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Kroger CEO defends potential merger with Albertsons

CBSNews.com 

In testimony Wednesday in federal court in Portland, Oregon, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said the proposed $24 billion merger with Albertsons would lead to lower grocery store prices. The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block the deal, alleging it would actually raise prices by reducing competition in some areas of the country. Jo Ling Kent has details.

Patriots QB Jacoby Brissett Admits His ‘Surprise’ To Earning Team Honor

New England Sportd Network: World Cup 

Five of the six New England Patriots captains have something in common. Each of them endured a discouraging 4-13 campaign with the Patriots last season. The one captain who didn’t go through that experience? Jacoby Brissett. But that didn’t deter Brissett’s Patriots teammates from voting for him as a captain alongside David Andrews, Jabrill Peppers, […]

Does America Need a Sharansky?

Public Discourse  

Unfortunately, Morson looks only at a handful of symptoms that are vaguely comparable to the pathologies of late Soviet society and concludes that the same disease is at work. He does not address the deep causes of Soviet and Russian dysfunction, all of which are absent in the United States—authoritarianism, a command economy, censorship, oppression, terror, the Gulag. 

‘Putin could fall if he loses the support of a few hundred people’

TheBell.io (en) 

The Bell editor Viacheslav Dvornikov spoke to political scientist Marcel Dirsus, author of the acclaimed new book, "How Tyrants Fall," about what his study of dictatorships and autocrats suggests is in store for the Putin regime — and how his demise could come about. The full