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Retailers filed lawsuits against the credit card companies for placing restrictions on surcharges. The settlement eases those restrictions.

The retailer's objection puts the settlement in serious doubt.

The ex-president left Brazil for Florida a week before his supporters rioted in Brasilia. Analysts say his special diplomatic visa expired Tuesday, leaving U.S. authorities to decide his legal status.

After 16 years of only accepting American Express for credit in the store, the nation’s top wholesale club operator will switch to Visa.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that President Clinton has taken the extraordinary step of barring the president of Colombia from traveling to the United States. The State Department said today that Mr. Clinton revoked President Ernesto Samper's (sam-PAIR) visa because the Colombian took money from drug traffickers and in exchange, pursued policies on their behalf. The State Department spokesman said the US will continue to work with Colombia's government in fighting drugs. Colombia is the source of most of the cocaine and much of the heroin consumed in the U-S.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the United States has notified executives of a foreign company that because their firm deals in property in Cuba confiscated from Americans, they and their families will not be allowed into the U-S. The move was taken under the so-called "Helms-Burton Law," which tries to keep foreign investment out of Cuba. The firm targeted today was not named, although the State Department has warned Canadian, Italian and Mexican companies that they might face sanctions. Helms-Burton also allows Americans to sue foreign firms which do business on confiscated property in Cuba.

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided to pull many post-season tournaments out of North Carolina this season due to a controversial state law. This move follows the NCAA decision to remove college championship games out of the state.

The Australian Border Force said the top-ranked tennis player "failed to provide appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements to Australia, and his visa has been subsequently cancelled."

John Burnett reports on the debate over liberalizing US immigration policy along the Mexico border to allow guest worker visas.