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FTC Chair Lina Khan speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., April 21, 2021. Graeme Jennings | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission on Friday proposed a new rule that seeks to ban fake online reviews, marking its most aggressive step yet to thwart review fraud.
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By nearly every measure, buying a car has become extremely expensive. Not only are new vehicle prices near an all-time high, but the interest rate to finance a purchase has also jumped dramatically. Now, fewer affordable new cars even hit the market, according to recent reports. Today, new cars priced under $30,000 make up just
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In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lucas Jackson | Reuters Tesla posted its second-quarter vehicle production and delivery report for 2023 on Sunday. Here are the key numbers from the electric vehicle maker: Total deliveries Q2 2023: 466,140 Total production Q2 2023: 479,700 The numbers beat analysts’ expectations and indicate that deliveries
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In this article MO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cigarettes were once prominently displayed in Hollywood films and glossy magazines. But decades of evidence that smoking kills has caused consumption to plummet.  The tobacco industry sold fewer than 11 billion packs of cigarettes in the U.S. in 2020, down from more than 21 billion packs two decades earlier, according to
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In my opinion, the sooner Vladimir Putin leaves the planet the better.  He’s a mass murderer.  But the fact is that Putin has pulled off a miracle. The news media says that the mutiny against Russia’s military leaders on Saturday June 24 shows Putin’s weakness. But that’s dead wrong.  The mutiny shows Vladimir Putin’s strength.  Why? On
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The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan on Friday, yet college affordability will remain an issue for years to come, experts say — causing more students to opt out altogether. Given the Supreme Court‘s ruling against affirmative action admission policies, as well, “it’s very appropriate for us to be concerned,” said Kelly
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In this article LUV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Southwest Airlines Co. plane takes off as representatives and pilots from the Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association (SWAPA) demonstrate outside Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images Southwest Airlines pilots’ union
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In this article ATVI MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives to court in San Francisco on June 28, 2023. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard CEOs are expected to testify to persuade a federal judge in California to reject the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to block their $69 billion deal. Shelby
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U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services | Handout | Reuters “Significant misconduct” by federal Bureau of Prisons staff made it much
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Billions of dollars in federal funding from the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could be wasted because state highway and bridge projects are using an outdated government precipitation model to determine future flood risk, according to a new report from First Street Foundation, a nonprofit climate risk research and technology firm. The government’s
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