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UnitedHealth to reset insurance business as Medicare leader takes the helm
UnitedHealth Group is reshuffling its leadership as it tries to reverse a downturn in its insurance business and improve profitability. Robert “Bobby” Hunter announced his appointment as UnitedHealthcare president in a September 28 LinkedIn post, an unusual way for one of the nation’s largest companies to publicize a leadership change. Four days earlier, the company issued a press release naming former Target executive Jodee Kozlak to a newly created chief administrative officer position.
Vertiv’s AI-fueled rally puts data center infrastructure spending to the test
The stock market has turned a once little-known maker of data center equipment into one of the biggest names in AI infrastructure. Vertiv is up 81% over the past year, compared to 13% for the S&P 500 Industrials sector. The company has also outpaced industrial companies benefiting from the expansion of data centers. That surge has made Vertiv a test case for the AI infrastructure sector, as demand for the power and cooling systems needed to run data centers has propelled the stock.
How Burger King is preparing for the GLP-1 revolution Original
July 19, 2026, 7:01 PM EDT As weight loss drugs reshape how Americans eat, Burger King is gearing up for a future where customers still want fast food — just less of it. “My impulse has always been that this GLP-1 movement is going to have a profound impact on the industry,” Burger King’s president of U.S. and Canada, Tom Curtis, said in an interview in Miami for NBC’s “Business in America” franchise.
How Burger King is preparing for the GLP-1 revolution
Not Ketchup Or Mustard: These Toppings Take Burger King Whoppers To The Next Level Burger King is the home of the Whopper, and it's been the chain's claim to fame since 1957. While the recipe hasn't changed too much since the …
How Burger King is preparing for the GLP-1 revolution
As weight loss drugs reshape how Americans eat, Burger King is gearing up for a future where customers still want fast food — just less of it. "My impulse has always been that this GLP-1 movement is going to have a profound impact on the industry," Burger King's president of U.S. and Canada, Tom Curtis, said in an interview in Miami for NBC's "Business in America" franchise. "We haven't seen it yet, so I keep telling the team, 'Hey, we need to be prepared for this,'" he said.
Summer sales events kick off as inflation squeezes U.S. consumers
Summer's biggest sales are starting, with major weeklong deals from retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart officially launching as early as Monday. The wave of discounts comes at a time when inflation is at its highest point since early 2023, 4.2% year over year, and everyday costs continue to strain household budgets.
Meet the regular people making money off SpaceX's IPO — from a few bucks to a few million
From her bedroom in Miami, Daniella Rodriguez watched SpaceX hit the stock market Friday and blast off. Rodriguez, 23, had a stake in the game: She was allocated one share of SpaceX ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering and she was waiting for the right moment to sell. Seventeen minutes after trading began, Rodriguez made the call. “I love to be a part of something that’s historical in the stock market,” she told NBC News.
Freshman Senators Offer Fresh Perspectives in SGA
By Grace Thomas, Staff Writer When Rogathe Yesse, a first-year business analytics major, came to Wheaton from her home in Tanzania, she was searching for a place to serve God and her new student community. As she prayed, she decided to run for a freshman senator position, a new position since Student Government Association’s (SGA) recent restructuring.
Chaplain Wilson Takes On New Senior Pastor Role
By Grace Thomas, Staff Writer Chaplain Wilson stepped into a new senior pastor role at First Baptist Church of Elk Grove Village (FBC) in early January, filling an extended vacancy that had lasted since 2020. “For me, it’s the perfect blend of a chaplain’s role — both being a shepherd on the campus and a shepherd in the community,” Wilson said.
The Best Way to Earn Passive Crypto
FAQs (for SEO enrichment) Is staking JPM safe on StakingRewards? Yes. The platform supports non-custodial staking, meaning your assets stay in your wallet. You retain control while earning rewards. What makes the APY Booster different? The APY Booster enhances your base yield by integrating with liquidity providers, cross-chain rewards, or bonus incentives from partners. Can I unstake my JPM anytime? Thi s depends on the network.
Quem Ficou de Fora da Lista de Bilionários da Forbes em 2025
O clube dos bilionários do mundo nunca esteve tão cheio, alcançando o recorde de 3.028 membros em 2025. Ainda assim, como em 2024, cerca de um quarto dos nomes da lista viu seu patrimônio líquido encolher em comparação ao ano anterior. Para 107 empreendedores, investidores e herdeiros que estavam na lista passada, a queda foi tão grande que eles deixaram completamente o chamado “clube do bilhão”.
Trump’s presidency and student loans: Today’s education department announcement explained
Skip to content World News Published on March 21, 2025 Department of Education Dismantling: Trump’s executive order Thursday is expected to “greatly minimize the agency,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday, but federal student loans and Pell Grants will remain under the agency, along with other “critical functions” of the department.
Here’s how much American billionaires have lost since Trump’s inauguration
Skip to content Billionaires Published on March 16, 2025 President Donald Trump has more billionaires in his administration than any previous president, with at least nine. He counts plenty of billionaires as friends or fans: 16 visited him at Mar-a-Lago between the election and inauguration. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly just went to the White House on Wednesday following a Trump-Zuck White House meeting in early February.
A Celebration of Brittany Longsdorf
Categories: December 11, 2024 Brittany Longsdorf, Bates’ beloved Multifaith Chaplain, is leaving our community at the end of the calendar year to take on a new role as Associate Dean of Religious life at Princeton University. She will be dearly missed throughout this campus. Her presence will leave a hole that cannot be filled, but that is only a testament to how incredible Brittany is and how influential she has been throughout her time at Bates.
The Best Low-Sodium Fast Food to Order at Your Favorite Chains Original
food From Taco Bell to Starbucks The Washington Post/getty images One thing nutritionists know: Americans love their sodium. On average, we eat about 148 percent of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans’ daily recommendation for sodium intake—that’s about 3,400 mg a day. And it’s no surprise when you consider the seemingly endless foray of delicious, sodium-drenched foods at our fingertips. If eating less sodium is on your mind, don’t worry.
Mentoring Doesn’t Happen Only in Coffee Shops
As a college student, I enjoyed regular meetings with my mentor at a coffee shop. Hearing the perspective of someone older and wiser helped me make big decisions about marriage, work, and family. This dedicated time for her to listen, ask questions, and pray for me was a blessing. But as life moved on, it became harder to schedule regular time for mentoring alongside work, family, and other responsibilities. So I started to look for different ways to pursue mentorship.
Top 10 Things to Do in Guatemala
Whether trekking up volcanoes, exploring Mayan ruins, or traveling via tuk-tuk to cutesy lake towns, Guatemala has something for everyone. During my visit to Guatemala in mid-August, I was struck by how much adventure could be packed into such a relatively small country. Even with just a short amount of time, it felt possible to experience many of Guatemala’s greatest hits.
Simply Hosting: Gathering Weekly for Book Club
What was the occasion? Who was coming over? Every Tuesday this summer, a group of ladies gathered at my house for a weekly book club. My family has a small townhouse in California and we enjoy using it for hosting. We have hosted other groups before, but this was the first time we had a weekly event. Although our home can be loud with a train station and football stadium nearby, we try to ignore the noise and enjoy the presence of others.
Keeping kids engaged over summer break
Summer is a time to unwind with loved ones. Families sip iced cold lemonades, grill juicy burgers, and lick popsicles on the back deck. But summer can be stressful for parents, especially without school support. How can we keep our kids engaged over the summer? Maybe more importantly, how can we encourage their growth this summer?
Opinion | History Repeated: Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests in Light of Student Apartheid Opposition
Since the protests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian student organizations at universities including The University of Texas system have been organizing campus-wide peaceful protests due to the Israel-Hamas war. This week, the most major of the protests came to fruition. More than 250 students from UT Dallas and UT Arlington participated, while hundreds more filled campus streets in Austin.
Book Review: Sex Tips for Girls by Cynthia Heimel
To preface my review I am going to give context to my going into reading this book. I was in the Gender and Sexuality Studies lounge, one of the first to arrive at a casual get-together with a professor. I felt a little awkward and before my chattiness set in I scoped out the bookshelf for something to do. Immediately the first book I spot is bright yellow with a fishnet stocking clad leg in red heels. A bold cover for a bold book.
Tiger Express: What Students Hope to See
In the past year, Savannah State has joined alongside Albany State and Fort Valley State University, in a lawsuit against the University System of Georgia and the state of Georgia. With the call for better funding, many students, faculty and staff have begun to wonder what effects better funding would have on campus. Many on campus refer back to Tiger’s Express, a formerly popular diner on campus. With the hope of better funding, students hope Tiger Express doors may reopen.
Sculpture OnShore: Biggest fundraiser for Women's Refuge returns
Sculpture OnShore, the biggest fundraiser for Women's Refuge is back, after a five-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Credits: Newshub The biggest fundraiser for Women's Refuge is back, after a five-year hiatus due to the pandemic. It's coming at a time when demand for Women's Refuge services is at an all-time high. In the last five years, Aotearoa has seen a steady uptick in family violence occurrences, with Police recording 132,000 events in 2018 compared to more than 175,000 last year.
Is Netflix’s ‘No-Sharing’ Strategy Working For Them?
For the longest time, sharing the cost of a Netflix account has been standard practice for many, if always a bit of a moral grey area. As of this year, however, the company has started cracking down on the practice and using tech to make sure the only ones using an account live within that household. The policy has been rolling out worldwide for a while now with US customers getting hit a couple of months ago. What has the impact been so far, however?
Kiwi indie pop group There's a Tuesday return with new single
Familiar is the latest offering from indie pop group There's a Tuesday. By Grace Thomas Minnie Robberds says it plays on the notion of "meeting someone for the first time and feeling as if you've known them your whole life". "It's quite hard to explain why you feel that way," she said. The four-piece band is fronted by Nat Hutton and Minnie Robberds, with Gus Murray on drums and Joel Becker on bass. It had its humble beginnings in Christchurch, meeting at a high school party.
'Ignite' programme getting rangatahi ready for the music business
Students in Ignite's training programme have been hard at work, organising four charity concerts throughout New Zealand Music Month. It's an 8 week programme for 15 to 18-year-olds passionate about the music industry. There's three streams to choose from: Event Management, Event Production and Music Production. Levi Adamson and Tague Bradley put together the sold out gig Riffs N Waves. Tague says the programme prepares them for every aspect of event management.
Sol3 Mio star goes solo, releases debut album
Moses Mackay, best known for being part of Sol3 Mio, has released his debut album Grace. It's been a long time coming for the 33-year-old, he wrote one of the album's songs when he was just 17. "I just got to a point where I was like if I'm not going to do it for me now, I'm going to do it for that 15-year-old boy that was writing songs in his room." Grace is dedicated to his grandma, who Moses grew up with. It's little known, but Moses struggled with hearing issues for most of his childhood.
Fordham, Don’t War With PETA
If there was a room in which all members of the Fordham community were present — staff, students, administration, the Argo Tea ladies, etc. — I cannot imagine a single person would raise their hand when asked: “So! Who’s going to take care of the live ram?” Maybe this is a bleak outlook, but I doubt anyone would stand up, impassioned by their secret love of recreational veterinarianism, and donate the level of care and devotion a live animal needs.
The toolbox changing the classroom for Māori, Pasifika students
A new learning toolbox for Māori and Pasifika students has taken taken a South Auckland primary school by storm and it's just the beginning for the programme. By Grace Thomas The Lālanga Toolbox aims to helps improve Māori and Pasifika attendance at school and drive their success. It's currently being used at Manurewa South School. Teacher Snay Lata uses the toolbox for her Year 3 and 4 students. "I can see a change in their personality, in their mana," she said.
The Art of Architecture Critiquing
Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pinterest Ada Louise Huxtable (first Architecture Critic of The New York Times, 1963) begins her discourse on Architecture Criticism by making the reader aware that the objective of criticism is unlike any other art forms. Architecture ‘is the most complex and compromised of the arts, subject to a battery of restraints, controls and conflicts of interest, always striving to find the line where art and utility meet.’(Huxtable, 1990).
My thoughts about school, politics, and the vaccine
School is a great place to be with friends and learn new skills. I am a student in Year 7 and I want to tell you about the stressors I have been finding at school and in every day for those who would like to listen. Firstly, living through Covid, lockdowns and new vaccines has been a scary time. There was a lot of talk about Covid, with adults often scaring us kids with the things they told us. A teacher in primary school told us that we could die from getting Covid.
The Lincoln Center Halal Cart: Fighting Corporate Takeover One Gyro at a Time
The halal cart proves not only to be the pillar Fordham stands on, but also a way for students to further support local businesses in the city ROXANNE CUBERO Every time you indulge in a lamb over rice, you’re also supporting a small business. By GRACE THOMAS November 18, 2021 Among all college rites of passage in America, none is as beautifully fragranced and neon-adorned as the halal cart next to Fordham Lincoln Center.
Giving Voters Time Off To Vote Would Help Promote Fair Representation
By Grace Thomas, a Summer 2021 CLC intern Like clockwork every even year, the first Tuesday of November is a national election day. Election Day was not randomly chosen though. In 1845, Congress selected the most convenient day to hold a national election day for the greatest number of voters at the time—farmers.
Community of Faith: Service of love
Community of Faith: Service of love Thomas GRACE THOMAS Each year as the leaves turn and snow falls on our beautiful Montana, we think of gifts and giving. The gift that we all have the ability and privilege to give is love. Love without judgement. Love freely given. Love for our Creator. Love for His children. We can transform lives, even our own, by turning the focus of this next month to a season of love and service to others. My life is enriched by serving with others in our community.
Trump Meditation Video
Hello, President Trump. You’ve lost the election. Soon, you won’t be president anymore - and that’s okay. It’s okay to not be president. Most people aren’t. There’s no use being anxious or mad about the election anymore because you lost, bitch. Listen to the sounds around you. Hear the people partying right outside of the White House, laughing at your defeat. Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
The Only Thing That Can Save Us Is Big Titty Biden
There are so many symbols of hate in this country. We need a symbol that unifies, a symbol that will save us. That symbol is Big Titty Biden.
24 Questions That Won’t Be Asked At Tonight’s Vice Presidential Debate
There are a lot of questions that will be asked tonight’s vice presidential debate, but there’s also a lot of questions that won’t be asked. As a form of self-care and escapism, lets focus and fantasize on what we can’t ask, but would be really funny to ask. Vice President Pence, do you think that pooping is kind of gay? Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Senator Harris, if you got COVID, which three of your fellow senators would you definitely cough on?
Pervert Cruise Commercial
We’re happy to announce that coronavirus has not derailed our plans for the annual Pervert Cruise!! It will set sail next week as scheduled.
EMMY Snub: Gulliver’s Menagerie
Hey everyone, the Emmys are almost here, and once again they snubbed the greatest show on television: Gulliver’s Menagerie. Gulliver’s Menagerie just aired it’s eighth and final season on the brand new streaming platform Goowa Platinum. It’s a really shame that Emmy voters looked past Matt Smith’s moving performance as Gulliver, a time traveling salesman who collects the secrets of the gods to sell to the highest bidder.
Deaths of despair in Clinton, Oelwein, and elsewhere
John Whiston reflects on several books about industrial decline and the social dislocation that has accompanied it. -promoted by Laura Belin A friend emailed me the other day, a friend I worked with forty years ago at a plywood mill in Bonner, Montana. We pulled veneer on the green chain, very heavy repetitive work. He asked me to talk with his 30-something son, who might be having some legal problems. So, I spent about an hour in conversation with this young man.
Community Pregnancy Center banquet raises over $13,000
By Grace Thomas Monday night was the second annual fundraising dinner for Hartsville’s Community Pregnancy Center. CPC Director Peg Shonebarger was thrilled with the turnout, saying, “I thought the program went very well! I got lots of compliments from people saying how nice it was.” There were around 150 people in attendance and the dinner raised an estimated $13,160 to help the center’s mission to minister to and provide help for expectant mothers.
J.D. Scholten reacts to Steve King on “Iowa Press”
Last year’s Democratic nominee in Iowa’s fourth Congressional district submitted this commentary in response to U.S. Representative Steve King’s appearance this weekend on Iowa Public Television.
Stop Blaming Just the Media: Why Audiences Contribute to Low-Quality News
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life’s event, Great Conversations: Our Shared Responsibility as Citizens of Democracy. The event asked participants to “reflect on our role in defining, living, and spreading civic values such as education and participation in a public arena that is too often marred by incivility, gridlock and distrust.” Great Conversations had a straightforward goal in mind--facilitate great political conversations.
How To Start Composting
Everyone knows about the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. But another important step of reducing the amount of waste we produce everyday is composting. Composting is a great way to limit the amount of trash you produce, and can help create a healthy soil environment to plant new vegetables and other plants. Composting can help you start a home garden, which is great for your bank account, and even better for the environment.
Requesting More Inclusion for Muslim Voices
The University of Texas bolsters over 51,000 students, every single one coming from diverse backgrounds and living situations. The university claims to “embrace and encourage diversity”, since it strives to “create an inclusive community that foster an open and supportive learning, teaching, and working environment.” However, one may wonder how much the university lives up to that claim in terms of supporting minority students.
Austin's March for Our Lives
Beginning at noon on March 24th, Texans families and friends in the Austin area marched from Austin city hall to the capitol grounds in a united protest in favor of stricter gun regulations. Matthew McConaughey even showed up. Austin’s March for Our Lives march was just one of over 800 cities across the nation to partake in the nation-wide protest.
Types of Civic Engagement
If you’re like me, you hear the word Civic Engagement and you don’t really know what it means. Well after this article, we’ll both be more knowledgeable. The definition of Civic Engagement is individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern, meaning anything you do to get involved in your community. That is a very broad definition, so I’ll try to help narrow down some things that are considered Civic Engagement.
Three Cheers for a Record Number of Women Running for Political Offices in 2018
In 2002, Michele Swers published The Difference Women Make, arguing that women in public offices best represent women’s interests. By incorporating a quantitative analysis of legislative bills and interviews of female and male legislators, Swers found that women in public offices pursue women’s issues more than men in public offices. While men can represent women’s interest, it is quantitatively proven that women best represent women, a remark even championed by Elizabeth Stanton back in 1848.
I Bought a Ukulele... Now What?
Yesterday, I went downtown and bought a Ukulele. I don’t even remember the store I was in, because I was just casually strolling through. Something about this Ukulele drew me to it; maybe it was the fact that the brand name is the same name as my cat, but who knows? Nevertheless, I bought it, and I have no idea how to play. I have a friend who can play, but keeping up with her can be difficult, and learning from your friends is not always the best way to go.
“Why isn’t voting sexy?"
February 20th marks the beginning of early voting for the Texas 2018 primaries. Whenever something voting related inches closer on the calendar, I always feel the need to alert people about it. In my experience, having to alert people about voting isn’t enough, though. Generally, I also have to convince people to vote, too, since simply knowing about an upcoming election isn’t enough to rally people to go to the polls.
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