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The state of California is accusing Amazon of a price-fixing scheme that pushes wholesale vendors to raise prices at competing stores like Target, Walmart, Chewy, and Best Buy. And the state says, after the discovery process, it now has receipts to prove it. The case centers on several email exchanges between Amazon vendor managers and brands like Levi’s, GlobalOne, Hanes, and Scotts Miracle-Gro. Business Insider obtained the full case file and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents and over a dozen email exchanges to investigate if Amazon uses its influence as the largest e-commerce company in the United States to…

Nvidia’s head of corporate communications has left the company after roughly four months on the job, Business Insider has learned.Anna Soellner joined the chip giant around June, per her Linkedin profile, amid a period of explosive growth. During her brief tenure, the company announced a nearly $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and reported quarterly revenue of $96 billion.”I’m honored to help tell the story of one of the world’s most consequential companies alongside an extraordinary communications and marketing team,” Soellner wrote on LinkedIn when announcing her hiring.She was tapped to help oversee communications as Nvidia navigated heightened public scrutiny…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gautam Dev, a 61-year-old job seeker in Dallas. He previously worked as a software engineer before resigning in 2024. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In 2024, while working as a software engineer for an IT company in Dallas, I was told I’d have to relocate to another state to keep my job.That September, I decided to quit my job, stay in Dallas, and look for a new role. That decision became a disaster.I didn’t realize how difficult finding another job would beI’d worked in the IT industry for…

A few years ago, Americans were able to check off their goal of becoming homeowners thanks to historically low mortgage rates. It’s harder to achieve that dream these days.The average 30-year fixed rate was at 7.4% for the week ending October 8, making it challenging for both newcomers and homeowners looking to move. Home prices, utilities, and other homeownership-related costs have increased. A CNBC/SurveyMonkey quarterly survey found that about a third of renters want to own a home but don’t think that will ever be possible due to affordability. Multiple factors are making it tough to purchase a place. Do…

A huge crowd gathers to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. Public outrage over the spectacle made Bethea’s death the last high-profile public execution in the United States. The Pentagon wants to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter. Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption i Getty Images/Hulton Archive The Pentagon says it will livestream the planned military execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Hasan, 56, has been on military death row since his conviction…

A detainee boards a deportation flight on GlobalX Air in Minnesota in December 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption i Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images The Trump administration on Friday said it has started to facilitate the return to the U.S. of an Egyptian man who was deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare case of the government working to reverse a third-country deportation. A federal judge in Arizona earlier this week ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. from…

On New Year’s Day 1959, Cuba woke up to a new reality.By the 1950s, the island had established itself as a tourism hot spot and cosmopolitan travel destination, thanks to its entertainment, hospitality, and proximity to the US.Before dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Havana and revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro transformed the country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba’s social and economic fabric had already begun fraying.The glamour of Havana hospitality and nightlife masked political repression, corruption, and sharp divides between the capital and vulnerable rural communities.Today, Cubans on the island struggle with shortages of food, water,…

Brant Eckert thought he couldn’t make his fresh-out-of-college $60,000 salary work in New York City, so he moved to San Antonio. It’s a move that other Zoomers are making, too.Texas has been a beacon for those looking for an affordable lifestyle for years, but the latest bunch of Lone-Star movers aren’t quite like the last.Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather told Business Insider that the pandemic movers of the early 2020s were bringing their coastal salaries with them due to the rise in remote work and were looking to stretch their dollars. However, more recently, Texas has been luring younger movers…

A Delta Air Lines’ Airbus A350-900 aircraft is displayed during an unveiling event for Delta’s team USA livery for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the Airbus delivery centre in Toulouse, south-western France on May 2, 2024.Ed Jones | AFP | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said his carrier is weighing whether to go ahead with debuting a flight between Atlanta and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after attacks claimed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have escalated there.The flights between Riyadh and Delta’s biggest hub are scheduled to begin on Oct. 23.Three people were killed in attacks at Riyadh’s…

Delta Air Lines missed earnings estimates for the first time in two years and slashed its 2026 profit outlook as high fuel prices persist, but CEO Ed Bastian said higher fares aren’t turning off travelers.Delta on Friday forecast full-year earnings per share of between $5.10 and $5.60 on an adjusted basis, compared with its outlook in July, when fuel prices were lower, of $6.50 to $7.50 a share. The company’s fourth-quarter guidance was below analyst estimates, too. Delta cut its free cash flow outlook for the year to $2.5 billion, from as much as $4 billion it expected in July.…