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Biden administration would cap credit card late fees at $8, part of campaign against junk fees
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday to cap all credit card late fees, the latest effort in the White House push to end what it has called junk fees and a move that regu...
Mar 05, 2024
B.C.'s securities watchdog fined rule breakers $430M. Why can't it make them pay?
VANCOUVER - Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics. He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no hi...
Mar 05, 2024
Who owes the biggest penalties to B.C.'s securities watchdog?
The British Columbia Securities Commission has levied about $430 million in unpaid fines and disgorgement orders for breaches of the province's Securities Act. Here are some of those who have the larg...
Mar 05, 2024
AI pervades everyday life with almost no oversight. States scramble to catch up
DENVER (AP) - While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life - screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, an...
Mar 04, 2024
DeSantis names Disney World district administrator to run elections in Democratic Orange County
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new job for the man who has led Walt Disney World's government since his allies took it over - elections supervisor in Orange County, long one of Florida's...
Mar 04, 2024
B.C. Supreme Court approves $14.4-million settlement of iPhone class-action lawsuit
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has approved a countrywide multimillion-dollar settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Apple over software updates that allegedly slowed down older ...
Mar 04, 2024
Chicago 'mansion' tax to fund homeless services stuck in legal limbo while on the ballot
CHICAGO (AP) - An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end property sales to fund services for homeless people. Such cityw...
Mar 02, 2024
Newfoundland and Labrador asked to figure out cost of shutting down oil projects
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has to determine how much it will cost taxpayers when the companies operating the province's offshore oilfields decide to pull up their pipelines and leave...
Mar 02, 2024
Question of whether Nebraska public money can go to private schools still set for November ballot
Nebraska's top election official has ruled that voters will get to decide this year whether to repeal a law that gives taxpayer money for private school scholarships. But both Nebraska Secretary of St...
Mar 01, 2024
Legislation to legalize, tax skill games in Virginia heads to governor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Friday that would legalize skill games, the slots-like betting machines that proliferated in businesses around the state before an on-again, ...
Mar 01, 2024
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