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Trump Uses White House UFC Fight to Win Big in Stocks

President Donald Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company ahead of the planned fight on the White House lawn next month.

The president bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of stock in TKO Group Holdings, HuffPost reports, citing Trump’s May 12 financial disclosures. With the planned “Freedom 250” fight on June 14 (Flag Day and Trump’s birthday), the company will get a ton of publicity and…

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Learn all about bricks - including cream city brick - in Quam's 'Fire & Clay'

Chicago's Will Quam, via his Brick of Chicago Instagram account, website and walking tours, has shared his passion for bricks and the buildings constructed of them. Now he's doing it with a great new book called 'Fire and Clay.' Here we share an excerpt talking about Milwaukee-made cream city brick.

Royal Navy : Déjà lancées, les deux premières frégate de Type 31 seront modifiées pour un coût de 160 millions d’euros

En 2019, le ministère britannique de la Défense [MoD] notifia la commande de cinq frégates de type 31 [ou Arrowhead 140] de 5 700 tonnes à Babcock International pour un montant total de 2 milliards de livres sterling, via un contrat à prix fixe. En clair, les éventuels surcoûts de ce programme devaient être supportés...

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Jackson Approves More Demolitions of Abandoned Buildings in Effort to Clean Up City

The Jackson City Council approved demolishing four abandoned buildings at its May 5 meeting, continuing its effort to reduce the city’s blight problem.

The post Jackson Approves More Demolitions of Abandoned Buildings in Effort to Clean Up City appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers

Even if you hate President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign—which has placed about 60,000 undocumented immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and has deported, depending on who you ask, somewhere between 350,000 and 605,000 people—you probably think the immigration crackdown is benefiting native-born American workers. After all, the crackdown is creating labor…

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THEY TOOK R JOBS: new DroneDog robot security guard gets to work

Humanoid robots are supposed to be the biggest thing in the history of anything, but despite real progress elsewhere, they’re still perpetually two years away. The quadrupeds? They’ve proven to be a little bit closer to prime time – and Boston Dynamics says its latest DroneDog is ready to stop job site theft and vandalism TODAY.

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Woman dug 80 feet under her house — the city tried to stop her

Sometimes a video like this one will make me look around my home and feel like I'm not using my free will to the fullest. Kala, who goes by Engineer Kala on Instagram and TikTok, decided to build an 80-foot-long, 30-foot-deep passage beneath her home in Virginia. — Read the rest

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Le chanteur Vianney achève sa cabane dans les bois et retourne à la création musicale

Après une pause de neuf mois loin des projecteurs, le chanteur Vianney a annoncé dimanche 12 avril avoir achevé la construction de sa cabane dans les bois. La finalisation de...

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Electric, diesel, or CNG? MOOG tech lets you pick all of the above, on just ONE machine!

On today’s supremely clever episode of Quick Charge, we talk with engineers from MOOG about diesel, natural gas, and battery power – and how the ability to use any or all of the above on a single machine can help fleets decarbonize at lower cost, and with lower risk than buying different machines for each fuel.

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MIKE DAVIS: Trump's man at Federal Trade Commission delivers major wins

A year into his tenure and despite what his feckless critics claim, President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson is delivering monumental wins for competition and consumers.

I’ve known Ferguson for years. He’s a friend, a former colleague and exactly the kind of fighter President Trump promised to put in charge of the administrative state. And unlike the typical…

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