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The New York Times reports: When film historians look back at the 95th Academy Awards, they may mark it as the start of a new New Hollywood. Voters honored A24’s head-twisting, sex toy-brandishing, TikTok-era “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with the Oscar for best picture — along with six other awards — while naming Netflix’s German-language war epic “All Quiet …

The New York Times reports:  There are some fundamental truths in the world: The sky is blue. The grass is green. The Oscars red carpet is —— champagne-colored. Jimmy Kimmel, this year’s host, joked at the unveiling on Thursday that the color change — the first time in more than six decades that the academy’s arrival rug will not be …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is blaming woke economics for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. DeSantis, appearing on the Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, expressed confidence that the issues the bank is experiencing won’t reach Florida banks. “So, I don’t have any specific information about any Florida bank similar to Silicon Valley Bank, and …

NPR reports: The Texas Department of Public Safety has urged residents to avoid spring break travel to Mexico, warning that drug cartel violence and other crime pose a significant safety threat. “We have a duty to inform the public about safety, travel risks and threats,” said DPS Director Steven McCraw in a statement on Friday. “Based on the volatile nature …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that he will “slowly roll out” hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to “every individual news agency.” “Let everyone see them to bring their own judgment,” McCarthy said on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. McCarthy came under fire from top congressional Democrats for giving …

Orlando’s Fox affiliate reports: Identical Florida House and Senate bills, entitled “Protection of Children,” go after hotels and restaurants that allow children to attend what the bills call “an adult live performance.” While drag isn’t mentioned by name, the bills define the performances as depicting or simulating nudity, sexual conduct or excitement, or “the lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation …

The Daily Beast reports: Alonso Isa and a group of urologists from Spain set out to answer a question that few have asked scientifically: Is shower and grower even a thing? They concluded that these categories were real, but two extreme ends of a spectrum. Most men, the researchers found, fall into a middle gray area. By measuring flaccid and …

The Hill reports: “Donald Trump’s not going to take advice from the party or from me, but I think what will happen is if he’s indicted, that becomes one of the factors [on] whether he wins primaries or not. The other factor is who else is in the race and who may make the best case,” Sen. Kevin Cramer said …

CNBC reports: After regulators shuttered Silicon Valley Bank and seized its deposits Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that she has been working “to address the situation in a timely way,” but that a major government bailout is not on the table. “Let me be clear that during the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic …

Monkeypox pretty much stopped being a thing months ago, largely thanks to the Biden administration and the quick response of gay men, but that hasn’t stopped Marjorie Taylor Greene from launching a $34 “made in USA, unisex fit” t-shirt ridiculing those who contract the disease. In a post made last night to Truth Social, Greene announced a new line of …