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April 14, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission warned Tennessee legislators of the potential consequences of proposed legislation that would terminate a certificate of public advantage that provides state regulatory oversight for Ballad Health.
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April 14, 2026
Alan Hayward James, a former member of the US Air Force, has pleaded guilty to multi-year bid-rigging schemes that defrauded the government out of $37 million, according to the Department of Justice.
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April 14, 2026
CBS News parent Paramount Skydance’s proposed buyout of CNN owner Warner Bros. Discovery would give a single corporation control over two of the most popular US-based TV news broadcasts and online news providers.
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March 31, 2026
Elaborating on language from the Federal Trade Commission’s request for public comment on premerger notifications, agency Chairman Andrew Ferguson recently discussed the problem of regulating so-called “acqui-hires.”
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March 31, 2026
The American Bar Association’s Antitrust Spring Meeting is excellent in two ways. The formal panel presentations are a great way to keep informed of legal events, and the informal conversations in the hallways can be equally informative and cover different ground. This year the informal exchanges were especially valuable.
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March 31, 2026
April 15 — Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson and agency member Mark Meador will testify at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission.” It will be held at 10 a.m. in Room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. For more information, go to: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/release/oversight-of-the-federal-trade-commission/.
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March 31, 2026
Former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Thursday extolled the virtues of the agency’s bipartisan tradition and declined to discuss a “post-apocalyptic world” that could occur if she loses her appeal before the Supreme Court.
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March 31, 2026
Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the Antitrust Accountability and Transparency Act aimed at strengthening reviews of antitrust settlements to ensure they protect consumers, workers and small businesses.
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March 31, 2026
Roger Alford, the embattled former senior Department of Justice official, tried on a new hat during the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Spring Meeting — movie critic.
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March 31, 2026
Eric J. Caddy, the owner of a storage sales company, pleaded guilty to a scheme to rig bids and defraud the Department of Defense in connection with selling products to US Air Force healthcare facilities.
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March 31, 2026
Xponential Fitness agreed to pay $17 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission claims over violations of the Franchise Rule and related deceptive practices.
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March 31, 2026
Gail Slater, the former head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, has joined conservative think tank American Compass as its competition and technology policy chair.
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March 31, 2026
A majority of Federal Trade Commission employees felt “less engaged” at work last year, according to a survey by the nonprofit group Partnership for Public Service.
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March 31, 2026
Dan Matheson, who served as the Federal Trade Commission’s chief trial counsel in a monopolization case against Meta Platforms, has returned to the private sector.
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March 31, 2026
After the agency’s court defeats during the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission is taking another attempt to strengthen the regulation of negative option subscriptions.
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March 31, 2026
Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed A. Assefi touted the Justice Department’s antitrust record in a recent speech, while emphasizing its work in career development.
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March 31, 2026
Apple’s rise as a corporate behemoth has often resembled a roller coaster ride.
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March 10, 2026
A dozen US senators have backed a bill to fundamentally reshape the American meatpacking industry, which they say has been raising costs for consumers while lowering returns for cattle ranchers and farmers.
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March 10, 2026
It’s become increasingly difficult to divorce politics from technology issues, as worries about surveillance and crackdowns on speech persist for Shae Gardner, LGBT Tech’s director of policy and research.
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March 10, 2026
Live Nation and the Department of Justice cut a mid-trial deal Monday resolving the agency’s claims of monopolization and anticompetitive conduct across the live entertainment and ticketing industries.
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March 10, 2026
March 30-31 — The International Association of Privacy Professionals is holding its Global Summit 2026 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://iapp.org/.
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March 10, 2026
John Ehrett has left the Federal Trade Commission, where he served as Mark Meador’s chief of staff, to join Lex Politica, a boutique conservative law firm.
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March 10, 2026
Federal Trade Commission officials spent National Consumer Protection Week providing tips to curb fraud while agency data shows consumer losses in 2025 weren’t slowing down.
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March 10, 2026
Microsoft’s seminal antitrust case, settled 25 years ago, had an impact that went beyond the law.
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March 10, 2026
For the business libertarians at the Cato Institute, their fondest wish is no doubt that a pied piper will show up, gather the top managers of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and lead them all into the sea. Strangely enough, this has actually happened.