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London Libraries have imposed more than £ 5million in fines since 2015, we can reveal. An investigation by SWLondoner using Freedom of Information requests found that South West London libraries alone have racked up more than £ 1.3million in fines. COVID closures and returning amnesties have left many libraries without …

Since 2006, federal law has capped annual interest rates on active-duty military payday loans at 36%. The interest rate cap was broadened in 2015 to include several other types of unsecured personal loans. In Illinois, meanwhile, payday loan borrowers were subjected to average annual interest rates of nearly 300%. Illinois …

New Jersey will not require the more than 175,000 businesses that received paycheck protection program funds in the past year to pay income taxes on their canceled loans, the government said. Phil murphy announced Tuesday. The state will align with the federal government’s handling of loans, exempting the portion of …

Raise the question of whether the rules, designed to combat illegal private money lending, have served their purpose Tashi Dema The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) has proposed to amend and insert 17 clauses in its Private Money Lending Rules and Regulations 2020 (PMLRR 2020). The rules, originally developed in 2016 …

Farmers are alarmed at the prospect of a new pipeline which they believe could lead to further development of gas fields in the Galilee Basin in central Queensland. The planned project stretches over 500 kilometers to link Galilee Energy Limited’s Glenaras gas project near Longreach to the Queensland Jemena gas …

Long before Tuesday’s announcement that no player had been elected to be entered in the 2021 National Baseball Hall of Fame class, Curt Schilling predicted he would not receive the necessary votes to be inducted. On Monday, he said he wrote a letter to the Hall of Fame, asking that …

A messenger RNA vaccine, also known as an mRNA vaccine, is a new type of vaccine that is the first safe and effective vaccine used to fight the COVID-19 virus in the United States. Most often, vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ in our body, causing our immune system …

STATEN ISLAND, NY – In the latest in a series of lawsuits, another former resident of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in Mount Loretto alleges he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by clergy and staff there -low. New Jersey resident Francisco Pamias was assaulted by a priest, the late Rev. …

Kevin Dietsch / UPI / Shutterstock / Kevin Dietsch / UPI / Shutterstock Student debt has weighed on the economy, and forgiveness programs are politically popular – with voters. They are not as popular with Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives, which limits President Joe Biden’s approaches to …

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – As millions of Americans face the burden of student loans, Democrats are pushing for the cancellation of some federal loans. “Take a huge burden off so many people in America,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. On Thursday, Schumer and other Democrats called on President Joe Biden …