Source: MSN Money Last year, Cigna Corp. and the New York hospital system Northwell Health discussed developing an insurance plan that would offer low-cost coverage by excluding some other health-care providers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It never happened. The problem was a separate contract between Cigna and NewYork-Presbyterian, the powerful hospital …
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Florence was another 1,000-year rain event. Is this the new normal as the planet warms?
Source: MSN Over a massive region of southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina, Florence produced an extraordinary rainstorm that statistically has a 1-in-100 chance of occurring each year. Over substantial areas, the deluge had a 0.1 percent chance of happening, what is known as a 1,000-year event. These exceptional rainfall events keep happening and appear …
California, New Mexico sue Trump admin over methane rules rollback
Source: MSN California and New Mexico teamed up to file suit against the Trump administration Tuesday after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced that it was eliminating Obama-era rules intended to reduce energy companies’ methane emissions on Indian and tribal lands. In announcing the lawsuit to “set aside” the rules’ repeal, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra noted that …
Forget smart ovens. Intelligent HVAC is the smart home’s future
Source: Fast Company In 1970s Iran, entrepreneur Hamid Farzaneh started a company that installed heating and cooling systems into the homes of wealthy Iranians. But he noticed a problem: The HVAC systems only gave people an on-off switch to control the temperature of their entire home. That led to some rooms being too warm and …
How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich
Source: GQ A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink). The party known as Cocktails and Compliance—so called for mixing alcohol …
Woman suing casino that refused to pay $43 million jackpot, offered her a steak instead
Source: Fox News “I feel like they did me real dirty,” Katrina Bookman tells the New York Daily News. Last August, Bookman was on top of the world when a slot machine at Resorts World Casino in New York informed her she had won nearly $43 million. According to CNN, it would have been the largest slots jackpot …
FanDuel not honoring bet that would have paid more than $82,000 due to line error
Source: ESPN For one New Jersey bettor, the Denver Broncos were a long shot too good to be true. New Jersey bookmaker FanDuel declined to honor a $110 bet on the Broncos on Sunday that would have paid more than $82,000, due to an error in the oddsmaking process, the company said. “The wager in question involved …
FEMALE TEACHER WHO SLEPT WITH 5 STUDENTS RECEIVES LENIENT SENTENCE BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN ‘THOROUGHLY DISGRACED’
Source: Newsweek A woman who admitted sleeping with students at a prestigious school in Australia has avoided jail time because the judge said her reputation had been destroyed. The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted in April to six counts of sexual intercourse with a person under her care during her time …
5 People Overdosed . . On Just One BLOCK IN THE BRONX, NY!! (Graphic Video)
Source: MTO News New York City is facing a drug epidemic like the city has never seen before. But it’s not the OPIOD epidemic that you read about in the news just about every day. New York’s epidemic is with the synthetic drug K2. K2 – or synthetic weed – has been causing devastation in …
America is now the world’s largest oil producer
Source: CNN Money Move over Russia and Saudi Arabia. America has reclaimed its throne atop the oil world. For the first time since 1973, the United States is the world’s largest producer of crude oil, according to preliminary estimates published on Wednesday by the Energy Department. The feat demonstrates how the US shale oil boom has reshaped the global …