Long Before Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse, Its CEO Helped Kill Tougher Oversight of Banks Like His  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  On Friday, regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank, one of the most prominent banks …

Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure  —  Silicon Valley Bank on Friday paid out annual bonuses to eligible U.S. employees, just hours before the bank was seized by the U.S. government, Axios has learned from multiple sources. … That date ultimately coincided …

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 …

House GOP's budget could hurt the party in key Senate races  —  House Republicans' push for major spending cuts could undermine the party's effort to win the Senate.  —  The big picture: Several House Republicans are likely to run for competitive Senate seats in 2024.

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 …

Lauren Boebert will be a grandmother at 36.  This is what conservatives want for us  —  This shouldn't need to be said in 2023, but forcing teenagers to become parents isn't good for the teenagers, the baby or society in general  —  Boebert's rural family values

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Trans Rights  —  Masha Gessen on the public discourse over trans identity, the real reasons for the culture war over gender, and how well-meaning people can do better.  —  The first time I saw Masha Gessen was more than thirty years ago, on the streets of Moscow.

Stripping Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Renames Two Vessels  —  The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift.  —  One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged …

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.

South Korea proposes 69-hour workweek, up from an already long 52  —  SEOUL — South Korea's conservative government has proposed increasing the legal cap on weekly work hours from 52 to 69, triggering backlash from the opposition and wage-earners who fear the plan will ruin work-life balance …

Woke head of ‘risk assessment’ at Silicon Valley Bank ‘prioritized’ LGBT initiatives - including organizing a month-long Pride campaign - before bank lost BILLIONS and collapsed  — Jay Ersapah was head of risk assessment for Silicon Valley Bank's EMEA region

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.

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 …

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 …

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.)