Walmart has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that the retailer caused its delivery drivers to lose tens of millions of dollars’ worth of earnings by deceiving them about their pay and tips they could make, the commission said ?in a statement on Thursday.

Joined by 11 states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin — the FTC alleges that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer showed drivers inflated base pay and tip amounts in its crowdsourced gig driver delivery program called Spark.

The FTC alleges that the retailer deceived customers by falsely claiming that all of its customer tips would actually go to drivers. The commission also alleges that Walmart failed to inform drivers that it would split tips when a customer’s delivery was split across multiple drivers.

Papa John’s closing hundreds of stores

Papa John’s International sales shrank more than expected, and the pizza chain’s outlook for the year also trailed estimates, suggesting customers are increasingly skimping on its fast-food pizza.

Its North America same-store sales — revenue generated by existing restaurants compared with the prior year — fell 5.4% in the fourth quarter. They were dragged down by both the restaurant chain’s owned and franchised locations, Papa John’s said.

Overall revenue also declined to $498 million, about $20 million short of what analysts were anticipating.

The company cut about 7% of its corporate workforce and plans to shutter about 300 underperforming stores across North America this and next year. Most of them are franchisee-owned, Chief Financial Officer Ravi Thanawala said. At the same time, it expects to open 40 to 50 new outlets in the region this year.

Instagram to notify of suicide searches

Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision program.

Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts’ search results and directs people to helplines instead.

The announcement comes as Meta is in the midst of two trials over harms to children. A trial underway in Los Angeles questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm minors. Another, in New Mexico, seeks to determine whether Meta failed to protect kids from sexual exploitation on its platforms.

Thousands of families — along with school districts and government entities — have sued Meta and other social media companies, claiming they deliberately design their platforms to be addictive and fail to protect kids from content that can lead to depression, eating disorders and suicide.

tuition skyrockets at private schools

The cost of private school in the U.S. is inching closer to $50,000, according to a new report by S&P Global Ratings.

Annual average tuition reached new highs, according to the rating company’s report on 59 schools in the sector released Tuesday. For day schools it jumped about 5% to $49,745 on average and for boarding schools, tuition rose 3.5% to $75,466. The percentage increases were less than last year, when day schools saw tuition climb by the most in at least a decade.

Despite the soaring costs, enrollment grew at just under two-thirds of the private schools that S&P rates. Institutions like Phillips Academy Andover, Castilleja School Foundation in Palo Alto, and Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles were included in the report.

Weber is recalling 3.2M bristle brushes

Weber is recalling millions of its grill brushes because their wiry bristles would be hazardous if consumed as part of a barbecued meal.

The company said it’s aware of at least 38 reports of people becoming sick after consuming pieces of grill brush bristles. At least four incidents included people who swallowed metal bristles and required medical treatment to remove them from their throat or gut.

The recall of 3.2 million brushes involves those made with plastic or wood handles measuring between 12 and 21 inches long, the company said. The model numbers, found on the product packaging, include 6277, 6278, 6463, 6464, 6493 and 6494.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said consumers should stop using the recalled grill brushes and contact Weber for a nylon bristle grill brush replacement. Anyone who has the wire bristle brushes should discard them.

For more information, call Weber at 877-597-9588 from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time weekdays or go to weberbrushrecall.expertinquiry.com or weber.com and click on “Recall Notice” on the bottom of the page.

Compiled from staff, Bloomberg and Associated Press reports.