Online bill payment company Doxo settles FTC complaint

Online bill payment company Doxo will pay $ 2.1 million to settle an FTC complaint that alleged that the firm and two of its co-founders used misleading search advertising to impersonate consumers’ billers and misled consumers about junk fees they added to their bills.

According to a 2024 complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the FTC contended that Doxo, and two of its co-founders, Steve Shivers and Roger Parks, used search ads and … Read the rest

Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $2 billion foreign-aid payment

Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $  2 billion foreign-aid payment

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A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down a request by the Trump administration to lift an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that had directed the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to pay nearly $ 2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements for work that has already been done.

In a brief unsigned opinion, the court noted that the Feb. 26 deadline for the government to make the payments had already passed. It instructed … Read the rest