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DOJ widens antitrust crackdown as it seeks a breakup of Live Nation
Prosecutors argue Live Nation used its Ticketmaster ticketing monopoly to suppress competition, the latest in several actions to rein in the power of big corporations across America.
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Maddow Blog | Senate Democrats cross threshold, confirm Biden’s 200th judge
As the Senate confirms President Joe Biden's 200th judicial nominee, the significance is far greater than just crossing a numerical threshold.
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Independent booksellers continued to expand in 2023, with more than 200 new stores opening
Three years ago, Erin Decker was a middle school librarian in Kissimmee, Florida, increasingly frustrated by the state's book bans and worried that she couldn't make a difference remaining in her job. “We just put our heads together and decided a bookstore would help make sure students could get to books that were being pulled from shelves,” says Decker, whose White Rose Books & More opened last fall in Kissimmee. The store is named for a resistance group in Nazi Germany and features a section — ringed by yellow “caution" tape — dedicated to such banned works as Maia Kabobe's “Gender Queer,” Jonathan Evison's “Lawn Boy” and John Green's “Looking for Alaska.”
