Wine sales drying up as Americans turn elsewhere

U.S. wine sales continued a multiyear decline in 2024, which experts attribute to shifting demographics, health concerns, new competition and economic forces.

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'American Nightmare' survivors turn the tables, investigating the man who kidnapped them

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