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Trump's visit to a Vegas casino 'exciting for our industry'

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President Donald Trump’s weekend visit to a downtown Las Vegas casino is being touted as a building block towards more favorable tax policies by the gambling industry’s lobbying group.

The American Gaming Association, a Washington D.C.-based trade organization, lauded the president’s visit to Circa casino hotel on Saturday. Derek Stevens,...Read more

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Trump ousts top Labor Board leaders who backed broader worker rights

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Donald Trump is forcing out top leaders of the U.S. labor board, ushering in a swift reboot of workplace law enforcement while testing the limits of presidential authority.

Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said she was fired via email late on Monday. Gwynne Wilcox, who was one of the labor board’s ...Read more

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Minnesota will start testing milk for bird flu on dairy farms

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If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it.

Starting in February, milk from each of Minnesota’s 1,625 permitted cow farms will test once a month for H5N1, the virus commonly called bird flu that began infecting cattle last spring.

Milk haulers already collect samples for routine testing...Read more

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'The breaking point': Twin Cities Pride ousts Target from annual parade, festival

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Twin Cities Pride has decided to exclude Target from its annual festival and parade after the retailer’s decision to scale back diversity initiatives.

For years, Target has been a visible — and generous — supporter of Pride events in Minneapolis and around the country, donating between $50,000 and $70,000 each year to Twin Cities Pride, ...Read more

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Philadelphia is one of the least affordable major metros for its renters

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Housing in the Philadelphia region is often considered affordable when compared to other parts of the country. But tell that to renters who live here.

The Philadelphia metropolitan area is one of the least affordable in the country for its apartment renters based on their incomes, according to a report by the online real estate brokerage Redfin...Read more

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Is consumer demand for Las Vegas casinos softening?

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Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have posted five consecutive months of year-over-year declines in gaming revenue. Gambling parlors in downtown Las Vegas and along the Boulder Strip have reported decreases in three of the past four months of available data.

Statewide, non-restricted casino win has been down in four of the past five months, ...Read more

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Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia vote to unionize, a first for the Amazon-owned grocery chain

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Workers at the Whole Foods in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia have voted to unionize, becoming the first store in the company to do so.

The store will have 300 union employees, and 230 of them voted in the election Monday, said Wendell Young IV, president of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 1776, with ...Read more

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What small daily acts can help save money? Try these financial life hacks

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PHILADELPHIA — When it came to her personal finances, Brittany Bronson knew the big-picture advice — the tips a financial adviser might dole out for saving more, paying off debt, or hitting other money goals.

She was well aware of the power of budgeting, the value of investing, and the habits that can lead to lower energy bills.

But the ...Read more

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Data centers are power hogs. A new rule lets them be charged more

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Metro Atlanta is one of the hottest destinations in the country for tech companies to build data centers, hulking warehouses filled with servers that power web services, cryptocurrency transactions and increasingly, artificial intelligence.

But the facilities themselves use huge amounts of electricity, and concern has been growing that their ...Read more

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Free-standing ERs are popping up all over South Florida. Don't confuse them for urgent cares

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Free-standing emergency rooms are spreading all over South Florida, extending the reach of hospitals into fast-growing suburbs.

In Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, about 30 standalone emergency rooms have opened, are under construction or planned.

For residents in cities like Pembroke Pines, Deerfield Beach or Boca Raton, the burst...Read more

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Elon Musk chooses Miami for Neuralink brain-implant research

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has selected Miami as a clinical trial site for its brain-computer interface.

Musk’s Neuralink makes devices that link the human brain to computers, focusing on giving people with quadriplegia or paralysis the ability to control computers and devices with their thoughts. The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the ...Read more

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After a 195-year wait, Yuengling beer is on tap at Illinois bars, restaurants

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The nearly two-century wait is finally over. Yuengling beer, the pride of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and the oldest brewery in America, is now on tap in Chicago.

As of Monday, about 2,000 bars and restaurants across the state are able to pour the regional favorite, which for the first 195 years of its history was unavailable in Illinois — ...Read more

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5 ways to protect your bank account from identity theft

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Vivian Thornton received quite a shock when she logged onto her bank account and noticed an unfamiliar debit charge for concert tickets totaling more than $2,000. In fact, the hefty charge had brought her account to a negative balance, says Thornton, who is a small business-owner and Charlotte, North Carolina, resident.

On the day this happened...Read more

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Survey: 2 in 5 Americans in a relationship have kept a financial secret from their partner

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Would you be upset if you found out your partner had a credit card you didn’t know about? On the flip side, have you ever fudged the numbers with your spouse about a recent shopping spree? Romantic relationships can come with mixed feelings about money. That’s why we asked more than 2,000 people for their takes.

New Bankrate survey data ...Read more

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The Fed looks poised to skip a January interest rate cut. How long could a pause last?

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At the Federal Reserve’s first meeting in 2025, consumers are going to want what Fed Chair Jerome Powell simply can’t give them: An answer to how much longer interest rates are going to stay high.

Americans got a taste of the rate cuts they were craving last year. With inflation slowing and the job market flashing warning signs of an ...Read more

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Trump signs crypto executive order: What investors need to know

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President Trump signed an executive order Thursday promoting U.S. leadership in digital assets and establishing a working group that would be charged with proposing regulations for the crypto industry.

The news sent prices for popular cryptocurrencies higher in Friday trading. Bitcoin was up more than 1.5% to $105,880, while Ethereum climbed ...Read more

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Trump order freezes funding for Illinois EV charging network, raises questions about other clean energy projects

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In its quest to get a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, Illinois was counting on $148 million in federal funding to help build a statewide network of public EV chargers.

Now that funding has been frozen — and targeted for possible reduction or elimination — under a wide-ranging executive order that President Donald Trump signed...Read more

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'Shockingly good': Stellantis dealers say turnaround underway after meeting

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NEW ORLEANS — Stellantis NV executives on Saturday repeatedly apologized to dealers who suffered through dismal sales results much of last year, promising a bounce-back in 2025 through more consistent vehicle incentive programs, increased advertising, and several vehicle tweaks.

"We were all over the board last year on our product, our ...Read more

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Motormouth: Why is classic car generic in drug ad?

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Q: Three nights in a row, I have seen a medicine commercial on TV that features a car with no nameplate of any kind, front, back or side. The car is obviously an orange 1964 and a half Mustang. (I should know because I had one in my early years only it was brown.) Why no name plates on the car? Is this going to be a trend of having no ...Read more

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Trump team debates bank watchdogs as Chopra remains at CFPB

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As two Biden-era appointees leading bank watchdogs continue to show up to work, some Donald Trump supporters are questioning why the president hasn’t put forward nominees to lead the agencies, or at a minimum fire the current heads.

Trump’s team has struggled to make selections to replace the leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection ...Read more