Albertsons calls off merger and sues Kroger | CNN Business Grocery chain Albertsons called off its $25 billion blockbuster merger with Kroger Wednesday after a federal judge halted the deal.

Albertsons calls off merger and sues Kroger

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Facebook And Instagram Down: Here’s What We Know About Widespread Outages It is not clear when the outages might be resolved.

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Pete Hegseth’s Secret History A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...

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Trudeau Goes to Mar-a-Lago to See Trump Amid Tariff Concerns Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is the first foreign G7 leader to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump since the election. He is under pressure to persuade Mr. Trump to back down from his tar...

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Amazon workers plan global protests on Black Friday, Cyber Monday Some Amazon employees are preparing to strike or protest on Black Friday as part of the “Make Amazon Pay” demonstrations against alleged labor abuses.

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Trump's Nomination of Project 2025 Architect Means Social Security, Medicare 'Are At Risk' | Common Dreams President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, to lead the White House budget office was seen as further evidence of the threat the incoming administration poses...

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Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss Charges Against Trump in Election and Documents Cases The special counsel asked a federal judge in Washington and an appeals court in Atlanta to dismiss cases that had charged Donald J. Trump with plotting to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and wi...

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Canada Post strike enters new week as talks continue with special mediator kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/11/25/c...

Overtime Rule’s Demise Has Employers Mulling Pay Raise Reversals Businesses that took steps earlier this summer to comply with the Biden administration’s now-vacated overtime rule are left with a difficult choice: either cancel raises issued to keep employees overt...

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Wow! I think I love Bluesky. Still haven't got the complete hang of it yet since I rarely visited the sewer that was Twitter/X but it is SO great to be able to repost an article without $#@% META blocking it on Facebook due to Canada's Online News Act.

Oregon's 5th congressional district - Wikipedia

Oregon District 5, in which Trump Labor Secretary nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer was defeated, has an interesting history.

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Screenshot of AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler's statement on Trump's nomination for Secretary of Labor.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer has built a pro-labor record in Congress. But Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States—not Rep. Chavez-DeRemer.

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Update from Chris Cameron

Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon as his labor secretary.

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YouTube video by MeidasTouch LIVE: Robert Reich DEBUNKS Trump’s BIGGEST Election Lie | The Weekend Show

We are very excited to welcome Robert Reich to The Weekend Show to discuss what 'We the People’ can do to oppose Trump's extreme political agenda in the wake of his narrow popular vote win. Watch live at 8p ET/5p PT!

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If you want to understand the rise of RFK and other crackpot anti-science types in the 21st century, you have to understand the fusion between conspiracy theorists and New Age flummery, as I wrote in the new edition of The Death of Expertise:

Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes sense of politics today by looking to the past Podcast Episode · On Point | Podcast · 11/22/2024 · 47m

Fantastic On Point episode with @hcrichardson.bsky.social

DOGE will henceforth be pronounced “doggy” 🐶😂

And might I suggest faux be referred to as the “Fox News ENTERTAINMENT Channel” 🤡🤹🎪

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Text: 527 Explorer. Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations commonly called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they're spending their money. Image: Webpage screenshot of ProPublica's 527 Explorer tool.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.

We built a database so you can more easily search these organizations' finances — which we just updated with a total of ~350k new contributions and expenditures: https://propub.li/4i01FSv

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.

New to our work? Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel — avoid taxes.

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Hi everyone, it's Diana Kilmury with my inaugural BlueSky post. May this platform quickly replace the sewer that is X and put a dent in Facebook and its insane algorithms.