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8 items of 1594 · updated Oct 28, 2026, 3:33 PM ET
After kratom industry lobbying, the Trump administration backs down on an opioid ban; health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural.
Source: The New York Times Politics (nytimes.com)
CA SB 1365 on price gouging was chaptered by the Secretary of State on 2026-09-30 as Chapter 1028, Statutes of 2026.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI SB 1171 relates to prohibiting retail dynamic price gouging of consumer goods and providing a penalty; on 2026-06-01 Senator Keyeski was added as a coauthor.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
The FTC and 20 states have sued Dollar General, the nation's largest dollar-store chain, for overcharging customers, alleging a pattern of inaccurate pricing that affects millions of purchases.
Source: The Guardian US (theguardian.com)
The FTC has asked Anthropic executives to testify as part of its consumer harm investigation into the maker of the Claude AI model, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
The FTC says Dollar General overcharged people at checkout for years, charging customers more than the prices it displays on shelves, price tags and ads, according to federal and state authorities.
Source: CBS News (cbsnews.com)
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Progress and pushback: corporate legal accountability in 2025 and what to expect in 2026 Reviews 2025 litigation holding companies to account for harms to people and the environment, and notes the EU is weakening its corporate due-diligence directive. Source: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre bhrrc.org/pt/blog/progress-and-pushback-corpora… (link to bhrrc.org)
Links: bhrrc.org
MN HF 689 authorizes county attorneys to use administrative subpoenas in wage theft investigations; on 2025-04-02 it was re-referred to Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)