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The Federal Trade Commission introduced a consent order and six-figure financial penalty Tuesday with motocross and all-terrain automobile components maker Cycra over the corporate’s false “Made in the USA” claims. The FTC mentioned from 2019 via a minimum of final May 31, Cycra displayed the U.S. flag and...

The power regulator has introduced harder guidelines on prepayment meters. Sky News has spoken to a resident in regards to the expertise of getting one compelled on her dwelling.It was a neighbour who first alerted Mary that employees from her power firm had been inside her home. She'd simply returned from work. Footage filmed on her doorbell digicam confirmed that after knocking on her door, they'd used a drill to let themselves in.Mary is not her actual title and we have agreed to guard her identification as she does not need individuals she works with to search out out what occurred. She'd been struggling to maintain up with power funds that had greater than quadrupled. But she says she'd been in common contact together with her provider, offering...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon’s pioneering experiment with legalized magic mushrooms took a step nearer to actuality as the primary “facilitators” who will accompany shoppers as they expertise the drug obtained their state licenses, authorities mentioned Tuesday. Voters authorised the regulated use of psilocybin in...

Voting machine firm Dominion has agreed a $787.5m (£633m) settlement in its defamation lawsuit with Fox News and guardian firm Fox Corp.The settlement was introduced on the eleventh hour, after the 12-person jury had been chosen and simply as either side had been because of ship their opening statements in Delaware Superior Court. Dominion, which sells digital voting {hardware} and software program, had been suing Fox News Network and its guardian firm Fox Corp over the channel's protection of false vote-rigging claims following the 2020 US election.Dominion had sought $1.6bn in damages however settled for lower than half that quantity, with certainly one of its legal professionals saying afterwards: "Money is accountability, and we got that today from Fox."The deal means Fox...

Rising theft and fears for worker security as neighborhood crime surges will lead REI to shut down its solely retailer in Portland, Oregon, subsequent yr. The outdoor-apparel co-op mentioned in a letter to members Monday that its location in Portland’s Pearl District will shut completely on the finish of F...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China revealed new particulars of sanctions it beforehand introduced in opposition to two U.S. weapons producers Tuesday, together with a ban on Chinese corporations doing enterprise with them. China imposed commerce and funding sanctions in February on Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technol...

As unemployment figures unexpectedly rose, Ian is joined by Raoul Ruparel, director of the Centre for Growth at Boston Consulting Group, to analyse what it means for the UK financial system.Expedia's chief government and vice chairman Peter Kern discusses how his firm is utilizing AI to assist individuals resolve the place to go on vacation. There's extra on the know-how with Dr Rasmus Rothe, co-founder and chief know-how officer at Merantix, to look into the impression it may have on the world and Tony Bates, chief government of Genesys, who talks about how name centres are utilizing AI.Marion Laboure, macro strategist at Deutsche Bank, discusses cost traits and the rise of digital currencies - and the state of the metal trade's scrutinised with Billington's chief government...

Fast-food colossus McDonald’s is rolling out adjustments to its signature burgers with the intention to keep recent, together with making cheese meltier and buns softer. Other deliberate tweaks embrace including extra Big Mac sauce to the eponymous burger and placing white onions on patties whereas they're...

Liontrust Asset Management is exploring a takeover of GAM Holding, its struggling Zurich-listed peer.Sky News has learnt Liontrust is amongst numerous events which have been actively contemplating a bid for GAM, which has been engulfed in turmoil linked to the collapse of Greensill Capital, the controversial provide chain finance group. It was unclear on Tuesday whether or not Liontrust would desk a proper supply for GAM, which Sky News revealed in December had employed UBS to advise on an public sale.GAM - which stands for Global Asset Management - has seen its shares halve within the final 12 months amid uncertainty over its future, and now has a market worth of simply CHF95m (£85m).Liontrust, which is valued on the London inventory market at £625m, could be a logical purch...

The compelled set up of prepayment meters (PPMs) is a response to an issue that was once an aberration.Because nobody will be left with out provide, those that flat refused to pay their payments, or stubbornly declined to interact with suppliers about mounting money owed, may discover a PPM compelled on them. Once put in it was as much as them to prime it up or face self-disconnection.When a 12 months's power prices the everyday family lower than £1,000 it was a difficulty that largely affected the poor or in any other case marginalised.Energy suppliers must receives a commission in some way, so the murky observe of courts granting companies entry to non-public houses was largely carried out within the shadows. But the power disaster has made gasoline poverty mainstream and i...