RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare proposed Wednesday to ease a coverage policy on short hospital stays that has been criticized because it can...
(Fox News) – A growing body of evidence suggests that weight-loss surgery is more effective than diet and exercise at getting rid of Type 2...
(The Washington Post) – A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that taking daily shots of liraglutide (marketed as Saxenda) can help overweight or obese patients lose weight...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Centene has jumped into the mix of managed-care companies scrambling to bulk up as the health care overhaul changes their business...
DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is investigating possible collusion among major airlines to...
(USA Today) – The Transportation Security Administration paid passengers $3 million over the last five years for claims that airport security screeners broke, lost or stole their...
(The Washington Post) – The Justice Department announced Thursday an $18.7 billion agreement with BP to settle civil claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Nudging his way into presidential politics, President Barack Obama traveled to Wisconsin on Thursday to draw contrasts...
(Haiti Sentinel) – The Haitian government will not cooperate with the Dominican Republic on receiving denationalized persons stated Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister Lener Renauld on...
JOHANNESBURG (New York Times) — In the darkened and chilly parking lot of a mall, a suburban family huddling around a shopping cart shared a snack...
(Mirror) – Police are hunting a man in connection with arranging child marriage – after his suspected links with the wedding of 35-year-old man to a...
JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Basketball Writer Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert promised LeBron James he would do whatever it took financially to surround him with a team...
(CBS Sports) – The worst-kept secret in the NBA this season was that the Warriors were going to keep Draymond Green as a restricted free agent...
(USA Today) – On Wednesday, Radaronline.com featured an article from the National Enquirer claiming that Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn ended their relationship because Tiger had become romantically...
HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — Venus Williams is no longer the player she once was, on account of the passage of time and...
(ESPN) – Paul Pierce will join his hometown Los Angeles Clippers after agreeing to a three-year, $10.6 million deal, sources told ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne and...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Laurence Fishburne is joining the “Roots” miniseries remake. A&E Networks said Wednesday that Fishburne will play writer Alex Haley, whose novel about...
NEW YORK (AP) — TV Land has dumped “The Dukes of Hazzard.” The network is confirming that reruns of the 1980s action comedy, with its Confederate...
(The Washington Post) – For Democrats, Donald Trump amounts to a kind of divine intervention. With the Republican Party on an urgent mission to woo Latino...
(Dallas Morning News) – Two associates of John Wiley Price pleaded guilty on Wednesday to playing a role in his alleged bribery conspiracy and are expected...
ABC US News | World News (ABC News) – It’s only been two weeks since he entered the presidential race, but billionaire Donald Trump has already...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times This past Thursday, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Trustees voted...
(CNN) – When Jacky Alcine looked at his Google Photos app recently, he was appalled by what he saw. The facial recognition software had tagged...
(EOnline) – Three weeks before she was found unconscious in the bath, Bobbi Kristina Brown phoned one of her best friends, Alex Reid. She was distraught and...
