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Critics of the North Dakota abortion law, of which one of its provision is to grant doctors from a healthcare system performing abortions to gain hospital-admitting privileges, said the provision will force doctors to abandon abortion services in clinics as they will be forced to comply to meet the number of hospital rounds required of their admission privileges.

Calvin Darden Jr, who is heir to the Darden Media empire, was officially charged by the US government for fraud charges in relation to the acquisition of Maxim magazine. Bloomberg recounted Darden Jr's elaborate scheme to acquire over $8 million for the magazine acquisition.

According to a Bloomberg report, the accord reached between Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc with Freddie Mac will enable the former Wall Street bank's cash to be distributed promptly to its other creditors.