Airlines spent hours digging out from a tech outage that left airports snarled and passengers stranded, resulting in a chaotic, confusing and frustrating travel day. Operations gradually improved throughout the day as systems came back online, but cancellations and delays piled up as the disruption left planes and crews out of place and created backups at airports. Around 2,600 U.S. flights had been canceled as of Friday afternoon—akin to a major snowstorm, but with the impact spread across the country. Read More...
Trump uses false claim about Chinese auto plants in Mexico
Donald Trump made a pitch for votes from key swing state autoworkers during his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination, using false claims to call on them to fire their union president. On Thursday night in Milwaukee, Trump said the United Auto Workers union should be ashamed for allowing Chinese automakers to start building large factories just across the border in Mexico, from which they will ship cars to the U.S. without any taxes. At present, though, industry experts say they know of no such plants under construction, and there’s only one small Chinese auto assembly factory operating in Mexico.
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