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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr appears before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2023. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sparked scrutiny from lawmakers who want to know what went wrong and whether regulators did enough to oversee the lender. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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5 things we learned from the Senate hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

A top federal regulator called the failure of Silicon Valley Bank a "textbook case of bank mismanagement" during a Senate hearing about what led to its spectacular collapse

Magnus Ek, 53, a retired Swedish lieutenant, is teaching a group of Ukrainian conscripts how to fire an AK-47 in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Ek, who spent a decade as an instructor in Sweden, is among a group of foreign military volunteers who have gone to train Ukrainians how to defend their country from Russia's invasion. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption

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Foreign volunteers race to train new Ukrainian troops to be sent to the front

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A reparations rally outside City Hall in San Francisco this month, as supervisors take up a draft reparations proposal. The growing number of local actions has renewed hopes and questions about a national policy. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption

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Cities may be debating reparations, but here's why most Americans oppose the idea

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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr appears before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2023. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sparked scrutiny from lawmakers who want to know what went wrong and whether regulators did enough to oversee the lender. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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5 things we learned from the Senate hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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A billing mistake by an in-network Florida emergency room landed Sara McLin's then-4-year-old son in collections. Zack Wittman/KHN hide caption

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Pay up, kid? An ER's error sends a 4-year-old to collections

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Raphael Mechoulam delivers a speech at a cannabis conference in Tel Aviv in 2016. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Raphael Mechoulam, the 'father of cannabis research' who discovered THC, has died

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