A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances of the killing remain unclear, video of the shooting shows an officer opening fire on the woman as she drove away. Realistically, there’s virtually no chance […] Read more ›
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People wait outside the Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, to withdraw funds after the federal government intervened upon the bank’s collapse, on March 13, 2023. | Nikolas Liepins/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAs Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the right returns to its favorite boogeyman. Some banks are huge. Some are tiny. Some serve all possible kinds of customers, while others, like the recently kaput Silicon Valley Bank, carve... Read more ›
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This diabetes drug could be the future of weight management. Ozempic, a medication developed to manage Type 2 diabetes, has been in the news a lot lately because of one of its signature side effects: drastic weight loss. Both Ozempic and Wegovy, Ozempic’s counterpart approved specifically for weight loss by the FDA, are brand names of a drug called semaglutide. Semaglutide is one of several drugs that mimics a crucial... Read more ›
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The Biden administration approved one of the largest oil developments ever on public land. The decision contradicts his promise on the 2020 campaign trail to approve no new fossil fuel drilling on federal land. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe Willow Project is a “carbon bomb” that will complicate Biden’s climate legacy. The same president who passed the nation’s biggest law ever to slash climate pollution may have just undone part... Read more ›
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Cyclists ride by Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus on March 12, 2019, in Stanford, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesAnd it arrives at the Supreme Court at an absolutely horrible time. On Thursday, what could be the single most important transgender rights case in American history reached the Supreme Court. West Virginia v. B.P.J. asks the Supreme Court to address whether any government discrimination against transgender people is inherently... Read more ›
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An image autogenerated by Midjourney, a text-to-image tool, when given the prompt “people performing office tasks with AI, collage art.” | MidjourneyHow Ethan and Lilach Mollick learned to stop worrying and start automating their jobs. About 10 minutes into my interview with Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school who has become a prominent evangelist for AI tools, it became clear that he was going... Read more ›
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A security guard at Silicon Valley Bank monitors a line of people outside the office on March 13, 2023, in Santa Clara, California. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSilicon Valley Bank was a test case for Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law. It failed. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other similarly sized banks in recent days has put a spotlight on Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law, which was signed... Read more ›
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“It’s a bailout, but it’s a bailout of a different group and it’s done in a different way.” | erhui1979/Getty ImagesDid the government just bail out banks again? Yes-ish. But this isn’t 2008. The whisper of the word “bailout” is enough to send a shiver down anyone’s spine. For most, it evokes specific and evocative memories of the 2008 global financial crisis, when the United States government stepped in to... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley Bank customers line up before the opening of a branch at SVB headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 13, 2023. | Noah Berger/AFP via Getty ImagesWhat we know about the bank failure and fallout. Silicon Valley Bank, one of tech’s favorite lenders, collapsed on Friday after 48 hours of chaos, becoming the second-largest bank failure in US history. The bank’s blowup has sent shockwaves across the tech... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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Three years into the pandemic, scientists are getting a better idea of how long Covid works and how to treat it. | Getty Images/iStockphotoLong Covid isn’t as much of a mystery as it used to be. Three years since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, the syndrome known as “long Covid” remains one of its chief mysteries. Those mysteries include what the syndrome even is. The long-term... Read more ›
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Michelle Yeoh tells women, “Never let anyone tell you you’re past you’re prime,” while accepting the Oscar for Best Actress at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony on March 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. | Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesWinner: Donkeys. Loser: Anyone craving drama. The 95th Academy Awards went off without a hitch — and, as host Jimmy Kimmel made sure to remind us, without “Hitch,” er, Will Smith. Banned from the... Read more ›
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Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once. | A24It’s the end of predictable Oscar winners. They did it. Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once — which, despite its maximalist name, isn’t a “big” movie, like some of its fellow Best Picture nominees. It’s not the sort of film directors make assuming it will win them Best Picture. Weird, sweet, and frenetic, shot on a... Read more ›
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Justin Ford/Getty ImagesArkansas is leading the charge against laws that protect kids — despite revelations of dangerous child labor nationwide. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday approved a bill eliminating a requirement for children under 16 to obtain state documentation in order to work. The Arkansas law is now just one of a number of state bills loosening child labor restrictions, despite evidence that young children are already engaged... Read more ›
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Plaintiffs Amanda Zurawski, Lauren Hall, Anna Zargarian, CRR President & CEO Nancy Northup, and CRR Media Relations Director Kelly Krause at the Texas State Capitol after filing a lawsuit on behalf of Texans harmed by the state’s abortion ban, on March 7, 2023 in Austin, Texas. | Rick Kern/Getty Images for the Center for Reproductive RightsDoctors in red states across the country are too scared to perform legal abortions. A... Read more ›
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference following the launch of new legislation on migrant channel crossings on March 7, 2023. | Leon Neal/Getty ImagesTory plans to stop channel crossings may be more politics than practical. Facing an increase in migration across the English Channel, the UK agreed to fund additional policing and new migrant detention center in northern France on Friday, to the tune of $576... Read more ›
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Protesters advocate for Washington, DC, statehood in the wake of Congress overturning the city’s crime bill. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesWashington just owned DC. Congress came together in a rare show of bipartisanship this week. What brought the opposing sides together? Well, it wasn’t figuring out the debt ceiling or the war in Ukraine, it was voting down Washington, DC’s proposed new criminal code. The new code had been in the... Read more ›
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From left: Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Musaid Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s national security adviser, posing for a photo after Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to resume bilateral diplomatic ties after several days of deliberations between top security officials of the two countries in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2023. | Chinese Foreign Ministry/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesChina’s dealmaking heralds the post-America Middle... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but less than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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 “We have to reward work, not just wealth,” President Biden announced at the State of the Union in February, as he called for a new minimum tax on billionaires. | AFP via Getty ImagesThe new proposed budget would have billionaires and multi-millionaires footing the bill in an attempt to reduce the federal deficit. Billionaires in the US pay a tiny proportion of the wealth they accrue in taxes compared... Read more ›
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