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banking industry was sitting on a total of about $620 billion in unrealized losses as a result of investments undermined by the rise of interest rates. Just as before the 2008 financial crisis, banks have once again managed to ring up billions in profits by making risky bets and then gone running for government aid as those bets have started to sour. But the wide-ranging intervention is only necessary because the newly shuttered banks - the second- and fourth-largest failed banks in American history - were not exceptions to a pattern of general probity. At the end of 2022, the U.S.

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action targets former director of the Paraguayan Civil Aviation Authority, Edgar Melgarejo, current member of the Paraguayan Panel for the Discipline of Judges and Prosecutors, Jorge Bogarin, and current Court Clerk Vicente Ferreira, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement.

TAIPEI, March 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Thursday that President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with U.S.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the United States is still in the process of being arranged.

"The theater forces will maintain a high state of alert at all times and take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and peace and stability in the South China Sea," said Tian Junli, a spokesman for China's Southern Theatre Command.

March 23 (Reuters) - The United States has designated one former and two current Paraguayan officials for what Washington said was their involvement in "significant corruption," making the officials and their families ineligible for entry into the North American country.

Now many of these same people are trying to destroy one of the country´s best tools for fighting the rare cases of voter fraud that do occur. The attacks on the database aren´t really about ERIC.
They´re part of a broader, multiyear campaign to bully elections officials. Demagogues have planted seeds of doubt in the minds of Americans that their votes don´t count.

If Republicans are serious about protecting election integrity and the rule of law, they´d celebrate ERIC as the enormous success it has been in helping states clean up their voter rolls by identifying people who have died or moved, as well as those who have cast ballots in multiple states.

The United States has been shoring up alliances in the Asia-Pacific seeking to counter China's assertiveness in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing seeks to advance its territorial claims.

Cooperating with the government to produce life-saving Covid vaccines. No good treatment goes unpunished for pharmaceutical companies these days, and Bernie Sanders will offer another example on Wednesday when he holds a political show trial of Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.

Politicians and officials have pocketed billions. troops are still present due to the ongoing battle against IS. Iraq currently appears relatively calm. Though there is now a government, following a year of deadlock after elections and an outburst of violence in Baghdad, the state remains unable to keep the lights on or provide clean water.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; writing by Jasper Ward; editing by Tim Ahmann) seek conflict with Iran, but be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people," Biden told reporters during an official visit to Canada. "Make no mistake: the United States does not ...

Carol Beecher, Alaska´s director of elections, told her state legislature last week that she´s evaluating whether to pull out of ERIC because "it´s expensive and we are a small state." What she didn´t say, according to the Anchorage Daily News, is that the state´s fees and dues have been less than $17,000 annually in recent years.

OTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - U.S.
President Joe Biden on Friday said the United States is prepared to "act forcefully" to protect Americans, commenting after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians died in the violence that followed. More than 9 million Iraqis were displaced. Much of the Pentagon spending went to just five huge corporations. The toll has been felt most of all, of course, within Iraq itself. Trillions of dollars that could have been spent on improving lives were instead squandered destroying them. Thousands of coalition personnel, mostly American, were killed. The Costs of War project estimates that several times as many may have died from knock-on effects.

"They should have stopped them months ago," said Anat Admati, a finance professor at Stanford University. "That´s my problem with the Fed: If they were honest, they would admit their own mistakes." In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, regulators failed to do that job. The Federal Reserve´s role as the lead agency in responding to this crisis has obscured its failures as the agency that was responsible for supervising the bank in the first place.