CNN explains why so many Americans are finding empty shelves when they go to grocery stores. Reuters reports on how money is pouring into secretary-of-state races in swing states. The winners will oversee rules and certification of future elections. And an NPR analysis shows that many Republican candidates running to oversee state elections are supporters of Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the election he lost. The Wall Street Journal has the story of a kidnapping negotiator who faced his biggest test: saving his own wife from bandits. The Washington Post looks at the growing popularity of tool libraries, lending hubs that allow people to take home tools and appliances then return them.

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