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First Citizens will buy Silicon Valley Bank, the tech industry-focused financial institution that collapsed earlier this month, rattling the banking industry and sending shockwaves around the world.

Some residents criticized council Monday night for cutting an additional $224,000 in funding for the commission that Mayor Justin Bibb had included in his budget.

The group leading the effort to legalize and regulate marijuana says it has collected nearly 10 times the number of additional signatures it needed to put the issue before voters in November.

In 2009, thousands of boxes of potential evidence were discovered untested. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy is leading the effort to handle the backlog. While the city still lacks sufficient funding to test all of the 11,000 kits, it has made two convictions and discovered a pattern of serial rapists.

Paramount Global has sold Simon & Schuster to the private equity firm KKR. The deal comes nearly a year after the Department of Justice blocked Penguin Random House from acquiring Simon & Schuster.

Overstock bought Bed Bath & Beyond's intellectual property in bankruptcy court. Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson said the company wanted Bed Bath & Beyond's name recognition.

In its announcement, the Education Department said five complaints involve alleged antisemitic harassment and two involve anti-Muslim harassment on campuses across the country.

Mark Leibovich, author of a just-published book about the ickiness of Washington, makes a case for why people should care.

The organization had emerged earlier this year as a potentially well-funded force in the election. However, No Labels said that finding the right candidates proved difficult.