The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to force multilevel marketing company Amway to pay $225 million to resolve allegations that it and two affiliated training groups used deceptive tactics to recruit people and pressure them into buying products they struggled to sell. Amway markets itself as a business opportunity in which individuals, whom the company […]

A former Connecticut deputy budget director who was convicted on 21 federal charges related to bribery and extortion fled to Greece before his sentencing hearing in court Thursday, according to his lawyer and prosecutors. Konstantinos Diamantis, 70, escaped the country before he could have faced 10 to 12 years in prison as requested by the […]

The President Donald Trump-affiliated “No Going Back PAC” is diving into New York’s 3rd Congressional District with its first advertisement, hitting Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) over his stock trading. “Tom Suozzi voted against banning congressional insider trading because he’s made over ten million dollars trading stocks in Washington,” the advertisement claims. The Trump-affiliated PAC ad […]

The midterm elections are less than two months away on Tuesday, Nov. 3, but in some states, early voting begins in September. Three states begin early voting on Friday, with one more starting later in the month. Virginia, South Dakota, and Minnesota allow voters to begin casting ballots for the 2026 midterm elections on Sept. […]