Before the Federal Trade Commission chair got there, the agency was brimming with conflicts of interest, including from her loudest critics. A federal lawsuit out this week alleges that Amazon relied on more than just good features to build subscriptions in Prime. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) argues that Amazon used dark patterns and other online tricks to dupe people into signing up for Prime, and then made it next to impossible to get out. The company called their cancellation program “Iliad,” after the Greek epic depicting the ten-year siege of the city-state of Troy, which involved navigating “a four-page, six-click, fifteen-option” gauntlet just to get out of the $139 annual membership. (A classics scholar might grumble that “Odyssey” would be a more appropriate Greek epic, but perhaps Amazon was saving that for an even worse process.) The FTC is asking for a permanent injunction and civil penalties. It’s the first suit against Amazon since Lina Khan became FTC chair, and we can surely expect loud howls from the industry lobby about conflicts of interest. Khan rose to prominence after publishing a law review article in 2017 about the need for new efforts to mitigate Amazon’s market power.

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The social media giant Meta has confirmed that it will end access to news on its social media sites for all Canadian users before Bill C-18, the Online News Act, comes into force.

While there are many good uses for plastic, its major drawback has been the same since Day One: It can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose. Timeplast is an innovative company that has created an innovative plastic that can dissolve in water, then that water is completely drinkable after only about 60 hours.

Things got a bit awkward at the latest meeting of Nintendo’s shareholders when a Japanese man took the spotlight and used his allotted question time to complain about a perceived lack of cool poses for the male characters in Splatoon 3 in a lengthy manner. He explained that from his point of view, female characters got preferential treatment in comparison to male characters. “The company has blatantly given the boys in Splatoon the cold shoulder and I would like to see some improvement,” the man said. He explained that Splatoon 1 and 2, where customization options were a lot more limited, paid a similar amount of attention to both character types, but “in Splatoon 3, there is a lot more customization, and there is clear favoritism towards girl characters over boys.” This is evident, he argued, in the available hairstyles for both characters as the styles for male characters aren't as elaborate or diverse as those of their counterparts. The same goes for profile icons and emotes, which he said are designed to look better with the female characters.

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"None of the people who say 'that’s they way things are' would accept their own children being treated that way."

Transfers to hospice care from HCA's facilities grew faster than the national average, while HCA's "in hospital" deaths were lower than average, data shows. St. David’s is one of 182 hospitals in the U.S. and the U.K. operated by HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest hospital chain. HCA is highly profitable — last year it earned $5.6 billion — and its stock is a Wall Street darling. As an industry leader, HCA’s practices are followed closely by competitors. But HCA’s profits come at a cost to patients and workers, some of its doctors and employees contend. They have cited severe understaffing and insufficient investment in facilities as having caused harm to patients. Now, new criticisms are arising related to HCA’s palliative and end-of-life care for patients, according to some physicians and nurses who have worked in its facilities. They say HCA officials press staff to persuade families of ailing patients to initiate such care, as Salas says she experienced with her daughter. Although this can harm patients by withdrawing lifesaving treatments, the push can benefit HCA two ways, the doctors and nurses said, and an internal hospital document confirms. It reduces in-hospital mortality rates, a closely watched quality measure, and can free up a hospital bed more quickly for HCA, potentially generating more insurance reimbursements from a new patient.

Twitter Inc. made headlines this week when it suspended the account of Aaron Greenspan, a well-known critic of Tesla Inc. and its CEO Elon Musk. See Next: This Startup Invented Programmable, Drinkable Plastic That Dissolves In Water In 60 Hours Greenspan, founder of PlainSite, found his online presence abruptly disrupted on June 13.

Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.

Three orcas attacked the Dutch sailing team JAJO during a leg of the Ocean Race on Thursday. The team managed to film the killer whales banging their heads against the rudders of their sailing yacht. Luckily, the damage was limited, and the sailors and orcas all escaped the incident unharmed.

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Indigenous community had sought to assess water needs amid historic drought in the Colorado River Basin.

Their mothers were Russian sturgeons — large carnivores with creamy bellies, short, rounded snouts, and green, dragonlike scales. Their fathers were American paddlefish — smooth-skinned filter feeders with sensitive, elongated snouts. “Sturddlefish,” as these hybrids have been nicknamed since researchers in Hungary recently announced their creation, go shockingly far beyond classic crossbreeds like mules and ligers, whose parent species sit close together on the tree of life. Sturddlefish result from the merger of different taxonomic families. “I’m still confused. My jaw is still on the floor,” said Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University and the curator of fishes at its Museum of Natural Science. “It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a baby.” Then he quickly corrected himself, because the lineages of those two ruminants split only a few dozen million years ago. The evolutionary paths of paddlefish and sturgeons diverged 184 million years ago. For those fish to breed is more like “if a human came out of a platypus egg,” he said.

While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.

Federal officials said a private jet, intercepted by fighters earlier this month over the D.C. region, flew with an unresponsive crew for hours near four major cities and some of the world’s most restricted airspace.

Machinist union members in Wichita have voted to strike against Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing's major airframe supplier. Spirit makes the 737 MAX fuselage and big sections of all other Boeing jets

As a result of this opinion, people with illegal convictions and sentences—people who are legally innocent—will be stuck in prison for no good reason.

AGERMAN sea captain faces a 20-year prison sentence for helping to rescue more than 1,000 migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. Pia Klemp, one of just a handful of female boat captains, warned that “sea rescue missions have become criminalised” as she vowed to fight her case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She is the latest victim of the far-right Italian government’s crackdown on desperate migrants trying to reach Europe by sea, which has seen those engaging in humanitarian rescue missions charged with “assisting illegal immigration.”

In addition to playing with the audacious Texas band, she helped define the image of an aimless generation with her role in the 1990 film “Slacker.”