By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The former parents of Silicon Valley Bank can file a lawsuit to recover $19.3 billion in deposits the bank seized after the bank collapsed in March 2023, a federal judge ruled. In a decision Thursday, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman said in San Jose, California, that the former parent,…
Adams' latest work abandons floral references, transforming the painted surface into an open feeling. ©Lindsay Adams Good abstraction requires a basic element: absolute command and awareness of the body. Typically, abstraction is shaped by the complex interaction of physical and psychological actions, in which movement and sensation are transformed onto the canvas through intuitive color…
Azusena Favela and Adalberto Ríos headed north on Griffith Street in southern Los Angeles on Monday morning, with an eye on unmarked American-branded vehicles with dark tinted windows and government license plates, which could indicate immigration and customs enforcement officers present. As Favela turned left on 23rd Street, she noticed a white truck with a…
The Trump administration has entered the next push, with the most aggressive yet to significantly reform the federal bureaucracy, requiring agencies to develop plans for large-scale labor that involves closing offices and relocating employees outside the Washington area. According to the latest memo from the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and…
The overall cryptocurrency market has risen 24% since the November presidential election. Donald Trump has accepted digital assets during the campaign and despite stagnation in recent weeks, some Wall Street experts are still expecting a big gain XRP (Encryption: XRP) and Bitcoin (Encryption: BTC). Dom Kwok, former Goldman Sachs Employee and co-founder of blockchain education…
South Korean police said Friday they were summoning a Japanese woman to ask Jin, a member of the alleged kiss of K-Pop Supergroup BTS, without consent during last year's free hug event. A police officer who answered the phone at the Songpa police station in Seoul said the woman was asked to appear in court…
Elon Musk is everywhere. He is firing federal employees, getting vital government data, entering the Oval Office, appearing on Fox News with President Trump, and even attending White House Cabinet Meetings. For some, his rampage through U.S. state institutions replaced private interests. For others, this is equivalent to a large-scale technology acquisition. For many, most…
This week’s unusually warm winter weather in Southern California broke five temperature records Thursday as a powerful high-pressure system raises the thermometer to normal levels around 15 degrees higher than the region. Downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach both hit 88 degrees of toast Thursday, breaking the 2020 86 and 84 degrees records, according to…
Two Fresno men were accused of performing social media stunts, raised among U.S. immigration and customs law enforcement officers and filmed themselves harassing local businesses, putting undocumented communities in the area for weeks after the actual ice raid in the Central Valley puts undocumented communities on the edge. According to the Fresno Police Department, the…
According to a new study, the International Space Station may be too sterile – astronauts on board may benefit a little from it. Astronauts often experience immunity problems, skin diseases and other conditions when they spend their time on the International Space Station. This may be because the site's microbial array is much smaller, a…