The lawsuit could scuttle Kroger’s $24.6 billion proposed takeover of Albertsons, which owns 19 Shaw’s supermarkets in Maine.
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Donald Trump appeals $454 million judgment in New York civil fraud case
Trump is challenging a judge’s finding that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency.
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Supreme Court casts doubt on Republican-led states’ efforts to regulate social media platforms
Law passed in Florida and Texas say social media companies are liberal-leaning and censor users based on their viewpoints, especially on the political right.
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Biden and Trump plan dueling trips to the Mexico border in Texas on Thursday
Biden has excoriated Republicans for abandoning the bipartisan border deal after Trump came out in opposition to the plan, while Trump has dialed up his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Presidential election a fork in the road for automakers’ EV plans
The U.S. auto industry could be looking at 2 vastly different product and profitability scenarios.
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Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Biden bribes is arrested again
Prosecutors have accused Alexander Smirnov of falsely telling his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each around 2015.
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Russian officials threaten to bury late Kremlin critic Navalny on prison grounds
An ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they’ll bury him immediately on prison grounds.
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Biden boosting cybersecurity at U.S. ports, where online attacks can be more ravaging than storms
Nationwide, ports employ roughly 31 million people and contribute $5.4 trillion to the economy, and could be left vulnerable to a ransomware or other brand of cyberattack.
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James Biden tells Republican lawmakers that Joe Biden wasn’t involved in the family’s business dealings
The Republican investigation was undercut when an FBI informant who claimed there was a bribery scheme involving the president, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company was charged with fabricating the story.
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Criminal case over handwritten lyrics to ‘Hotel California’ goes to trial
The trial concerns about 100 pages of drafts of the words to songs from the 1976 release ‘Hotel California,’ which is the third-biggest selling album ever in the U.S.