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NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. but was unknown to millions of the people his decisions affected. Then Wednesday's of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in a targeted killing on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk thrust the executive and his business into the national spotlight. Thompson, who was 50, ran the insurance arm of the giant UnitedHealth Group Inc. since 2021 and had worked at the company for 20 years. He previously led its Medicare and retirement businesses. As CEO, Thompson led a business that provides health coverage to more than 49 million Americans — more than the population of Spain. United is the largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run versions of the U.S. government’s Medicare program for people age 65 and older. The company also sells individual insurance and administers health-insurance coverage for thousands of employers and state-and federally funded Medicaid programs. The business run by Thompson brought in $281 billion in revenue last year, making it the largest subsidiary of the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group. His $10.2 million annual pay package, including salary, bonus and stock options awards, made him one of the company's highest-paid executives. The University of Iowa graduate began his career as a certified public accountant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and had little name recognition beyond the industry. Even to investors who own its stock, the parent company's face belonged to CEO Andrew Witty, a knighted British triathlete who has testified before Congress. Thompson’s few moments of public attention stood in contrast to his role in reshaping the way Americans get health care. At an investor meeting last year, he outlined his company's shift to “value-based care,” paying doctors and other caregivers to keep patients healthy, rather than focusing on treating them when they get sick. “Health care should be easier for people,” Thompson said at the time. “We are cognizant of the challenges. But navigating a future through value-based care unlocks a situation where the ... family doesn’t have to make the decisions on their own.” Thompson also drew attention in 2021 when the insurer, like its competitors, was widely criticized for a plan to start denying payment for what it deemed non-critical visits to hospital emergency rooms. “Patients are not medical experts and should not be expected to self-diagnose during what they believe is a medical emergency,” the chief executive of the American Hospital Association wrote in an open letter addressed to Thompson. “Threatening patients with a financial penalty for making the wrong decision could have a chilling effect on seeking emergency care.” United Healthcare responded by delaying rollout of the change. Thompson was scheduled to speak at an investor meeting when he was shot around 6:45 a.m. outside the New York Hilton Midtown by a masked assailant who fled on foot, the New York Police Department said. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said investigators were looking at Thompson's social media accounts and interviewing employees and family members. He said Thompson walked out of the hotel alone. “Didn’t seem like he had any issues at all,” Kenny said. "He did not have a security detail.” AP reporter Michael R. Sisak contributed to this report. This story corrects the style of the company’s name to UnitedHealthcare.
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Drop in Boxing Day footfall ‘signals return to declining pre-pandemic levels’Vice President Kamala Harris was in San Francisco Monday night to continue the vacation she began in Hawaii. But swirling all around the former Democratic presidential candidate is the question what is next for her? It hasn’t even been a month since Harris lost to Donald Trump, but the speculation is already hot and heavy about where she goes next. Watch NBC Bay Area News 📺 Streaming free 24/7 Harris was getting the tight security in San Francisco, but less than two months from now, she’ll be out of the White House. But will she be fighting for another run at the White House or for the governors mansion here in California as some have speculated. NBC Bay Area political analyst Larry Gerston says for the next few months Harris will ask herself. “Which path do I want? A path where I’m likely to succeed that would be the governorship or a path to the top office in the world, the presidency but much less guaranteed with that choice,” he said. Terry McSweeney has the full story in the video above.
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SentinelOne missed Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, as the cybersecurity firm grapples with stiff competition from larger peers, sending its shares down more than 12% in extended trading. The Mountain View, California-based company reported breakeven earnings on an adjusted basis, compared with analysts' average expectations of a 1 cent profit per share, according to data compiled by LSEG. Investors have come to expect strong results from cybersecurity companies as the growing threat of high-profile online hacks and data breaches has boosted the demand for digital protection services. SentinelOne has been trying to grab market share in the crowded cybersecurity industry, where larger rivals such as Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike are also investing to upgrade their infrastructure and attract clients. Both Palo Alto and CrowdStrike reported strong quarterly results last month. 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Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The company expects its fourth-quarter revenue to be $222 million, compared with estimates of $220.6 million. Its revenue for the third quarter came in at $210.6 million, beating market expectations of $209.7 million.The slump in the number of people heading to the shops during Boxing Day sales signals a return to declining pre-pandemic levels, an analyst has said. Boxing Day shopper footfall was down 7.9% from last year across all UK retail destinations up until 5pm, MRI Software’s OnLocation Footfall Index found. However, this year’s data had been compared with an unusual spike in footfall as 2023 was the first “proper Christmas” period without Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, an analyst at the retail technology company said. It found £4.6 billion will be spent overall on the festive sales. Before the pandemic the number of Boxing Day shoppers on the streets had been declining year on year. The last uplift recorded by MRI was in 2015. Jenni Matthews, marketing and insights director at MRI Software, told the PA news agency: “We’ve got to bear in mind that (last year) was our first proper Christmas without any (Covid-19) restrictions or limitations. “Figures have come out that things have stabilised, we’re almost back to what we saw pre-pandemic.” There were year-on-year declines in footfall anywhere between 5% and 12% before Covid-19 restrictions, she said. MRI found 12% fewer people were out shopping on Boxing Day in 2019 than in 2018, and there were 3% fewer in 2018 than in 2017, Ms Matthews added. She said: “It’s the shift to online shopping, it’s the convenience, you’ve got the family days that take place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.” People are also increasingly stocking-up before Christmas, Ms Matthews said, and MRI found an 18% increase in footfall at all UK retail destinations on Christmas Eve this year compared with 2023. Ms Matthews said: “We see the shops are full of people all the way up to Christmas Eve, so they’ve probably got a couple of good days of food, goodies, everything that they need, and they don’t really need to go out again until later on in that week. “We did see that big boost on Christmas Eve. It looks like shoppers may have concentrated much of their spending in that pre-Christmas rush.” Many online sales kicked off between December 23 and the night of Christmas Day and “a lot of people would have grabbed those bargains from the comfort of their own home”, she said. She added: “I feel like it’s becoming more and more common that people are grabbing the bargains pre-Christmas.” Footfall is expected to rise on December 27 as people emerge from family visits and shops re-open, including Next, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis that all shut for Boxing Day. It will also be payday for some as it is the last Friday of the month. A study by Barclays Consumer Spend had forecast that shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, but that the majority of purchases would be made online. Nearly half of respondents said the cost-of-living crisis will affect their post-Christmas shopping but the forecast average spend is still £50 more per person than it was before the pandemic, with some of that figure because of inflation, Barclays said. Amid the financial pressures, many people are planning to buy practical, perishable and essential items such as food and kitchenware. 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French lawmakers have passed a no-confidence vote against the government, throwing the European Union's second-biggest economic power deeper into a crisis that threatens its capacity to legislate and tame a massive budget deficit. or signup to continue reading Far-right and left-wing lawmakers joined forces on Wednesday to back a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Michel Barnier, with a majority 331 votes in support of the motion. Barnier has to tender his resignation and that of his government to President Emmanuel Macron, making his minority government's three-month tenure the shortest lived in France's Fifth Republic beginning in 1958. He is expected to do so on Thursday morning, French media reported. The hard left and far right punished Barnier for using special constitutional powers to adopt part of an unpopular budget without a final vote in parliament, where it lacked majority support. The draft budget had sought 60 billion euros ($A97.98 billion) in savings in a drive to shrink a gaping deficit. "This (deficit) reality will not disappear by the magic of a motion of censure," Barnier told lawmakers ahead of the vote, adding the budget deficit would come back to haunt whichever government comes next. No French government had lost a confidence vote since Georges Pompidou's in 1962. Macron ushered in the crisis by calling a snap election in June that delivered a polarised parliament. With its president diminished, France risks ending the year without a stable government or a 2025 budget, although the constitution allows special measures that would avert a US-style government shutdown. France's political turmoil will further weaken a European Union already reeling from the implosion of Germany's coalition government, and weeks before US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. The country's outgoing defence minister Sebastien Lecornu warned the turmoil could impact French support for Ukraine. The hard left France Unbowed (LFI) party demanded Macron's resignation. Barnier's political demise was cheered by far-right chief Marine Le Pen, who has sought for years to portray her National Rally party as a government in waiting. "I'm not pushing for Macron's resignation," she said. "The pressure on the president will get greater and greater. Only he will make that decision." France faces a period of deep political uncertainty that is already unnerving investors in French sovereign bonds and stocks. Earlier this week, France's borrowing costs briefly exceeded those of Greece, generally considered far more risky. Macron must now make a choice. The Elysee Palace said the president would address the nation on Thursday evening. Three sources told Reuters that Macron aimed to install a new prime minister swiftly, with one saying he wanted to name a premier before a ceremony to reopen the Notre-Dame Cathedral on Saturday, which Trump is due to attend. Any new prime minister would face the same challenges as Barnier in getting bills, including the 2025 budget, adopted by a divided parliament. There can be no new parliamentary election before July. Macron could alternatively ask Barnier and his ministers to stay on in a caretaker capacity while he takes time to identify a prime minister able to attract sufficient cross-party support to pass legislation. A caretaker government could either propose emergency legislation to roll the tax-and-spend provisions in the 2024 budget into next year, or invoke special powers to pass the draft 2025 budget by decree - though jurists say this is a legal grey area and the political cost would be huge. Macron's opponents also could vote down one prime minister after the next. 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SFA kicker Chris Campos isn’t one to seek out attention but it will definitely be on him Saturday when the Lumberjacks take the field for his final home game against Abilene Christian University. “It’s almost embarrassing how little he talks,” SFA head football coach Colby Carthel said. “I’m trying to get him to swing the axe here on Saturday and he doesn’t even want to do that. I’m like, ‘Dude, Chris, you’re going to go out and swing the axe. This is your time to shine. We’re going to celebrate you.’” Senior day could be when Campos moves up in the record books. He has made 85 career field goals. With one more, he’ll be tied for second all-time in FCS history. Two more will put him in second place by himself. “I thank God for giving me the opportunity to achieve that,” Campos said. “I’d love for him to get it,” Carthel said. “The most important thing is that we win the ballgame. He’d tell you that too — let’s find a way to win this last one. That would be pretty special if he got a chance to move up into second all-time, and if not, there’s nothing wrong with third all time.” Campos first started kicking field goals in eighth grade and continued through his time at Nacogdoches High School for the Dragons. “I just remember coming in here, and he was a senior,” Carthel said. “I didn’t get to see him play in high school but we brought him in as part of our first signing class and coach (Bobby) Reyes was the head coach there and he was telling me he was the best kicker he ever had and he’d be a great one. I tell you what, no truer words have ever been spoken. We got him here and the rest is history.” Campos said he liked the idea of playing college football in his hometown and added, “I liked the coaching staff, and Coach Carthel made it a second home.” The Nacogdoches native said his teammates have also made SFA feel like home. “They’re like brothers to me,” he said. “It didn’t take a lot of time to get close to all of them.” Campos has already graduated from SFA with a degree in criminal justice and a minor in psychology. He’s currently working on his masters in public administration. His next step: “See if I have a chance to make it to the next level,” Campos said. If that doesn’t happen, he’d like to be a state trooper. “That’s what I wanted to be when I was a little kid,” he said. Regardless of where his career path leads, Campos said football has taught him “Always give it your all. Always be disciplined and dedicated to working for what you want to achieve.” “Every practice I’ve been to here, except that first spring ball, he’s been out there,” Carthel said. “I tease him in front of the team and I say I’ve been coaching Chris for six years and I just heard him say his ninth word. He doesn’t say much but when he does, you listen. It’s usually wise words. He’s just a quiet-demeanor kid. He got his degree and he’s working on his master’s. He’s going to be so successful throughout his life. He’s just really special.” The coach is looking to make the most out of having him for one more game. “We’re going to miss him but we’re going to enjoy him for a little while longer while he’s here,” Carthel said.Lokayukta Raid At Ex-RTO Constable: Crypto Currency Comes In Handy For Fugitive Sharma Couple
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'Open your doors': Notre Dame re-opens after five-year refitLeominster considers policy allowing students to refuse to play sports against opposite sex Leominster is the latest Massachusetts school district to consider a new athletic policy that would allow teams to forfeit games if there are players of the opposite sex on the other team. WBZ-TV’s Paul Burton reports.
NFL fans will gobble up as much football as they can this weekend, but some of it could be hard to digest. This Thanksgiving, we’re “talking turkey” about some of the less palatable aspects of the 2024 season. New York Giants uniforms | "Century Red" To commemorate their 100th season, New York unveiled "Century Red" throwback uniforms for their home opener against the Vikings in Week 1. Unfortunately, the Giants failed to score a touchdown in the game, losing to Minnesota 28-6. The Giants have announced that they will be wearing their "century red" uniforms for their Week 1 opener against the Vikings at MetLife Stadium pic.twitter.com/WnGPq9gHkY Unfazed, New York wore them again against Washington in Week 9, falling to the Commanders 27-22 in what turned out to be quarterback Daniel Jones’ next-to-last game with New York. Giants fans weren’t too fond of the team’s retro-look and given the team’s 2-9 record, shouldn’t expect to see those uniforms any time soon. Jerry Jones | Owner | Dallas Cowboys Jones vowed the Cowboys would be “all-in” for 2024. He proceeded to flat-out ignore a running game that’s now the league’s second-worst, engaged in protracted contract drama with Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb and overall produced an underwhelming offseason. Later, he took issue with being questioned about the team’s roster and threatened to fire a pair of radio hosts after a 47-9 home loss to the Lions. Finally, with the running game still in shambles and the team quickly falling out of playoff contention, Jones dealt a fourth-round pick to Carolina for Jonathan Mingo, a wide receiver with no career touchdowns and one catch for eight yards since joining the team. Jones has always been a loose cannon, but he’s been more caricature than character lately. Aaron Rodgers | QB | New York Jets Jets fans couldn’t wait to get Rodgers back on the field after he tore his Achilles four snaps into the 2023 season, but now most can’t wait to get him off the field. Rodgers’ current 88.9 quarterback rating is his worst mark as a starter, tied with Broncos rookie Bo Nix and below well-traveled veterans like Minnesota’s Sam Darnold (101.7) and Tampa Bay’s Baker Mayfield (104.1). Thanks to a series of nagging injuries, Rodgers looks nothing like the player that won four MVP awards as a Packer. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport , New York knows little about his injuries because he refuses to get treated. No wonder owner Woody Johnson lobbied for Rodgers’ benching before cutting ties with head coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas, something that could still happen before next week’s game against the Seahawks. George Pickens | WR | Pittsburgh Steelers Per ESPN’s Kevin Seifert , Hail Mary passes have been successful in just over 8% of plays since 2009. Those odds aren’t good and they get even worse when the wide receiver doesn’t look for the ball and attempts to throw the defender to the ground by his facemask. The @Browns knock it down for the win! pic.twitter.com/fhz53gmwDc That’s exactly what Pittsburgh’s George Pickens did to Cleveland’s Greg Newsome II on the final play of “Thursday Night Football” last week, a game the Browns won 24-19. Pickens appeared to be in good position to make a catch had he not engaged with Newsome. Despite the loss, Pittsburgh remains in first place in the AFC North. But had Pickens made the catch, the Steelers (8-3) would have a game in hand over the (8-4) Ravens. He’ll need to do better on the road against a desperate Bengals team in Week 13.
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