WASHINGTON — Banks would be barred from trading for their own profit instead of their clients under a rule federal regulators proposed Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. backed the draft rule on a 3-0 vote. The ban on so-called ...

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A deal that will require mega-retailer Amazon and other online shops to pay sales tax in California has sparked renewed hopes of reaching a similar agreement in Maryland. “It’s a break in the sense that the largest state, economically, in ...

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LUSBY — Constellation Energy Nuclear Group says one of two nuclear reactors at its Calvert Cliffs power plant is being brought back online after being shutdown automatically during Hurricane Irene. The reactor was shut down when a piece of siding ...

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Lawyers for the federal government and for a coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a new Alabama law cracking down on illegal immigration, arguing that it stomps on basic rights, like ...

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A congressional stalemate has put $681 million worth of Federal Aviation Administration construction projects on ice, including a new radar system for Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The party-line impasse came Friday when the Republican-led House and Democrat-led Senate disagreed ...

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The online federal judicial documents database PACER may have a problem with its redaction system, exposing personal information, trade secrets and other sensitive information, according to a recent study. The study found that the black boxes used to conceal redacted ...

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The Department of Justice is trying to halt H&R Block’s plans to acquire the creator of TaxACT software, saying the deal would leave just two major competitors in the do-it-yourself tax preparation market. The agency on Monday filed an antitrust ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve last month debated whether it should start reversing policies to prevent inflation from taking off and some members said the Fed might need to start boosting interest rates this year. Some members thought the Fed ...

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WASHINGTON – The government is taking in more tax revenues as the economy improves, but not nearly enough to keep the federal budget deficit from exceeding $1 trillion for a third straight year. The Treasury Department says the deficit for ...

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has notified the maker of an alternative engine for the next-generation F-35 fighter plane that its contract has been terminated. Work on the engine was stopped a month ago, saving $1 million a day on a ...

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