September 3, 2024

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Law:

The More Elite The Law Firm, The Bigger The Rate Hike
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Yale Law's Graduates Don't Have The Best Reputation. Here's Who To Blame
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Paul Hastings Hiring Surge Pays Dividends as Lawyer Demand Grows
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Last-minute election lawsuits may serve political goals, law prof says
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Shouldn’t AI Adoption Be About Competitiveness?
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With Trump indictment, appeal, Jack Smith launches final pre-election moves Jack Smith to Judge Chutkan: Trump trial timeline is in your court
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Georgia election workers seek control of Giuliani’s assets to collect on $146M defamation judgment Ex-election workers want Rudy Giuliani's apartment, Yankees rings in push to collect $148M judgment Giuliani sued by ex-Georgia election workers over efforts to shield Florida condo from creditors
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Trump asks federal court to intervene in hush money case in bid to toss conviction, delay sentencing Trump Bellyflops Into Federal Court In Desperate Effort To Avoid NY Sentencing Date
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Trump claims he had ‘every right’ to interfere with election Has Donald Trump Confessed to a Crime in TV Interview? What We Know
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Steve Bannon Files Gonzo Motion To Get Out Of Jail Early
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Donald Trump's Criminal Cases: What to Watch for This Week
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Police use Taser to subdue man who stormed media area of Trump rally in Pennsylvania
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Jan. 6 sentences under fresh scrutiny as Supreme Court fallout persists
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'Impatient' driver kills NHL star, brother on eve of sister's wedding
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Arizona mom arrested for criticizing officials at public meeting sues for rights violation
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A street performer blew bubbles in a park. Officials cited him for littering.
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Florida Girl, 7, Shot Her Dad in Head as He Allegedly Beat Her Mother. Now Her Mother Is Charged With Murder.
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4 people were killed on a subway train near Chicago, apparently while sleeping, police say
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4 people shot and killed on Chicago-area Blue Line train, suspect in custody
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Two deaths in one Massachusetts town cast doubt on the relationship between police and prosecutors
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Woman held captive in barn for four years
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South Carolina basketball star Ashlyn Watkins is charged with assault and kidnapping
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Mystery of ‘Pinnacle Man’ found frozen in a cave solved after nearly five decades
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Maryland Supreme Court upholds decision to reinstate Adnan Syed murder conviction
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Oregon’s drug decriminalization law expires
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Judges:

Pioneer bankruptcy judge won't see her term renewed
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New Judge Appointed to U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California
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Former top US bankruptcy judge in the hot seat over relationship scandal
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Judge Reed O'Connor Seems To Own Too Much Tesla To Rule Against CVS, Just Enough To Rule Against Liberal Fact-Checkers
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Federal Judge Calls Out 'Dangerous, Barbaric Conditions' In Brooklyn Detention Center
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Which Justice Writes the Most Important Decisions on the Supreme Court?
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Supreme Court Conservatives Are Less Likely to Explain Recusals
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Justice Jackson would consider an 'enforceable' Supreme Court ethics code Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Talks Ethics, Presidential Immunity in First Broadcast Interview Since Confirmation Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was once Matt Damon’s scene partner in a Harvard drama class Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson laments presidential immunity decision in TV interview
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Texas judge decides Texas is a perfectly good venue for X to sue Media Matters
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Notice of Vacancy - Case Administrator II, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia
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Wall Street:

 

Dow Closes At Record High Again As Indexes Surge
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JPMorgan’s Matejka Says Stocks Risk Stalling Even With Rate Cut
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Andrew Left Case Spooks Short Sellers to Add Research Warnings
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Layoffs:

Goldman to lay off a few hundred employees in annual talent review, source says
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Climate:

Wall Street is making a crucial reversal on one huge issue
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Hot, hotter, hottest: How much will climate change warm your county?
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Extreme heat worsens chronic health conditions in millions of Americans
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Hailstones may get bigger as the climate warms — bringing higher insurance costs
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Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say
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Coal Generates Less Than Half of Australian Power for First Time
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Historic Drought Cuts Zambia’s Power Supply to Three Hours a Day
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Worst Drought in 40 Years Puts Brazil’s Major Crops at Risk
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Healthcare:

Bankrupt Steward Strikes Hospital Lease Pact With Landlord MPT As Carney Hospital in Dorchester closes, nurse reflects on decades of community care Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm's closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say
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MercyOne appeal: Mercy Iowa City liquidation plan ‘invalid and unenforceable’
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Trump’s mixed record on vaccines in spotlight after RFK Jr. endorsement
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Monkeypox pandemic fears as thousands infected with disease in Brazilian city
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Politics:

Trump Vs. Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads By More Than 5 Points In Latest Survey She Dominates New Round of Polls, Winning Or Tying In Every Major Swing State 538 Avg: Harris +3.2% Harris’s Sun Belt gains open new path to potential victory Where the race between Trump and Harris stands on Labor Day Nate Silver: Trump slightly ahead of Harris heading into Labor Day weekend Polls show a changed, close 2024 race heading into Labor Day
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Harris sees signs of surging enthusiasm among young voters The White House wants you to know: Harris was in the room Kamala Harris’ Secret Power: She Is Whatever You Want Her to Be Poking the Bear: How Kamala Harris Is Preparing for Trump Debate Can Gold Star Families Saddle Harris With Biden's Afghanistan Baggage? Trump's political offensive is a warning for Harris Harris puts her Biden balancing act on display in Pennsylvania
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Trump turns to Truth Social to share sexual jokes and calls for ‘military tribunals’ Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ World Trump in damage-control mode over abortion backlash from the right Trump seeks to activate his base at Moms for Liberty gathering but risks alienating moderate voters Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago Trump Will Vote ‘No’ On Florida’s Abortion Amendment After Earlier Comments Stirred Confusion How Trump keeps undermining his own strategy Trump says slain soldiers' families asked for gravesite photos More artists demand Trump stop using their music RFK Jr.’s name on ballot poses danger for Trump in key states RFK Jr. sues North Carolina elections board as he seeks to remove his name from ballot How Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Unlikely Partnership Took Shape Crockett: Americans will see Trump as ‘bumbling fool’ at debate Trump: The way Harris treated Pence in debate was ‘horrible’ Donald Trump Saying Kamala Harris Was 'Horrible' to Mike Pence Mocked Trump: ‘I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country’ Trump suggests he could support Florida law legalizing ‘personal amounts’ of marijuana Former GOP officials sound the alarm over Trump’s Orbán embrace Donald Trump Faces Backlash Over Rally Locations: 'Sundown Towns'
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2 Republican senators split on Trump’s IVF proposal Conservatives deride Trump’s IVF plan as worse than Obamacare contraceptive mandate Scaramucci on Trump abortion stance: ‘He’s in trouble, he knows it’ Schiff says Trump ‘flip-flopping’ on abortion: ‘He has no values’ 10 States Where Abortion Rights Are on Ballot New York Democrats fear abortion-rights amendment is faltering
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Trump, Military Cemetery Controversy, Explained Trump defends photo shoot at Arlington in back-to-back campaign appearances Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s sudden embrace of Trump Gold Star families did not invite Biden or Harris to Arlington Cemetery last week, White House says She attended the event surrounding the Trump controversy at Arlington National Cemetery. Here’s what she saw Harris says Trump ‘disrespected sacred ground’ after Arlington Cemetery incident The Trump campaign’s conduct at Arlington is shocking but not surprising
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Anti-Trump GOP group launches $11.5 million ad buy in swing states
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House and Senate Republicans are starting to panic about a huge money gap with Democrats
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H.R. McMaster on Walz’s military claims: ‘I would never disparage any service’
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Teachers union chief: Vance ‘must really be disconnected from life’ Vance: ‘Of course’ Trump would appoint a Democrat to his Cabinet Assessing JD Vance’s Appeals to the Middle Class on the Campaign Trail JD Vance Facing Backlash Over Resurfacing Miss South Carolina 2007 Clip—The Controversy, Explained Is Usha Vance’s Hindu identity an asset or a liability to the Trump-Vance campaign? JD Vance's Dark Vision of Women & Immigrants
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris' Very Different Labor Day Messages
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Elon Musk says voting by mail is ‘insane’ — but he has done it himself, records show
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Why an election for 330 million-plus people may still come down to so few votes
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Selling America: The Army’s fight to find recruits in a mistrustful, divided nation
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Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election The GOP Led Effort to Purge Voters
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California slavery reparations bills unraveled over Gavin Newsom amendments
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Texas Newspaper Accuses Greg Abbott of 'Hurting Our Democracy'
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Pennsylvania court says counties cannot throw out misdated mail-in votes
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Group of Texas Democrats asks DOJ to investigate Texas over possible voter rights violations
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Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
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Glass:

View CEO Rao Mulpuri, who saw the glassmaker go from investor darling to declaring bankruptcy, has resigned
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Private Equity:

Private equity takes on youth sports
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Steel:

Harris set to oppose sale of US Steel to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden
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Maritime:

Passengers on a round-the-world cruise now stuck at port have to get off every evening and stay at hotels while the cruise company tries to ‘reactivate’ the vessel
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Fraud:

Vendor Accused by Jefferies of Fraud Faces Forced Bankruptcy
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Here’s why Gen Z loses more money to online scams than boomers
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Hewlett Packard to pursue Mike Lynch’s estate for up to $4bn
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Hotels:

Hotel employees share the 7 red flags to look for when checking into a hotel
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Utilities:

Maui judge agrees to ask state Supreme Court about barriers to $4B wildfire settlement
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Economy:

The Fed will go bigger with rate cuts than markets think, Citi economist says
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US Jobs Data Return to Center Stage as Fed Mulls Rate-Cut Size US Jobs Data Will Help the Fed Gauge the Extent of Its Moderation
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Fed Favored Inflation Gauge’s Mild Gain Sets Stage for Rate Cut
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How Harris could tackle food inflation
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Once-In-Lifetime Wall Street Rally Raises Soft-Landing Stakes
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US Consumer Sentiment Rises for First Time in Five Months
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Spending, incomes and inflation were all heading the right direction in July
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Personal saving rate dips amid strong consumer spending
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Ray Dalio: Here are 5 trends shaping the global economy
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Hardened Voter Pessimism About America’s Trajectory Begins to Soften
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Lipstick sales and strippers' tips: 6 weird indicators a recession could be coming
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'Something has been changing': Why a top economist is still worried about a recession even as the US economy keeps growing
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Dads are work-from-home winners — but ditching the office has downsides
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When Richard Nixon Wrecked the Economy
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America’s Luck on Unemployment May Soon Run Out
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Many boomers on Social Security live near poverty and don’t tell anyone. It’s adding to the loneliness crisis.
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Where workers have the "right to disconnect"
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America's fastest-growing job, mapped
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Americans moving at lowest rate in decades: Census Bureau analysis
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One law could make Trump’s tariff threat a reality
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Harris campaign hits Trump over economy in new ad
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Countries from Russia to China are building payments systems that could threaten the dollar's global dominance
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75 artists received $9,000 each in a basic income trial. The cash helped a yarn guru to buy a house and a new car.
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How do you feel about the economy? It depends on whether you own stocks
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Four things that could complicate Congress’s efforts to avert shutdown
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Real Estate:

Meet the boomers who are leaving their big homes
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‘Ticking time bomb’: Plunging office values alarm Washington
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Landlords Face a $1.5 Trillion Commercial Real Estate Maturity Wall
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Real estate mogul Brandon Miller left $34m in debt behind and had just $8k in bank account before he died by suicide
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A boomer who bought land 25 years ago thought he was set for retirement. Then someone sold it without him knowing.
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Nerf Blasters and Lego Rockets: Another Mall Evolution
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There's one bright spot in commercial real estate amid an 'inevitable' wave of distress, CEO says
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Bonds backed by commercial mortgages are a 'disaster' as real estate values crumble, hedge funder says
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Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere
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In a Scenic California Town, Worsening Landslides Force Power Shutoffs
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'Worst case scenario' of Florida real estate crisis revealed as desperate residents flee
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Feds Crack Down on Illicit Use of All-Cash Real Estate Deals for Money Laundering
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CPI Property Bonds Rise as Law Firm Rebuts Short Seller’s View
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Municipalities:

Chester Plan to Sell Its Water Systems Is Getting Push Back
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A fed-up Gavin Newsom pushes California cities on homelessness
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Biden’s plan to rip down inner city highways risks ‘epic fail’
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Oil/Gas:

Libya Declares Force Majeure on Key Oil Field as Rift Widens Confusion Clouds Libya’s Oil Output Amid UN Push to End Crisis
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Norway’s Electric-Car Sales Climb to a Record, Taking 94% Share
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Biden Awards $62 Million to Help Speed Hydrogen Adoption
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Global Solar Generation Overtakes Wind Power
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Tobacco:

Major grocery chain ending tobacco sales
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Labor:

Will Automation Replace Jobs? Port Workers May Strike Over It.
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In Labor Day union rally, Harris slams Trump for overtime benefits, tax cuts Harris, Biden Team Up to Court Union Vote in Labor Day Blitz Harris Finds Top Labor Allies Despite Questions on Her Plans
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Strikes start at top hotel chains as housekeepers seek higher wages and daily room cleaning work America’s massive hotel strike just got even bigger Thousands of hotel workers are on strike. Here's a list of hotels that are impacted.
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Teamsters president said address to GOP convention was to highlight workers, not to endorse Republicans
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Tech:

Behind arrest of Telegram boss, a small Paris cybercrime unit with big ambitions Elon Musk says he may be more careful about where he travels after Telegram CEO shock arrest Telegram's reported finances reveal a pretty small business with an uncertain future
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AI May Not Steal Many Jobs After All. It May Just Make Workers More Efficient
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Musk calls Brazilian judge ‘evil dictator’ amid feud Musk-owned Starlink says it won’t comply with X ban in Brazil Brazil Telecom Regulator Threatens Sanctions Against Elon Musk's Starlink After X Ban Starlink emerges as fresh battleground between Elon Musk, Brazil Brazil blocks Musk’s X after company refuses to name local representative amid feud with judge Brazil's Supreme Court Chamber Forms Majority to Uphold X Suspension Brazilian judge orders suspension of X in dispute with Elon Musk Here's Why X Shutting Down In Brazil Spells Bad News For Elon Musk X officially down in Brazil after Musk feud with judge Brazil institutes $9,000 per day fine for using VPN to access X Bill Ackman Says X Ban Will Make Brazil an ‘Uninvestable Market’
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How Elon Musk’s endorsement of Trump may have backfired
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Elon Musk Promotes Tweet Calling for Democracy to Be Replaced With ‘Republic’ Run By ‘High Status Males’
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Musk’s Twitter investors have lost billions in value
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California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI
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MIT researchers: AI 'inherently sociopathic'
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Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality
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How AI can cover for you while you're on vacation
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Intel's ambitious U.S. manufacturing expansion now in question
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Google extends election policies to most of its AI products
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Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names
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More and more big companies say AI regulation is a business risk
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Festivals:

Burning Man billionaires receive special treatment as they arrive at festival in private jets
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Education:

Black student enrollment drops at elite colleges after affirmative action ban
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Personal Finance:

I moved from California to Texas but only stayed 4 months. Texas isn't much cheaper, and everyone was politics-obsessed.
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Credit scores have become a weapon of mass seduction
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Food/Beverage:

These 10 restaurant chains filed for bankruptcy this year
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Bankruptcy Sparks Wine Asset Rush
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Boar’s Head plant tied to 9 listeria deaths had mold, leaky pipes and flies
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Pharma:

Drug Makers Start to Sell Direct to the Public
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Crypto:

Bitcoin loans gain prominence in digital assets sector’s bankruptcy proceedings
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SEC Might Challenge FTX Bankruptcy Estate From Paying Back Customers With Stablecoins SEC 'Reserves' Right To Oppose Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX's Plan To Pay Creditors In Stablecoins SEC criticized for dubious stablecoin stance in FTX bankruptcy
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FTX to Begin $16B Repayment to Creditors in Q4-2024
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Crypto is the new Trump family business. Ethics watchdogs have concerns.
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Hacker Behind $234 Million India Crypto Theft Starts Washing Funds
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Rhodium Gets Approval for Rare Bitcoin-Based Bankruptcy Loan Bankrupt Bitcoin Mining Firm Receives Court Approval to Borrow in Either USD or BTC
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Television:

ESPN networks, ABC and Disney channels go dark on DirecTV on a busy night for sports
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Autos:

China’s EV Market Hits Rough Patch: Over 100 Companies Struggling Amid Price Wars and Subsidy Cuts
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The Ultimate 'Connected Car' Nightmare Is Playing Out In China
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Volkswagen aims to cancel a no-layoffs pledge and won't rule out closing plants in Germany
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Education:

Head of UW-Milwaukee’s faculty senate: Layoffs of tenured faculty were financially necessary
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Stephen King Reacts As Florida Bans 23 of His Books
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Schools across the U.S. restrict cellphones amid growing behavior, mental health, academic concerns
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History:

Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons
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Banking:

Swiss Bank Regulator Wants Power to Intervene in Business Models
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Gambling:

CNMI government opposes IPI’s asset sale citing creditors’ interests
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Recent Ch. 11 Filings (56 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 new filings today)
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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D&O:

What to Watch Now in the World of D&O
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Mass Torts:

Bankrupt Dioceses Need to Fail
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Aviation:

Boeing factory workers say they're overworked and under pressure to 'make miracles happen,' report says
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Cathay Pacific halts flights on Airbus jets over engine component failure
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Where are low-cost airlines cutting back now? New planes.
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Boeing's uncrewed Starliner capsule could return to Earth by late next week, NASA says
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Boeing execs fought NASA in heated arguments about stranded astronauts flying home in leaky Starliner: ‘Wildly irresponsible’
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Cleared to Resume Flights
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Air Belgium: Creditors to vote on reorganisation plan
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Go First insolvency: NCLT seeks suspended management’s view on liquidation plea
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Sovereigns:

Conflict, Creditors and a Car Crash: How Ukraine Clinched a Wartime Debt Restructuring
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Xi Wants Bigger Returns, Fewer Headaches From African Debt Deals
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In South Asia, it’s now the Maldives’ turn to go bankrupt
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UK:

Not everyone is suffering: Insolvency expert Manolete booms as more companies go bust
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Companies shut down after ‘undermining insolvency regime’ Companies promoting ‘corporate rescue’ scheme shut down after undermining insolvency regime
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Canary Wharf in Talks to Refinance Up to £603 Million in Debt
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Chinese Suspects in $37 Billion Loan Fraud Face UK Investigation
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Katie Price left 'devastated' as video leaks online amid bankruptcy hell Katie Price makes heart-breaking plea to Channel 5 in live rant over bankruptcy documentary
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EU:

ECB’s Villeroy Says September Rate Cut Is ‘Fair and Wise’ ECB’s Muller Says Confidence in September Rate Cut is Growing
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Was This the Summer European Tourism Reached a Breaking Point?
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Canada:

Canada Household Spending Per Person Falls at Recession Pace
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Bank of Canada’s Path Looks Clear With Soft Landing in Sight
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Russia:

Why Putin is struggling to repel the Ukrainian troops that invaded Russia Putin's Troops Caught by 'Friendly Fire' in Kursk—Report Putin Shifts Stance on Ukraine Peace Talks Amid Kursk Incursion Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine due to western ‘escalation’ in Ukraine
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Why the US and the UK are at odds over allowing Ukraine to strike targets deep inside Russia
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Putin gave a niece with no military experience a key defense job: UK Intel
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Ukrainian president fires air force commander after fatal F-16 crash Ukraine faces rising questions over whether the F-16 and pilot it lost were shot down by friendly fire from a Patriot missile battery
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Ukraine Ousts Energy Grid Chief as Russian Aerial Attacks Spike
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Ukrainians Fear Grim Winter Amid Massive Attacks on Power Plants
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Ukrainians are racing to build unmanned war machines to counter Russian manpower
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Putin and His Allies Considering Invasion of 3 More Countries
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Putin not arrested by ICC member Mongolia, which could now face prosecution
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Ukraine carries out one of its biggest-ever drone attacks on Russia
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Russia unleashes barrage as Kyiv children prepare to return to school Explosions Rock Kyiv as Russian Missiles Strike Orphanage in Sumy Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine Shopping Mall
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Ukraine Maps Show Russia's Gains Rising Five-Fold Over 2024 Average
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The Increasingly Front-Line Role of Ukrainian Women
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Mystery Russian Firm Vanishes After Posting Staggering $37BN Profit
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Sanctioned Russian LNG Plant Prepares to Export Another Shipment
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The US is ramping up spending on anti-tank missiles to replenish stockpiles amid the Ukraine war and commitments to Taiwan
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A longtime Russian ally says it's frozen its participation in Putin's NATO 'at all levels' after a year of snubs
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Putin gifted Kim Jong Un 24 purebred horses as payment for the artillery shells North Korea sent to Russia: report
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Russia's largest bank says it has no problems transacting with India
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Venezuela:

Major power outage hits Venezuela’s capital, with Maduro government blaming ‘sabotage’
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Germany:

Leading Restructuring Lawyers Dr. Christian Halàsz and Friedrich Schlott Join Kirkland & Ellis
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Rich German Families Snap Up Trophy Real Estate After Price Drop
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German Stock Market Record Defies the Country’s Economic Gloom
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Germany’s Struggling Economy Starts to Take a Toll on Its Banks
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As Germany’s far right reaches milestone moment, extremists grow bolder Far right eyes political earthquake as Germans head to the polls A far-right German party’s win has some fearing for the future. Others worry of a return to the past Is German history repeating itself? Jewish leader shares fears of AfD's rise in Thuringia AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election since 1945 German businesses worried about far-right gains in the east German leaders react to far-right surge in Thuringia, Saxony
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‘A very serious situation’: Volkswagen could close plants in Germany for the first time in history
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France:

Anne-Sophie Noury joins White & Case as a partner in Paris
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Troubled Atos Trims Sales Forecast as Customers End Contracts
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MENA:

Israeli leaders' shouting match exposes sharp divides over Gaza deal Biden adds to pressure on Netanyahu to reach cease-fire deal Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to secure hostage and ceasefire deal as he nears presenting a final proposal Ceasefire talks thrown into tumult after the discovery of six hostages slain in Gaza Cousin of hostage killed: Netanyahu’s decisions made it impossible for hostages to return Israelis erupt in protest to demand a cease-fire after 6 more hostages die in Gaza Angry Israelis Push Netanyahu’s Red Lines on Hostage Deaths Netanyahu pushes back against new pressure over Gaza and hostages: ‘No one will preach to me’
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Israel’s largest labor union threatens to shut down economy as anger mounts against Netanyahu
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What we know about the six hostages who Israel says were killed by Hamas in Gaza Have the Gaza hostage deaths pushed Israel to a breaking point? Anguish, frustration follow slaying of 6 hostages in Gaza Israel Buries Its Hostages as National Fury Boils Over Hamas Threatens To Release Six Slain Hostages' 'Last Messages' Thousands protest in Israel after hostage deaths Protests roil Israel for second day Hersh Goldberg-Polin: The ‘happy-go-lucky’ Israeli-American who became a symbol of Israel’s enduring hostage heartbreak Schiff on hostage deaths: ‘Sons of b----es who did this’ must be ‘brought to justice’ Netanyahu vows to "hurt Hamas in a way Israel hasn't done before," Israeli official says
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Hamas Official Says Guards Have New Orders in Dealing With Hostages
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UK suspends some arms sales to Israel
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Trauma in West Bank After Israeli Raids Extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land
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IDF Tells Gazans to Go Home. But It's Just Rubble
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‘Moving in the Dark’: Hamas Documents Show Tunnel Battle Strategy
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Turkey’s Economy Stalls as High Interest Rates Take Toll Turkish Firms Face ‘Groundswell’ of Problems as 50% Rates Bite
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Brazil:

Brazil police name 41 suspects in Americanas fraud investigation
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China:

China’s Restaurant Crisis: Over 1 Million Eateries Shut Down Amid Economic Meltdown
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JP Morgan: China Housing Crash Not Over
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Bankruptcies plague China's chip startups, ushering in an era of 'survival of the fittest' through M&A
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China Vanke Debt Cracks Exposed After First Loss in 20 Years
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China’s Sputtering Growth Engines Raise Urgency for Stimulus
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China Factory Activity Extends Slide as Headwinds Mount
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Iron Ore Tumbles Back Below $100 as China Property Woes Deepen
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Venezuela:

US seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic
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What Happens When Half a Million People Abandon Their City
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US Drafts Sanctions Against Venezuelans Over Disputed Vote
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Maduro Issues Warrant for Opposition Leader
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Japan:

Japan is having a hard time convincing employees to take 4-day workweeks
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Singapore:

Singapore faces 25% increase in bankruptcy filings during first half of 2024 More people in Singapore declared bankrupt in first half of 2024
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Australia:

24 hours to fix a casino: Star chases cash to fend off insolvency
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Mighty Craft to be taken over by senior debt lender Pure
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Sweden:

Swedish Bankruptcies Decline for the First Time in Two Years
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India:

Bankruptcy court approves 22 business rescues in August; 34 so far in second quarter
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Byju's US lenders call for resolution professional's exit
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