http://www.mail.com/subjects/1708-government-regulations.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1708-government-regulations.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763284-senate-takes-step-toward-banning-stalking-software.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous wives or husbands because it can continuously track the whereabouts of a spouse. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that makes it a crime fo... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763284-senate-takes-step-toward-banning-stalking-software.html 2012-12-13T23:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1763438-dozens-sue-pharmacy-compensation-uncertain.html NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dennis O'Brien rubs his head as he details ailments triggered by the fungal meningitis he developed after a series of steroid shots in his neck: nausea, vomiting, dizziness, drowsiness, blurred vision, exhaustion and trouble with his speech and attention. He estimates the disease has cost him and his wife thousands of dollars in ou... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1763438-dozens-sue-pharmacy-compensation-uncertain.html 2012-12-13T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1765030-time-to-decide-health-care-exchanges.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Nineteen states have turned down the Obama administration's invitation to run the new health insurance markets that will begin serving millions of uninsured Americans less than a year from now. That puts a huge task on the feds, a defining challenge for President Barack Obama's second term. Friday is decision day for states to notify Was... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1765030-time-to-decide-health-care-exchanges.html 2012-12-13T21:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763286-chicago-poised-to-fight-handguns-.html CHICAGO (AP) — Facing a climbing homicide rate, Chicago is poised for another fight over handguns — just two years after the last one. When the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the city's 28-year-old handgun ban in 2010, Chicago responded by passing one of the nation's toughest handgun ordinances. And city officials sounded ready Thursday for another battle a... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763286-chicago-poised-to-fight-handguns-.html 2012-12-13T21:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763312-gop-decries-looming-regulatory-cliff-term.html WASHINGTON (AP) — While the "fiscal cliff" of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and business groups see signs of a "regulatory cliff" that they say could be just as damaging to the economy. For months, federal agencies and the White House have sidetracked dozens of major regulations th... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763312-gop-decries-looming-regulatory-cliff-term.html 2012-12-13T19:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1764982-ark-republicans-consider-unusual-health-stand.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Like their counterparts in other southern states, Arkansas Republicans denounced "Obamacare" during this year's election campaign and called for its repeal. But now that they've won control of the Legislature for the first time in 138 years, GOP lawmakers are considering something that would be anathema to conservatives elsewhere -- expanding governm... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1764982-ark-republicans-consider-unusual-health-stand.html 2012-12-13T19:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Talk about a smoke break. Tobacco companies have introduced almost no new cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 months because the federal government has prevented them from doing so, an Associated Press review has found. It's an unprecedented pause for an industry that historically h... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html 2012-12-13T18:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763298-dispute-raises-doubt-china-stocks-us-market.html BEIJING (AP) — A mounting dispute between Washington and Beijing over access to records of Chinese companies with U.S.-traded shares might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine Baidu to withdraw from American stock exchanges. The dispute highlights the clash between heightened U.S. anti-fraud efforts and official Chine... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763298-dispute-raises-doubt-china-stocks-us-market.html 2012-12-13T15:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762940-epa-finds-contamination-rocket-test-site.html SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Lingering radioactive contamination exists at a former rocket test lab outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown, federal environmental regulators said Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency launched a $42 million study to investigate radioactive pollution at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1762940-epa-finds-contamination-rocket-test-site.html 2012-12-13T02:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759254-feds-to-probe-why-alarms-failed-wva-explosion.html SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and a large section of an interstate for more than an hour. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will visit Columbia Gas Transmission's Charleston control room thi... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1759254-feds-to-probe-why-alarms-failed-wva-explosion.html 2012-12-13T02:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762516-joe-allbritton-87-dc-media-banking-giant-dies.html McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a financial empire that once included Riggs Bank, died Wednesday. He was 87. He was suffering from heart ailments and died at a hospital in Houston, where he lived, said Frederick J. Ryan Jr., pre... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1762516-joe-allbritton-87-dc-media-banking-giant-dies.html 2012-12-13T01:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760378-court-ruling-ill-gun-ban-sets-stage-fight.html CHICAGO (AP) — Backers of Illinois' ban on concealed weapons vowed Wednesday to fight for continued controls on gun possession, a day after a federal appeals court struck down the nation's last such prohibition as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it. Chicago aldermen joined gun control advocates in urging state Attorney Gener... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760378-court-ruling-ill-gun-ban-sets-stage-fight.html 2012-12-13T01:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1761444-un-security-council-condemns-nkorea-rocket-launch.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's successful rocket launch on Wednesday and said it will urgently consider "an appropriate response." Whether that response includes new sanctions against the North, which the United States and its European allies are seeking, depends first and foremost on China, the North's closest all... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1761444-un-security-council-condemns-nkorea-rocket-launch.html 2012-12-13T00:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1762476-right-to-work-law-michigan-unions-task.html LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Now that Michigan has become a right-to-work state, unions in this stronghold of organized labor confront a new and urgent problem: convincing members to continue paying for their services instead of taking them for free. Brushing aside protests from thousands of labor supporters, the Republican-controlled state House approved measur... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1762476-right-to-work-law-michigan-unions-task.html 2012-12-12T22:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1762608-shhhh-law-tv-ads-blare.html NEW YORK (AP) — TV viewing could soon sound a little calmer. The CALM Act, which limits the volume of TV commercials, goes into effect on Thursday. CALM stands for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation. The act is designed to prevent TV commercials from blaring at louder volumes than the program content they accompany. The rules govern broadcasters... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1762608-shhhh-law-tv-ads-blare.html 2012-12-12T22:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760734-deutsche-bank-co-ceo-cfo-tax-probe.html FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank says its co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen and chief finance officer Stefan Krause are under investigation as part of a tax evasion probe linked to the bank's emissions trading business. The bank said Wednesday Fitschen and Krause are being investigated because they signed off on the company's 2009 tax declaration... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760734-deutsche-bank-co-ceo-cfo-tax-probe.html 2012-12-12T18:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760382-mich-right-to-work-despite-protests.html LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a dizzyingly short time span, Republicans have converted Michigan from a seemingly impregnable fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work state, leaving outgunned Democrats and union activists with little recourse but to shake their fists and seek retribution at the ballot box. The state House swiftly approved two bills redu... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760382-mich-right-to-work-despite-protests.html 2012-12-12T16:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1761450-lawmakers-seek-to-rekindle-mining-reform-efforts.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the U.S. government reaps billions of dollars in royalties each year from fossil fuels extracted from federal lands and waters, it does not collect any such royalties from gold, uranium or other metals mined from the same places, congressional auditors reported Wednesday. The federal government doesn't even know how much these s... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1761450-lawmakers-seek-to-rekindle-mining-reform-efforts.html 2012-12-12T16:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1760738-barclays-appoints-ex-regulator-compliance-head.html LONDON (AP) — Barclays has appointed the former chief of Britain's financial regulator to the new role of head of compliance at the scandal-hit U.K. bank. The move, announced Wednesday, will see Hector Sants switching sides from heading the Financial Services Authority to overseeing all compliance activities in all regions in which Barclays does business,... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1760738-barclays-appoints-ex-regulator-compliance-head.html 2012-12-12T15:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760552-amsterdam-to-ban-smoking-pot-school.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam's mayor said Wednesday he would formally ban students from smoking marijuana at school, making the Dutch capital the first city in the Netherlands to do so. Eberhard van der Laan's introduction of a law that in other countries either already exists or seems so obvious it wouldn't even require a rule is the result of the Netherla... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760552-amsterdam-to-ban-smoking-pot-school.html 2012-12-12T11:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758844-michigan-lawmakers-approve-right-to-work-bills.html LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Over the chants of thousands of angry protesters, Republican lawmakers made Michigan a right-to-work state Tuesday, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a place that has been a bastion of the movement for generations. The GOP-dominated House ignored Democrats' pleas to delay the final passage and in... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758844-michigan-lawmakers-approve-right-to-work-bills.html 2012-12-12T00:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1759676-ny-6-suing-epa-drilling-methane.html PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states announced plans Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air Act by failing to address methane emissions from oil and gas drilling, which has boomed in nearby states such as Pennsylvania and West Virginia. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1759676-ny-6-suing-epa-drilling-methane.html 2012-12-11T22:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1759400-us-defends-19b-deal-with-british-banking-giant.html NEW YORK (AP) — American authorities on Tuesday cited "astonishing" dysfunction at the British bank HSBC and said that it had helped Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, Libya and others under U.S. suspicion or sanction to move money around the world. HSBC agreed to pay $1.9 billion, the largest penalty ever imposed on a bank. The U.S. stopped short of chargin... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1759400-us-defends-19b-deal-with-british-banking-giant.html 2012-12-11T20:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1758102-heavy-snow-balkans-deep-freeze.html PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Blizzards blocked roads, stranded villages, disrupted power supplies and temporarily shut down an airport in the Balkans on Tuesday, the fourth straight day of tough winter weather in the region of southeastern Europe. In one of the worst-hit areas, snowdrifts and avalanches blocked roads in hilly northern Montenegro, where ab... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1758102-heavy-snow-balkans-deep-freeze.html 2012-12-11T18:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757606-hsbc-to-pay-19b-to-settle-money-laundering-case.html NEW YORK (AP) — British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics traffickers in Mexico, U.S. authorities announced Tuesday. The move avoids a legal battle that could further savage the bank's reputation and undermine confidence in the global banking system. The anno... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757606-hsbc-to-pay-19b-to-settle-money-laundering-case.html 2012-12-11T16:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757734-apnewsbreak-explo-faced-scrutiny-la-scare.html DOYLINE, La. (AP) — The explosives recycling company that caused the evacuation of a Louisiana town has come under scrutiny for explosions and its handling of dangerous materials before, and it was so far behind on its rent that the Louisiana National Guard refused to lease it more space. Explo Systems Inc. was cited for safety violations by the federal g... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757734-apnewsbreak-explo-faced-scrutiny-la-scare.html 2012-12-11T15:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1757902-uk-authorities-arrest-3-libor-rate-probe.html LONDON (AP) — British police arrested three people Tuesday as part of their investigation into the manipulation of a key benchmark interest rate — the first British arrests in a scandal that's had global ramifications. The three men — aged 33, 41 and 47 — were not named by officials. Search warrants were executed at the homes of all three, who are British... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1757902-uk-authorities-arrest-3-libor-rate-probe.html 2012-12-11T14:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757604-us-eu-considering-worlds-biggest-free-trade-pact.html WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of battling each other on trade issues, U.S. and European officials are contemplating a dramatic change in direction: joining together in what could be the world's largest free trade pact in an attempt to boost their struggling economies. Discussions are in the most preliminary of stages and there would be significant obstacl... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1757604-us-eu-considering-worlds-biggest-free-trade-pact.html 2012-12-11T07:33:00Z