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(Reuters) -Customers Bancorp Inc is exploring a deal for all or part of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Pennsylvania-based lender has been seeking potential co-investors for a deal for Silicon Valley Bank, according to the report. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), which …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s most populous state will vote for a new government on Saturday with most opinion polls showing a close-run election with the opposition centre-left Labor party ahead of the ruling conservative coalition by a narrow margin. New South Wales (NSW), the home state of one-third of Australians, could face a hung parliament …

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SAN JOSE (Reuters) – The World Bank approved a $160 million loan for Costa Rica on Thursday aimed at strengthening its ability to manage risks linked to natural and pandemic-related hazards, the lender said in a statement. The loan will ensure the Central American country’s government has sufficient cash to handle future natural disasters, and …

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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – The student who shot and wounded two Denver high school administrators and later took his own life was on probation at the time for a previous firearms offense, Reuters confirmed through a source with knowledge of the case on Thursday. Wednesday’s shooting at East High School, the second in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan congressional ethics panel admonished Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday, saying the South Carolina Republican violated rules by soliciting campaign donations in a federal building last year for Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Walker, a former NFL football player, was former President Donald Trump’s handpicked Senate Republican candidate for Georgia in 2022. …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A key prosecution witness whose testimony helped convict Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes of fraud sued Walt Disney Co on Thursday over a recent Hulu miniseries that he says defamed him by portraying him as corrupt. Adam Rosendorff, a former Theranos lab director, objected in a New York state …

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By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Republicans are working on a “term sheet” of conditions they would want Democrats to agree to before voting to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, which would be necessary to avert a historic default that could shake the economy. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey …

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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The parents of one of the 17 people killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, were forcibly removed on Thursday from a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on guns, videos showed. Manuel Oliver was pinned to the ground outside the hearing and arrested …

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