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FILE - Actor Ethan Hawke, right, talks with Charles Gaines as they attend the Mi'kmaq community's water ceremony on the shores of Pomquet Harbour to support the aboriginal call for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, on Oct. 26, 2015. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Croatia's Josip Stanisic (2) reacts as a goal is disallowed as Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, second right, celebrates during the second half of a World Cup round of 32 soccer match, in Toronto on Thursday, July 2, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Visa, American Express, MasterCard, and Discover previously announced plans to add a merchant code for gun retailers, which is a set of numbers that describe a merchant's primary business and track purchases for reward points. The creation of the new code was approved in 2022 and would allow financial institutions to better detect and report activities related to the purchase of firearms and ammunition at standalone gun retail stores.