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Italy Experiences Food and Fuel Shortages After Truckers on Strike Block Roads

Truckers protesting high gas prices have prevented deliveries to parts of southern Italy, leading to empty shelves and dry pumps.

© Alessandro Garofalo/LaPresse, Associated Press

Mostly empty shelves at a grocery store in Naples, Italy, on Thursday.
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Oklahoma Families Faced the Hottest Summer Ever and an Electricity Crisis

Record heat and a rising demand for electricity are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.

Genia Weitz and her husband, Daryl Mason, confined themselves to their living room to try to keep their electricity bill down.
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Food Pantry Patrons Face ‘Too Much Month at the End of Their Money’

Food inflation, gas prices and cuts to federal benefits have created a “perfect storm” for food pantries, which have become vital parts of the family budget for millions of Americans.

© Eze Amos for The New York Times

“People are hungry, and they are scared,” said Chris Manno, who volunteers and shops at a food pantry in Virginia.
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U.S. Floats Lifeline to Russia: Allowing More Gas Sales to Europe

The Trump administration is pitching the idea as part of a peace deal with Ukraine, but Europe is wary and critics say Russia would be strengthened.

© Alexander Manzyuk/Reuters

A Gazprom gas processing plant in the Orenburg region of Russia.
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Gas Prices Soar to Over $10 a Gallon at This California Outpost

Drive along a meandering highway through Big Sur, and you could happen upon this roadside stop. Maybe you won’t notice the prices.
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El Niño Threatens Global Sugar Supply

A sugarcane crop withered by El Niño in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals.

A worker tending to a sugarcane crop in Maharashtra, India, in September.
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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End

The Ukrainian president’s defiant decision to continue attacking Russian refineries underscores President Trump’s inability to end a war he had promised to resolve.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.
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Democrats Tie Corruption to High Costs in Final Midterms Push

Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.

© Alex Kent/The New York Times

“Corruption is why things don’t work for the American people.” Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running for re-election in Georgia, said in a recent campaign video.
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