By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer A massive U.S. health care technology company says it was attacked by the ransomware group ALPHV, also known as Blackcat. Change Healthcare first acknowledged the attack last week. It is affecting health care providers across the country. Mostly it is threatening the security of patients’ information and paychecks for
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved the creation of a video to outline the state’s abortion laws and to clarify when health care providers are legally allowed to intervene. South Dakota outlaws all abortions except to save the life of the mother, under a trigger ban
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed to more all-time highs Thursday as Wall Street closed its latest winning month. The S&P 500 rose 26.51 points, or 0.5%, to 5,096.27 to top its record set last week. The Nasdaq composite led the market with a gain of 144.18, or
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS plans to go after 125,000 high-income earners who did not file tax returns going back to 2017. The agency expects to collect roughly $100 billion in back taxes. Beginning this week, the agency will start sending out noncompliance letters to more than 25,000 people who
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March in what would be Georgia’s first execution in more than four years. A judge on Thursday signed the order for the execution of Willie James Pye, who was
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER AND OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will create blizzard conditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER AND OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will create blizzard conditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the
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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Hatch watch is underway in Southern California mountains. Three bald eagle chicks could emerge this week from eggs laid in a nest monitored by nature lovers via a popular online camera feed. The mother, Jackie, laid the eggs in late January atop a tree overlooking Big Bear Lake high
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press OFER PRISON, West Bank (AP) — A U.S. citizen who was dragged out of her home and detained by Israeli authorities for over three weeks was released on bail Thursday to wait out the remainder of her trial in the West Bank, the latest in a case attracting international attention
Continue ReadingDHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s health minister says a fire in a six-story commercial complex in the nation’s capital, Dhaka, has killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others. Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen said the fire broke out on Thursday night in the building in Dhaka’s Bailey Road area, and that firefighters rescued
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The third-party presidential movement No Labels plans to meet next week to decide whether to help launch an independent candidacy for the White House. The March 8 meeting comes amid fierce pressure from No Labels donors, potential candidates and party critics. No Labels Chief Strategist Ryan
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature has given final pasageto a bill that would add electroctuion and the use of nitrogen gas as methods of carrying out the death penalty. The bill’s passage came Thursday as part of a push by tough-on-crime lawmakers to resume executions in Louisiana
Continue ReadingSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — San Francisco Giants right-hander Tristan Beck has been diagnosed with an aneurysm in the upper part of his pitching arm and is evaluating his treatment options after the condition was checked after he began experiencing numbness in his hand. The team announced Beck’s situation Thursday after he had left spring training
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Search warrant filings for the Pennsylvania home where a pregnant Amish woman was killed this week say she appeared to have suffered cutting wounds to her neck and head. The body of 23-year-old Rebekah Byler was found in the living room of her
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A national LGBTQ+ advocacy group is suing the Texas Attorney General, rather than handing over information about transgender children receiving gender-confirming medical care. PFLAG National says in its lawsuit filed Wednesday that the Republican Ken Paxton’s office is demanding “documents and communications” related to a sworn statement
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ New York Associated Press (AP) — Federal agents have raided a home owned by a top adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The FBI confirmed that a raid was conducted Thursday at a Bronx address. Records show that the home there is owned by Winnie Greco, a longtime fundraiser for
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers and a court employee were shot and wounded while serving an eviction at a home in Independence, Missouri. Independence Police Department spokesperson Officer Jack Taylor says the two officers were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known. Taylor
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has decided to seek reelection after announcing earlier this month that he was planning to retire, according to a GOP source close to the Tennessee Republican. The quick reversal comes after Green received encouragement
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek. The stoppage began when
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and likely Republican challenger Donald Trump arrived Thursday in Texas, some 300 miles apart, for dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much
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