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F.T.C. and 22 states claim in lawsuit that Amazon secretly inflated ad prices
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday, claiming the e-commerce giant secretly made advertising more expensive on its website for more than a million companies. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Seattle, Amazon’s hometown, the F.T.C. and the states said Amazon inflated the costs that brands and marketplace sellers had to pay to promote their products to consumers, including the prominent “Sponsored Product” ads that appear in search results on Amazon’s widely used website. “Amazon has millions of advertising customers who were misled into paying significantly higher prices,” Andrew N. Ferguson, the chairman of the F.T.C., said in a statement. “These higher costs were largely passed on to American consumers.” Amazon disputed the
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Canada retaliates with new U.S. tariffs
This morning, Canada announced retaliatory tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products. The biggest blow: doubled duties on steel and aluminum.
America’s desert metropolis is on the short list to lose water
From a secure, windowless room in northern Phoenix, technicians control the Colorado River water that sustains America’s largest desert metropolis. The vast canal system the
College applications are changing again, thanks to A.I. and politics
A new era of college admissions is unfolding after years of turmoil. Standardized testing requirements are being revived, or are under consideration, from coast to
Your guide to Copenhagen
One of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in Europe, Copenhagen enjoys long summer days of sunshine but fewer of the scorching heat waves that are sweltering
The summer the ticks took over
Do you know the revolting things a tick actually does after scurrying up your body? Once the bug has nestled in a warm, damp, often
Giorgia Meloni cuts the hard right a path to power
Giorgia Meloni, daughter of the extreme right, likes to set records. As she settles into an armchair opposite a painting of rustic revelry inspired by
U.S. economy could feel the sting from trade war with Canada
Since President Trump has returned to office, the United States and Canada have repeatedly come close to an all-out trade war — only for Mr.
How the A.I. borrowing binge helps drive up government bond yields
Economists have been repeatedly dumbfounded by the resilience of the economy in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, wars, tariffs, inflation and sharply higher interest
U.S. debt hits $40 trillion as America’s borrowing binge continues
America’s gross national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time on Wednesday, an ominous milestone for an economy that sits on a shaky fiscal
Iran must plan to overcome ‘unjust’ U.S. sanctions, top Tehran official says
A top Iranian official said on Friday that his country would seek to dampen the effect of economic sanctions after the Trump administration vowed to
Nation’s largest reservoirs are drying up, threatening life in the southwest
Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for millions of people
More U.S. parents opting children out of vaccine requirements, C.D.C. reports
At a time when measles and other potentially deadly diseases are spreading, more American children are receiving exemptions allowing them to attend school without the
