The traditional supermarket industry has shrunk as big-name grocers acquired their smaller rivals. Here are the chains that dominate near you and across the U.S.
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Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain
Independent grocery stories, often lifelines in small, rural communities, try to scrape by on smaller margins while bigger rivals get better deals from wholesalers.
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What the Kroger-Albertsons merger could mean for you
The retail giants have proposed the biggest supermarket merger in U.S. history.
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The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 64 days is a troubling turn of events
The arrest of a suspect in a possible attack reflects a disturbing development in American politics.
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Why has our political rhetoric gotten so violent and incendiary?
Democracy benefits from constructive, nuanced political discourse. But the lures of extreme, polarising rhetoric are often too great.
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‘One inch from a potential civil war’ — near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
A scholar of political assassinations says the U.S. just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
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Five disinformation tactics Russia is using to try to influence the U.S. election
The White House believes it has uncovered a widespread Russian attempt to undermine the 2024 US presidential election.
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Russian interference was never a ‘hoax’
It just succeeded in a way that Russia could never have predicted.
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Meet the queen of Russia’s covert information wars
While the Kremlin has denied U.S. accusations of information operations, Margarita Simonyan proudly admits that her work is at the behest of the Russian government.
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Five ways to separate fact from fiction
Library scientists offer tips and tricks to figure out if a particular online news article is reliable or fake.