Hurricane Francine takes aim at Louisiana coast as millions prepare for life-threatening impacts
Hurricane Francine has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday. The storm is expected to bring extensive flooding, dangerous storm surge and destructive winds to the US Gulf Coast. Several Louisiana parishes issued mandatory evacuation orders, and state and local leaders […]
Housing market short 4.5 million homes – here’s how that impacts your house hunt
Without an increase in housing supply, home prices will continue to rise, the Zillow report said. (iStock) The US housing shortage is worsening, with a housing shortfall expected to grow by an additional 1.8 million homes by 2022, according to Zillow. report. The U.S. will have 4.5 million fewer housing units than needed in 2022, […]
UnitedHealth expects cyberattack-related impacts to top $2.3B – Fierce healthcare
UnitedHealth saw its medical loss ratio rise in the second quarter, but executives pointed to the cyberattack on Change Healthcare as the main factor. UnitedHealthcare’s MLR for the second quarter was 85.1%, up from 83.2% in the same period last year. The insurer cited several factors for the increase in the ratio during its earnings […]
Attorneys General Testify To Impacts Of Border Crisis On Their States
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Attorneys general from Montana, Oklahoma and Missouri testified before Congress on Wednesday about how the border crisis was impacting their states. They testified in the first of three hearings to be held by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee as part of its chairman’s stated plan to impeach U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary […]