Lina Khan, who until Monday was an aggressive enforcer of antitrust law as the head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under former President Joe Biden, will resign from the commission in the coming weeks,
Lina Khan, who headed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission under former President Joe Biden until Monday, will resign from the commission in the coming weeks, she told staff in a memo. Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson is now the agency's chair after President Donald Trump took office.
WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break up OpenAI and Microsoft.
The regulatory agency will likely take a kinder approach to divestiture proposals by merger parties under its new leadership, one antitrust attorney said.
The FTC’s decision in favor of the new rule was split along political lines. Part of President Joe Biden’s crackdown on “junk fees,” it passed 3-2, with the FTC's two GOP commissioners ...
Less than a week before the administration change from former President Joe Biden to President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Greystar for allegedly deceiving tenants through fees that raised rents above the advertised amount.
Newsweek sought email comment from the FTC and its outgoing chairwoman, Lina Khan, on Friday. The flurry of lawsuits before the change to a GOP administration underscore the tension within the FTC between pro-regulation Democrats and anti-regulation Republicans.
The outgoing president tightened oversight on antitrust issues and artificial intelligence, though he funded an expansion of domestic chip production. Today, many tech leaders are celebrating with Trump at the inauguration.
The executive order follows a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft prioritized profit over security, leaving the federal government vulnerable to the largest hack in U.S. history. Vendors must now demonstrate that their products are secure.
The lawsuit claims that three major healthcare companies were pushing up the price of insulin by 1,200 percent.
The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Deere & Co. of unfairly monopolizing the farm-equipment repair market.