Dan Papscun

Senate Republicans took advantage of a nomination hearing for the Federal Trade Commission to take aim at the agency’s embattled chief and nail down commitments on artificial intelligence.

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Labor signed an agreement to collaborate on training, share information, and partner on investigations, particularly in the gig economy.

The Federal Trade Commission has funding to continue operations for three weeks if the government fails to avert a shutdown by Sept. 30, but will furlough staff and ask to pause litigation if the stalemate continues longer.

Alphabet Inc.‘s Google taught its employees to steer clear of certain phrases that could implicate antitrust violations, but such practices are standard and don’t help the Justice Department make its case against the online search giant, analysts and in-house counsel say.

A five-year-old US Supreme Court antitrust decision looms over the Federal Trade Commission’s sweeping new lawsuit against Amazon Inc. over its allegedly illegal dominance of online retail.

Amgen Inc., Gilead Sciences Inc., Novartis AG, Merck & Co., AbbVie Inc. and about two dozen other life sciences organizations and trade associations are creating a coalition to oppose changes to federal antitrust deal review.

Antitrust lawsuits can live and die on the strength of Ph.D. economists. Courts face the crucial task of weeding out which of those expert witnesses can appear before a jury.

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison can continue representing Alphabet Inc.‘s Google in the Justice Department’s advertising technology monopoly case against the company, a federal judge ruled.

Amit P. Mehta, the federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s fight with Alphabet Inc.'s Google, brings antitrust experience and a reputation for thoroughness to the high-stakes trial playing out in his Washington, D.C., courtroom.

The Federal Trade Commission’s petition for a federal court to force Total Wine to comply with an agency investigation opens a window into its broader probe of the alcoholic beverage industry under a mothballed Great Depression-era law.