Law:

Another law firm defers start date for some associates
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Am Law 200 Firm Announces Employee Cuts, Citing 'Challenging Economic Environment'
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Eckert Seamans lays off business administrative professionals
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The Biglaw Firm With The Largest Decline In Gross Revenue
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These 5 firms are named best for women and diversity
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Young Lawyer Arrested In String Of Decade-Old Rapes, Kidnappings
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Jonathan Turley Rewrites Constitution To Include 'Congressional Backsies' Clause
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Clients Should Try Not To Contact Lawyers During Odd Hours
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Weird How Quiet The 'Campus Free Speech Crisis' Crowd Has Been About CUNY Law School
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Kratom: A Drug Lawyers Should Be Wary Of Using
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Plea bargaining reform urged by ABA task force in new report
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Grand jury in Trump classified documents case expected to meet this coming week after hiatus
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New evidence in Trump case bolsters two sets of charges
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DOJ closes Pence classified documents investigation with no charges • Trump says ‘I’m at least as innocent as he is’ after Pence won’t face charges on classified documents • Former Trump lawyer compares classified documents case to Hillary Clinton’s emails
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How Texas AG Ken Paxton Went From Teflon Ken To Being Impeached By His Own Party • Here's what's going on with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's impeachment
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Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee’s anti-drag law as too broad, too vague • Tennessee drag ban is struck down by federal judge: ‘Unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad’
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If Hunter Biden Gets Indicted, There’s a Blueprint for Joe Biden
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Greene flips on public release of Jan. 6 tapes, claims it could ‘put the security of the Capitol at risk’
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New Hampshire veteran accused of calling in threat to kill sitting US senator
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'Don’t want to live life anymore without confessing': Man confesses to killing landlord 15 years ago, police recordings show
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A Florida woman’s car caught fire with her children inside while she allegedly shoplifted in a mall
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California is investigating after a private jet carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento, officials say • 16 migrants flown to California on chartered jet, left outside church • The GOP battle to show who’s tougher on immigration
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Charted: Growing global acceptance of gay and lesbian people
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In gun law push, Tennessee governor’s office memo says NRA prefers to ‘round up mentally ill people’
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Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana
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Six women found dead in Portland woods in the last three months
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Chilling mystery as nearly 30 kids go missing from Cleveland in two weeks and cops say they’ve never seen anything like it
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3M faces trial over ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam in ‘bet-the-company’ litigation
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Judges:

Former CABA President Appointed a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
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Billionaire Crow Refuses Latest Senate Request on Justice Thomas
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Texas judge bans legal filings that rely on AI-generated content
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Lawyers Who Used ChatGPT To Fake Opinions Are In Real Trouble
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Temporary judge told litigants he knew 'zero' about matrimonial law, ethics complaint alleges
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Judge In Disney's Case Against Ron DeSantis Recuses Himself Because Father's Brother's Nephew's Cousin's Former Roommate Owns 30 Shares Of Disney
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Wall Street:

Stock futures are little changed after the S&P 500’s best week since March
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Trillion-Dollar Treasury Vacuum Coming for Wall St Rally
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The stock market's new normal is a future of neverending chaos
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Layoffs:

Litigation Funder Cuts Staff as Backer Slashes Future Commitment
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ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners • ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace.
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I'm an ex-Amazon senior leader. Here's why layoffs keep happening and why ambitious managers are fueling them.
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Will You Be Replaced By Your AI Clone? Maybe One Day, But Not Quite Yet
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Healthcare:

Class-action lawsuit filed against Compass Medical over abrupt closure of facilities in Mass.
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US life expectancy problem is ‘bigger than we ever thought,’ report finds
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Trapped at work: Immigrant health care workers can face harsh working conditions and $100,000 lawsuits for quitting
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CDC: Upward of 9 million cut corners on drugs due to cost
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Texas bans gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Abbott signs bill
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How Covid made it nearly impossible to pass new vaccine rules
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Chemical in common sweetener found to possibly damage DNA
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Most US adults are declining COVID boosters as CDC warns of health risks: 'Relatively little protection'
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June 2nd COVID Update: New Pandemic Lows for Deaths and Hospitalizations
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Agribusiness:

Rescue Deal for a Global Soy Giant Is at Risk of Collapsing
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Bankruptcy judge OK’s temporary lease of Garcia Grain elevators
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Banking:

Countdown to Mega Merger - How Credit Suisse Wobbled and UBS Rushed to Rescue
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UBS Plans to Complete Credit Suisse Takeover as Early as June 12
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UBS Moves to Retain More Than 100 Credit Suisse Asia Dealmakers
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Morgan Stanley Sees Shock 16% US Profit Drop Killing Stock Rally
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Why wealthy Americans love UBS, the secretive Swiss banking giant
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UBS Considers Delaying 2nd-Quarter Results Until End-August
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Wells Fargo Seeks to Settle ‘Banking While Black’ Mortgage Case
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More Bank Insiders Are Buying Shares in Their Own Companies
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US May Impose Higher Capital Requirements on Big Banks
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Utilities:

The reckoning that wasn’t: how the largest US power firm avoided a trial for a deadly wildfire
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Paradise in the dark: Where Americans endure continuous power outages
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Student Debt:

If you have student loans, here’s what the debt ceiling deal means for you
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Student loan payments will restart soon. Many borrowers aren’t ready
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Celebs:

RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice Celebrates Her 52nd Birthday After Being Handed a New $17K Lien • RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice Celebrates Her Birthday Amid News She Owes $1 Million to the Federal Government
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Joe Giudice claims he would never have been convicted and deported had he not appeared on the Real Housewives of New Jersey
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Furniture:

A dog, a duck and a peacock walk into a bankruptcy courtroom
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Settlement near in lawsuit against Art Van Furniture heirs
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Pharma:

Drugmaker Mallinckrodt may file for bankruptcy again
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Data Centers:

Data-center operator Cyxtera Technologies files for bankruptcy protection as debt woes mount | Mint
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Sports:

With A Federal Bankruptcy Court Ruling, MLB’s Days On Bally Sports Appear Numbered
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SPACs:

Billionaire SPAC Kings Dragged to Court After Boom Goes Bust
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Consumer Finance:

‘It left me with nothing’: the debt trap of payday loans
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Accounting:

PwC Identifies List of Partners Involved in Australia Tax Breach
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Economy:

Biden signs bipartisan debt ceiling bill to avert government default • Political winners and losers from the debt ceiling drama • McCarthy impresses Senate GOP with surprise wins in debt ceiling battle • US credit rating to stay on Fitch’s ‘negative watch’ despite debt limit deal • Sinema and Manchin’s covert debt deal operation • The debt deal limits Pentagon spending. Lawmakers are already figuring out ways around it • Treasury Cash Pile Slumped to Match 2015 Low During Debt-Cap Saga • Debt Ceiling Crisis Averted For Now, But Just Wait Two Years
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Biden Debt-Bill Signing Set to Unleash Tsunami of US Debt Sales
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Debt-Ceiling Deal Ignores US Debt Time Bomb
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Don’t Ask Us to Come to the Office More —  Or We Will Quit, Investors Say
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U.S. economy adds 339,000 jobs as labor market stays hot • May Employment Report: 339 thousand Jobs, 3.7% Unemployment Rate • Comments on May Employment Report • Here Are the Key Takeaways From US Jobs Report for May
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Rosenberg: US Economy is a Dead Man Walking
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Fed Seen Sticking With Rate Pause as Wages Show Some Cooling
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Bank of America CEO says company to slow hiring, predicts ‘mild recession’
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IMF chief says there’s no significant slowdown in lending and the Fed may need to do more
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Fed Has Message Problem After Early Rate Pause Signals, El-Erian Says
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America's economic holding pattern
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Fed Should Consider a Half-Point July Rate Hike If June Is a Skip, Summers Says
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Who receives food benefits? It may not be who you think
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Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel says investors' hopes of a Fed pause are pushing stocks higher – and skipping a rate hike would lower the risk of a US recession
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Fed Skip-a-Hike Strategy Is Sensible, Risky and Confusing
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Costco shoppers shifting away from specific item; CFO says it’s indicator of recession
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Boycotts hit stocks hard. Here’s what might be next for Bud, Target and others caught in the anti-Pride backlash
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US birthrate is still flat compared to pre-pandemic levels: CDC
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California Spent $17 Billion on Homelessness. It’s Not Working - WSJ
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The 16 cities around the world with the most billionaires, ranked
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More and more Gen Zers and millennials are demanding work-life balance
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Egg prices are finally falling back to earth after nearing $5 a dozen earlier this year
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Salary Ranges Have Widened for High-Paying Jobs as Wage Transparency Spreads
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Heavy Truck Sales Up Sharply Year-over-year in May
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The 10 U.S. cities where people are most satisfied with their jobs
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Americans are ‘more afraid of running out of money than death’
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Private Credit is Poised for a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Boom, But It Could Get Ugly Soon
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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:

Realtor.com Reports Weekly Active Inventory Up 18% YoY; New Listings Down 20% YoY
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Housing supply is plunging in some parts of the the US and surging in others as high mortgage rates split the housing market
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South Florida couple has trouble finding affordable insurance as rates rise ahead of hurricane season
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Buying a Home in California Is Already Hard. State Farm’s Exit Makes It Harder.
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A New Wave of Real Estate Pain Is Coming After $148 Billion Rout
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Year-over-year Rent Growth Continues to Decelerate; Asking Rents Likely to be Down year-over-year in June or July
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Pustilnikov files suit over Redondo Beach power plant sale
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Want to know why younger generations seem so pissed? Look at the housing market.
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Municipalities:

Electric provider for PREPA defaults on bonds
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Oil/Gas:

Hourly Pay for US Shale Workers Tops $43, a Record in the Industry’s Hunt for Employees
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Saudis Cut Oil Supplies to Raise Prices • Here’s What Morgan Stanley to Goldman Say About Saudi Output Cut
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Sports:

Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums
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Education:

Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence'
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Violence Against Teachers on Rise - WSJ
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Florida has launched an “unparalleled” assault on higher education
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About Half of GOP Oppose Book Bans
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Water:

Arizona seeks to avert groundwater disaster
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Top US chemical firms to pay $1.2bn to settle water contamination lawsuits
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Europe is struggling with a ‘very precarious’ water situation ahead of summer
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Media:

Devastating profile dogs CNN boss • Inside the Meltdown at CNN • 'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht
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Tech:

YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow U.S. election denialism
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AI hypocrisy: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic won't let their data be used to train other AI models, but they use everyone else's content
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Why an Air Force colonel — and many other experts — are so worried about the existential risk of AI
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Dead Silicon Valley Unicorns Pile Up as 'Unicorpses'
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Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like
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Crypto:

FTX Objects to Extension of Mediation Talks for Bankrupt Crypto Lender Genesis
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Return $550K in FTX Donations
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FTX Creditors Challenge Genesis’ Assertion of ‘$0.00’ as Critical Claim Value
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FTX’s $3.9B Claim Sparks Major Crypto Clash – Prepare for the Unexpected?
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What Happened To FTX? The Crypto Exchange Fund’s Collapse Explained.
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Warren’s alleged work with short-seller shows anti-crypto army heating up
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Key House Republicans Unveil Crypto Market Structure Draft Bill
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Defunct Crypto Hedge Fund 3AC Insists on Taking Part in Genesis Mediation
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Climate:

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns
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Climate change is already making parts of America uninsurable
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A Major Showdown Is Brewing Over What Counts as a Carbon Credit
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Fraud:

Elizabeth Holmes owes $452 million along with her former Theranos partner. She might never have to fully pay up • Elizabeth Holmes ordered dinners for Theranos staff but made sure they weren't delivered until after 8 p.m. so they worked late: book • These rich and famous people got burned by investing hundreds of millions in Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos
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Christian financial advisor Dave Ramsey sued for $150 million over timeshare-exit company endorsement
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Frank Founder Charlie Javice Says JPMorgan Documents Will Exonerate Her
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Unanimous Supreme Court Endorses Subjective Belief Standard for False Claims Liability
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Michael Hild again asks for new trial, citing new evidence against lenders
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Retailing:

Bed Bath & Beyond bidders emerge, unsecured creditors strike a deal • Buy Buy Baby draws sale interest in Bed Bath & Beyond bankruptcy; one bidder looks to save stores
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Target Sheds $14 Billion in Value on Retail Uncertainty, LGBTQ Backlash
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Weight Loss:

Ozempic and Wegovy force weight-loss companies to upend their longstanding strategies
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Transit:

Bird Global Rides Into A Possible Chapter 11
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Recent Ch. 11 Filings (54 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (20 new filings today)
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Litigation:

Litigation Funders Say Capital Becomes Scarce as Recession Looms
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Bankruptcy Strategy:

Liability Management Exercises: A Transatlantic Perspective
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Mass Torts:

3M Heads to Trial in ‘Existential’ $143 Billion Forever-Chemicals Litigation
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Alex Jones appeals his $1.4 billion Sandy Hook defamation verdict
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June 7 virtual event on Second Circuit's Purdue Pharma decision
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What the Latest Investigations Into Catholic Church Sex Abuse Mean
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Judge Denies Diocese of Rockville Centre's Motion To Stay Litigation
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Bankruptcy court played its part in opioid case
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Miscellaneous:

The Year in Business Bankruptcy: 2022
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International Insolvency and Restructuring Review 2023/24
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Subchapter V:

A Missing Piece in Subchapter V Eligibility & A Potential Work-Around
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Aviation:

Airlines Bask in Sky-High Summer Fares While Airports Stay Stuck
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Delta flight diverts to remote island as unruly passenger breaks free of restraints
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Air travel to be disrupted by ‘very frustrating’ supply chain issues: IATA
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Indian government protects aircraft fleets from unscrupulous lessors • Indian Authorities Put Go First Lessors' Repossession Requests On Hold
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Autos:

Carvana Cancels $1Bn in Debt Swap • Carvana Cancels $1 Billion Debt Swap as Creditors Hold Out
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GM, Stellantis Pay Combined $363 Million for Missing Fuel Efficiency Targets
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Vehicles Sales at 15.05 million SAAR in May; Up 19.6% YoY
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Politics:

DeSantis is marquee speaker at biker rally after Trump opts out • Days after he was criticized for copying Trump’s speech, Ron DeSantis rolled up to an Iowa campaign event with a speech uncannily similar to the one Winston Churchill gave during World War II • Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride • DeSantis’s hard-right brand faces test in New Hampshire • DeSantis defines ‘woke’ as ‘a war on the truth’ after Trump said people ‘can’t define it’ • Don’t Take Financial Advice From Ron DeSantis
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When Did the ‘F--- Your Feelings’ Crowd Get So Triggered?
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There’s a reason for the anti-LGBTQ+ backlash. And it isn’t all bad news
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First GOP debate: Who’s in, who's out, and who’s sweating • Return of the Republican Clown Car • TV networks battle for Republican debates • Trump, GOP Rivals Must Meet Polling, Donor Thresholds for August 23 Debate
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Hannity says he’s not ‘interested in facilitating or listening’ to Christie
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GOP’s Graves Says McCarthy Is ‘Absolutely Safe’ as House Speaker
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Manchin sidesteps questions on third-party presidential run: ‘Not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out’
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GOP hopefuls slam Trump for comments praising Kim Jong Un
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Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America’s Oldest President • Everything is coming up Biden • Biden Uses Debt-Ceiling Win as Launching Pad for 2024 Reelection • Biden to Say Debt-Limit Deal Prevented ‘Economic Collapse’
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‘No Longer the Lord’s Chicken’: ‘Christian Woman’ Says She’s ‘Grieving’ Over ‘Woke’ Chick-fil-A Hiring a Diversity Officer
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Why Steve Bannon May Still Go Down for a Pardoned Crime
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Progressive losses mount: Here are five big disappointments
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Prominent MAGA donor John Rumpel’s ‘entire family’ in DC area plane crash after F-16s tried contacting passed out pilot
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Food/Beverage:

Sonic Franchisee Buys Corner Bakery Out of Bankruptcy
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More people are picking up takeout orders themselves to save money and dodge high Uber Eats and DoorDash delivery fees
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Distressed Investing:

The Junkiest Junk Bonds Feel The Pain of Economic Decline
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Labor:

Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a triple strike
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Directors Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Hollywood Studios • DGA strikes ‘historic’ deal with Hollywood streamers, studios
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The Court's Decision To Fill In The Facts On Employer's Behalf Will Further Weaken Unions And Strikes
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Child Labor Is on the Rise
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Union Action Shuts Some Key West Coast Ports, Employers Say • Long Beach, California terminal hit by labor turmoil and won’t open Monday
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Amazon Fired Another Alabama Union Organizer, Union Says
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Hotels:

Occupancy Rate Up 0.6% Year-over-year
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Sovereigns:

Tax the wealthiest to avoid IMF, says Tunisia’s president
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UK:

Can UK Administrators Apply For Conditional Discharge of Liability?
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Rishi Sunak Moves to Curb Migration Citing Strain on UK Services
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CBI Shunned by Big Business Ahead of Crucial Vote on Its Future
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Sunak Finds Himself Drawn Into the One Feud He Hoped to Avoid
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‘The billionaires have won’: English pubs forced to close after owners demand full rent for lockdown
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Number of Young Britons Too Sick to Work Doubles in a Decade
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EU:

Euro zone business growth slowed in May as factories struggled-PMI
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India:

Supreme Court Ruling: Admission of Corporate Insolvency a Norm, Rejection an Exception
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Indian railways official says error in signaling system led to crash that killed over 300 people
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Russia:

‘Everything Changed’: The War Arrives on Russians’ Doorstep • Pro-Kremlin TV Host Warns Viewers to 'Get Used' to Attacks Inside Russia
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Ukraine keeps up pressure following Russian declaration of victory in Bakhmut
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Zelensky's plea signals tough battle ahead
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Zelensky says Ukraine is ready for counteroffensive
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Why Ukraine’s efforts to rattle Russia are working
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‘Spymania’ grips Russian security services amid sharp rise in treason cases
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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is accusing the Kremlin of planting landmines to blow up his troops as they left Bakhmut
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Russia says Ukraine launched a major attack in the east • Russia Says It Thwarted Large Ukrainian Attack in Donetsk
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How the U.K. is trying to pressure other nations into arming Ukraine
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NATO Chief Pushes Turkey to Allow Sweden to Join Alliance
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Poland:

Hundreds of thousands march in Poland anti-government protests to show support for democracy
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China:

Is This Property Developer China Evergrande 2.0?
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Is China heading for Japan-like stagnation? Economist says the worst is likely behind us
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China Says Local Debt Under Control, No Systemic Risk Seen
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U.S. and China trade barbs at top security summit as Taiwan Strait tensions simmer
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Germany:

Germany's Far Right Surging in the Polls • Far-Right Resurgence Limits Scholz’s Room for Action in Germany
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France:

CDS committee says bankruptcy credit event has not occurred for Casino
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