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Suzanne Potter California News Service Fifth Third Bank acaba de aceptar pagar una multa de $20 millones para resolver los cargos por obligar a los compradores de automóviles a adquirir seguros innecesarios y crear cuentas falsas a nombre de los clientes. El Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Oficina de Proteccion Financiera del Consumidor) dijo...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service Fifth Third Bank just agreed to pay a $20 million fine to settle charges it forced car buyers to purchase unnecessary insurance and created fake accounts in customers’ names. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the bank required customers with car loans to buy insurance, even if they...
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Los grupos de legalización de la marihuana están de celebración después de que la Agencia Antidrogas propuso el martes 30 de abril reclasificar el cannabis como menos peligroso o adictivo que las drogas de la Lista Uno, como la heroína o el LSD. La marihuana sería bajada a la...
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Marijuana legalization groups are celebrating after the Drug Enforcement Agency proposed on Tuesday April 30 to reclassify cannabis as less dangerous or addictive than Schedule One drugs such as heroin or LSD. Marijuana would be downgraded to the same category as ketamine or some anabolic steroids. Dale Gieringer, director of the...
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Los grupos que luchan para proteger las tierras públicas elogian las medidas pioneras en su tipo para proteger los bosques antiguos en tierras del Servicio Forestal de EE. UU. La administración Biden propone modificar los 128 planes de gestión de tierras forestales para conservar y administrar los árboles antiguos,...
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Groups fighting to protect public lands are praising first-of-their-kind moves to protect old-growth forests on U.S. Forest Service land. The Biden administration is proposing to amend all 128 forest land management plans to conserve and steward old-growth trees, rather than managing them primarily for recreation and economic gain. Ben Blom,...
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Una propuesta que podría permitir apuestas sobre qué partido político controlara el Congreso está generando oposición entre grupos prodemocráticos y una coalición de senadores progresistas. La empresa neoyorquina Kalshi ha solicitado a Commodity Futures Trading Commission su autorización para ofrecer derivados sobre los llamados “contratos de eventos”, específicamente sobre el control...
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A proposal to allow betting on which political party will control Congress is drawing opposition from pro-democracy groups and from a coalition of progressive senators. The New York trading company Kalshi has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval to offer derivatives trading on so-called “event contracts,” specifically, on control...
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As states across the US grapple with recent spikes in fatal overdoses tied to opioids. Now, a federal agency has taken what aid groups say is a big step in preventing such deaths. This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter sales of the nasal version of naloxone, which rapidly...