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The signing of Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to repeal the application of the Common Core initiative in education curricula drew sharp reaction from critics, with one citing that the legislative move has somewhat been timed near the new academic year, San Jose Mercury News reported.

According to the Community Financial Services Association of America in a complaint filed yesterday in a Washington federal court, the regulators have been using the anti-fraud initiative called Operation Choke Point to pressure them out of the business.

Manfred Ainedter, who represents the ex-husband of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's eldest daughter, former diplomat Rakhat Aliyev, told Bloomberg that his client surrendered to Austrian police in relation to the kidnapping and eventual deaths of two executives of a bank he has a minority stake in.