Woohoo! It is now May, and we are almost into summer! In the United States, today is the start of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which is meant to commemorate and celebrate the over 24 million people with Asian/Pacific Islander roots. Anyway, let's get into today's news.
Yet another bank failure has taken place in the United States, the third one since March (after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank). Federal regulators took control of the First Republic Bank, but another bank came to the rescue. When the government seized control of the bank before its collapse, JPMorgan Chase swooped in to save the day. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) officially sold the failing bank to JPMorgan Chase today, and 84 of First Republic's 93 offices in eight different states have reopened as JPMorgan Chase locations.
On another note, Uber has officially released its 2023 Uber Lost and Found Index, which covers many items forgotten in Uber vehicles over the year so far. Uber always releases its index when Mercury starts to retrograde, or appear to move backwards from our point of view. Obviously, the top ten most forgotten items included phones, wallets, keys, and jewelry. However, some very odd items are also on the list. The index includes fingernails, an ankle monitor, six cheesecakes, a slushy machine, one Gucci shoe, a fog machine, a printer, bowling rags, a unicycle, gold antlers, a power of attorney document issued by the Turkish consulate, turtles, Christmas ornaments, a fire sword, rat traps, a lightsaber, and even dentures. The list also included a blue cap that says, "I love the smell
of jet fuel in the morning." How weird! Anyway, if you have left an important item in your Uber, they charge a $15 fee for them to drive to your house and drop it off.
Lastly, a massive dust storm has just hit Illinois, and there was chaos in the southern part of the Midwestern state. Low visibility conditions killed 6 people just south of Springfield, Illinois' capital, on Interstate 55, and more were injured as crashes were scattered across highways in southern Illinois.
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