2021-05-26 08:05:14 GMT2021-05-26 16:05:14(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 26 (Xinhua) Attorney General for the District of Columbia Karl A. Racine on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the online retail giant s anticompetitive practices have raised prices for consumers and stifled innovation. Amazon has used its dominant position in the online retail market to win at all costs. It maximizes its profits at the expense of third-party sellers and consumers, while harming competition, stifling innovation, and illegally tilting the playing field in its favor, Racine said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in D.C. Superior Court, alleges that Amazon fixed online retail prices through contract provisions and policies, known as most favored nation agreements, which prevent third-party sellers that offer products on Amazon.com from offering their products at lower prices or on better terms on any other online platform, including their o
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LEWISTON Crisscrossing the globe to tell the news stories she believes are “most important,” award-winning broadcast journalist Cynthia McFadden was home again Thursday in the Twin Cities to share stories about her ascendant career and humble beginnings.
The senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News who reports on human rights abuse and national security, among other top line issues, was featured on a Zoom videoconference version of the Great Falls Forum, hosted by the Lewiston Public Library.
McFadden grew up in Auburn with her adoptive parents and attended Edward Little High School where she won the Maine State Debate Championship in her junior year, which came with a scholarship to Bates College in Lewiston.
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The PennEast Pipeline Co. would drop its plans to build a natural-gas pipeline through New Jersey, or substantially alter them, if it loses a current appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, a lawyer for the company told the court on Wednesday.
Paul Clement was asked by Justice Brett Kavanaugh about what would happen if the high court rules against PennEast in its review of a lower court ruling that the company does not have the right to sue the state to take 49 parcels of public land by eminent domain for construction of the pipeline.