( January 5, 2026, 7:55 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington has denied Amazon.com Inc.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a consumer who contends the website is liable for damages and fraudulent concealment in relation to rice that he bought that contained arsenic and other heavy metals. The judge ruled that the plaintiff plausibly alleged that Amazon has a duty to disclose the presence of heavy metals in rice products because that information is “not publicly known or easily discoverable.”...