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NRC Kills ALARA Name, Saves Industry $9.5M
NRC proposes deleting 'ALARA' from its radiation rules, but keeps the same LNT science that Trump's executive order branded irrational.
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FCC Kills Rule Forcing ISPs to List Fees
Comcast complained the rule was burdensome. Now the FCC agrees, and ISPs can bury fees in one "up to" price.
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FTC Warns 8 Firms Over Fake 'Made in USA' Tags
Eight companies got FTC warning letters over questionable 'Made in USA' claims, the same playbook that cost TouchTunes $625,000 in April.
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Gorsuch Questions FTC's Section 5 Power in Slaughter
Two justices just called the FTC's core rulemaking power "startling," and CFPB's nearly identical authority may be next in the crosshairs.
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Texas Probes StubHub Over World Cup Ticket Cancellations
Texas AG Ken Paxton is investigating StubHub for cancelling World Cup tickets hours before kickoff, calling it possible ghost ticketing.
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Cut $240M From Chemical Safety Rule, EPA Proposes
EPA wants to slash the chemical-accident rule a federal judge forced it to write in 2019, as weekly plant explosions and leaks keep piling up.
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Stalls Rovirosa FCPA Appeal, Seeks 30 More Days
DOJ filed a notice of appeal in the Rovirosa FCPA acquittal case, then admitted the Solicitor General hasn't decided if it wants one.
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FBI Seizes NetNut, the Proxy Network Owned by Alarum's $ALAR
FBI and IRS-CI seize NetNut's domains over a 2-million-device botnet. Owner Alarum is a Nasdaq-listed company, not an anonymous darknet outfit.
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Charged: Stokes, 19, Tied to $100M Spider Case
He flaunted diamond chains and Paris hotels online while still a minor. Now, at 19, the Scattered Spider hacker faces federal charges in Chicago.
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Alibaba, AUS Pay $600M to Settle DOJ Drug Claims
Alibaba and Ant's AUS unit just bought their way out of a drug-trafficking case, $600M split between two penalty-forfeiture structures.
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Fined $6.5M: Cliq Defied a 2015 FTC Fraud Order
A Nevada federal judge slashed the FTC's $52.9M ask to $6.5M, but still found Cliq in contempt for years of dodging a 2015 anti-fraud order.
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EagleBank Pays $9.7M Over BSA Failures
EagleBank's compliance team flagged a check-kiting scheme in 2008. Executives overrode them anyway, and it cost $9.7M to make the DOJ go away.
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Advances H.R. 9330: First Federal EWA Framework
House Financial Services just voted to define wage-access fees as not-loans, pulling the rug from under every state AG's payday-lending case.
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JPMorgan Files to Vacate $4.2M Bodner Award
JPMorgan wants a federal judge to erase the $4.2 million award a FINRA panel gave a broker fired over a $642 deli platter ordered for absent clients.
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Paid Up: AstraZeneca's $34M Kickback Settlement
AstraZeneca just became Ken Paxton's latest pharma kickback target, paying nearly $34M for 'free nurses' without admitting wrongdoing.
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Filed: SAFE Banking Act, House 7 Wins, Senate 0
The SAFE Banking Act has cleared the House seven times without a Senate vote. Cannabis reclassification may finally change that math.
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SCOTUS Ruled 5-4: Trump Can't Fire Fed's Cook
Roberts held Trump's Cook firing violated the for-cause bar and denied her due process, while the same court backed his FTC firing.
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Iran's 60-Day Sanction Waiver Stalls U.S. Banks
A June 17 MOU put Iran sanctions on a wind-down clock. Banks still carrying BNP's nearly $1 billion OFAC settlement won't move yet.
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CFTC Probes Polymarket; $3.1M Hack Follows
Polymarket faces its first CFTC probe under Chairman Selig after fake-trade allegations, plus a $3.1M frontend hack in the same week.
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EU Directive Targets €11B VAT Fraud, Forces AR Overhaul
EU Directive 2025/516 targets up to €11B in annual VAT fraud, and CFOs who treat it as an IT project will solve compliance and nothing else.
