The Biden administration defended its nominee to lead the World Bank over his business connections to ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, as the video app finds itself at the forefront of a push for regulating financial ties between the United States and China.
Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by the state of California after attempts to raise capital failed, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) dinged President Joe Biden for laughing as he discussed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) and the mother of two fentanyl overdose victims.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and state Attorney General Letitia James are pressuring pharmaceutical chains to commit to dispensing a major abortion drug in the state.
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) joined with his state's two Democratic senators to call for the FBI headquarters to be relocated to Springfield, Virginia.