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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC — Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System — Washington, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg:
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U.S. officials weigh protecting all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank — Extraordinary step eyed if plan to sell SVB to another institution fails — Federal authorities are seriously considering safeguarding all uninsured deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, weighing an extraordinary intervention …
Yun Li / CNBC:
Regulators close crypto-focused Signature Bank, citing systemic risk — U.S. regulators on Sunday shut down New York-based Signature Bank, a big lender in the crypto industry, in a bid to prevent the spreading banking crisis. — “We are also announcing a similar systemic risk exception for Signature Bank …
New York Times:
Regulators Race to Contain Silicon Valley Bank Fallout and Close Signature Bank — The Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation unveiled a plan to contain fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. — Federal regulators announced on Sunday that they would ensure …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve Board announces it will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions to help assure banks have the ability to meet the needs of all their depositors — To support American businesses and households, the Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced …
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NBC News:
Treasury says it will back Silicon Valley Bank deposits — The bank, a favorite of tech startups, was shut down Friday amid a run on deposits. A buyout was widely seen as the best solution amid an unsure sector. — The U.S. Treasury on Sunday announced it would back Silicon Valley Bank deposits beyond …
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Can the chaos from Silicon Valley Bank's fall be contained? — Can Washington come to the rescue of the depositors of failed Silicon Valley Bank? Is it even politically possible? — That was one of the growing questions in Washington Sunday as policymakers tried to figure out whether …
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Rob Wile / NBC News:
Is Silicon Valley Bank getting a government bailout? Not in the 2008 sense. — Federal officials insisted their emergency measures to shore up deposits wouldn't come at taxpayers' expense. But the public could still bear some indirect costs, one expert warned.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Regulators unveil plan to assure depositors will get money after SVB collapse — Banking regulators devised a plan Sunday to backstop depositors and protect financial institutions with money at Silicon Valley Bank, a critical step in stemming a feared panic over the collapsed tech-focused institution.
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Associated Press:
Yellen says no federal bailout for Silicon Valley Bank — The U.S. government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring all depositors at the failed institution that they could access all their money quickly, even as another major bank was shut down.
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ABC News:
Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Treasury, Fed and FDIC announce steps to ensure deposits will be paid in full
Silicon Valley Bank collapse: Treasury, Fed and FDIC announce steps to ensure deposits will be paid in full
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Wall Street — not taxpayers — will pay for the SVB and Signature deposit relief plans
Wall Street — not taxpayers — will pay for the SVB and Signature deposit relief plans
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Washington Post:
Biden will approve Alaska oil project, alongside Arctic protections — The administration will approve three pads for the Willow drilling project, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes after announcing a new ban on U.S. oil and gas leasing in the Arctic Ocean.
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say — Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.
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CNN:
Biden will announce sweeping protections preventing new Arctic drilling ahead of Willow decision
Biden will announce sweeping protections preventing new Arctic drilling ahead of Willow decision
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
As Biden weighs Willow, he saves other areas from drilling
As Biden weighs Willow, he saves other areas from drilling
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Inside Pence world's decision to go hard at Trump at the Gridiron — The Friday after Jan. 6, 2021, then-Vice President Mike Pence sat down for his daily devotions, thumbed his Bible to the New Testament and James 1:19, and read these words: “Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.”
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Dean Obeidallah / The Dean's Report:
If Mike Pence continues his refusal to tell investigators the details of Trump's Jan 6 attack, he must be viewed as complicit
If Mike Pence continues his refusal to tell investigators the details of Trump's Jan 6 attack, he must be viewed as complicit
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Anshel Pfeffer / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's Response to Iran-Saudi Deal Shows a Growing Detachment From Reality — Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that he is the one leading the Western world's fight against Iran and that peace with the Saudis is within reach shows how disconnected he is both at home and abroad
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China Plans New Middle East Summit as Diplomatic Role Takes Shape
China Plans New Middle East Summit as Diplomatic Role Takes Shape
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Vivian Nereim / New York Times:
From ‘Hitler’ to ‘Sharing One Fate’: Saudi-Iran Pact Could Transform the Middle East
From ‘Hitler’ to ‘Sharing One Fate’: Saudi-Iran Pact Could Transform the Middle East
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors say newly aired Chansley footage paints misleading portrait of his Jan. 6 conduct — Prosecutors on Sunday rejected the notion that newly public footage of Jacob Chansley — known as the QAnon Shaman — accompanied by police in the Capitol undercuts his criminal conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’ — Anyone who has lost a family member to right-wing conspiracy theories knows that Fox News has been a key piece of that. Now it's being revealed that even Fox execs view their own viewers with the most offensive terms.
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Jodi Picoult / The Daily Beast:
What Florida Doesn't Want You to Know About Its Book Bans — My books are among those getting pulled off shelves, but here is why we should should care about all of them. … The seventh time I learned that my novel Nineteen Minutes was being banned in a school district, I was watching a book burning.
Doug Livingston / Akron Beacon Journal:
Two arrested after protesters and supporters clashed at Wadsworth drag queen story hour — Hundreds of protesters, including armed white supremacists, and LGBT-community supporters descended on Wadsworth's Memorial Park on Saturday as a humanist group tried to put on a drag queen storytelling event for children.
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
McCarthy: January 6 tapes to be ‘slowly’ rolled out to networks besides Fox News — Republican House speaker has only let Fox News see the tapes so far, giving access to the primetime host Tucker Carlson — The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, said on Sunday he would …
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters:
Hundreds of migrants try to force their way into US at Mexico border — U.S. officials stopped hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants entering the country from Mexico on Sunday after a large group broke through Mexican lines to demand asylum in the U.S., only to be thwarted by barbed wire, barriers and shields.
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CNN:
Norfolk Southern balks at compensating homeowners in East Palestine — Jim Stewart was getting ready to sell his home in East Palestine, Ohio, and retire. Then came the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3, releasing toxic chemicals into the air and nearby water, and he fears crashing the value of his home.