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A California defense startup worth $30 billion is teaming up with a British engineering company to build parts for autonomous fighter drones on the Isle of Wight, and the whole thing depends on winning a Ministry of Defence contract. Anduril Industries, founded by the guy who made Oculus VR...

Elon Musk's rocket company is apparently gearing up for a massive public offering that could hit a $1.5 trillion valuation, and people are saying this might happen sometime next year. The listing would pull in over $30 billion and rank as one of the biggest stock debuts ever, sitting just behind...

Mike Ashley's Frasers Group just grabbed the Designer Outlet in Swindon, which pulls over three million shoppers annually and sits inside an old railway works building. CEO Michael Murray says owning prime shopping real estate fits their strategy of controlling both the stores and the actual...

The UN torture watchdog just called out Pakistan for keeping former Prime Minister Imran Khan locked up under conditions that might cross into actual torture territory. Alice Jill Edwards said the 72-year-old politician has been stuck in solitary confinement for over a year at Adiala Jail in...

South Korea just hit its former acting president Choi Sang-mok with criminal charges over the wild martial law situation that went down under President Yoon Suk Yeol. Special Prosecutor Park Ji-young announced the indictment alongside charges against ex-Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, saying both...

A UN official just told Nepal to actually enforce its anti-discrimination laws after finding that the government keeps ignoring its own constitutional protections for Dalits and other marginalized groups. Nicolas Levrat said Nepal has solid legal frameworks on paper, but the enforcement is...

A UN expert is calling Bangladesh's forensic work on 114 unidentified protest victims from the summer a major step toward getting answers and holding people accountable. Morris Tidball-Binz visited the country to help with the investigations and said the process could strengthen their forensic...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just signed off on medical aid-in-dying legislation that lets terminally ill adults request prescription medications to end their lives, but the program does not kick off until September 2026. Patients need confirmation from two doctors that they have less than...

A federal judge in Maryland just slapped a temporary restraining order on ICE to stop them from grabbing Kilmar Abrego Garcia again after she already made them let him go from a detention facility in Pennsylvania. Judge Paula Xinis said the agency has no legal authority to deport him without an...

UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews called out the UK government to trash Myanmar's upcoming military junta election as fake, and he wants Britain to push other countries in Asia to do the same. The junta scheduled voting for later this month to create some illusion of political stability while...

Human Rights Watch just released findings claiming Russia has been systematically torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war through beatings, fake executions, electric shocks, and dog attacks. The report came from interviews with 12 former detainees, and it says the abuse was designed to completely...

UN investigators dropped a report saying Venezuela's national guard has been running a decade-long campaign of extrajudicial killings, mass arrests, torture, and sexual violence against anyone protesting or opposing President Nicolás Maduro. The crackdown got way worse after the disputed...

Reddit just sued Australia over its new law that bans anyone under 16 from using social media platforms, even though the company already started blocking young users this week. The case landed in Australia's High Court and argues the blanket ban is way too broad, messes with adult privacy and...

CMS just rolled out Harvey's AI software to over 7,000 attorneys across 50-plus countries, which the firm says is the biggest Harvey deployment at any major law shop. The tech has been cutting down each lawyer's workload by roughly 118 hours annually, or about half an hour daily, by automating...

Ropes & Gray just brought on Gretchen Greene from Meta to run their AI strategy as chief of artificial intelligence strategy. Greene used to handle AI rollout for Meta's policy and legal squads, and she actually started her career as a tax attorney at Ropes & Gray before jumping into tech. The...

The Bar Council of England and Wales just tapped Jim Morris, a former Royal Marine and ex-military assistant to the prime minister, as its next CEO. Morris currently works as chief of staff at tech company VoCoVo and will replace Malcolm Cree, who is stepping down after running the organization...

Sidley Austin just promoted 29 lawyers to partner across its US and European offices, which is actually down from the 38 people who made it last year. The firm also bumped 15 people up to counsel this round. Women represent just under half the new partner class, and the promotions kick in...

Pallas Partners is dropping bonuses on its associates and counsel that actually beat what Cravath set as the standard, with top performers potentially walking away with $232k total. The transatlantic litigation boutique operates out of New York and London with just 21 junior lawyers, and its...

Christian Dior Couture's senior privacy and compliance director just got tapped for the Luxury Law Alliance advisory board. Benedicte Bayi-Mathijsen works out of New York, handling legal requirements and turning them into actual business strategies while training employees on risk management...

Norton Rose Fulbright promoted 51 lawyers to partner across 22 offices worldwide, and women made up 51 percent of the new class after last year dipped to just 35 percent. The bulk of promotions went to North America, with 30 spots split between the US and Canada, while London grabbed 10 slots...