Law:
Drake’s Favorite (Bankruptcy) Lawyer Wants to Change the World With $2 Bills
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Biglaw Partners May Yet Be People Employees • Female Chadbourne Partners Win Discovery on ‘Employee’ Status
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Conflicts stall Norton Rose merger talks
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A ‘Dramatic’ Gender Wage Gap Awaits In-House Counsel • Women corporate counsel suffer major pay and promotions disparity
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Choose One: 1) Ditzy Broad or 2) Angry B----
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In-House Attorneys See 4.3 Percent Pay Hike — Still Pretty Sure They’re Underpaid
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Study says GCs at public companies make more money
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GC Requires Outside Law Firms to Encrypt Communications
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Hogan Lovells combining with Boston-based Collora
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Many In-House Counsel Still Unhappy, Though Salaries Are Up
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Bankruptcy Preparation Business Leaves Out Sensitive Documents, Doors Unlocked
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Judicata adds color to case law, highlights artificial-intelligence barriers
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Fastcase To Launch Artificial Intelligence ‘Sandbox’ for Law Firms
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Ask Daliah: Four steps to making social media work for you
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Can Solos And Smalls Afford To Offer Paid Maternity Leave?
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Disbarred lawyer arrested in Florida after at least 18 months on the lam
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Cosby Fate: Jurors Appearing Frustrated As Deliberations Drag On • Bill Cosby Trial in Deadlocked Jury • Judge Says Keep Deliberating • 'Don't Know What He's Thinking': Legal Analyst Calls out Cosby's Bizarre Trial Behavior • Inside Bill Cosby’s secluded courthouse hideaway, where he waits for a jury to decide his fate • Cosby Accuser Lili Bernard Confronts His Supporters, Tells Them 'God Bless You'
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Emoluments clause lawsuits against Donald Trump face uphill battle
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CNN files lawsuit seeking Comey's Trump memos
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…And Now The Inevitable Ethics Complaint Against Trump’s Lawyer • Kasowitz Hit With Ethics Complaints in NY, DC Over White House Advice
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Teenager Arrested By ICE Mere Hours Before His Senior Prom
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Ex-US Atty's Affair Bred Hostile Environment, Staff Says
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Poll: Ex-AG Lynch Viewed Negatively Over Clinton Probe Role
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What Mass Shooters Tend to Have in Common: Domestic Violence Records
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Man batters mother in beef over cheeseburger
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Fired For ‘Acting Like A Man’: Sexual Harassment Cases You Don’t See Everyday (Hopefully)
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Plaintiffs Lawyer Advertising Proves Ever Bolder
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Gun control debate revived in wake of congressman being shot • Wife of Gunman Can't Believe His Actions • Scalise Undergoes Third Surgery • Congressional Baseball Charity Game Goes On
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In Praise Of Attorney Sy Feltz From ‘Fargo’
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Judges:
A Call For Nominees For The 2017 William L. Norton, Jr. Judicial Excellence Award
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Trump can stack the judiciary for years. That's why Republicans stick with him
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Trump headed to Supreme Court as justices weigh travel ban
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Justice Neil Gorsuch Authors His First Opinion as Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court • Gorsuch’s First Opinion: Let Debt Collectors Run Amok
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Gorsuch gets comfortable in Scalia’s chair
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Trump visits Supreme Court for Gorsuch installation
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Diane Feinstein Gets Snippy With Sixth Circuit Nominee
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NY Gov. to nominate first openly LGBT state high court judge
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Is it unethical to ghost-write a brief?
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Ginsburg's Surprisingly Retro Feminism
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Why there should be cameras in the Supreme Court
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It’s always a bad sign when a judicial nominee has to begin his hearing with an apology
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Wall Street:
Stock futures in holding pattern, keeping Nasdaq on pace for weekly drop
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Stocks close lower as tech slides; Apple, Alphabet fall
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Layoffs:
Nike To Cut About 1,400 Jobs
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Energy XXI Gulf Coast Cuts Workforce BY 18%
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Keurig Green Mountain lays off 130
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Healthcare:
The Platinum Patients: 5% of Americans account for 50% of medical bills
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How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare • Once Upon a Time … Bipartisanship and Health Care Weren’t Dirty Words • Alexander: Trump should make ACA payments •Top Republicans Tell Trump: Make Obamacare Work, for Now • House Republicans 'can't believe' Trump called their healthcare bill 'mean' • Republicans brush off Trump calling health bill 'mean' • Why GOP is Hell Bent on Passing TrumpCare • Rand denounces 'new entitlements' in emerging health bill • GOP Senate leaders aim to bring health-care legislation to the floor by the end of June • What May Be in the Senate’s Health Bill
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Trumpcare Could Bring ‘Lifetime Limits’ to Millions With Employer-Provided Insurance
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One of the most prestigious brands in medicine is jumping into Obamacare
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Uncertainty: Major Michigan insurance company announces premium hikes
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Trump Prepares Drug Pricing Executive Order
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Religion:
Objections to Twin Cities archdiocese bankruptcy plans aired in court
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Fraud:
Criticism mounts on Madoff compensation fund
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Lawsuit Against GE Finance Unit Over Petters' Fraud Heads to Trial
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Personal Finance:
The psychology behind why your résumé hardly stands a chance to make it past the rejection pile
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Coal:
Coal power could be dying for good — here’s the evidence
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Student Debt:
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Debt Collection:
So Who Really Is A ‘Debt Collector’ Under The FDCPA?
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Food/Beverage:
Landry's bids for Joe's Crab Shack operator
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Duff & Phelps’ Josh Benn talks Ignite Restaurants hurdles and looming bidding war
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Strack & Van Til bankruptcy case moved to Illinois
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Marsh Supermarkets Announces Liquidation Sales and Auction Transactions • Here's what $20 bought at Marsh during Thursday's liquidation sale
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Economy:
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 237,000
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U.S. jobs market tightens; inflation pressures cooling • The Controversy Over Inflation
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How Factory Closures Doom the Next Generation Too
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Fed Chair Sweepstakes Shows Yellen In Neck-and-Neck Race
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Janet Yellen is starting to warm to a policy the Fed once regarded as radical
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Study: Consumers Pay Down Credit Card Debt in First Quarter; But Not Enough
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Larry Summers: 5 reasons why the Fed may be making a mistake
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NY and Philly Manufacturing Surveys Suggest Solid Growth in June
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Industrial Production Unchanged in May
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President Trump Signs Executive Order to Double Funds for Apprenticeships
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Taiwan's Foxconn, assembler of iPhones, considering Wisconsin plant
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Markets are losing faith in Donald Trump
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Why rural America is falling behind: 40% of residents don’t have decent broadband access
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Recent immigrants are more educated than Americans in 26 states
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How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy?
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Feds collect Record Taxes in May
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Kansas’s conservative experiment may have gone worse than people thought
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It’s time to stop blaming poor people for the financial crisis
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The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
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States Plan Meager Spending Increases in Next Year
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How much money some of the biggest companies on the planet make per employee
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Hawaii just became the first US state to pass a bill supporting basic income
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Republicans Warn Defense Increase Can’t Come at Domestic Expense
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The U.S. Is Where the Rich Are the Richest
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The bond market doesn’t believe Trump’s election promises
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Real Estate:
Homebuilder confidence slips 2 points in June to 67 despite strong demand for new homes • NAHB: Builder Confidence decreased to 67 in June
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Mortgage "Rates Drop to 8-Month Lows"
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Sacramento Housing in May: Sales up 7%, Active Inventory down 14% YoY
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New Wells Fargo scandal over modifying mortgages without authorization • Wells Fargo may be in hot water again • Borrowers say 'stealth' mortgage modifications by Wells Fargo could cost them their homes
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Will Now Hear Opening Arguments for CO Home
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico governor pushes statehood after boycott-plagued vote • Puerto Rico and Statehood • Statehood for Puerto Rico a long way off
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Less Than 50% Of Puerto Rico School Budget Reaches Classrooms
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Puerto Rico Lodges Status Report
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Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Committees Appointed
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U.S. lawmaker troubled Puerto Rico board slow to approve $9 bln power deal
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PREPA needs a pass towards revitalization
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Borrowing to Fund Pensions Could Make California the Next Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico Bondholders Must Be Treated Fairly
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Powerball and Mega Millions announce they are leaving bankrupt Illinois
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Ominous signs for states as revenue targets missed
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Oil/Gas:
Bankrupt Driller Not Required to Plug Abandoned Well
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Oil slides, hits six-month low as OPEC fails to curb glut • Oil Extends Slump as US Fuel Glut Leaves Market Disheartened • Oil rebounds from 2017 low, but heads for 4th weekly loss
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Gasoline prices likely to remain low - for now at least
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OPEC Took Aim at US Oil Producers, but Hurt Itself, Too • Oil guru who foresaw crash says OPEC should have cut deeper
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Big Oil Opposes Trump's Budget Plans
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The Long-Term Price of Oil Is ...
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Shale Drillers Digging Themselves a Hole as Oil Breaches $45
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Funds pull back from Permian as US shale oil firms go into overdrive
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Corporate Reform:
CFPB Accuses Congress of Misstatements
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Baseball:
Titans seek bankruptcy
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Nuclear:
Group says Georgia nuclear plant costs rise to $29 bln
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Toshiba’s loan guarantee at Plant Vogtle may be hollow: Moody’s
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Solar:
US to lose 88,000 solar jobs if Suniva petition succeeds
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Solar And Wind Revolution Happening Much Faster Than Expected
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Mining:
Rare earth mine sells for $20.5 M
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Defaults:
Fitch: US High Yield Default Rate Approaches 2%
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (15 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (87 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
First-Level Bankruptcy Appeals Filed (FY 2005-16)
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Ch. 13:
District of Minnesota will opt out of use of National Chapter 13 Plan Form
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Jurisdiction:
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Bankruptcy Rules:
BK CD CA: Revised and New Local Bankruptcy Rules Forms Effective June 15, 2017
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Litigation:
What’s Going On In The World Of Commercial Litigation?
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D&O:
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Autos:
Air bag maker Takata to file bankruptcy this month -sources • Takata Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Soon as Next Week, Source Says • Inaction on Takata scandal sullied Japanese cars' reputation • Takata shares suspended on bankruptcy filing report • From air bag king to bankruptcy court: A Q&A on Takata's fall • Takata teeters towards bankruptcy protection • Takata's Frenemies Need It to Stay Alive
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Bank Of America: We've reached 'peak car'
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Retailing:
Teen Retailer Papaya Clothing Files for Bankruptcy Protection
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J. Crew Debt Maneuver Can Be a Model for Other Troubled Retailers
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25% of US Malls Could Close Within 5 Years
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1 J.C. Penney Store Closure Shows Why There's Still Hope for Department Stores
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Politics:
Special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice, officials say • How Mueller's Investigation Into Trump Unfolds • Trump lashes out: It's a 'witch hunt!' • Trump tweets obstruction of justice reports are "phony" • Trump is now under investigation, and he has no one to blame but himself • Here's how long investigations like the one into Trump and Russia usually last • White House aides fret over Trump's Russia probe obsession • Trump pressed NSA chief to absolve him • Trump just proved James Comey right on a major part of their dispute • Trump goes after 'Crooked H' Clinton and 'Dems dealings with Russia' as special counsel probe expands • Mike Pence hires outside counsel to deal with Russia-probe inquiries • Special Counsel probing Kushner business ties • Aides Worry Over Trump Obsession on Probes
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Special counsel Mueller also investigating possible ‘money laundering by Trump associates’
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GOP lawmaker: Trump ‘partially to blame for demons’ making Americans act ‘weird and different’
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In Hard Times, Voters Choose Assertive Leaders Over Respected Ones
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Lobbyist for Russian interests says he attended dinners hosted by Sessions • Russia Lobbyist: My Dinners with Sessions
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One stunning quote that sums up James Hodgkinson’s hyperpartisan world
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Seventeen-Point Drop in US Satisfaction Among Republicans
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General Mattis: No Enemy Has Done More Harm Than Congress
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UK:
London fire – death toll set to go past 100 • A deadly fire in a London tower prompts sharp questions: Residents say their warnings went unheeded for years • London Fire Shows Why Britons Don’t Trust the System • Grenfell Tower fire victims 'may never be identified' as death toll rises to 17
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Pain or Promise: Where Brexit Matters Most • London Finance Workers Describe A Local Culture That Sounds Like A Mashup Between 1980s Wall Street And Dante’s Inferno • Are Germany and France Trying to Get the UK to Rescind Brexit? • Leaked talks show Brussels will demand a €99.6 billion Brexit divorce bill from the UK • Brexit might be big trouble for the UK's business schools • The Death of Brexit at the Hands of May
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Bank of England shocks markets with close vote on rate hike
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EU:
EU finance ministers set to agree measures to lower uncertainty in bank wind-downs
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PIIGS:
Greece and creditors reach deal on next part of bailout • Greece calls for debt relief measures ahead of crunch euro zone meeting • Greece gets enough to avoid another bailout trauma • Greece to get some cash - and some idea of future debt relief • Schaeuble optimistic about Greece deal, says it had been reached late May • Reality Check: Have the Greek bailouts worked? • Greeks need help with economy, EU official says • Greece to get over $9 billion loan from creditors • Greece unlocks fresh bail-out funds as Christine Lagarde brands debt deal 'second best solution' • EU to Unlock Greek Aid With No Debt Load Relief
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European markets up following Greek debt deal
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EU's Dijsselbloem praises "successful" Banco Popular rescue
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Canada:
Sears Canada Hires Bankruptcy Advisory Firm • Sears Canada's future is in doubt. How did it come to this?
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Brazil:
The Rio Olympics were a financial disaster and it keeps getting worse
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Restructuring offers growth for Moelis in Brazil
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India:
The Insolvency And Bankruptcy Process In India
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Now, a firm's insolvency process to be completed in 90 days
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Some insolvency rules need to be more stringent
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India's cbank deputy says state-run lenders may need more capital
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China:
China's Real Estate Mirage
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MENA:
Russia Claims It Has Killed ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi
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How the Qatar crisis is shaping the future of the region • Gulf Showdown Exposes Qatar’s Fragility
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Venezuela:
Venezuela’s oil industry is collapsing and Cuba is scrambling
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Netherlands:
Vroon shipping group reaches agreement with creditors
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