The Second-Biggest Bank Failure  —  Bank failures in each year by total assets  —  Bank failures in each year by total assets  —  IndyMac Bank $307 billion  —  Washington Mutual Bank  —  Silicon Valley Bank  —  Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Note …

Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays  —  Donald Trump is in so much trouble that his trials are starting to run into one another, and now his lawyers might get in trouble for fooling judges into delaying them all. … Faced with an onslaught of expensive lawsuits ranging …

As Fox News panicked in 2020, leaders warned of featuring Buttigieg, Coons  —  The top Biden campaign surrogates were singled out in the post-election period, with CEO Suzanne Scott saying 'audiences don't want to see too much' of guests like them  —  It's a rather small cadre of politicians …

Can Trump's ‘Straight Man’ Lighten Up?  —  The last time Mike Pence headlined the Gridiron Club dinner, he was a stand-in.  His boss, whose media baiting was already reaching highway-speed just two months into his first term, had no interest in playing nice with his critics, so he palmed off the job to his vice president.

Inside Ron DeSantis's Politicized Removal of an Elected Prosecutor  —  The Florida governor accused the Democratic prosecutor of undermining public safety.  But a close examination of the episode reveals just how fueled it was by Mr. DeSantis's political aims.

Syria hopes Iran-Saudi agreement will ease regional tension  —  News of the rapprochement between long-time regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran sent shock waves through the Middle East on Saturday and dealt a symbolic blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made the threat posed …

Kari Lake Is Considering Senate Run, Making Some Republicans Nervous  —  Former news anchor continues to challenge her loss in Arizona governor's race, remains close to Donald Trump  —  PHOENIX—Kari Lake is still contesting the result of the Arizona governor race she lost.

Republicans Court the ‘Red Scare’ Left With Roger Stone Martini Hour  —  The “dirty trickster” served lukewarm cocktails at an event meant to showcase Republican inroads with the downtown art scene.  —  When they take the microphones behind a DJ booth at the New York Young Republican Club party …

Yale Law Is No Longer #1—For Free-Speech Debacles  —  Congratulations, Stanford Law, you're the new poster child for intolerance.  —  Congratulations, Stanford Law School.  You're the nation's new top law school—when it comes to free-speech debacles.1 (And I'm interrupting my vacation to cover you—so thanks for that too, SLS.)

Insurers slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates, documents and insiders reveal  —  A Washington Post investigation has found that some policyholders had their claims cut by more than 80 percent  —  FORT MYERS, Fla. — When insurance adjuster Jordan Lee entered …

Ron DeSantis feels the love in Iowa.  That might not be enough.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — To hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tell it, he's exactly the kind of winner that Republicans here in Iowa — and across the country — are looking for in a presidential nominee.

A Va. bakery gave BLM activists free coffee.  Then came the backlash.  —  Brian Noyes and Josephine Gilbert agreed to sit down on March 1 and talk it out.  Noyes, founder of the celebrated Red Truck Bakery, and Gilbert, the leader of a loose coalition that demonstrates under the banner of All Lives Matter …

BBC in Turmoil as Revolt Over Gary Lineker's ‘Match of the Day’ Suspension Spreads  —  Mr. Lineker, one of England's best-known sports personalities, was taken off the air after criticizing the British government's immigration policy on social media.  His ouster set off a staff boycott.

Biden Administration Expected to Move Ahead on a Major Oil Project in Alaska  —  The decision would allow an enormous $8 billion drilling project in the largest expanse of pristine wilderness in the United States.  —  WASHINGTON — In one of its most consequential climate decisions …

Will it take market crash for Congress to raise debt limit?  —  There's one way to force President Joe Biden and Congress to solve the looming crisis over the debt limit: a financial market crash.  That's a view held by several economists and a former White House official …

The true cost of Dominion's devastating Fox News bombshells  —  I spent almost 25 years as a trial lawyer before I became the host of the Katie Phang Show.  Whether it was a criminal or civil case, the facts and the evidence are what mattered the most.  And my currency as a trial lawyer?  The truth.

How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea  —  China incrementally built up military outposts, with little pushback from the U.S., and has emerged as a power in the strategic waters through which trillions of dollars in trade passes  —  In early February, a Philippine coast guard vessel approached …

Public Approval Of Biden Rockets To Highest This Year As Democrats Prevail  —  Despite what seem like only intensifying predictions from Donald Trump and allies of his about ostensibly looming doom with Biden and the Democrats in charge, many Americans evidently aren't concerned.

March 10, 2023  —  At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said that “for the good of society...transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”