September 30, 2026

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Law:

Sullivan & Cromwell’s OpenAI Gambit Delivers Tech Talent Access
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Built for Corporate Restructuring: The Case for Purpose-Built AI
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Third Circuit Court Upholds Thomson Reuters’ Copyright Case Against AI Startup Ross Intelligence, Signaling Legal Precedent
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Politics Is Still Fueling The Law School Admissions Frenzy
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Barrister hit with £7k costs bill after joining hearing from train
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The Path To CMO
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Steps for Avoiding AI-Washing Allegations Cost Little, Save Much
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Partners OK Pay Cuts in Private Equity Deal
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Rethinking Legal Billing: Adapting to the AI Revolution in Law Firms
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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer • Supreme Court lets Trump resume third-country deportations • El Salvador’s Mass Incarceration of U.S. Deportees • ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive • DOJ’s Newest Brain Drain Fix Is Borrowing Marines For An Immigration Surge That Might Be Coming To A City Near You • Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
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Jack Smith: Trump 'Engaged in Serious Crimes' Against US • Jack Smith slams threats, erosion of rule of law under Trump • Jack Smith tells senators he won't 'be silenced' by Trump's threats • Ex-Trump Prosecutor Spars With GOP Senators, Defends Staff • GOP Senator Tries to Trap Jack Smith — But it Blows Up In His Face Spectacularly • Senator’s ‘look of utter horror’ as GOP colleague’s perjury accusation unravels during Jack Smith hearing goes viral • ‘Will never be VP’: Critics see GOP senator’s ambitions crater in ‘perjury trap’ bellyflop • Schmitt faces fallout after debunked Jack Smith narrative • GOP Sen Gets a Scolding After Telling Jack Smith ‘You Make Me Want to Throw Up’ • Jack Smith Name-Drops GOPers Who ‘Did Right Thing’ as Trump ‘Preyed on Loyalty’ • Shock answer catches Darline Graham off guard as she tries to pin down Jack Smith
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Senator Demands Answers After DOJ Hires Attorney Convicted of Election Interference as Election Monitor
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Trump Loyalist, Several Prosecutors Exit DOJ’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Probe
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DA Asks For Gag Order Against Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer • Trump Called Out in Court by Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer for Attacks Against Her • ‘Where is the Evidence?’ Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Goes Back to Square One • Pivotal Lindsay Clancy hearing could decide fate of her triple murder case after mistrial
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Suspected ShinyHunters hacker arrested after FBI data breach
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Tennessee prepares to execute the first woman in over 200 years
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Anti-trans Kansas driver’s license law goes to court
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Nancy Guthrie cops confirm brand new evidence has emerged in desperate hunt for Savannah's mom months after she vanished
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs living VIP life behind bars with massages, alcohol, nude photos and a cellphone: report
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Jay-Z Accuser Recants Her Claims, And Now The Lawyers Are Fighting Over Which Story To Believe • Jay-Z asks court to revive extortion case after rape accuser recants
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'American Idol' star Caleb Flynn found guilty of killing wife in sick plan to start new life with his young mistress
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Transgender New York Times executive 'infuriated his in-laws by letting son wear girl's dresses' before they allegedly shot him dead • NYT exec received haunting message from dad days before in-laws murdered him in broad-daylight
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Woman Is Found Captive in Attic Near Boston, Leading to Charges for Man
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Caught on Camera: Teen scooter rider struck by driver during live news broadcast of another car crash, wild video shows
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Mom leaves 4 kids, including baby, home alone for weekend cruise to the Bahamas: Cops
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Man accused of using 'Rambo-style knife' to kill younger brother asks judge for leniency because he still needs to babysit his younger siblings
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Mom drove SUV at 60 mph toward children playing in the street for pranking her son: Police
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Wife pulls knife on husband after 'water hose' fight, claims he survived 'this time': Cops
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Man who gunned down bar patron 'to teach him a lesson' opened fire on cops: Prosecutors
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Dental office cleaner cut building camera before he kidnapped worker, attacked her: Police
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Girl, 9, left outside for 17 hours 'beat on the door' trying to wake her drunk mom: Police
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Toddler found alone, 'screaming' and covered in bee stings while moms were at KFC: Police
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Judges:

The next generation of Republican justices will be even more partisan
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New Supreme Court term kicks off Monday: Here’s what to expect
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Sam Alito’s Oil Stocks Finally Get Him Benched From The Big Climate Case
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What happened to SCOTUSblog?
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Trump's shadow docket blitz hits a new milestone
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The Supreme Court is building power no one gave it
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Supreme Court to hear argument on Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants to third-party countries
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On appeal, Trump lawyers accuse IRS judge of timing sanctions to muzzle attorney general • Appeals court rejects bid to block sanctions tied to Trump's $1.8B IRS deal
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DOJ uses Kristi Noem as 'sacrificial lamb' to nuke contempt probe, and judges had thoughts
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Trump admin cannot force states seeking funding to overhaul their election systems: Judge
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Wall Street:

Stock futures inch higher as traders weather latest rise in Treasury yields
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Layoffs:

Disney laying off around 300 employees in latest cuts under new CEO Josh D'Amaro
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AI spurs rising job loss fears in finance
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Workday is letting go about 500 employees
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Celebs:

In the 1990s, Nicolas Cage made a lot of high-end purchases; by 2008, he almost had to file for bankruptcy
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Sports:

Manchester City guilty of almost all its more than 100 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says
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‘I Think Rahm Is Gone’: Alan Shipnuck Floats Shock LIV Golf Exit Amid 2027 Uncertainty
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Theme Parks:

Six Flags shutters ‘fourth-dimension’ roller coaster after terrifying ‘brain injury’ complaints & bombshell lawsuit
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Dams:

Urgent warning to seek higher ground as New Mexico dam is feared to break during major storm
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Insurance:

South Carolina seeks emergency takeover of insurer over fears for retirees' life savings
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Biotech:

Origin Genomics’ mission to make healthy, gene-edited babies
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Tourism:

Cancun tourism slump deepens as U.S. flights to Mexico decline
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Weight Loss:

People switching to Novo’s Wegovy pill from injections kept losing weight in real-world study
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Student Debt:

Students Sue Education Dept., Claiming It Reported $4.6B In Canceled Loans As Debt
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Awards:

TMA Announces the 2026 TMA Turnaround & Transaction of the Year Awards
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Horse Racing:

Dollars & Sense: Unsettled Settlements are Unsettling
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Debt Collection:

New York Lender Exploits Iowa Laws In Debt Collection Push
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Economy:

Consumer Confidence Fell in September, Continuing Downward Trend
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CFOs report renewed optimism; keep eye on costs: U.S. Bank
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'No need for urgency': New York Fed's Williams squashes notion of an October rate hike
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Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve
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US consumers feel worse about economy now than during global pandemic • Americans still feel worse about the economy than at almost any point in modern history
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Gen Z Wants Millennials to Retire So They Can Have Their Jobs. Seriously.
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Hedge funds hold a record share of the $30 trillion Treasury market. What could go wrong?
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Google data center lead says 'hundreds of thousands' of skilled trade jobs are open across the US and they're 'just waiting to be filled'
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Donald Trump calls Canada 'one of the worst countries' as trade ban takes effect
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Real Estate:

Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.9% year-over-year in July
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US Mortgage Rates Increase to an Almost Three-Year High of 7.3%
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Federal bankruptcy judge approves Newcap's sale of 13 duplexes
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Oil/Gas:

$6 Diesel Is Hurting Small Truckers. It Could Hurt Trump, Too.
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European Union Officials Optimistic US Won’t Ban Diesel Exports
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Oil's New Normal Is Higher Prices
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Retailing:

Historic Dallas Neiman Marcus store to close after more than a century downtown
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Politics:

Tracking approval and key issues
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Midterm pocketbook pain bites Trump
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Checking Trump’s Predictions
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Kennedy Center Is ‘Crumbling’ Without Trump’s Name, DOJ Says
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Trump thwarted in hunt for rare noncitizen voters as midterms near
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GOP breaks with Trump on multiple issues
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Poll: Dems lead 56-40 in Congressional generic ballot
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GOP candidates are rushing to rebrand before November's midterms
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Inside the Trump campaign strategy to reverse Republicans’ dwindling hopes of winning the midterms
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Trump touts America.gov, but its government-sourced AI answers undercut many of his statements
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Singer Used in Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ad Demands White House Stop Using His Tune • Trump Personally Hand-Picked Footage for Taxpayer-Funded MAGA Ad Blitz: Report • Compilation of GOP Senators Railing Against Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads • Homeland Security money financed pro-Trump television ads • Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up
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Critics Shred Paxton’s Head-Scratching Defense of Child Predator’s Sentence
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How Paxton vs. Talarico compares to Cruz vs. O'Rourke • Talarico could actually win in Texas. Let me count the ways.
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Alaska drivers report $10-a-gallon gas — and it’s reshaping a Senate race
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Mike Lee blocks bill to prevent Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center
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MAGA outraged as it discovers Trump handed $15B Iowa project to Indian company: ‘Comical’
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‘He’s Basically a Republican Now’: Fetterman Turns to GOP Donors For Campaign Cash
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
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Pete Hegseth to slash 20% of general and admiral roles
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Health secretary calls for medical details to be sent to AI
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Bill Gates Testy When Pressed on Epstein Relationship
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Space:

SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing
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Agribusiness:

Hansen-Mueller Wins $7.9M Bond Fight
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"Brace for losing everything": Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa
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Tech:

AI firms set sights on data from bankrupt companies
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AI skill levels drive workforce divide: PwC
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
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OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
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OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
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Trump’s Push for Data Center Expansion Puts Some G.O.P. Lawmakers in a Bind
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Trump rejects AI laws after tech titans agree to ‘self-police’ AI development
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Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition
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AI’s coming roadblock in regulation: Antitrust hawks
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AI agents have a normal-people problem
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The future is AI vs. AI
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OpenAI's annual recurring revenue nears $70B
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Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
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Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
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Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
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Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Creepy AI Prompts
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Tesla Reportedly Can’t Get the Hands to Work on Its Optimus Robot
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
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Summer Camps:

New nonprofit quietly seeking to buy Camp Mystic's property
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Gambling:

Casino that was headed for the chopping block after bankruptcy gets thrown a lifeline
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Maverick bankruptcy puts Pasco card room's future at risk
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Culture:

The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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Rail:

Brightline Files for Chapter 11 in New Jersey as Las Vegas Rail Plan Still Needs Billions • Bullet Train Project Faces More Questions Amid Parent Company’s Bankruptcy
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Social Media:

Teen getting haircut in middle of road for TikTok video injured when pickup involved in crash strikes him
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Healthcare:

Unspent healthcare funding faces do-or-die cliff
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Unpaid Medical Bills Land Hundreds Of Patients In Court Each Year
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Recent Ch. 11 Filings (21 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 new filings today)
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

US bankruptcy filings up 12.9%, Chapter 7 growth outpacing Chapter 13
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Bankruptcy Research:

Bankruptcy Law Penalties and Board Independence
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Sell, Hold Out, or Accept: The Creditor's Trilemma in Distressed Debt Exchanges
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Trustees:

Does Chapter 7 Trustee Have Immunity From Suit For Negligence? (Phillips v. Goldman, Part 2)
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Pleading:

Bankruptcy Court Dismisses Trustee Claims for Insufficiently Pled Allegations
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Jurisdiction:

Delaware Bankruptcy Court Crafts Test Concerning Post-Confirmation “Related-To” Jurisdiction
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Miscellaneous:

Court Opinion Review: Letting Exclusivity Lapse, Selling State Secrets in Ch. 15 Remains a No-No, and Dueling US and Brazilian Courts
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Eligibility:

Higher Debt Caps to Boost Small Business, Personal Bankruptcies
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Oversecured Creditors:

Does Section 506(b) Permit 'Reasonable' Prepetition Fees and Charges? S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court Deepens the Splits with the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.
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D&O:

Colorado Supreme Court Finds Excess/Umbrella Insurer Not Required to “Drop Down” Due Solely to Underlying Primary Carrier’s Insolvency
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Mass Torts:

Monumental hearing in Baltimore Archdiocese bankruptcy case is delayed
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Crypto:

Stablecoin-on-Creditor Violence
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Canadian Crypto King to Represent Himself at $40M Fraud Trial After Only $3M Recovered for 160 Investors
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Prediction Markets:

Don't Bet on Bankruptcy: Prediction Markets and the Limits of Insolvency Law
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Aviation:

Boeing nabs $20B contract for Navy's futuristic fighter
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Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots, Israeli official says • Israel-bound plane pilot stabbed by co-pilot, causing jet to plunge 18K feet: They ‘tried to do 9/11’
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Spanish airline files for pre-insolvency
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Volotea Creditor Protection: Fleet to Shrink to 35 Jets
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Education:

Ken Griffin pledges $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University in ‘historic’ gift
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Cornell’s handling of gang rape allegation is scaring away prospective students who had been set on attending • Furious Hochul demands probe into Cornell’s handling of ‘horrifying’ alleged gang rape, while local mayor wants to nix permits • ‘The View’ host defends DA’s decision not to charge ‘Cornell 7’ accused of gang rape
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Politicians increasingly taking the reins as college presidents in red states
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Food/Beverage:

7 Brew wins bid for Arizona Salad and Go locations
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Dutch Bros takes another run at shuttered Salad and Go sites
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Inside Meritage Hospitality’s bankruptcy: Beef costs, closures and a battle with Wendy’s
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Believer Meats creditors mull credit bid after UPSIDE Foods exit
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A Houston restaurant supplier that has served the industry for over 3 decades just filed for bankruptcy
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Holy Brisket: Sky-High Beef Prices Force Texas Barbecue Joints to Drop Staples from the Menu
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Sovereigns:

Colombia holds IMF financing talks as fiscal strain mounts, sources say
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UK:

Insolvency Service launches five year strategy
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Insolvency Service targets phoenix directors - what the new crackdown means for fraud victims
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The BBC Declares Plain Manicures Are Virulently Racist
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How I went from bankruptcy to sailing the world on my superyacht
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US insists ‘foreign actor’ involved in RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ as mystery grows with 5 released & no explosives found • UK 'bomb plot foiled when suspect called police before own arrest'
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Andy Burnham opens door for UK to rejoin EU
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Canada:

Canadian insolvencies are back to pre-pandemic levels. But something has fundamentally changed
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Tim Hortons franchise operator blames foreign worker restrictions for insolvency
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Trump adviser tells Canadian lobbyists 'get the hell out'
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Ireland:

Deloitte forecasts total of 850 insolvencies for 2026 • Deloitte insolvency figures
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MENA:

How OpenWeb went from a $1.5 billion unicorn to seeking insolvency protection
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Reports that Netanyahu ignored Oct. 7 warnings dominate Israeli election
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins
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Israeli Settlers Stop Soldiers From Returning Palestinians to Their Home
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Tankers Are Loading Oil Again From a Vital Saudi Pipeline
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Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Is Spending Billions to Bypass Iran’s Grip on Hormuz
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JPMorgan and Goldman See Mideast Oil Flows Near Pre-War Levels
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Germany:

Risks for the Licensee in the Event of the Licensor's Insolvency
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Russia:

Deluded Putin vows 'victory' after calling up thousands of troops as Ukraine captures 250 Russians in ‘zombie car’ blitz
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Russia targets data centers in Kyiv as NATO condemns Moscow’s ‘irresponsible nuclear rhetoric’
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South Korea:

South Korean corporate bankruptcies rise 18% amid economic slowdown
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Spain:

Evicted Woman Set to Return Home as Spain Announces Plans to Fix Housing Crisis
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Italy:

De Laurentiis bankruptcy case weakened as prosecutors drop Bari liquidation proceedings
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