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The Federal Aviation Administration is working to establish a requirement that aircraft have longer duration cockpit voice recorders.

Bloomberg Businessweek's Max Chafkin tells "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin that the run on Silicon Valley Bank suggests venture capitalists are not as smart as they think they are. Plus, crypto podcaster Jacob Silverman discusses why the collapse of two crypto banks is a big deal for the industry. And SocialProof Security's Rachel Tobac explains why legacy password rules, like frequent changes and special characters, might not keep you from getting hacked. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.

CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman discusses how Donald Trump and his team may react to a potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney.

President Joe Biden falsely said on Wednesday that his new corporate minimum tax is the reason the federal budget deficit declined in 2021 and 2022. In reality, that tax didn't even come into effect until the beginning of 2023.

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) opens up about her battle with depression and why she decided to share her story with congress. CNN's Lauren Fox reports on how the conversation around mental health in Congress has changed.

A former English professor at Florida's Palm Beach Atlantic University says the school terminated his contract early after a complaint that he was "indoctrinating" students by teaching about racial justice.

Poland on Thursday pledged it would send four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the first NATO member to do so, in a significant move in Kyiv's battle to resist Russia's onslaught.

The family of 28-year-old Irvo Otieno, who died while in custody of a Virginia mental health facility, speaks out after having viewed the tape of the fatal incident. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation's maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.

A conservative commentator with a substantial Twitter following went viral late last week by making false claims about the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 -- and Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified some of the misinformation, pushing it to millions of people.

Time has not run out on Taylor Swift's "Midnights" era.

Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted 16-1 on Thursday in support of full approval of Paxlovid, stating that the benefits outweigh any risks of the drug for treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 in adults who are at high risk for severe disease, including hospitalization and death.

Bloomberg Businessweek Columnist and author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power" Max Chafkin tells "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin how tech leaders and VCs "behaved in a panicked herd mentality" when SVB started having problems. For more, watch the full Nightcap episode here.

Five Starlink internet devices were found in illegal mining sites in the Amazon during raids by Brazil's environmental police on Tuesday, the environmental agency said.

The remains of a glacier have been found near the Martian equator, suggesting that some form of water could still exist in a region on the red planet where humans may one day land.

A Mercyhurst University hockey player is under fire after a local bar released video of him pushing a wheelchair down a flight of stairs.

• Live updates: Biden says the ICC's war crimes case against Putin is justified • Analysis: Putin may be about to find his 'Chinese wish list' is wishful thinking • Opinion: Why the US is beating Russia in the Black Sea without firing a shot

The stunning aerial video of a Russian jet buzzing and then apparently hitting a US drone over the Black Sea vividly shows how the war in Ukraine could spin out of control.