Trump at McDonald’s, Amazon’s gas discount, and listeria everywhere: Business news roundup
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Trump at McDonald’s, Amazon’s gas discount, and listeria everywhere: Business news roundup

Business new tamfitronics Image: Pool (Getty Images), Joe Raedle / Staff (Getty Images), NurPhoto / Contributor (Getty Images), Photo: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle (Getty Images), Krisztian Bocsi (Getty Images), Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images), Larry MacDougal (AP), Screenshot: Peter Todd’s X account (Other)Image: Pool (Getty Images)Construction workers build a multi-family complex in Texas.Photo: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle (Getty Images)Americans are on the move — and a new report shows where they’re headed and where they’re coming from.Census data released as part of the American Community Survey shows that Americans are increasingly heading South. The survey asked respondents where they live now and if they lived in the same place a year ago. It’s an attempt to understand when and where Americans are moving within the country — or what the Census Bureau refers to as state-to-state migration.Read MorePhoto:...
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How the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden Follows a Long Tradition in Politics
Politics

How the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden Follows a Long Tradition in Politics

Politics tamfitronics NEW YORK — Republican Donald Trump's rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena.The Garden has hosted both Democratic and Republican National Conventions since the 1800s, and in 1939, thousands joined back-to-back pro-Nazi and Communist Party rallies in the lead-up to World War II. Marilyn Monroe took the stage in 1962 to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy, adding to the lore surrounding what the New York Knicks announcer calls “the world's most famous arena!”Here are a few highlights from the political history of Madison Square Garden, which has occupied four buildings over time.Politics tamfitronics Grover Cleveland stages a comebackGrover Cleveland is the only U.S. president to have served two nonconsecutive terms. Trump hopes to become the second.After...
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Trump has a plan, dishonest NY Times fearmongering and other commentary
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Trump has a plan, dishonest NY Times fearmongering and other commentary

Top Stories Tamfitronics Economy watch: Trump Has a Plan“A recent MSNBC opinion piece” inadvertently explained “the benefits” of the Trump economic plan, points out Andy Puzder at Fox News. The piece complained that “ ‘Trump is obsessed with the macroeconomics’ ” and has a “ ‘big-picture, 10,000-foot view of the economy.’ ” Huh? “No one should criticize a presidential candidate” for being “ ‘obsessed’ with addressing macroeconomic issues such as inflation, wages, interest rates, economic growth and the deficit,” issues central to people’s voting decisions. Harris “has no plan” for those issues, except she has “unabashedly praised the current plan, a failed big government hodgepodge of massive spending and increased regulatory pressure called Bidenomics,” which put us in this mess. Trump’s plan involves “cutting taxes, slashing growth-killing regulations, and incentivizing domestic energy production, including fossil fuels.”From the right: Dishonest Times...
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