DoorDash to acquire Instacart in deal valued around $17B, companies announce
A DoorDash bag in New York, Oct. 27, 2026. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
DoorDash is acquiring grocery delivery company Instacart in a deal valued at around $17 billion, the company announced on Thursday.
A release shared by both parties noted that DoorDash is purchasing the company at $65.00 per Instacart share, “a 26% premium to Instacart’s closing price on October 22, 2026, the last trading day before media reports about a possible transaction. “
The company said the acquisition would give consumers a wider variety of store choices and “faster delivery options.”
The release listed potential benefits for consumers, including 50,000 more stores for Instacart customers, one membership fee for DashPass and Instacart+ and more orders for local businesses.
“The combined company will offer grocers and retailers of every size DoorDash’s delivery network and Instacart’s grocery and fulfillment technology, in both apps and on stores’ own websites, along with the advertising and AI tools each company has built,” according to the release.
The companies said DoorDash is expected to keep Instacart mainstays, including the brand and app.
“Together, we could give stores of every size more of those tools and unlock the potential of grocery delivery,” DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said in a statement.
Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said the deal would “offer an even better experience for customers and shoppers.”
The release added the deal “is expected to close in the end of 2027 or the first half of 2028.”
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is surrounded by the press as he leaves the Plymouth County Superior Court on Sept. 3, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — An attorney for the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial vowed overnight to fight a recent defense motion urging the judge to probe whether the holdout juror was honest with the court during jury selection and deliberations.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan — the judge overseeing Clancy’s murder trial — to question the juror about his “truthfulness” during the jury selection process, as well as some of his actions during deliberations.
A lawyer representing the holdout juror, Michael Péguy Desronvil, described Reddington’s motion as “disgusting.”
“Kevin Reddington’s disgusting motion to investigate Michael is worthy of nothing but universal condemnation. This is certainly not the final word from us on this subject, but merely our first words,” wrote the attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik.
The defense’s motion calling for questioning came as Reddington and another defense attorney, Martin Weinberg, filed a motion to dismiss the case against Clancy, a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three young children.
The high-profile murder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after seven days of juror deadlock.
Several jurors who have spoken publicly since the trial said that deliberations yielded an 11-1 split in favor of not guilty by reason of insanity. They claimed the final juror would not change his position favoring conviction, despite what they described as expressions of reasonable doubt.
Juror Nick Dargie previously told ABC News’ Aaron Katersky that Desronvil at times declined to engage with jurors during the deliberations and instead scrolled on his phone.
“There was times he wouldn’t engage, like he’d be scrolling on his phone while people are talking to him, things like that, where he’s just not paying attention,” Dargie said at the time.
Following criticism from other jurors, the holdout juror came forward publicly last week to defend his actions.
“I didn’t have any doubts,” Desronvil said in a statement to ABC News shared by his attorney on Sept. 18. “As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented.”
Paltzik, Desronvil’s attorney, argued in his overnight statement that the effort to get the judge to question Desronvil is “a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution” that could create a dangerous precedent of investigating and punishing holdout jurors.
“If we follow his destructive proposal to its logical conclusion, we’re going to have an endless cycle of prosecutors investigating holdouts who oppose ‘guilty’ and defense attorneys investigating holdouts who oppose ‘not guilty,'” he wrote on social media.
Legal analyst Terri Austin, who is not involved in the Clancy trial, told ABC News Monday that Reddington’s motion has the potential to hinder future jury pools.
“Now we’re talking about the privacy of these individual jurors and the effect that’s going to have on jury pools out there,” Austin said. “Nobody’s going to want to sit on a jury if, in fact, you can take my phone and look at everything that I was texting, so I think it’s a problem.”
Last week, the judge in the case, Sullivan, ordered the extension of the impoundment order preventing the release of the full list of jurors’ names, citing “significant and divisive attention,” according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB.
Sullivan wrote in the order that “at least one juror” asked for the order to be extended indefinitely.
“There have been identifications of jurors and their personal information without their permission,” Sullivan wrote, according to WCVB.
ABC News’ Tonya Simpson contributed to this report.
A sign indicates the store accepts SNAP benefits on April 21, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding could face a major shake-up at the end of September unless Congress passes a resolution to delay major changes included in H.R. 1, commonly known as the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Starting Oct. 1, states will have to pick up 75% of the administrative costs of running the program, with the funding burden of providing benefits to participants set to shift from the federal to state level over the next few years.
State and national food assistance groups are calling on Congress to pass a resolution delaying the implementation of this cost shift, to give states more time to prepare for the bigger bill.
The federal food assistance program faced a funding lapse last fall, and experts are now warning of an uncertain future.
Nationwide, roughly 5 million Americans have lost access to SNAP since the Republican-backed budget bill became law, including more than 1.5 million children, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Much of the decline can be attributed to changes in work requirements and administrative hurdles in applying, coupled with a major cost shift that states will have to bear if they want SNAP to remain fully funded, Dottie Rosenbaum, director of federal SNAP policy at the CBPP, told ABC News.
Under the law, the upper age limit for able-bodied adults without dependents who must meet work requirements was raised from 54 to 64.
Additionally, exemptions were changed for parents and other family members responsible for a dependent, lowering the qualifying age from 18 to 14.
“The declines we’re seeing in SNAP participation so far are far deeper and far faster than the Congressional Budget Office predicted at the time the law was enacted, and it’s especially alarming that more than one and a half million children have been cut,” Rosenbaum said.
“We’re hearing increasing reports … of people struggling to put food on the table, of people facing untenable choices between, you know, paying their rent and buying groceries and other essentials, putting gas in their cars,” Rosenbaum added.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the impact of the new work requirements. The administration has publicly supported the idea in the past.
“The American dream is not being on [a] food stamp program. … The American dream is not being on all these programs. That should be a hand up, not a handout,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in an interview on Fox Business in January.
Alongside the new work requirements, the budget outlined a major shift in costs from the federal government to the states.
Beyond each state’s responsibility to pay 75% of SNAP’s administrative costs starting in October, states are set to pay a percentage of the benefit costs tied to its error rate in the coming years.
The error rate measures underpayments and overpayments, resulting in mandatory additional payments ranging from 5% to 15% for most states.
Impacts already seen
In Arizona, the state “took immediate action on error reduction efforts after H.R. 1 became law,” the Arizona Dept. of Economic Security said. This included expanding documentation requirements, establishing a preauthorization review process and continuous income monitoring. More than 400,000 SNAP recipients lost access to the program thereafter, according to the CBPP.
“Which meant that the number of people visiting food banks increased by about the same amount,” Terri Shoemaker, executive vice president of the Arizona Food Bank Network, said, crediting the state’s changes in SNAP for the substantial drop in participation.
“We know that [the Arizona Department of Economic Security] is trying to get its arms around accuracy and reporting, but at the same time, we also know that there are people who were impacted by those changes who shouldn’t have been,” Shoemaker said.
When the changes began in Arizona, Shoemaker said, communities rallied to donate food to people who had lost access to SNAP. Still, she added, the response is not sustainable.
“For every one meal that Arizona food banks provide for families, SNAP usually provides about five,” Shoemaker said. “Nationally, that statistic is more like one [meal from food banks] for every nine [meals from SNAP]. But if you think about that and food banks trying to fill that gap, it’s just a scale and scope that is so vast that food banks are going to have a hard time keeping up.”
In neighboring New Mexico, the impact can also be seen.
“Find out where your food bank distributes food and check out the length of a line,” said Jill Dixon, the executive director of the Food Depot — a collection of food banks covering northern New Mexico. “We have one in front of our building on the first and third Thursday of every month. That line usually extends over a mile and a half by the time it opens at 7 a.m.”
The Food Depot distributed more than 8 million meals across much of New Mexico in 2025.
“These are people. They’re not lines. It’s not boxes of food. It’s not anonymous. It’s deeply personal, and it’s right at the center of our community,” Dixon said.
“We’re going to see some hard times ahead,” she added. “Long term, we really have a reckoning of how we’re going to go about making sure that people are fed in a moment when it is incredibly hard to make ends meet.”
Predominantly Republican states hit
In predominantly Republican states, the impact is similar. Louisiana has seen the second largest per-capita decline, with 21% of the state’s SNAP recipients no longer having access to SNAP according to the CBPP.
Food Bank of North Central Arkansas CEO Jeff Quick said his state is facing a burden too large to bear without major changes. “We will never be able to food bank our way out of food insecurity,” Quick said.
“At best, I think we may be unprepared or unable to cover the cost to continue SNAP in Arkansas, and again, if that worst-case scenario were to happen, it could have an estimated $1.2 billion negative economic impact on our state,” he added.
Quick also said work requirements have hit harder in Arkansas, adding that a worker earning the state’s $11-an-hour minimum wage may still be ineligible for SNAP benefits.
“We don’t want to see anyone go hungry, and regardless of who you are or how you vote or how you legislate, we’re all on the same path,” Quick said. “We got to put great minds together around common causes to find solutions to hunger.”
The White House did not comment on whether the administration supports delaying the cost shift.
What’s next?
Food bank organizations at the state and national levels are asking Congress to pass a resolution delaying the cost shift and allowing states more time to lower their error rates before taking on the additional costs.
“States need more time,” Rosenbaum said. “They need more time to work to lower their error rate and improve their payment accuracy in a way that doesn’t limit access to benefits.”
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman released a version of the farm bill that would delay the cost shift of SNAP, though it has not advanced through the opposite chamber.
Lawmakers return to Washington from August recess on Sept. 14.
This image provided by the FBI Feb. 5, 2026, shows a missing person Nancy Guthrie. (FBI)
(TUCSON, Ariz.) — A second ransom note received by a Tucson, Arizona, television station shortly after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie said she died after her abduction, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her Tucson home in the early hours of Feb. 1.
In the days after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, various ransom notes were sent to the media.
The Guthrie family received two notes that were sent to Tucson media outlets that investigators deemed potentially credible and the FBI had tried to trace their origin.
The first note demanded cryptocurrency for Nancy Guthrie’s return. The second note, according to sources, said she had died shortly after she was taken and was buried in nature.
The notes were received within days of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, but ABC News has not previously disclosed the contents of the second note.
Shortly after receiving the second note, Savannah Guthrie posted a statement in a Feb. 7 Instagram post.
“We received your message and we understand,” Savannah Guthrie said at the time. “We beg you now to return our mother to us. … . This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Images from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera showing a masked man at her house were released early on in the investigation, but the 84-year-old’s whereabouts remain unknown and the suspect remains unidentified.
