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Amazon agrees to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit over Prime program

By Alina Selyukh,
Steve Inskeep
Published September 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM EDT

Millions of Amazon shoppers might be getting a refund after the company agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit over its Prime membership program.

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Alina Selyukh
Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she follows the path of the retail and tech industries, tracking how America's biggest companies are influencing the way we spend our time, money, and energy.
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Steve Inskeep
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.
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