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More people can get refunds from the FTC’s big settlement with Amazon.

The September 2025 agreement said that Amazon would pay up to $1.5 billion over “deceptive” Prime signup practices. But after a court approved a joint motion, more people now qualify for refunds, there is now a maximum payment cap of $200 (up from $51), and Amazon will distribute refunds automatically, according to a press release. [Link: FTC Announces Additional Payments to Consumers Stemming from FTC’s Amazon Prime Settlement | https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/09/ftc-announces-additional-payments-consumers-stemming-ftcs-amazon-prime-settlement | Federal Trade Commission]

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Human rights experts: ‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe US committed war crimes with Iran strikes

The United Nations’s fact-finding mission on Iran said Thursday it found “reasonable grounds” that the U.S. military committed war crimes in two airstrikes inside Iran and accused Iran’s government of carrying out crimes against humanity against its citizens during the forceful crackdown on anti-government protests earlier this year. The mission is made up of independent…

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Trump administration reduces protections for endangered species again

The Trump administration has further reduced protections for endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). That law prohibits any “take” of endangered species, which it defines as to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” The administration recently repealed a previous definition of…

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Environment, health groups sue over Trump move to wipe out climate rules for power plants

Environmental and public health-focused organizations are suing the Trump administration over its move to wipe out most climate regulations on coal and gas power plants. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, Clean Air Council, Clean Wisconsin and the Environmental Defense Fund filed the suit on Thursday. The move comes…

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Meet the three horsemen of the content apocalypse.

There’s a truly wild report today from Futurism about a trio of brothers who have built a content empire filled with fakery, including completely fabricated writers with huge credentials. Apparently they’re getting massive web traffic from this scheme. Maybe it’s a good thing Google is going to zero. [Link: How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month | https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire | Futurism]

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Judge orders Google to change ad auction rules

A federal judge has ordered Google to change its rules for auctioning online advertising on its platforms after finding last year that the search giant had an illegal monopoly over the technology connecting publishers and advertisers. The remedies were made public late Wednesday, when U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema unsealed her opinion from earlier this…

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Kaepernick: Van Jones tried to broker a meeting between Trump, former QB

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick revealed Wednesday that CNN analyst and former Obama administration adviser Van Jones attempted to broker a meeting between the football player and President Trump. Appearing on a MediasTouch podcast, host Ben Meiselas asked Kaepernick about a “Black Summit” the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback was invited to during Trump’s first…

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SEC unveils exemption for tokenized stock trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled its long-awaited “innovation exemption” Thursday, a new order aimed at clearing the way for tokenized stock trading in the U.S. The order creates a pair of five-year exemptions. The first exempts platforms that host tokenized stock trading from the commission’s definition of an exchange, while the second exempts…

Sunday, October 11, 2026

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