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What my $30 hamburger reveals about fees and how companies use them to jack up prices

New fees are being tacked onto hotel bills, airfare, restaurant checks and pretty much everywhere else. It's another form of inflation and it's costing consumers $65 billion a year.

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Adidas’s Yeezy Sales Surge After Kanye West Fallout

Adidas receives €508 million worth of orders for unsold Yeezy shoes

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Florida Governor DeSantis Under Fire For Controversial State Guard Program

Critics raise concerns over militarization and DeSantis's command style if he was Commander-in-Chief.

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Bidenomics: Tax Cuts For Wealthy And Corporations Don’t Benefit Middle Class, Says US President

Biden stresses on need to move away from top-down approach of trickle-down economics and focus on empowering American workers.

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Avoiding DeSantis-Like Chaos On Twitter? Musk Upgrades ‘System’ For Interview With Robert Kennedy Jr

Twitter updates in place to prevent crash during live interview with RFK Jr.

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Don’t be fooled – Trump’s presidential run is gaining more and more momentum

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear: Trump is leading the other Republican contenders, and Biden is far from safe

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The top five Republican candidates for 2024

The race to become the Republicans’ presidential nominee in 2024 remains wide open less than a year out from the first primary.

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For Republican presidential hopefuls, Iowa is still the first political beauty contest

The Democratic National Committee may have dethroned the Iowa caucuses as kingmaker in its presidential nominating process, but Iowa voters still have the power to crown Republican presidential contenders or threaten their White House ambitions.

The Conversation

As Amtrak expands service, replaces cars, riders have high hopes

A second daily round trip between Chicago and St. Paul could serve riders as early as 2024, with new train cars on the way.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ron DeSantis says backing Ukraine is not in the U.S. interest, a sign of a GOP divided

Gov. Ron DeSantis is opposed to U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. So is former President Donald Trump. The issue seems poised to become a flashpoint in the 2024 presidential race.

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Biden says he’s Republicans’ ‘nightmare’ over social spending cuts – as it happened

President visits Tampa and denounces Republican proposals to cut spending

The Guardian - US

Vallas gives away campaign contribution from ex-cop in Laquan McDonald case

Vallas’s bid for mayor of Chicago was facing criticism for accepting $5,000 from a retired detective named in a $5 million legal settlement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Black cops still have anti-Black bias

Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies

Salon

Tyre Nichols' killing revives calls for Congress to address police reform

National outrage over the killing of Tyre Nichols has prompted renewed calls on Capitol Hill for police reform. But in a divided Congress, bipartisan reform legislation is unlikely.

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Calls to ‘demolish and rebuild’ police as Memphis mourns Tyre Nichols

The death of the 29-year-old Black man after a traffic stop is not the first such fatality attributed to city law enforcement officers

Chicago Sun-Times

Gun lobby, stores file federal challenge to assault weapons ban, arguing it violates ‘right to keep and bear common arms’

The Illinois State Rifle Association lawsuit appears to be the first in federal court to challenge Illinois’ new weapons ban, but it is part of a burgeoning legal effort aimed at undoing the new law. Other lawsuits have been filed in state court.

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Columbia University Study Says School Shootings Not Caused By Mental Illness

There is need to begin to focus on the cultural and social drivers, to prevent future mass school shootings.

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Civil War-era Relics Unearthed On Dried Banks Of Mississippi River

What is typically an island jutting out of the murky river waters have been submerged for an unknown amount of time.

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Historically Low Water Levels In The Mississippi Reveal Shipwreck From 1915

Patrick Ford was walking along the banks of the Mississippi River when he spotted the remains of an old shipwreck.

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Photos: What Ian's havoc looks like in South Carolina

The storm landed in South Carolina after devastating southwest and central Florida. Ian brought heavy rain, high winds and flooding along South Carolina coast, causing damage in some areas.

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President Biden hails US railway labour deal as ‘big win’

Railway companies and labour unions reach ‘tentative’ agreement to avoid strike that risked major disruptions.

WEKU

How an attendance policy brought the U.S. to the brink of a nationwide rail strike

Freight rail workers had threatened to strike Friday. The unions were unhappy about a policy that penalizes workers who take unscheduled time off, including for medical needs.

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Two Aid Workers Killed In Missile Strike While Delivering Food To Starving Ukrainian Civilians

Two Hare Krishnas aid workers based in the U.K. have been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine after delivering food to starving civilians.

WEKU

Emmett Till's family says 'white pedestal' theory has denied them justice for decades

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vice President Kamala Harris visits Illinois on Friday: stops in Chicago, Plainfield

Harris will highlight the administration’s work on maternal health and will speak at a convention of Latino officials.

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