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AOC warns of ‘out and out bra💎wl’ if 🦋Kamala Harris ditches Lina Khan as FTC chair
"Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a stark warning to Vice Presiden♈t Kamala Harris, promising a revolt if progressive acclaimed Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan gets aꦐxed from her role.
'Medication gatekeepers' sued by FTC over skyrocketing insulin prices
The FTC sued UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit, CVS Caremark and Cigna's Ex♋press Scripts for allegedly steering diabetes patients towards hig𝓡her priced insulin.
Social media companies slammed for 'woefully inadequate' data collection safeguards: FTC
Data privacy, p꧋articularly for kids and teens, has been a hot-button issue.
Kroger sues FTC over in-house review of $25B grocery deal that 'could take years'
Kroger, which agreed to acquire Alberstons. called the tribunal unconstitutional, saying the matter should be resolved in aꦬ federal court.
Trump fires back at 'Comrade Kamala' after veep announces plan for sweeping socialist price controls
Donald Trump on Saturday on Saturday rippe⛄d Vice President Kamalaಞ Harris' plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries, saying she’s gone “full Communist.”
Left-wing Washington Post slams Harris' price-gouging crackdown plan: 'Squandered the moment'
The Washington Post published a scathing editorial Friday rippinܫg Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist-style pr𓆏ice controls on groceries.
♔ LinkedIn co-founder gives $7M to Harris — while demanding she fire FTC chair Khan
Reid Hoffman -- claimed the presumptive Demo♎cratic nominee would be "much more pro-business" than Donald Trump.
Judge rejects bid to block B🎉iden admin. ban on noncompete agreements ܫ
US District Judge Kelley Hodge in Philadelphia, an appointee of President Biden, denied a bid b꧒y ATS Tree Services to block the rule pending the outcome of its lawsuit.
Trump VP pick JD Vance supports Big Tech antitrust crackdown, has pr♊aised FTC chair
Vance is one of several Republican lawmakers, including Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Florida Re🐷p. Matt Gaetz, called "Khanservatives" for their agreement with the FTC chair that US antitrust...
US ban on worker noncompetes faces uphill leﷺgal battle
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's ban on "noncompe🗹te" agreemen🐈ts commonly signed by workers is likely vulnerable to legal challenges, experts said.
Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC's chair during antitrust scrutiny: 'Why are they so afraid?'
✤ “I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to doᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ it,” Stewart said.
TikTok facing potential lawsuit from feds over children's privacy probe: sources
The probe is separate from ongoing concerns in Congress abou🍸t the potential that the data of TikTok's 170 million US users could be improperly accꦅessed by the Chinese government.
🐲 Reddit prices IPO at top of indicated range to raise $748 million
Social medi✅a platform Reddit priced its initial public offering at the top of its targeted range of $31 to $34 per share Wednesday raising $748 million and giving the IPO market...
Feds side with McDonald's franchise owners in battle to fix ice cream machines
The Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust unit of the Department of Justice are asking the US Copyright Office to approve an exemption. ✃
Bid🎀en slashing credit card late fees to $8 in latest crackdown on junk fees
The rule would bring the average credit card late fee down from $32. The CFPBౠ estimates banks brought in roughly $14 billion in credit card late fees a year.
FTC sues to block $25B 📖Kroger-Albertsons deal, cites fear🧔s of grocery price hikes
The deal, which would create a grocery empire with more than 4,000 stores, has drawn tough scrutinꦏy from lawmakers and consumer groups worried about higher grocery prices, job losses, store...
FTC chair reacts to NY Mag financial columnist who lost $50K in 'vishing' hoax
Khan post♏ed the note on X just hours after Charlotte Cowles published her story on The Cut about getting duped into handing over $50,000 in cash.
FTC probing drug 'middlemen' over 'critical' generic shortages at hospitals: 'Endangering patients'
The public information request by the agency and the Department of Health and Human Services comes on ཧthe back of a shortage of crucial drugs like ꦗchemotherapies over the last...
FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that 'advocates abolishing antitrust rules'
In one email, the think tank'🌌s CEO wrote of the FTC that “burning it to the ground is too good for it.”
Illumina to divest cancer te🌜st maker Grail
𒐪 The divestiture will ওbe executed through a third-party sale or capital markets transaction, San Diego-based Illumina said in a statement, adding that it would finalize the terms by second quarter...