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Hotels, short-term rentals and event ticket-sellers must advertise prices to include service fees, cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the totals that are advertised to consumers, the FTC announced on Tuesday. Here’s what to know.

This year was made up of extraordinary moments and The New York Times photographers were there to capture them. Take a look at the biggest stories of 2024 through our photographers’ eyes.

Worker advocates and some government officials have argued that Amazon’s strict production quotas lead to high rates of injury for its warehouse employees. And for years, Amazon has rejected the criticism, arguing that it doesn’t use strict quotas, and that its injury rates are falling close to or below the industry average. But a staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, published an investigation that found that Amazon itself had documented the link between its quotas and elevated injury rates.

To report this story on how cellphones and social media are stoking violence in schools, I interviewed dozens of school leaders, educators and researchers and viewed +1000 student fight videos from schools across the U.S. But, for me at least, the most striking comments in the story come from students I interviewed who worried that the widespread filming and sharing of school fights detracted from learning -- and who pointed out that cellphone bans do little to address the underlying causes of school violence. ... For more on that, I recommend reading Erta Ismahili, a senior at Revere High School. https://lnkd.in/dNDMZGkN

Breaking News: McKinsey will pay $650 million to settle a U.S. inquiry into its work on opioids, and a former partner will plead guilty to destroying documents.

The NYT Games app has been recognized as a winner in the Cultural Impact category at Apple’s 2024 App Store App of the Year Awards for connecting families and friends across generations with various games for all skill levels, with new puzzles daily.

BuzzFeed said it had reached a deal to sell the company behind “Hot Ones,” the popular interview show, for $82.5 million. The deal will allow BuzzFeed to pay down tens of millions of dollars in debt that was scheduled to come due this month. The deal is also a new chapter for the company behind “Hot Ones,” a show in which the host Sean Evans stoically interviews celebrities while they eat progressively hotter chicken wings. Here’s what else to know.

Lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation that would prohibit companies that own drug middlemen or health insurers from also owning pharmacies. If enacted, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna must sell their pharmacies within three years.

Last month Macy’s said that an employee hid more than $150 million over the past few years, forcing the company to delay an earnings report. On Wednesday, Macy’s gave investors a full look at its financials and provided more information about the snafu.

Breaking News: Rupert Murdoch failed in his bid to alter a family trust to consolidate his empire under his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing slant.