Have a villain in your life? In Hong Kong, a ritual helps ease anxieties Customers pay ritual practitioners to bash an image of their target with a shoe. It could be anyone — rival lovers and unfriendly colleagues, or horrible bosses and unlikeable public figures. Read more on NPR

Startups ‘on pins and needles’ until their funds clear from Silicon Valley Bank Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse left startups scrambling to figure out how to make payroll, or even just get checks printed. Read more on NPR

Biden is selling U.S. nuclear submarines to Australia to counter China President Biden and the prime ministers of Australia and the United Kingdom met at a U.S. naval base in San Diego to mp out their strategy for the Pacific. Read more on NPR

Former Rep. Pat Schroeder, a pioneer for women’s rights, dies at 82 Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government. Read more on NPR