MPs accuse Amazon, TikTok of avoiding scrutiny

Several public hearings and council proceedings are scheduled or have taken place. Madison’s Transportation Commission and Metro Transit planned a hearing on proposed increases to certain paratransit and business-pass rates, while emphasizing that regular cash fares, fare-capping rates and the standard paratransit fare would not change. In the UK, lawmakers raised concerns that Amazon and TikTok executives were reluctant to attend a parliamentary committee hearing on consumer safety. Reading, Pennsylvania’s City Council held an evidentiary hearing on its capital budgets.