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Mario Tama/Getty Images News Update 11:15am: Adds additional reporting from CTFN. Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Albertsons (NYSE:ACI) are a couple months away from certifying substantial compliance with the Federal Trade Commission’s second request on the mega grocery store combination. The parties are likely to be able to certify compliance with the FTC on the $24.6 billion planned acquisition of Albertsons (ACI) in the third quarter or in the early fall, according to a Dealreporter item, that cited sources familiar. The store sale process associated with the deal is still moving along with strong interest from potential buyers, despite union opposition, the…

FIRST ON FOX: A top aide for President Biden’s re-election campaign is married to a consultant who helped advise Hunter Biden as he was receiving increased public scrutiny regarding his lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.Elizabeth Alexander, the communications director for first lady Jill Biden, went on temporary leave last month to help lead the messaging arm of Biden’s campaign. She previously served as the president’s spokesperson when he was in the Senate and when he was vice president. She also worked on the president’s 2020 campaign as a senior adviser for communications.Alexander got married…

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Channel hopping suits bored couch potatoes. But it does no favours for a broadcaster such as ITV. Britain’s leading commercial television company relies on cyclical advertising revenue for nearly half of its top line. Buying up production companies is meant to smooth out any volatility from viewer fickleness. ITV said on Friday that its next acquisition could be All3Media, owned by Warner Bros Discovery and John Malone’s Liberty Global. The latter in turn owns a tenth of ITV.This would shift the balance of ITV’s business towards Studios. Reportedly worth some £1bn, All3Media had around £750mn of revenues back in 2020…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Mexico’s Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez looks on during the announcement of aspiring candidates for MORENA party’s 2024 presidential candidacy, in Mexico City, Mexico June 11, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez has resigned from his post to compete for the ruling party’s candidacy in next year’s presidential elections, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday. Lopez Obrador said in a regular news conference that the interior minister had resigned the day before. He did not immediately name a replacement. Lopez’s resignation follows that of former Foreign Minister Marcelo…

© Reuters. Signage for Humana Inc. is pictured at a health facility in Queens, New York City, U.S., November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly By Manas Mishra and Leroy Leo (Reuters) -Humana Inc on Friday joined larger health insurer UnitedHealth (NYSE:) in warning of a jump in medical costs this year due to higher-than-expected demand for surgeries and other medical procedures. Health insurers are seeing a rise in payouts as staffing shortages ease at hospitals and older adults covered under Medicare catch up on missed hip and knee replacements as well as other non-urgent surgeries delayed during the pandemic. “Now with…

In an exclusive interview with cryptonews.com, Keone Hon, CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, talks about the relationship between HFT and crypto trading, security on the Monad blockchain, and scaling blockchain tech at the L1 level.About Keone HonKeone Hon is the CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, the team supporting the high-performance Monad blockchain. He is a software developer and blockchain researcher.  Before founding Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, leading an HFT team.  In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development.Keone Hon gave a wide-ranging…

Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin said inflation is still too high and he needs to be convinced it’s slowing more quickly before he would back an end to interest-rate increases. “I want to reiterate that 2% inflation is our target, and that I am still looking to be convinced of the plausible story that slowing demand returns inflation relatively quickly to that target,” he said Friday in a speech in Maryland. “If coming data doesn’t support that story, I’m comfortable doing more,” he said. Barkin is not a voting member this year of the Fed’s interest-rate setting panel. The…

CNN  —  Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa claimed on the Senate floor earlier this week that the foreign national who allegedly bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has 17 audio recordings of their conversations but questioned whether those tapes even existed in an interview with CNN days later. “I don’t even know where they are. I just know they exist, because of what the report says. Now, maybe they don’t exist. But how will I know until the FBI tells us, are they showing us their work?” Grassley said Thursday. And Grassley is not the only Republican…

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