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Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that if former President Donald Trump was reelected, he would “hand the keys over” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Slotkin said, “I think that it’s hard again to explain these big things, but, you know, best guess is that the Ukrainians could run out of ammunition in the spring. Our best guess is they will run out of capabilities to protect places like Kyiv from ballistic missiles probably by the summer. You should expect massive refugee flows, the grain deal that we have on the table to continue to get...

Walk down any aisle in a major supermarket and look at the products on the shelves. If you wonder how they got there, it wasn't random luck, a clerk's decision or even the invisible hand of the free market system. Food product manufacturers pay major supermarket chains slotting fees to guarantee space on store shelves. They pay even more to make sure their products are visible and easily accessible to shoppers. The Federal Trade Comission estimates that these fees amount to as much as $9 billion annually for the industry, of which the three companies involved in the Southern California...