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The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was the second largest bank failure in US history.

President Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2024 adds nearly two billion dollars to the budget of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a measure on March 8 to strengthen an existing ban on private dollars funding election administration in his state.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturday said he is directing House committees to investigate whether federal funds are being used for "politically motivated prosecutions" amid reports that former President Donald Trump could be indicted as early as next week.

Local authorities and state governments in the northeast U.S. are asking the federal government for more help as they deal with an influx of illegal immigrants crossing from Canada into the U.S.

The Department of Defense is funding and collaborating with for-profit media-rating companies NewsGuard and PeakMetrics to develop AI censorship technology, raising concerns about government intrusion and censorship of private speech.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a plan to build 1,200 tiny homes across four cities in the state to tackle homelessness, with Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose and San Diego County receiving varying numbers of homes.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors discussed a reparations proposal that includes a $5 million payout per black resident, which is facing criticism from the San Francisco National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

New data show Corporate America has donated $82 billion so far to Black Lives Matter and similar causes.

Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is leading a bill to overturn a Department of Defense (DOD) policy from February that funds travel for pregnant troops to other states for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.