AI, helping organizations make optimal choices for their specific use cases, resource constraints, and business objectives. We also address the three fundamental aspects of LLM development: the core lifecycle stages, the spectrum of fine-tuning methodologies, and the critical alignment techniques that provide responsible AI deployment. We explore how Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods like LoRA and QLoRA have democratized model adaptation, so organizations of all sizes can customize large models to their specific needs. Additionally, we examine alignment approaches such as…

President Donald Trump has posted two letters on his social media platform announcing new tariffs on the European Union and Mexico that will take effect on Aug. 1.Trump will impose a 30% tariff on Mexico due to fentanyl crossing the border, he said in a letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.”Mexico has been helping me secure the border, BUT what Mexico has done is not enough. Mexico still has not stopped the Cartels who are trying to turn all of North America in a Narco-Trafficking Playground,” Trump wrote in the letter.Mexico did not face a new tariff on April 2,…