David Gura
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Anchor and Correspondent, Bloomberg News | [email protected] | Opinions are my own.
New York City
Joined May 2008
“When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers,” Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black says. “Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous.”
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Yesterday, @elonmusk’s Twitter labeled NPR “state-affiliated media,” even though the company’s own policy stated the organization shouldn’t be labeled as such because it has editorial independence (left). Hours later, Twitter removed the reference to NPR in the policy (right).
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"Ten days before Signature Bank collapsed, the House Republican overseeing an inquiry into the bank's failure was inside its boardroom on New York's Fifth Avenue. Patrick McHenry was there to raise thousands of dollars from bank executives."
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Why did @SenTuberville vote against the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs?. “I heard some things he talked about, about race and things that he wanted to mix into the military," he told @BloombergTV. "Our military is not an equal opportunity employer."
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During its 21-year history, Signature Bank loaned money to former President Trump, the Trump Organization, Charles and Jared Kushner, the Kushner Companies, and Michael Cohen. In 2011, Ivanka Trump joined its board of directors.
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Goldman Sachs, in a new note:. "We have further reduced our 12-month US recession probability back to 15%, from 20% previously. This change reflects continued encouraging inflation news, a favorable real income outlook, and the decline in the jobs-workers gap…".
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NPR President and CEO John Lansing has issued this statement:
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Schools in the UNC system will no longer award distinguished professorships to faculty in the humanities. The UNC Board of Governors says the honors "will now only be given in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.".
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Through its Books Unbanned program, the @BKLYNlibrary offers teenagers across the United States access to its entire eBook collection, which includes @TheAmandaGorman's "The Hill We Climb." Spread the word.
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"Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal," Justice Sotomayor writes in her dissent. "What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality.".
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On @DeadlineWH, @AWeissmann_ says @CNN is “exposing itself to potential legal liability.”. “They’re going to start becoming dangerously close to reckless disregard and actual malice because they know what [Donald Trump] is going to say in advance.”
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"What he was stockpiling were the materials of treason. He may not have known how and when he would cash in this currency, but there can be little doubt that he was determined to retain the ability to do just that."
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Fox News "has agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer who had accused the network of operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace and of coercing her into providing false testimony in a deposition."
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Judge Lewis Kaplan, to the jury, according to @Lauren_delvalle: . “My advice to you is not to identify yourselves. Not now and not for a long time.”.
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On the tarmac at Raleigh-Durham International Airport today, this is what President Biden said to a reporter who asked him about how he has "continued to call" for a ban on assault weapons:
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There were audible gasps in Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom when prosecutors told the court they are seeking the detention of Sam Bankman-Fried.
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"What happened in Tennessee on Thursday was outrageous and stupid and petty," @JoyceWhiteVance writes. "It was also illegal. It shouldn’t take long for the next stage of this to play out in the courts."
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In a statement, UNC-Chapel Hill says it "will provide free tuition and required fees for incoming undergraduates from North Carolina whose families make less than $80,000 per year," and it "has hired outreach officers to serve in under-resourced communities.".
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“We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone.”
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At the World Cup, Elon Musk was photographed with Jared Kushner, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Nailya Asker-Zade, "a 35-year-old presenter at the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, who has been sanctioned by both the UK and Canada."
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A senior Treasury Department official, to me: . Silicon Valley Bank's "equity and bondholders are being wiped out. They took a risk as owners of these securities. They will take the losses. What is being helped are the depositors.".
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INBOX: "Secretary Yellen approved actions enabling the FDIC to complete its resolution of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California, in a manner that fully protects all depositors. Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13.".
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“It’s an insult, to get a 100-page bill, and be asked to decide on it on the spot,” Rep. Ralph Norman says. Lawmakers have three days. So, if the gentleman from South Carolina were to read at a pace of 1.4 pages per hour, he could read it in full.
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E. Jean Carroll, to The New York Times: . "I am upset on the behalf of young men in America. They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a cave-man view." .
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Today, a former FBI analyst found guilty of “illegally retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence” was sentenced to almost four years in prison.
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This is no doubt a jarring day for a few million sexagenarian TV viewers who represent a very small percentage of the total U.S. population.
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How’s everyone liking this “digital town square” that’s dominated by a handful of overweening, multimillionaire mountebanks?.
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Here is the full quotation from Alcuin, with translation:
The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
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Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng issues a new statement on the organization's recent reporting on @BillAckman and his wife, @NeriOxman. "The stories are accurate and the facts well documented," she says. "We stand by our newsroom and our reporting, which will continue onward."
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The longest-serving reporter on NPR's international desk is retiring. In a note to her colleagues, Sylvia Poggioli writes, "After 41 years reporting for NPR and 51 years in journalism, I have decided to move on.".
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The Los Angeles Times “has decided to cease publication of ‘Dilbert.’”
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Conductor on a Queens-bound F local train:. "This is New York City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But if you hold the train doors open, no one is going to make it anywhere.".
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When he accepted the National Press Foundation’s W.M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, @nprscottsimon took a moment to address recent revelations about the Fox News Channel:
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INBOX: "After dedicating 54 years of his life to public service, Dr. Anthony Fauci has chosen Georgetown University to play a major role in the next phase of his career.".
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Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, in a new note: . "The probability of a U.S. recession has fallen further as both recent data and ongoing fundamentals point to rapid — and mostly painless — disinflation from here.".
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Has David Ignatius seen this?.
Just a little bit of a line to get into the Kamala Harris college tour event at Hampton University. It’s the first stop of her “Fight For Our Freedoms College Tour” to in part get young people to vote.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy likes to say raising the debt ceiling is comparable to upping the limit on your credit card. Let's play out that analogy. What happens to your credit card terms — and your credit score — when you miss a payment?.
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Four days before Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said this at an industry conference in Washington:
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I'm hiring William Hennessy Jr. to do my portrait.
With cameras barred from the Miami courtroom where former President Donald Trump was arraigned on federal charges this afternoon, members of the public rely on these courtroom sketches to catch a glimpse of this historic moment. 📷: William Hennessy Jr.
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The SEC just charged Eliyahu Weinstein with operating "a multi-million dollar Ponzi-like fraud scheme." . Notable:
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Customarily, a white-collar defendant facing life in prison doesn’t tweet, start a Substack, or invite journalists to his parents’ place where he’s under house arrest. My latest for @NPR:
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A spokesperson for The Washington Post says the newspaper “has ceased publication of the Dilbert comic strip.”
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"He is an embarrassment.". John Eastman was a "visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy" at the University of Colorado during the 2020-21 academic year. Its board of regents shared this statement with the @denverpost's @ehernandez (:
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INBOX: "Beginning in the fall 2023 semester, Duke University will provide full tuition grants for undergraduate students admitted to Duke from North Carolina and South Carolina whose family incomes are $150,000 or less.".
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FWIW, tonight's Republican debate features seven rich men — and one rich woman — who are, at present, north of Richmond.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in a statement: . “I am pleased that, under President Biden’s leadership, Congress has passed bipartisan legislation to suspend the debt limit and prevent a first-ever default by the United States.”
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"There was a time, not that long ago really, when Donald J. Trump said he cared about the sanctity of classified information," @peterbakernyt writes. "That, of course, was when . it was a useful political weapon."
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FTX's new management has a message for politicians who received campaign contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and others:. "Making a payment or donation to a third party (including a charity) . does not prevent the FTX Debtors from seeking recovery."
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INBOX: On Friday, President Biden "will mark the two-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection during a ceremony in the East Room.".
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"I'm not a reader. I'm not a book person.". Daily Salinas, who successfully petitioned the Miami-Dade County school district to remove several books, including @TheAmandaGorman's "The Hill We Climb," says "she had only read parts" of them.
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All credit to my dad, who let me use his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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After I read @BusinessInsider's reporting on "a pattern of plagiarism" by @BillAckman's wife — articles that allege @NeriOxman "stole sentences and whole paragraphs," I remembered she was previously married to Osvaldo Golijov, whose career was derailed by claims of plagiarism.
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"What Trump and his co-conspirators undertook was nothing less than a form of political warfare, traditionally associated with covert operations."
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I watched @BillAckman leave The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where the DealBook Summit took place, before this interview ended.
I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers. @tiktok_us @instagram @facebook and.
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What a picture.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday. #SpeakerVote
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Tesla's share price ($124.94) is down about 62% from what it was on April 14th ($328.33), when Elon Musk said he would buy Twitter for $54.20 a share.
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✉️ @SenSherrodBrown, to @GovMikeDeWine: . "I ask that you officially declare a disaster and seek the full support of the federal government to bolster the state of #Ohio's ongoing clean-up efforts."
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And just like that, with no explanation, @TwitterSupport's thread about Twitter's prohibition of "free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter" disappears.
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"Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip," the BBC reports. "Several high-profile Russian tycoons have died in mysterious circumstances since the war began."
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Asked by @PoppyHarlowCNN if “a second Trump term would be good for the U.S. economy,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon declined to answer.
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“One staffer on Capitol Hill likened this, the debt ceiling, to passing a kidney stone. We all know it will pass. It’s just a question of how painful it will be.”
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On the @NewsHour, @GeoffRBennett asked Norfolk Southern's CEO how he can make the case the "railroad is focused on safety" when it paid shareholders nearly $18 billion through buybacks and dividends over the past five years — twice what it spent on operations and its own rail.
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"Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13. No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.".
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy, addressing the House of Representatives after he was elected speaker:. "You know, my father always told me it's not how you start, it's how you finish.".
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NARRATOR: In fact, it was.
Pretty worried about NYC today. This is too much water. Gonna be bad,.
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"How long will he remain there before he is considered a squatter?". A new memo from Rep. Matt Gaetz to the architect of the Capitol, about the Speaker of the House Office, which "is currently being occupied" by Rep. Kevin McCarthy:
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FTX NEWS: . Sam Bankman-Fried is in FBI custody, on his way to New York. The SDNY has charged Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang with fraud. They have pleaded guilty, and they are cooperating. In a separate complaint, the SEC has charged Ellison and Wang with securities fraud.
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After FTX sued Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, both of whom are Stanford Law School professors, I contacted every faculty member at the school for their reaction. Fewer than a dozen replied, and of those who did, only three were willing to go on the record.
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In his profile of CEO Chris Licht for @TheAtlantic (, @TimAlberta describes the claque the network had assembled for its recent town hall with former President Trump:
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The Oregonian’s editor, Therese Bottomly, says the newspaper “will no longer publish the long-running ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after its creator Scott Adams broadcast a racist rant on social media.”
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The story of what happened to Twitter's bird logo, as rendered by DALL-E 2, is dark.
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The YIT Foundation's Sharon Toney-Finch "recruited several homeless men from a shelter in Poughkeepsie and allegedly offered them food and money to pose as YIT-assisted veterans who were kicked out of their lodging by the newly arrived migrants."
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