Good evening. I'm on the Navas. Jeff Bennett is away on the news hour tonight.

The Justice Department and 16 State Attorneys General Sue Apple for maintaining a monopoly.

With a vote to avoid a government shutdown set for tomorrow, House Speaker Mike Johnson

works to keep his fractious majority intact.

And an Arizona lawmaker talks about why she publicly announced her decision to terminate

a non-viable pregnancy. Welcome to the news hour. The Department of Justice and more than a dozen

states sued Apple today in a landmark antitrust case. They argue that the tech giant

has created an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market by using

excessively restrictive hardware and apps that keep customers locked into Apple's ecosystem and that puts a quote

chokehold on competition that includes its payment and messaging systems and

basic connections with other apps. Doha Mecky is the principal deputy assistant attorney general

at the department, and she joins me now.

Welcome to the news hour.

Hi, I'm not.

It's nice to be with you.

So the Department of Justice is arguing here

that Apple's monopoly comes at the expense of developers,

of rival phone makers, and also consumers.

Tell us more about that.

How specifically are consumers being harmed? Sure. So today is lost. more about

alleged monopolization

alleged monopolization, monopoly maintenance

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