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Warren calls for hearings into Silicon Valley, Signature bank failures

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has called for the Senate to hold hearings on the recent collapse of two major banks in the aftermath of their failures. Sarafina Chitika, the deputy communications director for Warren, confirmed to The Hill that the senator believes the body should hold hearings that include testimony from the CEOs of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, both of which collapsed over the weekend. Igor Bobic, a senior politics reporter for The Huffington Post, first reported Warren’s call for hearings. Bobic reported that Warren said senators should ask the CEOs about “what went wrong” with their companies and their roles in pushing for regulations from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to be rolled back “so they could load up their banks with risk.” Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act and then-President Obama signed it into law in 2010 to increase financial regulations to prevent the types of failures of major banks that we...

Manlius Police arrest 20-year-old who allegedly made mass shooting threat at Tops

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

MANLIUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- Town of Manlius Police arrested a 20-year-old after he allegedly threatened a mass shooting at the Village of Manlius Tops Friendly Markets on social media.On Saturday, March 11, at 1:39 p.m., police started to investigate a series of Discord posts allegedly made by Zachary Mullen of Jamesville, a 20-year-old male user threatening a mass shooting at the Tops. Police seize guns, fentanyl and cocaine after man was threatened with gun at Syracuse Gentlemen’s Club Police then executed a search warrant on Mullen's house where he was arrested for Making a Terroristic Threat, a class D Felony, and a search of his house was conducted where guns and ammunition were located. An Extreme Risk Order of Protection (ERPO) was sought, granted, and issued to the suspect, prohibiting him from owning or possessing any guns. Manlius Police have seized all his weapons. They said there is no threat to the community.Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said M...

Access to abortion pill on trial in Wednesday hearing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

Doctors and reproductive rights advocates are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday in a court case that, if successful, could end legal access to one of two abortion pills nationwide.Abortion pills have become one of the next major fronts in the fight over reproductive health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Advocacy groups and legal experts said the case is unprecedented, and are preparing for a range of outcomes. At issue is access to mifepristone, a drug that blocks hormones necessary for pregnancy. Mifepristone has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2000 to induce an abortion up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy. Mifepristone has been used by more than 3 million women in the United States since receiving FDA approval, and top medical groups maintain it is safe and effective."I don't know of any other case where a party has gone to court seeking to order the FDA to withdraw a drug, no less one that was ap...

Law enforcement respond to potential hostage situation off Highway 61 in Ste. Genevieve County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY, Mo. - Law enforcement from multiple jurisdictions are responding to a possible hostage situation in Ste. Genevieve County.According to a spokesperson for the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff's Office, authorities are at a mobile home park just off of Highway 61 and Highway OO, approximately one mile south of the Ste. Genevieve-Jefferson county line.Law enforcement believes the individual at the center of this may have a minor in their custody.This is a breaking news story. FOX 2 will have more information as it becomes available.

314 Day: All the different ways to celebrate St. Louis

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

ST. LOUIS – 314 is not just an area code, it’s who we are as a community; and that’s why we celebrate March 14.There are many ways to celebrate our community on 314 Day. A local DJ is featuring songs by St. Louis artists only all day long.Sidney Caldwell, program director at Smooth 955 & 107 The Heat, says he always supports local artists, and wants to help them get their music out.“We got so much talent here in St. Louis, and some of these artists they don’t know how to get on the radio," Caldwell said. "They don’t know the outreach to get their music on. So, what I tell these artists [is]: make clean music, and we can spin it on the air.” Trending: Daughter roasts Alton dad in sweet and funny obit And as a special treat for fans on 314 Day, the Cardinals announced a flash sale for tickets for $3.14.“I think it’s phenomenal. I think it’s a privilege for people who really can’t afford the real tickets – the price of the tickets for the baseball game. And I’m really happy to be...

Top 10 Business Visionaries to Follow in 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

1 – Dawa Tarchin PhillipsDawa Tarchin Phillips is a serial entrepreneur and visionary with a unique and inspiring story that has led him to become a global expert in personal and professional development and human transformation through deep wisdom, empathy, and understanding. After spending twelve years in a monastery, seven of which he spent in meditation retreat, he co-founded a University of California research center in brain science to help establish the scientific evidence base for mindfulness and meditation nationwide. He co-founded the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, which now accredits teacher training programs and certifies qualified mindfulness teachers around the world. He then went on to bring mindful leadership and conscious business practices to the world through redefining entrepreneurship and conscious success. Now, he’s taking his passion for personal and professional development to the next level by building an artificial intelligence techno...

Gautam Ahuja and Jamison Ernest, the co-founders of Blue Scorpion Launch Second Fund with Investments in up to 15 Disruptive Consumer Product Companies Starting with Non-Alcoholic Beverage Pioneer, Boisson

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

Blue Scorpion is not your typical early-stage venture capital firm. Gautam Ahuja and Jamison Ernest, the co-founders and general partners of the company, place a premium on their personal values and connections with brands, using authenticity as a form of quality control.Founding partners, Gautam Ahuja and Jamison ErnestWith their super-user ethos and hands-on approach, Blue Scorpion offers not only financial, but brand based conceptual and creative value to each company in their rapidly growing yet selective portfolio.Ahuja and Ernest make a powerful duo, with backgrounds in investment banking and creative direction; the two are able to see from different yet vital perspectives. “We have this cool dynamic,” says Ahuja. “We understand and respect each other and have to be 100% in agreement on every single investment. We have different lenses, but we’ve also learned alot from each other.”Since its inception in 2015, Ahuja and Ernest have been the force behind some of your favorite br...

Adam Driver Crash-Lands on Earth (A Long, Long Time Ago) in 65

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

Something of an afterthought resume item for everyone involved, the new matinee programmer 65 actually stirs a weathered moviegoer’s heart: It’s short (93 minutes), it’s not a franchise or a reboot, it’s modest (if they spent a ton, you don’t see it), and it seems unabashedly targeted to fourth-graders, many of whom are still potentially fascinated with dinosaurs. This last point accounts for the scarcity of script — in fact, the movie opens with a title scroll that tells us flat out, “65 million years ago, a visitor crash-landed … on Earth.” Way to dot that i.The visitor is Adam Driver, to whom we’re introduced on the “Planet Somaris,” where he’s about to embark on an undefined two-year mission and leave his lovely wife and daughter behind. Enter “undocumented asteroid belt” and his crash on some random blue-green planet, accompanied by one surviving passenger — a surrogate daughter who doesn’t speak English (see below), played by Ariana Greenblatt — and where he struggles to survi...

Letters: $1 million outrage | Revoke approval | Realistic liberals | Save Social Security | Unjustifiable attack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.$1M for canceled bookan outrage to taxpayersRe: “Writer to keep $1M in spite of plagiarism” (Page B1, March 14).Outrageous. Jean McCorquodale was knowingly unqualified for the job; she is not a professional historian, and writing grants wouldn’t have made her familiar with the county’s history.The county secretly gave her taxpayers’ money by avoiding the normally required bidding process. The $1 million fee was absurdly high; as one historian said, every real historian in the area would have jumped at the fee. She plagiarized about 20% of the book.The excuse for not suing her to recover the money — that it could “hypothetically” cost more than her fee — is troubling. Contracts of this size routinely provide that the loser in any dispute pays the winner’s attorneys’ fees. If this contract doesn’t, that’s another stain on the County.My guess is that the real reason for not suing is that the Cou...

Major delays at SFO amid blistering winds, temporary FAA ground stop order

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:02 GMT

San Francisco International Airport saw cascading delays and flight cancellations Tuesday after fierce winds forced a temporary halt to all flights and an ongoing ground delay order from the Federal Aviation Administration.The airport is expected to remain under a delay through the evening. As of Tuesday afternoon, 365 flights have been delayed – over 35% of air traffic – and 59 flights canceled, according to the airline tracking service Flight Aware.Many flights are seeing multi-hour holds, with the average delay at 155 minutes, according to the FAA. Airports in Oakland and San Jose are not reporting any major delays as of Tuesday afternoon.Doug Yakel, an SFO spokesperson, said the airport had to adjust takeoff and landing strips on Tuesday to account for southeasterly winds that have gusted up to 74 miles per hour.“For us (the winds) are normally out of the northwest,” said Yakel. “We’ve had to do a 180 in terms of how we’re taking off and landing.”Yakel is advising traveler...