AG Healey sets fantasy sports betting rules for Bay State

AG Healey sets fantasy sports betting rules for Bay State

BOSTON (AP) — The attorney general of Massachusetts has finalized what she calls the most comprehensive rules in the nation for daily fantasy sports operators.

The regulations issued Friday by Democrat Maura Healey are largely the same as those she proposed in November. They set a minimum age of 21 for participating in the online contests and bar games based on college or other amateur sports.

Obama won’t name Cashes Ledge an undersea monument
Barack Obama

Obama won’t name Cashes Ledge an undersea monument

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — White House officials said Friday that President Barack Obama is not considering an underwater mountain in the Gulf of Maine for designation as a national monument, a message welcomed by commercial fisherman but frustrating to environmentalists.

Environmental groups want Obama to permanently protect Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem. They tried, over months of campaigning, to make the case that Cashes Ledge deserves to be the first monument of its kind in the Atlantic Ocean.

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