Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Tag: groceries

Clean Fifteen’ 2026: The least contaminated fruits and vegetables

For these items, nearly 60 percent of samples had no detectable pesticide residues, making them safer options to buy non-organic.

Instacart algorithms drive secret grocery price hikes

New report finds algorithm driven tests can charge shoppers up to 23 percent more for the same cart.

Think grocery prices are high now? Just wait.

We can’t afford to let another supermarket giant gobble up an even bigger piece of the American pie.

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The Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. Photo: Another Believer / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy

The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
The Melrose Gate at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. Photo: Chris Brown (zoonabar) / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The U.S. Capitol at night. Photo: Diliff (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.
The Knesset, Israel's parliament building, in Jerusalem. Photo: Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons

Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?

New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.

New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses

While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.