WASHINGTON — A year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for states and local governments to respond to weather disasters. The executive order establishes a task force ...

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The Maryland Division of Financial Regulation issued a final order Thursday telling an online payday lender to cease lending and collecting on loans to the state’s consumers, saying the unlicensed company had been charging usurious annual personal-loan rates of between 120 percent and 1,825 percent.

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SAN FRANCISCO — A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the last five years through free sperm donations to childless couples he meets on the Internet — and is now in trouble with the ...

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US Fidelis Inc., once the nation’s largest provider of after-market auto warranties but now embroiled in bankruptcy, is challenging the Maryland Attorney General’s order that it pay more than $25 million in restitution and penalties. The attorney general’s Consumer Protection ...

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WICHITA, Kan. — Kansas officials said Wednesday the state will obey a federal judge’s order to immediately fund Planned Parenthood clinics while the state pursues an appeal. The state is appealing a decision that blocked enforcement of a new statute ...

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In a busy litigation practice, order and organization are vital. If you looked at my desk and office right now, you would seriously question whether I understood this basic principal on any level. I promise, however, there is order beneath ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A federal judge has ordered the temporary return of an indicted state senator’s passport so he can attend a conference in Canada. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett filed the order this week to return Sen. Ulysses Currie’s passport ...

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LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world’s biggest planemaker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show, where the popularity of its new fuel-efficient jets ...

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