In the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, the Biden FTC rushed to initiate major lawsuits and to tie a bow on various antitrust
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. Khan was an aggressive enforcer of antitrust law,
A U.S. appeals court on Monday threw out consumer protection rules adopted by the Biden administration to ban bait-and-switch tactics and prohibit auto dealers charging for add-on costs that do not benefit new car buyers.
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.
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.
President Joe Biden announced he was suspending the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, citing the sale as a potential threat to national security. The a
You might say the same thing about many of the Biden administration's lame-duck activities—and there have been a lot of them.
The new president plans to impose steep tariffs on imports and has shaken up federal agencies that handle merger reviews and labor relations.
The FTC announced Friday it reached a settlement with Welsh Carson that limits the private equity firm’s involvement in its anesthesia business, which the agency deemed a monopoly.
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 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.