(Reuters) -Media Matters asked a court on Monday to block the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's probe into whether media watchdogs coordinated advertising boycotts, calling it retaliation for the group's criticism of Elon Musk, a major donor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The FTC demanded Media Matters hand over communications with other groups that evaluate misinformation and hate speech and documents related...

(Reuters) -The Trump Organization said on Monday it had repaid a $160 million loan on the 40 Wall Street office tower in Manhattan, of which analysts estimate about $114 million was outstanding. Trump has cited the building, which he said he bought for $1 million, as one of his most successful real estate investments ever. However, in recent years the...

June 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has closed an oversight agreement with Bank of America ( BAC ) tied to allegations that the lender submitted inaccurate mortgage data, according to a filing dated earlier this month. The move ends the consumer watchdog's monitoring of the lender more than three years ahead of schedule. In November 2023,...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...