Republicans worry pro-Trump candidates will haunt them in 2024

BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND MAX GREENWOOD

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Anxiety is growing among Republicans that Trump-aligned candidates who failed to cross the finish line last year could come back to haunt them in 2024, costing the GOP another chance at winning back power in Washington.

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What Xi and Putin want to gain from their joint meeting

BY ELLEN MITCHELL

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to travel to Moscow next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin – his first visit to Russia since Kremlin troops invaded Ukraine.  

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Here’s why the ‘too big to fail’ banks bailed out First Republic

BY TOBIAS BURNS

A consortium of 11 giant banks that are ostensibly in competition with one another came together Thursday to bail out one of their own, the California-based First Republic, in order to help stabilize the teetering U.S. financial system.

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Biden urges Congress to crack down on failed bank executives

BY TOBIAS BURNS

President Biden urged Congress on Friday to give the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) more power to punish executives in charge of banks that fail and require assistance from the federal government.

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House Financial Services Committee schedules first hearing on collapse of SVB, Signature Bank

BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL

The House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing later this month on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which spooked markets and pumped uncertainty into the banking industry.

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Biden, divided Congress seek common ground on health care reforms

BY JOSEPH CHOI

President Biden’s budget proposal includes ambitious measures seeking to bring down health care costs, but the divided government poses a steep challenge to these proposals, and lawmakers have yet to indicate where they’re willing to come together.

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Trump attorney ordered to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents probe

BY REBECCA BEITSCH

A federal judge ordered Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to testify before the grand jury assembled to review the mishandling of White House records at Mar-a-Lago, multiple outlets reported Friday. 

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Trump, family failed to disclose more than 100 foreign gifts, congressional report says

BY JULIA SHAPERO

Former President Trump and members of his family failed to disclose more than 100 gifts worth nearly $300,000 that they received from foreign governments during his presidency, according to a report House Oversight and Accountability Committee Democrats released on Friday.

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How an algae bloom could put Florida’s spring break at risk

BY SAUL ELBEIN

Before spring break season is over, beaches across the Gulf Coast will begin to stink.

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It’s time for both parties to own the debt — and then address it

BY G. WILLIAM HOAGLAND

OPINION | The first law of economics is that scarcity is real. The first law of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.

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Ominous clouds on China’s tech horizons

BY ALLEN MORRISON AND STEWART BLACK

OPINION | Chinese companies as varied as Tencent, Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, and Xiaomi not only dominate China’s internet, e-commerce, telecommunications, and smart device industries but have become major players on the global stage. 

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The Washington Post: The prosecutor, the ex-president and the ‘zombie’ case that came back to life

BY MARK BERMAN, SHAYNA JACOBS, DEVLIN BARRETT AND JOSH DAWSEY

It was just weeks into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s time in office, and he was being assailed on multiple fronts.

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The New York Times: 20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One

BY ALISSA J. RUBIN

A couple of streets away from the new buildings and noisy main road of the desert city of Falluja, there was once a sports stadium. The goal posts are long gone, the stands rotted years ago.

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The Wall Street Journal: First Republic, SVB, Credit Suisse Show How Higher Interest Rates Caught Up With Banks

BY AKANE OTANI

For much of the early part of 2023, the economy seemed to be humming along.

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Politico: TikTok’s plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers

BY HAILEY FUCHS

The influential social media app TikTok is flooding the nation’s capital with influencers next week as part of an 11th hour lobbying blitz to stave off the forced sale of the company.

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