Antitrust regulation
FILE - In this March 21, 2021, file photo people view the Supreme Court building from behind security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
High court sympathetic to college athletes in NCAA dispute

By Jessica Gresko Mar. 31, 2021 05:04 PM EDT

FILE - This March 19, 2018, file photo shows Apple's App Store app in Baltimore. Big tech’s outsized influence over society has become one of the biggest battlefronts in state legislatures this year. Lawmakers are taking on tech and social media companies over a wide range of issues, including anti-trust, digital privacy, taxing ad sales, net neutrality and censorship (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Big Tech's outsized influence draws state-level pushback

By Bobby Caina Calvan And Marcy Gordon Mar. 27, 2021 10:30 AM EDT

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration joint hearing Wednesday, March 3, 2021, examining the January 6, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies

By Marcy Gordon Mar. 16, 2021 01:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2020, file photo, employees observe social distancing due to coronavirus, at the entrance of Amazon, in Douai, northern France. Amazon announced Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, that Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO later in the year, leaving a role he’s had since founding the company nearly 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
5 challenges awaiting Amazon's new CEO

By Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio Feb. 03, 2021 06:29 PM EST

A security guard mans a checkpoint into the Alibaba Group headquarters in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Friday, May 27, 2016. Chinese regulators on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up official efforts to tighten control over China's fast-growing tech industries. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China steps up pressure on Alibaba with anti-monopoly probe

By Joe Mcdonald Dec. 24, 2020 02:11 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Dec. 02, 2020 11:06 PM EST
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York’s newspapers: Visa Is Doing What Big American Companies Do to ‘Protect...

An officer from a fire department wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Asian stock markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street rose amid protracted vote-counting following this week's U.S. elections. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Asian stocks mixed after Wall Street election gains

By Joe Mcdonald Nov. 05, 2020 01:11 AM EST

FILE - In this July 30, 2020 file photo Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks at a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa's Republican governor has rejected two-thirds of the Democratic state attorney general's requests to join multistate lawsuits, under an unusual compromise that has allowed her to repeatedly block the state's involvement in challenges to Trump administration policies. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller agreed in May 2019 to seek Gov. Reynolds' approval before he would join multistate lawsuits.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Iowa governor has stopped AG from joining anti-Trump suits

By David Pitt Aug. 03, 2020 11:05 AM EDT

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
4 Big Tech CEOs getting heat from Congress on competition

By Marcy Gordon Jul. 29, 2020 02:23 PM EDT

This combination of 2019-2020 photos shows Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, the four Big Tech leaders will answer for their companies’ practices before Congress at a hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Evan Vucci, Jeff Chiu, Jens Meyer)
Spotlight on 4 Big Tech CEOs testifying in competition probe

By Marcy Gordon Jul. 28, 2020 12:23 PM EDT

People wearing masks walk in the central plaza of San Gregorio Atlapulco in the Xochimilco district of Mexico City, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The capital's health secretariat has erected mobile testing units in the areas of the city hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, but with test supplies limited - on Wednesday only 20 were available in San Gregorio Atlapulco - some symptomatic people end up waiting in line on multiple days before successfully getting a test. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico opens anti-monopoly probe amid oxygen price rise

Jul. 23, 2020 06:41 PM EDT

John Elias, a career official in the Justice Department's antitrust division, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, during a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department and a probe into the politicization of the department under Attorney General William Barr. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
Barr to testify as Democrats examine DOJ politicization

By Mary Clare Jalonick And Michael Balsamo Jun. 24, 2020 12:11 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo Roger Stone exits federal court in Washington. A federal prosecutor is prepared to tell Congress on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, that Stone, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was given special treatment ahead of his sentencing because of his relationship with the president. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Prosecutor: Trump ally Roger Stone was 'treated differently'

By Mary Clare Jalonick And Eric Tucker Jun. 23, 2020 05:30 PM EDT

Update on the latest in business:

Jun. 16, 2020 01:36 PM EDT
FINANCIAL MARKETS Stocks rally on Wall Street, but markets remain skittish NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying...

Global shares higher...UK unemployment rising 'faster than Great Depression'...EU opens antitrust probes into Apple Pay and App Store

Jun. 16, 2020 06:39 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares rose today, cheered by fresh moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve to support markets battered by the coronavirus pandemic. In early...

FILE - In this April 5, 2020, file photo, Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, supply chain task force lead at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. U.S. officials are invoking a rarely used provision of American law that would shield companies from antitrust regulations to help the country from again running out of medical supplies in a pandemic. Polowczyk, who was appointed to run a White House supply chain task force in response to the outbreak, told reporters last week that the government is expanding the emergency stockpile of critical supplies and medicines managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
US seeking industry cooperation on future medical supplies

By Ben Fox May. 21, 2020 02:26 PM EDT

11 attorneys general seek probe into meat packing industry

By Roxana Hegeman May. 05, 2020 05:38 PM EDT
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market...

Judge rejects government's bid to block airline-data merger

Apr. 08, 2020 12:44 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a government attempt to block Sabre Corp. from buying Farelogix Inc. in a $360 million deal combining two...