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[fahyl] / faɪl /






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This time the judge dismissed the suit with prejudice, meaning the president can’t file it again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

They found that 8,880 names, or 42%, could not be matched to California’s current voter file.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

South Korea will file criminal complaints against students caught cheating on a national university entrance exam with smart glasses and toughen penalties for their use, a government official told AFP Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Unlike a business that enters chapter 11 to reorganize, law firms that file for bankruptcy generally don’t survive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Or because he already saw me looking at the file?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Initial complaints were expected to be filed on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The question was sparked by a bombshell lawsuit filed by a former student at Cornell University, some 200 miles north of the district.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

In its lawsuit filed in a federal court in Tennessee, the FTC joined states including Alabama, Arizona and New Jersey to allege “pervasive and systemic pricing inaccuracies, rather than isolated or accidental errors.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

This Week: A.I. giant Anthropic, makers of Claude, filed to go public.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

They filed Elizebeth’s decrypts under new index numbers, making them look like their own.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

In a recent filing, the company revealed plans to launch up to one million additional satellites, half of them in a dusk/dawn orbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Councilmember Nithya Raman after filing paperwork to run for the mayor at the Piper Technical Center in downtown Los Angeles Feb. 7.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

In a securities filing, it pointed to recent and future offerings from the likes of Alphabet, SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI as challenges to the depths of capital markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Mary Cunningham for CBS News: Anthropic’s IPO filing lists 93 pages of risks.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

The job itself was very boring—I worked in the filing department of the administrative building of the university.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall


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