| Democrats gear up for a fierce and probably losing fight against Trump’s court pick, whoever it is Posted: 28 Jun 2018 07:27 AM PDT  Trump's opponents see little likelihood of blocking the president's eventual nominee. But liberal groups are huddling to draw up battle plans anyway.
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| The Dark Parts Of The Internet Are Celebrating The Capital Gazette Slayings Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:27 PM PDT  Within hours of the mass shooting Thursday at the Capital Gazette in
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| 'Oh God': Melania Trump's horror at being shown picture of young boy left at US border Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:22 AM PDT  The Customs and Border Patrol agency (CPD) said that it was the only drink he had and carried no food. Mrs Trump was shown pictures of the boy during a visit to a CPD facility in Tucson, Arizona. In a call to CPD, a spokesperson for the border patrol confirmed to The Independent that the child was no longer in their custody, but would not release where he had been transferred, citing personal protection.
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| Rod Rosenstein Keeps His Cool As Republicans Lash Out In House Judiciary Hearing Posted: 28 Jun 2018 10:31 AM PDT  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein deflected heated attacks from
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| Passenger Tossed From Flight in Dispute With Flight Attendant Over Airplane Mode in Indiana Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:23 AM PDT  Robyn Rodgers, of New York, took to Instagram to discuss the incident.
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| Mother: Girl at center of debate over brain death dies Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:35 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death has died after surgery in New Jersey, her mother said Thursday.
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| Gaza teen dies after being hit on Israel border: ministry Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:33 AM PDT  A Palestinian teenager died on Thursday after being hit by Israeli tank fire on the Gaza border, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said. Abdel Fattah Abu Azoum, 17, was hit in the head earlier on Thursday near Rafah in southern Gaza, the ministry said. The Israeli army said he and a companion were seeking to breach the border.
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| “Hard to believe it’s over”: The last days of an American dairy farm Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:05 AM PDT  Since 1970, more than 90 perfect of all U.S. dairy farms have closed due to low milk prices and industry restructuring. Recently, a corporate decision by Walmart led to the shutdown of a three-generation family-run dairy farm in Kentucky.
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| Maxine Waters Cancels Events After 'Very Serious Death Threat' Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:30 PM PDT  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled weekend events in Alabama and Texas
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| Suspects in the Murder of Kim Jong Un's Half Brother are Trained Assassins, Prosecutors Say Posted: 28 Jun 2018 12:37 AM PDT  Two women are accused of using the toxic VX nerve agent to kill Kim Jong Nam
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| School Bus Overturns on Jersey Turnpike Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:33 PM PDT  A school bus carrying several children crashed and overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike. No serious injuries have been reported. (June 29)
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants Ayanna Pressley To Be The Next Triumphant Underdog Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:35 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Democratic socialist who
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| I Call BS On Needing $1 Million To Retire (And Other Bad Retirement 'Rules') Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:39 AM PDT  Ann Brenoff's "On The Fly" is a column about navigating growing older ― and a
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| Frustration, heartbreak for migrant parents looking for kids Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:31 PM PDT  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — In an unmarked brick building a few blocks from the Mexican border, immigrant parents clutched folders of birth certificates and asylum paperwork and sat on folding chairs, waiting to use a single, shared landline phone.
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| Serve the poor, shun 'palace intrigue,' pope tells new cardinals Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:56 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis installed 14 Catholic churchmen as cardinals on Thursday, putting another stamp on the group that will one day elect his successor. Presiding at a ceremony known as a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica, Francis told the new cardinals that their mission was to serve the poor and the Church and not seek privileges. Francis has now chosen 59 of the 125 cardinal electors under 80 years old who would be eligible to enter a conclave after his death or resignation.
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| Angela Merkel warns migration challenge could 'determine Europe's destiny' Posted: 28 Jun 2018 11:32 AM PDT  The European Union embraced a new hardline agenda to defend its borders against illegal migration last night as Angela Merkel warned that the fate of the bloc depended on addressing the three-year crisis over migration. Europe's growing crop of populist leaders claimed victory for their "Fortress Europe" agenda which saw the European Council summit in Brussels putting deterrence and the protection of EU borders at the forefront of its migration policy. "Europe has many challenges but migration could end up determining Europe's destiny," Mrs Merkel told the German parliament before the summit, with her own political future hanging in the balance following a rebellion against her softer migration policies by her Bavarian coalition partners. The draft summit conclusions showed the German leader's long-standing calls for an inclusive approach to migration playing second fiddle to the need to secure Europe's borders and process illegal migrants off-shore so they could be returned to their countries of origin. In a sign of the high stakes at the table Italy took the highly unusual step of blocking the entire summit conclusions in order to extract concessions on migration. The move forced Jean-Claude Juncker the EU Commission president to cancel a planned press conference. Senior Brussels sources said that Italy was demanding that the EU agreed that every migrant arriving in Italy was "arriving in Europe" in a bid to force other EU states to share the burden of migration. Italy was also demanding urgent reforms to the Dublin regulation and a European wide commitment to rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean. "We're willing to work through the night to get this," said an Italian source involved in the talks. Emmanuel Macron the Fench President posted a photograph on Twitter of him and his Italian counterpart working on drafts of the conclusions as all sides worked to broker a late-night compromise. Sebastian Kurz, the conservative Austrian chancellor who is in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, said the shift to a harder line was a victory for those states who have argued that the EU's soft approach is creating 'pull factors' for migration. Merkel's migration tensions | Read more "It seems as if today we will manage a shift in migration policy," he said, adding that being rescued in the Mediterranean "must not automatically become a ticket" to central Europe. "That's important because we have asked for a systemic change for years. For years we have demanded reductions in the number of people coming to Europe illegally. I think that is possible today." Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who put up fences on Hungary's border with Serbia in 2015 after Mrs Merkel threw open Germany's border, said the change was a victory for the concerns of Europe's voters. "The main issue is not migration, the issue is democracy in Europe ... it is about what the people believe, what should be done," he said before claiming the people wanted migrants to be sent back to where they came from. He added that the move heralded the start of a "new period when we try to reconstruct the European democracy." Mr Orban's claims of a victory for 'democracy' will send shudders through liberal Europe which believes that the Hungarian leader is using the consensus for a harder line over migration as a Trojan horse for a broader illiberal agenda. Donald Tusk, the European Council president, warned on the eve of the summit that failure to address the migration question risked handing ammunition to populists and those with "a tendency towards overt authoritarianism" - which was widely taken as a reference to the likes of Mr Orban. But Mr Tusk said that the EU's measures - which include beefing up Europe's border force to 10,000, forging return deals with African states and investigating setting up so-called hotspot camps in north Africa - were necessary to avoid something worse. "Some may think I am too tough in my proposals on migration. But trust me, if we don't agree on them, then you will see some really tough proposals from some really tough guys," he said. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said that the measures were not designed to put an the end to the idea of 'European solutions' to migration pressures, but to modernise them and enable them to work better. "We all face a simple choice: do we want national solutions or do we believe in European solutions and cooperation? For my part, I will defend European solutions, in cooperation, in the European Union and under Schengen," he said Italy's new populist government withheld judgement on the proposals, after a month in which it has refused permission for NGO migrant rescue ships to dock at its ports and demanded EU states share the burden of the 600,000 migrants that have arrived in the last two years. Guiseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, welcomed the proposals and pledges to do more to help Italy, but made clear that his government - which has already catalysed the debate - would continue to push for real outcomes. "We hope these words will be translated into action," he said. "Italy no longer has a need for words and statements, we need concrete acts."
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| Somebody bought $1 million worth of toys for local kids as Toys 'R' Us closed for good Posted: 29 Jun 2018 03:20 PM PDT  A kind samaritan made the closure of Toys 'R' Us a little easier for the children of North Carolina who don't wanna grow up. The future youth of America will never know the overwhelming feeling of joy while running through the aisles of the giant toy chain. After filing for bankruptcy in September, more than 700 Toys 'R' Us stores will be closing for good on Friday. SEE ALSO: Please enjoy this wonderful dog frolicking through a homemade ball pit An anonymous person purchased $1 million worth of toys from a Toys 'R' Us in Raleigh, North Carolina, local outlet CBS 17 reports. The toys will reportedly be donated to local children, according to employees who work at the store. Instead of opening the store one last time on Friday, employees spent the day packing up boxes and putting them on a truck for the generous person. Customers looking to get some last minute deals were greeted with locked doors, though some didn't seem to mind upon hearing the news. "Oh, that's so nice. I'm happy to hear that," Erin Sampson told CBS 17. "That's great. I'd like to know who it is," said Danyel Smith. It's unclear when or how the purchased toys will be distributed to the kids. WATCH: Calling all sci-fi fans, this is what it's like to be a show editor on "The Orville"
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| Senate battles over timing of vote on President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:45 AM PDT  Republicans are planning to hold a confirmation vote before the midterm elections, refusing Democrats' demands for a delay.
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| Health, leadership questions about Boko Haram's Shekau Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:32 AM PDT  The sources said Shekau has a range of conditions that have left him "too weak to be in charge" of the jihadists, whose insurgency has killed at least 20,000 in Nigeria since 2009. A senior security source tracking the conflict, who also asked not to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media, described Shekau's diabetes as "debilitating". The source with knowledge of Boko Haram's activities said Shekau and his lieutenants have been in talks this week about his "failing health" and whether he was well enough to lead.
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| Here's What Could Happen to Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights After Justice Kennedy's Retirement Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:42 PM PDT  "There's every reason to believe that Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block"
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| Democrats Hope Trump-Backed Foxconn Deal Will Be Scott Walker’s Downfall Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:43 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's trip to Wisconsin on Thursday should be a highlight
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| Bali airport reopens as volcano rumbles Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:08 AM PDT  By Sultan Ashori DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - The airport on Indonesia's holiday island of Bali reopened on Friday after ash from a volcano forced a brief closure and the cancellation of more than 300 flights. Mount Agung in northeastern Bali has been rumbling to life intermittently since late last year and it began belching smoke and ash again on Thursday. It was shooting a column of ash more than 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) into the sky on Friday and officials said operations at Indonesia's second-busiest airport would be reviewed every few hours.
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| Video: Man sucker-punched in Bronx street; Passersby raid his pockets Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:08 AM PDT  After a violent attack left a man unconscious in the middle of a Bronx crosswalk, people started stealing from the victim's pockets, police said.
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| Five dead in India after plane crashes and bursts into flames in busy Mumbai district Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:04 AM PDT  A small plane crashed into a construction site in a densely populated part of India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, killing five people including one on the ground, officials said. Images broadcast on Indian news channels showed flames and black smoke billowing from the area, which sits right next to several high-rise residential towers. There were four people on the 12-seater aircraft, disaster management officials said, with witnesses reporting hearing a loud blast as it smashed into a half-built structure. "There was a huge explosion and the adjacent tree caught fire and the fire spilled on the streets," a man was quoted as saying on the NDTV news channel. "Initially we assumed an electric box in the under-construction building must have caught fire but when we checked out the spot, we found the charred body of a man who apparently was on bike when the plane crashed," he added. A woman, who was also not named, reported hearing three loud explosions and described seeing a "major fire". Video footage posted online showed bright orange flames licking the side of a building next to a construction site. The plane hit an open area at a construction site for a multistory building Credit: AP Other images shot after the fire was put out showed firemen sifting through the twisted wreckage of the twin-prop plane as crowds looked on. The white tailfin seemed to be the only recognisable part of the aircraft not consumed in the blaze. India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the plane was a turbo-prop King Air C-90 and had been on a test flight from the nearby Juhu airstrip. "There were two pilots and two aircraft maintenance engineers on board. All on board (the) aircraft along with one person on ground are dead," the DGCA statement read. A medical officer at Rajawadi hospital, where the victims were taken, said the dead included three men and two women. "There bodies were completely charred due to the fire," she told AFP, adding that two injured had also been admitted and were in a stable condition. Rescuers stand amid the wreckage of a private chartered plane that crashed in Ghatkopar area, Mumbai Credit: Rajanish Kakade/AP It was not raining at the time of the accident and weather did not appear to have been a factor in the crash. DGCA said it was sending a team to investigate the cause, adding that the aircraft was owned by a private operator who had purchased it from the Uttar Pradesh state government. P Rahangdale, Mumbai's chief fire officer, said several fire engines had rushed to the spot. India's National Disaster Response Force said it was also sending a team to make sure no there were no injured trapped under any rubble at the crash site. Former Indian Aviation Minister Praful Patel tweeted his condolences and praised the pilot for the guiding the plane into an open area. "Salute to the pilot who showed presence of mind to avoid a big mishap, saving many lives at the cost of her own life," he wrote. There have been several crashes involving small planes in India in recent years. In 2015 a light aircraft belonging to India's paramilitary border force crashed after taking off from New Delhi airport, killing 10 people on board. Ten people were killed in 2011 after an air ambulance crashed into a residential area in Faridabad, near the capital. Seven people on board and three on the ground were killed. The last deadly air crash involving a commercial plane happened in 2010 when an Air India Boeing 737-800 over shot the runway while landing at Mangalore airport in southern India. At least 158 passengers were killed and nearly a dozen others survived the crash.
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| Donald Trump Responds To Annapolis Shooting Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:31 AM PDT  President Donald Trump responded Friday to the "targeted attack" on the
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| Revellers battle it out with wine in Spain Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:25 AM PDT ![Revellers battle it out with wine in Spain]( "Revellers battle it out with wine in Spain") Revellers poured buckets of wine over each other in northern Spain on Friday in an annual wine battle in the country's Rioja producing-region. La Batalla de Vino is held each June in the town of Haro on the feast of St Peter, an event organizers say draws thousands of people. On Friday, participants soaked each other with buckets and toy spray guns, turning their clothes a shade of purple. (AP)
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| Ivanka Trump's associates baffled by her silence on border Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:13 PM PDT  Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox discusses her new reporting on Ivanka Trump's silence about the border. One friend says the criticism of her failure to speak out for the separated children is "going to stick."
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| Hezbollah denies 8 fighters killed in Yemen Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:56 AM PDT  Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday denied that any of its fighters were killed in Yemen after claims by the Saudi-led coalition that it killed eight of its members there. The coalition battling Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen on Monday said its forces killed eight members of Hezbollah, including a commander, in the northern Maran province. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday dodged the question of whether he had fighters in Yemen but denied any had been killed.
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| White police officer charged in fatal shooting of black teen Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:06 PM PDT  A white Pennsylvania police officer was charged with criminal homicide just eight days after fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager in the back in a case built quickly on the testimony of multiple witnesses, video and the officer's own conflicting statements.
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| World's most punctual airlines hail from Asia-Pacific Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:39 AM PDT  Qantas and Qatar Airways have emerged the world's most punctual, mainline carriers in a new report which found that overall, Asia-Pacific is the most reliable region for air travel when it comes to delivering passengers to their destinations on time.
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| Israel will not accept any Syrian refugees on its territory: defense minister Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:02 AM PDT  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will not allow any Syrian refugees to enter its territory but will continue to provide them with humanitarian aid, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Friday. More than 120,000 people in southwestern Syria have been forced to flee since the Syrian government launched an offensive to recover an area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from rebels, a monitoring group said. The Israeli military said an increased number of Syrian civilians had been spotted in refugee camps on the Syrian side of the Golan over the past few days, and that it had overnight sent aid supplies at four locations "to Syrians fleeing hostilities".
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| Obama Chides GOP Values: 'A Fundamental Contrast Of How We View The World' Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:01 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama returned to the public eye Thursday with a swipe
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| Small plane crashes in Mumbai, kills five Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:54 AM PDT  A small airplane crashed in a suburb of India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, killing all four people on board and another person on the ground, police and aviation officials said. The King Air C-90 aircraft was on a test flight with two pilots and two engineers on board, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
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| McLaren 600LT Adds Power And Lightness To 570S Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT  The fourth-ever Longtail from McLaren packs 592 horsepower and is 211.6 lbs lighter than the standard 570S Coupe.
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| Federal Judge Orders the Immediate Release of Detained 9-Year-Old Brazilian Boy Who Was Separated From His Parents Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:17 PM PDT  The 9-year-old was separated from his mother at the U.S.-Mexico border
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| Justice for Junior: 7 suspects appear in court in murder of innocent Bronx teen Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:04 AM PDT  Seven of the eight suspects arrested in the brutal murder of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx made their first court appearances Wednesday, as thousands of mourners gathered to bid a final farewell to the boy affectionately known as Junior.
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| Indian rupee hits all-time low against US dollar Posted: 27 Jun 2018 05:48 PM PDT  The Indian rupee slumped to an all-time low against the US dollar on Thursday as the currency comes under increasing pressure from rising oil prices. The rupee, Asia's worst performing currency according to Bloomberg News, fell to 69.10 against the greenback in early trade before recovering slightly to 68.93 later. India is a massive importer of oil, securing more than two-thirds of its needs from abroad.
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| VP Pence tells Central America to do more to stop migrants Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:10 PM PDT  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told the leaders of three Central American nations Thursday that they must do more to stop the flow of migrants who enter the United States illegally.
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| Amazon moves to disrupt pharmacy sector with new acquisition Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:22 AM PDT  Amazon set its sights on the pharmacy market Thursday with the acquisition of tech-focused retailer PillPack, sending shock waves through the sector over prospects of disruption by the US online colossus. Terms were not disclosed on the deal for PillPack, an online pharmacy which operates in all 50 US states and offers pre-sorted dose packaging and home delivery. Amazon has long been rumored to be interested in the pharmacy business, and the entry by a powerful new player could unsettle a business dominated by large American chains including CVS and Walgreens.
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| Exclusive: India preparing for cut in oil imports from Iran - sources Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:36 AM PDT  By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's oil ministry has asked refiners to prepare for a 'drastic reduction or zero' imports of Iranian oil from November, two industry sources said, the first sign that New Delhi is responding to a push by the United States to cut trade ties with Iran. India has said it does not recognize unilateral restrictions imposed by the United States, and instead follows UN sanctions. India's oil ministry held a meeting with refiners on Thursday, urging them to scout for alternatives to Iranian oil, the sources said.
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| Prince William tours Jerusalem on final day of royal visit Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:57 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prince William toured sensitive Jerusalem holy sites on Thursday and paid a pilgrimage to the tomb of his great-grandmother on the final day of his historic royal visit to the Middle East.
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| Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people? Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT  By weight, items can actually work out more expensive than Walmart or Costco, for instance. While online retailers have transformed the landscape of American commerce, the largest three dollar-store chains are prospering offline, opening more than 1,800 stores last year. The cost of a trip can be so negligible – the average customer drops $29 a month – and dollar stores have grown so ubiquitous, that it's hard to countenance what economists confirm: visitors to dollar stores are often paying more than well-off consumers who shop elsewhere.
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