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Documents and recordings offer an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at how one of America's leading health care insurers, , relentlessly fought to reduce spending on care, even as its profits rose to record levels.
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The wind chill at Mount Washington in New Hampshire was recorded at -107°F – making it the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United States.
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BREAKING: A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and the U.S. government has discussed shooting it out of the sky, officials tell .
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BREAKING: Biden Administration Expected to Endorse Scaled-Back Support for Controversial ConocoPhillips Alaska Oil Project
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Madison Square Garden's push for a new permanent permit seems to come at an inopportune time.
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BREAKING: Nikki Haley is running for president. Formal announcement will happen Feb. 15. with the major scoop tonight >>> bit.ly/3YhXnLH #scpol #scnews #chsnews #2024Election
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On the third anniversary of Brexit, the IMF forecast that the UK will be the only country to experience a shrinking economy next year across all advanced and emerging economies — including Russia
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January 2023 will go down as the warmest in NYC since records began in 1869. There was zero accumulating snowfall reported. Temperatures were above-average on all 31 days of the month.
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Nearly a year on from the supposed Russian exodus, most major companies have yet to withdraw
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“Court records from Georgia and Florida show that companies owned by Blackstone have commenced legal proceedings against dozens of tenants every month since August, launching more cases in a typical week than the total for the first seven months of 2022.”
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Exclusive: The Supreme Court did not disclose its longstanding financial ties with the expert brought in to review its leak investigation
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The US's largest owner of local sports channels is heading toward a complex $8.6 billion debt restructuring in bankruptcy court
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Breaking news: Monogamous gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood under planned FDA guidance, easing decades-long restrictions. New rules will focus on sexual behaviors, regardless of gender, that pose a higher risk of transmitting HIV.
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"“It’s a waste of money if you ask me,” said one Brooklyn cop, adding that the department’s current cars work fine. “The city’s crying for money so why not just leave things as is?”"
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There have been more mass shootings in 2023 so far than at this point in any year on record cnn.it/3H9cyj0
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The NWS has confirmed that only a trace of snow fell at Central Park (NYC) today before the changeover to rain. This does not qualify as measurable snowfall. As a result, today will be the 322nd consecutive day without measurable snowfall in NYC.
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NEWS: A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence's Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, w/
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Just In: At least seven people are dead following separate shootings in Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco, according to sources.
Four victims were found at one location and three others were found at a nearby location.
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A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a ballroom dance club in Monterey Park, California, following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.
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NEW: The DOJ searched Biden's Wilmington home yesterday and found "six items consisting of documents with classification markings." Material is from Biden's Senate years and from VP tenure, according to statement from Bob Bauer
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The BBC chairman helped arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role
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When ESPN and NBC vied for rights to the 2018 & 2022 World Cups, they bid blind.
But not Fox.
New testimony alleges it got inside information on how much to bid from a FIFA VP who’d been taking bribes from a Fox business partner for years.
Fox won.
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For nearly a year and a half, roughly 7,000 lights have been lit up around the clock at Minnechaug Regional High School.
A software fail in 2021 made it impossible to turn them off and is consequently costing taxpayers a small fortune.
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Since 2018, T-Mobile has reported at least 3 data breaches - one impacting 2M customers, a second impacting more than 1M, and a third impacting 50M.
And today it has announced yet another breach:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court says it hasn't found who leaked draft abortion opinion, but investigation continues.
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Breaking: Prosecutors plan to charge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting of a "Rust" cinematographer, a person familiar with the probe said
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The only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, dealing a significant blow to the effort to control the global HIV epidemic, the talented and I report.
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'I no longer have enough in the tank' - an emotional Jacinda Ardern says she will quit next month as New Zealand PM
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🚨 Scoop: Three of the BBC's most experienced and recognisable news presenters are quitting ahead of a divisive news channel merger.
David Eades, Joanna Gosling and Tim Willcox are all leaving after decades of service.
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The New Jersey-bound north tube of the Holland Tunnel will close 6 nights a week through 2025, as crews repair decade-old damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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Exclusive: Microsoft is preparing to axe thousands of jobs globally as it becomes the latest tech giant to respond to signs of a slowing economy; an announcement about the cuts could come ahead of its second-quarter earnings announcement next week.
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The city is delaying installation of a key Lower Manhattan bike lane after state judges complained it would impact parking outside courthouses. One court official likened the proposed traffic change to France’s failed effort to deter Nazis
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BREAKING: 5 more pages of Obama-era classified docs were found Thurs evening stored in a room adjacent to Biden's garage, the White House disclosed on Sat. The files came to light when DOJ went to pick up a page Biden's lawyers had found Wed night
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Sandwich chain Subway has retained advisors to explore a sale, which could value the sandwich chain at more than $10 billion
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NYC is yet to record 1” of snow this winter. The record for the latest inch of snow in NYC is on January 29th, during the winter of 1972-1973.
Today is also the 308th consecutive day without measurable snowfall in NYC, the 6th longest such stretch since records began.
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MORE: NBC News broken up into three divisions in unorthodox shakeup that leaves popular programs such as 'Today,' 'Meet The Press' and 'NBC Nightly News' no longer under the aegis of a single editorial executive
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scoop: Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off. Microsoft will no longer require US employees to formally record vacation later this month, and they're getting a payout for any unused days. Details here:
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