The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023, came as a shock to most Americans. Even people like myself, a scholar of the U.S. banking system who has worked at the Federal Reserve, didn’t expect SVB’s collapse.

Usually banks, like all companies, fail after a prolonged period of lackluster performance. But SVB, the nation�...Read more

Fewer than 100 wild horses roam the northern end of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, so finding a foal is a sign of hope for the fragile herd.

The Corolla Wild Horse Fund announced the discovery March 27, reporting the filly was born last week. Her name is Dove.

“Dove is extra special to us because her grandfather is our dear Amadeo, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dusty Johnson is a busy man. The new chair of the Republican Main Street Caucus and vice chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has positioned himself to be one of the GOP’s biggest wheeler-dealers on the Hill.

But the South Dakotan doesn’t think he’ll have much more power to flex than any other House Republican, ...Read more

Ecologist Shane Godshall tromps in waders through two feet of mud in Thompsons Beach marsh on the Delaware Bay in Heislerville, in New Jersey's Cumberland County.

He pauses, then sticks his hand in the ooze and pulls out a piece of the secret weapon scientists have been deploying to fight erosion from climate change and to save America’s ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Challis, the seat and largest city in Custer County, is home to about 1,000 people, two public schools and no private schools. If a Challis resident wanted to attend a private school, the closest option is in Sun Valley — 119 miles away.

Twenty of Idaho’s 44 counties didn’t have a private school as of December, according ...Read more

CORCORAN, Calif. — Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. Now, the road has disappeared under muddy water, its path marked by sodden telephone poles that protrude from the swelling lake. Water laps just below the windows of a lone farmhouse that sits alongside the submerged route.

Thousands of acres of cropland have been ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a larger-than-life video shown during the first minutes of the second hearing of the House Jan. 6 select committee, former Attorney General William Barr called claims of election fraud from his onetime boss, former President Donald Trump, “bullshit.”

The expletive’s punch — and its appearance in news headlines — put ...Read more

The Original Oyster House, billed as Pittsburgh’s oldest restaurant, found itself in crisis during the pandemic. Down to seven employees — including owner Jen Grippo and her mother — the staff worked six or seven days a week to keep up with orders. Grippo closed the Oyster House entirely in January 2021, determined to give herself and her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The union representing Los Angeles police rank and file sued Chief Michel Moore on Tuesday to force the department to stop making officers’ photos public and to claw back images of undercover officers given out under the state’s public records law.

The lawsuit follows more than a week of controversy, after the LAPD released ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo introduced legislation Monday that would make sweeping changes to Nevada’s election process, including repealing universal mail-in voting, requiring an ID to vote and moving up the deadline for completed mail ballots to be received.

If passed, Senate Bill 405 would undo election-related legislation ...Read more

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Senate approved a bill Tuesday aimed at ensuring parents can remove their child from classroom activities to which they object.

The chamber voted 23 to 17 to pass the bill, which is a substantially weakened version of parental rights policy Republicans have sought in Kansas and nationwide in recent years.

“This is...Read more

NEW YORK — A Trump supporter pulled a knife and threatened a mother with two children Tuesday in front of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where TV reporters have been camped out amid a looming indictment against the former president, authorities said.

Angela Rucker, 39, was holding a yellow sign with black lettering that said, “I’m ...Read more

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — At least 40 migrants were killed and dozens more were injured Monday night when a fire broke out in an immigrant detention center in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, authorities said Tuesday.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the blaze in Ciudad Juarez probably began when migrants learned that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California on Tuesday unveiled its first-ever systemwide admission guarantee for qualified transfer student applicants — but access to particular campuses is not assured.

To receive the guarantee, community college students would need to complete a newly unified set of general education courses required by ...Read more

A fire that killed 40 migrants who were about to be deported from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, highlights the increasing tension over that country's continued crackdown on migrants trying to reach the United States.

The blaze on Monday night, one of the deadliest in recent history at the Mexico-U.S. border, was provoked by Venezuelan and Central ...Read more