July 30, 2019

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Law:

Jones Day Attacks 'Warped Portrayal' in $200M Gender Bias Class Action Jones Day Says Female Lawyers’ Lawsuit Built on Stereotypes
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Anonymous Workplace Harassment Suits Double in #MeToo Era
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Gender Pay Disparity in Law—How AI, Freelancing Are Bridging the Gap in the U.K.
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LeClairRyan's Troubles Deepen - Former Marketing Employee Files Gender Bias Compensation Lawsuit
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Associates Just Want the Truth About Billable Hour Requirements
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The Best Law Firm In The World (2019)
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Do Associate Perks Make a Difference in the Law Firm Talent War?
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First-year lawyer offers self-care tips and shares how he learned to quiet his mind post-law school
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Team GRE Notches Another Victory In Law School Admissions
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California Justices Want Answers After Bar Exam Blunder  
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Littler Accused of Defamation by Ex-Partner of Pierce Bainbridge
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Flynn's Ex-Covington Lawyers Defend Conduct Amid Court Scrutiny
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The Mysterious Mister Mifsud And Why No One Wants To Discuss Him
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13-year-old Texas boy dies in accidental shooting after kids found gun
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In Australian Firms, Depression and Anxiety Are Commonplace
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Barr ruling limits asylum claims based on family ties Justice Department ruling could undercut thousands of asylum cases, immigration lawyers say Ann Coulter: How we became the world's suckers on immigration Mexican president says Mexico could not commit to safe third-country agreement
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The Gilroy Garlic Fest Shooter Plugged a White Power Manifesto on Instagram The gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival identified as a 19-year-old man, used a weapon legally purchased in Nevada Gunman posted online minutes before killing 3 at festival More About the Gilroy Teen Gunman
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Angry young men continue to be America’s greatest threat
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Victoria's Secret reportedly continued to work with a modeling agency after it was accused of supplying underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein’s life ‘in jeopardy’ as powerful pals ‘don’t want their secrets out’ Jeffrey Epstein was served court papers shortly before he was found injured in jail cell Jeffrey Epstein, while hashing out lenient Florida deal, moved to expand his island estate Private Equity Billionaire Leon Black Sends Letter To Employees Addressing Jeffrey Epstein Ties Epstein was among Trump Jr. and Anthony Weiner on a bizarre 2003 Page Six most eligible 'studs' list No, the names of CNN anchors were not on the Epstein flight logs Anti-virus software creator McAfee denies hacking Jeffrey Epstein from jail The Epstein-Linked Russian ‘Matchmaker’ Who Allegedly Hooked Up Foreign Girls with Powerful Men Jeffrey Epstein's Suicide Attempt, Next Steps In Prison
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Dershowitz Responds After 1997 'Statutory Rape Is an Outdated Concept' Op-Ed Resurfaces
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Appeals court allows defamation suit for comments by Cosby lawyer day after 'epic' settlement Cancel the Jell-O Pudding Pops–Bill Cosby’s Privilege Loss Keeps Defamation Suit Alive
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Lawyer held in contempt for recording defendant's mouth being taped shut on judge's orders
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Man accused of trying to steal newspaper from neighbor charged with felony
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Trump Pardons, Commutes Sentences for 7
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Critics freaked out when they heard Arizona cops were pulling over drivers to give out Circle K coupons, but they have it all wrong
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Amazon delivery driver stole family dog from yard, officials say
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Modified sentences, 'rocket dockets' aim to ensure felons can still register to vote
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FBI says 'Pink Lady Bandit,' who robbed multiple banks along the East Coast, has been arrested
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Judges:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speculates About Future Retirement From Supreme Court
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Citing contradictory evidence, judge overturns sex assault verdict; juror is 'absolutely appalled'
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Rather Than Accept Responsibility, Judge Punishes Lawyers For Pointing Out Her Mistakes
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Wall Street:

Dow futures edge lower as investors look ahead to Fed meeting, Apple earnings
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Stocks close little changed as investors temper trade expectations, await Fed decision
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Layoffs:

735 Newark airport workers get layoff notices
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Citigroup is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs this year
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Uber Lays Off 400 in Marketing
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Cannabis:

New York decriminalizes marijuana use Cuomo signs bill to decriminalize marijuana use, expunge convictions
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Cannabis Has Big Law Seeing Green, but the Am Law 50 Are Skipping the Party
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Politics:

Poll: Warren and Harris lead the field in likability
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Axios-NewsWhip 2020 attention tracker: Dominant storyline for each candidate
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2020 Democratic race enters do-or-die phase Outwit, outlast, outplay: What to watch at Democratic debate
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Gillibrand's underhanded swipe at Elizabeth Warren
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Warren used to be a conservative. This changed her mind
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Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics
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2020 Democratic candidates are fighting for $5 donations—Here’s why
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'There was a lot of yelling': Trump was furious that Delta's CEO skipped a White House meeting
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Trump said he was 'down there' at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, but there's no evidence he was ever closer than a few blocks away
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Trump’s involvement in A$AP Rocky’s case, somewhat explained
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Trump Adviser Tom Barrack Pushed for Saudi Nuclear Deal — and Planned to Profit From It Report: Trump associate leveraged White House ties to push Saudi nuclear plan
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Megan Rapinoe still isn’t going to the White House, even if Trump invites her
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2020 candidate Kamala Harris wants Wall Street to pick up the tab for her ‘Medicare For All’ plan
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Trump attacks black lawmaker and calls him ‘racist’ Trump Targets Sharpton in Latest Attack on Minority Leaders How Trump and Sharpton Became Ultimate New York Frenemies Trump escalates attacks on black critics Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
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Baltimore Residents Respond to Trump Calling Their City a 'Rat and Rodent Infested Mess'
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Nearly half of House Democrats support impeachment; but that doesn't mean it's imminent
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Where 2020 Democrats stand on carbon tax, other climate change policies
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Virginia NAACP leader resigns after sending racially derogatory text
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Diversity concerns at House Democrats' campaign committee lead top staffer to quit
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Trump's nominee to lead America's intelligence agencies has an unusually thin resume Top GOP Senator Warned the White House About Trump's Choice for National Intelligence Director
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Economy:

Fed chair Jerome Powell likes the economy hot
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FOMC Preview
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Dallas Fed: "Texas Manufacturing Continues Moderate Expansion"
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Trump hits the Fed again, says ‘small rate cut’ this week is not enough Trump ups the ante on his Fed feud Political pressure complicates Fed's expected rate cut
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If the Fed cuts rates this week, it could widen a growing rift within the central bank
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Fox News Anchor Confronts Trump Chief of Staff Mulvaney Over Ballooning Deficit, Pointing Out It Began Decreasing Under Obama Trump’s Budget Deficits Could Almost Double Obama’s
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It can happen here: Interest rates set to fall despite soaring stocks, low unemployment
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Warren proposes trade overhaul with strict preconditions for all countries Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to dramatically rewrite the rules on negotiating trade deals Elizabeth Warren’s vision for changing America’s trade policy, explained Warren's trade plan is bad politics and worse policy
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Companies are ramping up share buybacks, and they’re increasingly using debt to do so
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China: US is Perfect Example of What Not to Do as Superpower
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Trump, Dems Make Progress on New NAFTA
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Private Fixed Investment in Offices, Lodging and Malls as a Percent of GDP Since 1959
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The 13 most unequal places in America, ranked
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Here’s what happens to U.S. and emerging-markets stocks, and the dollar if the Fed cuts interest rates this week
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FactCheck: At the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:

Freddie Mac: Mortgage Serious Delinquency Rate unchanged in June
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Q2 2019 GDP Details on Residential and Commercial Real Estate
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Millennials aren't buying homes, and it might not be because they can't afford them: Some actually prefer to rent instead
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Kushner's Baltimore housing complexes under scrutiny after Trump's tweets
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Here’s where the 2020 presidential candidates, including Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, stand on affordable housing
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Phoenix leads nation in multifamily rent growth
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Municipalities:

Puerto Ricans worry political turmoil could further delay federal aid
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Puerto Ricans anxious for new leader amid political crisis
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9 questions about Puerto Rico’s political crisis you were too embarrassed to ask
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Oil/Gas:

Why Halcón's 2016 bankruptcy didn't protect it from delisting
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Senators agree to spend billions on electric car infrastructure
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A Dead End for Fossil Fuels in EU City Centers
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Aviation:

Helicopter Bankruptcy Highlights Surprise Medical Bill Backlash
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Boeing better get its ‘s--- together,’ Ryanair CEO warns as 737 Max grounding drags on
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Air Canada to keep Boeing 737 Max out of schedule until at least 2020
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Movie Theaters:

Luxury cinema chain iPic Entertainment’s stock tanks on bankruptcy fears iPic stock drops more than 40% as company considers bankruptcy
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Autos:

The Bond Market is Betting Tesla is in Trouble
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Healthcare:

Reorganizing Health Care Bankruptcy
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Rich investors may have let a hospital go bankrupt. Now, they could profit from the land Buy a failing hospital and profit: After Hahnemann, this could be a dangerous new playbook for rich investors
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Congress might actually end big, unexpected medical bills
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Personal Finance:

How to Answer “What Are Your Greatest Strengths” in a Job Interview—and Be 100% Confident in Your Answer
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Electricity:

‘PG&E is a wreck’: S.F. supervisors support study about buying power lines San Francisco could soon make PG&E ‘attractive offer’ for power lines
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The next two weeks will determine PG&E’s future
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Public hearing to focus on $2 billion PG&E rate hike
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Newspapers:

East Oregonian Publishers Win Federal Auction For Bend, Redmond Newspapers
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Climate:

The world's climate emergency is getting harder to ignore
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kamala Harris partnered on a new proposal to protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of climate change
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Banking:

Capital One says it was hit with data breach, affecting tens of millions of credit card applications Hacker accesses 100 million Capital One applications
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Fraud:

Former energy trader, star wrestler Timothy Krieger accused of multimillion-dollar fraud scheme
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Logistics:

Louisville logistics company files bankruptcy — but it's being challenged
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Retailing:

Barneys New York Readying Bankruptcy Filing, Reports Indicate
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Beleaguered retailer Barneys hit by paycheck snafu
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Charming Charlie's pending liquidation a reminder of bankruptcy's limits
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Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (10 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Professional Employment:

Skadden Ch. 11 Retention Isn't A Conflict, Stearns Says
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Litigation:

Big Law v. Litigation Funders: Who Wins?
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Construction:

Bankruptcy Court Determines That The Right Of A Surety To Recover Retainage In A Construction Contract Due To Equitable Subrogation Is Superior To A Creditor’s Security Interest Even If Perfected
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All But One FIU Bridge Collapse Defendants Reach Tentative Settlement
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Avoidance Actions:

Discretionary Bonuses: Per Se Fraudulent Conveyances?
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IP:

The Trademarking of the “Basic Federal Rule in Bankruptcy”
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Personal Finance:

I had an 'expensive' wedding and here's why I kind of regret it
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Coal:

Unpaid Ky. miners protest by blocking trains at bankrupt mine
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State left Campbell County to fend for itself in bankruptcies
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Education:

University Of Alaska Declares Financial Exigency, Paving The Way For Program Cuts, Tenured Faculty Layoffs
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Agribusiness:

Where's This Year's Corn?
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US Farmers: First the Floods, Now No Water
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Trucking:

A trucking company's net income plunged from $2.5 million to $1,000 — and it's yet another chilling sign of the trucking 'bloodbath'
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Soccer:

U.S. Soccer says women's national team paid more than the men's side
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Television:

Junky TV is actually making people dumber — and more likely to support populist politicians
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Food/Beverage:

West Texas brewery's SA expansion dreams end with bankruptcy filing
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Bankruptcy court approves Kona Grill sale for $20.3 M
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Beyond Meat plunges after losing more money than expected
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Religion:

Investigation reveals Chicago Archdiocese’s financial woes
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Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests
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Christian group warns against rise of 'Christian nationalism'
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Well-known Christian author, purity advocate, LGBT critic renounces his faith: ‘I hope you can forgive me’
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Student Debt:

These 76,000 People May Have Committed Student Loan Fraud
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Kamala Harris proposes canceling $20,000 in student debt for these low-income borrowers, unleashing backlash on Twitter
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UK:

UK company insolvencies hit five-year high in Q2 - official data
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Personal insolvency rate continues to rise
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Loan charge is pushing people into homelessness and bankruptcy, says former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith
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Historic Belfast shipyard on brink as workers demand rescue deal Harland and Wolff workers lock themselves in to protest shipyard's sale
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Could Boris Johnson's 'no-deal' Brexit break up the United Kingdom?
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Jaguar Land Rover loss widens on lower sales, Brexit challenges
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How Brexit uncertainty is weighing on UK manufacturing
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Canada:

Survey says Albertans too embarrassed to seek debt relief
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BC insolvency getting worse Two-fifths of British Columbians within $200 of insolvency
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Nautilus Obtains Court Approval to Convene Meeting of Creditors to Vote on Plan of Arrangement
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Canadian police are still hunting 2 teen murder suspects, and experts think they may have died in the swampy wilderness
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India:

Jet Insolvency: Usable Model Law, or Airy-Fairy?
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Govt shows steely intent in resolving thorny IBC issues Parliament Passes IBC Amendment Bill That Leaves Key Concerns Unaddressed
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Venezuela:

Third Circuit Affirms Crystallex Attachment Order Venezuela Faces the Loss of Citgo -- and Desperately Needed Dollars
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