Saturday, March 18, 2023

The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2023-03-17

Domestic

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed this week, sending shockwaves through the financial world. Prominent Silicon Valley voices pleaded for the government to bail out depositors. They got their wish.

A judge in Texas heard arguments in a lawsuit against a widely-used abortion medication. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine filed the suit to overturn the FDA’s approval of pills that account for more than half of abortions in the U.S.

The Biden administration approved a drilling project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that would supposedly produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day. Environmental activists said this approval would violate the president’s climate goals.
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International

The Biden administration is demanding that the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok be sold. Otherwise, it risks a nationwide ban.

The Pakistani police were ordered by a court to halt the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan until Thursday after authorities clashed with the former cricketer’s supporters outside his home.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that his country is safer than the U.S. He was responding to critics after four Americans were attacked by cartel gunmen, leaving two dead.
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