WASHINGTON (AP) — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. […]
Month: February 2023
The big story: Florida’s school districts are the latest to get instructions to report all the controversial materials in use in their classrooms. Soon after the state’s universities were told to provide lists of all their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, districts got a Florida Department of Education directive to […]
HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former father-in-law and brother-in-law of a model and influencer whose body parts were found in a refrigerator and a skull believed to be hers in a pot at a rural house. Authorities also arrested Abby Choi’s ex-husband […]
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Dana Peterson, the chief economist at the Conference Board, sees a clear conclusion in the sharp decline of the U.S. business group’s Leading Economic Index: If recession isn’t already taking hold in the United States, then it will soon. Tell that to Matt Malone, the […]
The oil market looks drastically different today than it did a year ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine. “It is the most significant set of market dislocations and distortions in energy markets generally speaking that I ever recall,” Ed Morse, global head of commodity research at Citi, told Yahoo Finance. Prior […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — When machine gun fire erupts outside the barbed-wire fences surrounding Fontaine Hospital Center, the noise washes over a cafeteria full of tired, scrub-clad medical staff. And no one bats an eye. Gunfire is part of daily life here in Cité Soleil – the most densely populated […]