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☆ The Supreme Court is sending some mixed signals about executive power
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Advertisement"So that is, in theory, taking power away from unelected officials," Justin Crowe, a professor of political science at Williams University who researches the Supreme Court, told Business Insider. With Corner Post, Entin said, the Supreme Court created a statute of limitations that, from the standpoint of federal agencies, never really expires. But the Court didn't stop at giving itself the reins to interpret regulations that federal agencies are beholden to. In the Trump case, the Supreme Court offered Trump broad immunity for some of his acts concerning his January 6 election interference case. In the July 6 episode of Slate's Supreme Court analysis podcast "Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick," Senior Court Reporter Mark Joseph Stern said the Court spent this term expanding its power and "restructuring representative democracy to make it less representative and less democratic."

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☆ Hurricane Beryl: Houston area residents frustrated as they enter 6th day without power and air conditioning in punishing heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Dalia Faheid | Taylor Galgano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

We should not have had nine fire stations without power,” Patrick said. Combined with power outages, alarmingly dangerous consequences have ensued. CenterPoint foreign assistance crews work to restore power lines on Thursday in Houston, Texas. Danielle Villasana/Getty ImagesFrustration mounts with Houston utility providerThe crisis comes more than three years after massive power outages hit the state. Greg Abbott has requested an investigation into CenterPoint Energy and other electric companies in the wake of the outages, Patrick said in a news conference Thursday.

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☆ What a geriatric doctor wishes you knew now for healthy aging
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Why should people start to think about healthy aging early? One can affect the other, but it’s really kind of the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. But home-cooked meals — cooking your own fresh fruit and vegetables, thinking about having these types of meals — is really, really important and nutritious. Batsis: Healthy aging can occur at any stage of life. The definition of what constitutes healthy aging may differ, and it’s really about asking what does it mean to you?

Persons: John Batsis, —, it’s, It’s Organizations: CNN, Department of Health, Human Services, University of North, UNC’s School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Public Health Locations: University of North Carolina, Chapel

☆ How did the auto dealer outage end? CDK almost certainly paid a $25 million ransom
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Pinpointing exactly who sends a cryptocurrency payment can be complicated by the relative anonymity that some crypto services offer. The ransom payment of $25 million hasn’t been previously reported. A $25 million ransom payment is certainly large but not unheard of in the lucrative ransomware economy. UnitedHealth Group, the health care conglomerate whose subsidiary suffered a ransomware attack in February that hobbled pharmacies across the US, paid a $22 million ransom to a different criminal group. But the average ransom payment in the fourth quarter of 2023 was significantly lower: $568,705, according to cybersecurity firm Coveware.

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☆ Woman posing as her therapist wife counseled patients online, investigations found
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Brammhi Balajaran | Fabiana Chaparro | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A person made an unsettling discovery on social media in February 2023 – the woman she’d been seeing for online therapy sessions wasn’t actually a therapist. CNN tracked down an online obituary for 58-year-old Tammy Heath-Randolph that lists Peggy Randolph as the deceased’s wife. Randolph “denies knowing” Heath-Randolph had been conducting therapy sessions using her Brightside Health Therapist Portal log-in credentials, the settlement agreement states. Brightside Health took “swift and decisive action” once it learned of the breach, a statement provided to CNN. The impacted patients were fully reimbursed, Brightside Health said.

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CNN —A major Supreme Court ruling Friday that shifted power from the executive branch to the judiciary stands to transform how the federal government works. By overturning a 1984 precedent, the court’s conservative majority has made countless regulations vulnerable to legal challenge. The Supreme Court ruling could boost efforts by conservatives who have taken aim at the Biden Environmental Protection Agency’s rules limiting planet-warming pollution from vehicles, oil and gas wells and pipelines, and power plants. The ruling has injected legal uncertainty into regulations of all types, including those on technology, labor, the environment and health care. But the Supreme Court has yet to decide a case heard this term that might gut that limitation.

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The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether. Levine shared her view with her staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research, and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community,” an H.H.S. spokesman said in a statement on Friday evening.

Persons: Biden, Rachel Levine, “ Adm, Levine Organizations: The New York Times, Department of Health, Human Services

☆ Live Updates: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

But that gave too much power to unelected government officials, according to conservatives, who ran a coordinated, multiyear campaign to end the Chevron doctrine. The Environmental Protection AgencyEnvironmentalists fear that the end of the Chevron doctrine will mean the elimination of hundreds of E.P.A. “I would expect the industry to attack the F.D.A.’s authority to do premarket review at all,” said Desmond Jenson, deputy director of the commercial tobacco control program at the Public Health Law Center. Others noted the Chevron decision could have a chilling effect, compelling the F.D.A. “The Supreme Court has not relied on Chevron in quite a few years,” she said.

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☆ These 13 states — including Florida and Texas — opted out of a $2.5 billion federal food program that would help feed low-income kids this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

During the pandemic, the federal government covered the entire cost of the Summer EBT program, but starting this summer, states will be on the hook to split administrative costs 50/50. AdvertisementThirteen Republican-led states ultimately opted out of the program this summer, citing myriad reasons, including redundancy, insufficient support, and politics. AlabamaAccording to the state's Department of Health, one in four children in Alabama faces food insecurity. The state will reconsider joining the summer program once the backlog is dealt with, the outlet reported. Brian Kemp told local outlet 11 Alive that the state already has a summer food program in place.

Persons: —, Brian Kemp, Republican Sen, Cindy Carlson, Kim Reynolds, Reynolds, Kevin Stitt, Stitt, Biden, Henry McMaster, Scott Olson, Iran Fury, Kristi Noem, Chalkbeat, Fury, Megan Degenfelder, Degenfelder Organizations: Service, Department of Agriculture, SUN, Business, The, Agriculture, state's Department of Health, SUN Bucks, Alabama, state's Department of Education, Assistance, SNAP, state's Department of Children, Families, Florida Department of Children, Republican Gov, Republican, Idaho Education, Iowa, Iowa Iowa Gov, Human Services, Biden Administration, Mississippi The Mississippi Department of Human Services, Magnolia Tribune, Oklahoma Republican Gov, South Carolina Republican Gov, The Texas Tribune, state's, Human Services Commission Locations: Alabama, Alaska Alaska, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, SUN Bucks, NurPhoto Idaho, Idaho, Iowa Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Dakota South Dakota, Iran, Texas Texas, Wyoming Wyoming, Wyoming

☆ Biden Officials Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery, Documents Show
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Azeen Ghorayshi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Health officials in the Biden administration pressed an international group of medical experts to remove age limits for adolescent surgeries from guidelines for care of transgender minors, according to newly unsealed court documents. Age minimums, officials feared, could fuel growing political opposition to such treatments. If and when teenagers should be allowed to undergo transgender treatments and surgeries has become a raging debate within the political world. In the United States, setting age limits was controversial from the start. The draft guidelines, released in late 2021, recommended lowering the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies.

Persons: Biden, Rachel Levine Organizations: World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Department of Health, Human Services Locations: United States

☆ Psychology student did a daily act of kindness for 108 days: ‘My life was better in just about every way’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Kasley Killam | In Kasleykillam | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The question was a precursor to my graduate work, and the next decade of my career, promoting community, belonging, and social health in society. In the experiment, acts of kindness would be my daily beads and mantra, reminding me to set out each morning with the intention of connecting. After 108 days of prioritizing connection, my life was better in just about every way you can imagine. Kasley Killam, MPH, is a leading expert in social health and author of "The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier." She's a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, sought-after advisor and keynote speaker, and founder of Social Health Labs.

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Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that he would activate the city’s heat emergency plan starting on Tuesday. “The first heat wave of the season is here, and New York City has a plan to beat the heat — but we want all New Yorkers to have a plan as well,” Mr. Adams said. The city’s Heat Vulnerability Index — an effort spearheaded by the health department in conjunction with Columbia University — analyzes the neighborhoods that face the most danger during a heat wave. If everybody’s doing it, you’re multiplying it by millions.”Are heat waves in New York City becoming more common? The only heat wave to hit New York City last year happened in September, said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of New York.

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☆ Woman airlifted out of the Grand Canyon as dozens of hikers get sick from unnamed illness
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDozens of tourists who hiked to a waterfall in the Grand Canyon have fallen ill, including one woman who had to be airlifted out of the national park. The Havasupai Tribal Council acknowledged the recent illnesses in a press release on Friday, describing it as "gastrointestinal symptoms." AdvertisementThe council said it held meetings with local health officials, who determined that the symptoms are affecting people across the northern Arizona region. AdvertisementA county spokesperson told the Associated Press that hikers should take precautions, including monitoring early signs of norovirus. Representatives for the Arizona Department of Health Services and Indian Health Services did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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Many forms of help are tied to the federal poverty line, which is calculated using a formula that has largely not been updated since the 1960s. The poverty line is calculated in an outdated wayThe current federal poverty line for the 48 contiguous states and Washington, DC, is $15,060 a year for one person, $20,440 for a family of two, and $31,200 for a family of four. Courtesy of Melissa HeddenMuch of the resistance to changing the federal poverty line could stem from the government's desire not to inflate the number of people in poverty overnight. AdvertisementRep. Kevin Mullin, a Democrat from California, has introduced legislation — called the Poverty Line Act— that would modernize the federal poverty line, taking into account actual costs of goods and how prices differ across regions. Do you make above the poverty line but not enough to meet your daily needs?

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Reached by phone, Lisa’s live-in partner Maria Tazbaz said she sold the Easter baskets at her hardware store. By 2009 Lisa was on supervised parole, but couldn’t stop committing crimes, according to her parole officer, who asked a judge to consider putting her back in prison. In a letter to the judge, the parole officer outlined Lisa’s infractions: She faked cancer to get sympathy from a court on a charge for bogus checks. After spending much of 2010 and 2011 imprisoned in Oklahoma, Lisa was released. At a hearing for the revocation of her release, the parole officer testified she had “noticed, and attempted to stop, a pattern by the defendant of defrauding her boyfriends.” A judge locked her back up.

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☆ The first case of a 'highly contagious' ringworm infection spread through sex has arrived in the US, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A sexually transmitted fungal infection, TMVII, has been reported in the US for the first time. The infection, which resembles eczema, often affects men who have sex with other men. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementResearchers in New York are warning that a sexually transmitted fungal infection that can take months to resolve has been reported for the first time in the US. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: TMVII, — Organizations: Service, New York University, New York State Department of Health, Business Locations: New York, New York City, England, Greece, California, Albany

☆ Senators demand UnitedHealth own patient data hack
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Federal law known as the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) generally requires health care providers to notify people within 60 days of discovering a breach affecting their personal health data. The Department of Health and Human Services is already investigating whether UnitedHealth is compliant with HIPAA obligations to protect patient data. HHS can use HIPAA to fine companies for failing to protect patient data. The department announced a $4.75 million settlement in February with a nonprofit hospital system in New York for “data security failures” that the department said resulted in an employee stealing and selling patient data. On May 31, the HHS Office for Civil Rights clarified that health care providers can delegate that obligation to Change Healthcare.

Persons: Andrew, New Hampshire Democratic Sen, Maggie Hassan, Tennessee Republican Sen, Marsha Blackburn, ”, Eric Hausman, Hassan, Blackburn, Sen, Ron Wyden, UnitedHealth’s Organizations: Washington CNN, UnitedHealth, New, New Hampshire Democratic, Tennessee Republican, of Health, Human Services, CNN, HHS, Healthcare, Civil Rights, American Hospital Association, Optum, Capitol, Senate, Oregon Democrat, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: New Hampshire, Tennessee, New York, Wyden

☆ Walmart rolls out new training programs for skilled trades as it tries to fill high-demand roles
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Walmart on Wednesday said it will offer new training programs and certifications to fill high-demand roles across its business, such as HVAC technicians, opticians and software engineers. The retail giant aims to retain market share gains, particularly in the grocery department, during a period of high inflation. Walmart also kicked off a $9 billion project to upgrade and modernize more than 1,400 of its stores, representing more than a quarter of the total Walmart stores across the country. The company's total annual compensation for the median employee was $27,642 in the most recent fiscal year, according to the company's 2024 proxy report. Those skilled trade jobs pay between $19 and $45 per hour, said Lo Stomski, the company's chief talent officer.

Persons: Lo Stomski, Stomski, it's Organizations: Walmart, U.S . Department of Health, Human Services, Target, Amazon, Workers Locations: Dallas, Fort Worth, Bentonville , Arkansas

☆ Summer heat will likely bring higher electric bills amid rising temperatures
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Many Americans may get hot under the collar when they open their electric bills this summer, but for some, the consequences of rising utility costs can be a lot more serious. He pointed to the National Weather Service’s prediction that much of the country will probably have above-normal temperatures this summer. The difference in projections stems from the association assuming higher rates of usage because of hotter temperatures, Wolfe said. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, has $4.1 billion to help consumers with heating and cooling costs, down from $6.1 billion in the prior fiscal year. “Because of the lack of a coherent policy to address summer cooling, people will die this summer from heatstroke,” Wolfe said.

Persons: Mark Wolfe, ”, Wolfe, Diana Hernandez, Hernandez, “, ” Hernandez, arrearages, ” Wolfe Organizations: CNN, National Energy Assistance, Association, Center for Energy, US Energy Information Administration, Department of Health, Human Services, Energy, Columbia University, Income, Energy Assistance, US Census Bureau, District, Columbia, National Weather Service Locations: Pacific, Chicago, heatstroke

☆ ‘It’s putting patients’ lives in danger’: Nurses say ransomware attack is stressing hospital operations
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“It’s putting patients’ lives in danger,” said a nurse who works at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital, a 290-bed facility about 25 miles north of downtown Detroit. The health care sector reported 249 ransomware attacks to the FBI last year, more than any other sector, with some cases affecting patient records. And, perhaps more than any other sector, health care firms hold an enormous volume of sensitive data that is ripe for targeting and extortion schemes. The hack cut off health care providers from billions of dollars of revenue and snarled service at pharmacies across the US. (She said her firm had no specific insights into the Change Healthcare or Ascension ransomware attacks.)

Persons: cyberattack, “, ”, cybercriminals, Mac Walker, Walker, ” Walker, Ascension’s, Ascension, Dina Carlisle, “ There’s, Andrew, ” Sezaneh Seymour, ” Bryan Vorndran, Vorndran Organizations: CNN, Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital, “, FBI, Biden, White House, Department of Health, Services, OPEIU, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth, Healthcare Locations: Detroit, Birmingham , Alabama, St, Louis, Rochester , Michigan, ” OPEIU

☆ Former federal judge blasts John Roberts in new book and says Ruth Bader Ginsburg was annoyed by pressure to retire
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The Supreme Court, Tatel wrote, has “kicked precedent to the curb” and become “a tragedy” for civil rights and the rule of law. He said she revealed early dealings among justices that eventually led to the milestone 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision undermining the Voting Rights Act. ‘John Stevens didn’t step down until he was ninety,” Tatel wrote. He served as director of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and then as director of the National Committee. During the Jimmy Carter administration, he led the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Persons: David Tatel, ”, John Roberts, Bill Clinton, Tatel, Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Holder, Ginsburg, –, ’, ‘ John Stevens didn’t, ” Tatel, “, Ruth, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Obama, …, Trump, Amy Coney Barrett, Roe, Wade, Dobbs, Justice Ginsburg, “ I’ve, Jimmy Carter, Clinton, ” Roberts, Dick Cheney, “ …, Scalia, Cheney, ‘, David, Joe Biden, I’ve Organizations: CNN, Democrat, Jackson, Health Organization, Chicago Lawyers ’, Civil, Law, National Committee, Department of Health, Education, Welfare, DC Circuit, US Department of Justice, Northwest Austin, Civil Rights Movement, Court, Supreme Locations: County, Washington, Shelby County, Northwest, Northwest Austin

☆ Your student loan payment could get cut in half this summer—here's what to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Saving on a Valuable Education plan is the newest income-driven repayment plan available to federal student loan borrowers, and this summer it's getting even more affordable. Currently, monthly payments on the SAVE plan are calculated as 10% of borrowers' discretionary income. Borrowers who stay on the SAVE plan can have their remaining balances forgiven in as little as 10 years of repayments. All federal student loan borrowers with direct loans are eligible to apply for the SAVE plan through their loan servicer. You can also use Federal Student Aid's loan simulator tool to see if it's the right repayment plan for you.

Organizations: Department of Health, Human Services, SAVE, Education, CNBC

☆ Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Apoorva Mandavilli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Countries around the globe have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, trumping the nationalist ethos that emerged during Covid-19. The deliberations, which were scheduled to be a central item at the weeklong meeting of the World Health Assembly beginning Monday in Geneva, aimed to correct the inequities in access to vaccines and treatments between wealthier nations and poorer ones that became glaringly apparent during the Covid pandemic. Although much of the urgency around Covid has faded since the treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still acutely aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens, familiar threats like bird flu and mpox, and once-vanquished diseases like smallpox. “Those of us in public health recognize that another pandemic really could be around the corner,” said Loyce Pace, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, who oversees the negotiations in her role as the United States liaison to the World Health Organization.

Persons: Covid, ”, Loyce Pace Organizations: World Health, Department of Health, Human Services, World Health Organization Locations: Geneva, United States

☆ This high schooler won $10,000 because he saw a mysterious outbreak killing sea turtles in his Hawaii hometown and decided to do something about it
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He kept seeing green sea turtles with cauliflower-like tumors. And it would just encapsulate the green sea turtles," he said. A green sea turtle afflicted with fibropapillomatosis at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida in the Florida Keys. Green sea turtles are crucial for the health of reefs worldwide, as they eat algae that would otherwise suffocate the coral. He donned his diving gear and set up motion-sensing underwater cameras to snap photos of green sea turtles.

Persons: —, Maddux Alexander Springer, Springer, fibropapillomatosis, Pablo Cozzaglio, Peggy Scripps, It's, Hugh Gentry, they're, salicornia, Narrissa, Mitchell Pettigrew, that's, he'll Organizations: Service, Business, Turtle Hospital, Getty, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Google, Springer, Communication, Regeneron, Science, Engineering, Reuters, Hawaii Division, Nature, Hawaii's Department of Health, Honolulu Civil, University of Oregon, Oregon State University Locations: Kāneʻohe, Marathon , Florida, Florida, AFP, Oahu, Hawaii, Kāneʻohe Bay, Kāneʻohe Bay . State, Cavan, Hawaii's, cesspools, Honolulu

☆ How private equity rolled Red Lobster
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Gretchen Morgenson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

In this photo illustration, a cooked lobster is displayed on a plate at a Red Lobster restaurant on May 20, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Under the terms of the sale, Red Lobster would also see regular rent increases of 2% a year, the release noted. "All of the people who were supplying Red Lobster, all of the people who are essentially providing services to Red Lobster, the small businesses in the communities affected by mass layoffs, they are next in line, they are experiencing the ripple effect." Sen. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, where eight hospitals operated by bankrupt Steward Health Care are, recently held hearings on private equity and health care. Private equity is emerging in all parts of our economy, Markey added, but its most profound impact is in health care.

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