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Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run — Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run! — SVB — The lesson might be that there are some industries that are bad to bank. Imagine that it was 2021, and someone was like “do you want to start the Bank of Crypto?
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Silicon Valley Bank collapses after failing to raise capital — New York CNN — Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday morning after a stunning 48 hours in which a bank run and a capital crisis led to the second-largest failure of a financial institution in US history.
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New York Times:
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 …
Jesse Pound / CNBC:
Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators in biggest bank failure since global financial crisis
Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators in biggest bank failure since global financial crisis
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New York Times:
Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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 …
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Martha Ross / East Bay Times:
Rupert Murdoch: Fox News fired Kimberly Guilfoyle for ‘inappropriate behavior’ — Murdoch's complaints about his former Fox News host were revealed in a trove of texts and emails that were recently leaked in Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against the network
David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
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.)
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Dogs—t’: Federal Judge Decries Disruption of His Remarks by Stanford Law Students and Calls for Termination of the Stanford Dean Who Joined the Mob … Fifth Circuit appellate judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, who was shouted down by Stanford Law School students as administrators looked on in silence …
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Adam Wren / Politico:
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.
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New York Times:
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.
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Katie S. Phang / MSNBC:
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.
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New York Times:
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.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
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 …
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Tim Carman / Washington Post:
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 …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
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 …
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Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Biden administration to approve major Alaska oil drilling project Willow
Biden administration to approve major Alaska oil drilling project Willow
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Air Force:
New paint design for ‘Next Air Force One’ — Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs — President of the United States Joe Biden has selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing for the 21st century.
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Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
SVB CEO Sold $3.6 Million in Stock Days Before Bank's Failure — Silicon Valley Bank Chief Executive Officer Greg Becker sold $3.6 million of company stock under a trading plan less than two weeks before the firm disclosed extensive losses that led to its failure.
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Rebecca Burns / The Lever:
SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers To Weaken Bank Risk Regs
SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers To Weaken Bank Risk Regs
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Jasmine Hilton / Washington Post:
Man accused of painting ‘groomer’ on Md. libraries charged in child porn case — Charles Sutherland had previously been charged over the vandalism authorities alleged was fueled by hate — A 31-year-old Takoma Park man alleged to have spray-painted the word “groomer” …
New York Times:
Michael Cohen to Testify at Grand Jury as Likely Trump Indictment Looms — Mr. Cohen, Donald J. Trump's former fixer, is the key witness in a case built around a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. — Michael D. Cohen, the former fixer who for years did Donald J. Trump's dirty work …
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
5 archaic D.C. laws still technically on the books after crime bill is nixed — When D.C. embarked on a years-long process to overhaul its criminal code, one of the things city council members set out to do was remove from the books antiquated laws that are no longer relevant to modern society.
Brandi Buchman / emptywheel:
Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy comes into focus at Proud Boys trial as classified ‘spill’ roils proceedings — The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial started this week with prosecutors rolling out meticulous frame-by-frame video footage from Jan. 6 that, for the first time in more than a month …
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Washington Post:
China brokers Iran-Saudi Arabia detente, raising eyebrows in Washington — After decades of U.S. failures in the region, China takes a turn as Middle East power broker — China's successful brokering of a detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia on Friday forced the United States …
Jozsef Papp / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Family: Activist's hands raised when shot by troopers near training center site — Family files lawsuit against city of Atlanta for release of information — An independent autopsy showed Manuel Teran's hands were raised when the activist was fatally shot by state troopers in January near …
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