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Payday Loan Interest Rates Capped at 36 Percent

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A new federal law bans predatory lenders from taking advantage of military personnel and their families. Check-cashing stores around military bases often charge annual interest rates of 300 percent. But the new law caps interest at 36 percent for loans to active-duty military and their families.

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The rights of Guantanamo detainees will figure prominently in the new Supreme Court term, which begins Monday. The high court also takes up issues ranging from sentencing disparities based on race to conspiracies between corporations and their vendors.

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Michigan Struggles to Avoid Shutdown

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State legislators in Michigan are scrambling to eliminate a budget deficit to avoid a shutdown of much of the state's government on Monday. Lawmakers have been meeting throughout the weekend.

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Some 3,500 refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma, have made new homes in Fort Wayne, Ind. A support system offers refugees assistance such as food stamps and health care. About 100 new Burmese refugees are arriving each month.

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A decaying flotilla of retired naval and merchant ships is wasting away in a shallow California bay. The ships make up what's now known as the Suisun Bay "mothball fleet." A bureaucratic battle rages over how to get rid of the ships while protecting waterways from toxins.

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