Aetna is fined by New York for leaking members’ HIV status
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Aetna Inc will pay a $1.15 million civil fine and improve its privacy practices to settle charges that it leaked the HIV-positive status of 2,460 New York members in a mailing where it used envelopes with large transparent windows….
Climate advocacy group sues U.S. EPA for ‘purge’ of scientists
(Reuters) – A climate change advocacy group on Tuesday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for banning certain scientists from serving on its advisory committees, a move the group said will give business an unfair influence on policy.
Chinese citizen pleads guilty to U.S. graduate school exam fraud
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Chinese citizen accused of posing as someone else to take a graduate school entrance exam on her behalf pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a criminal case that arose from U.S. prosecutors investigating international students who use impo…
Corruption trial of ex-aide to NY Governor Cuomo gets underway
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday that Joseph Percoco, a former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, took more than $300,000 in bribes from executives at two companies that did business with the state governm…
U.S. lets more healthcare workers prescribe opioid addiction treatment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday it had changed a regulation to allow more healthcare professionals to prescribe a medication used to treat opioid addiction, opening up access in rural America where there …
U.S. attorney general orders probe of FBI agents’ text messages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an investigation into missing text messages exchanged between two Federal Bureau of Investigation staffers accused of expressing views against President Donald Trump, the Justice De…
U.S. Attorney General orders probe of FBI agents’ texts: lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an investigation into texts exchanged between two officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are accused of expressing views against President Donald Trump, the Republican…
Two students dead, 12 others wounded by gunfire in Kentucky high school shooting
(Reuters) – A 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun in his high school in western Kentucky on Tuesday, killing two fellow students and wounding a dozen other youths before being arrested, the state’s governor and police said.
Floridians to decide on ending lifetime ban on voting for felons
(Reuters) – Floridians will be asked in November whether to restore voting rights to people convicted of serious crimes who have completed their sentence after campaigners collected enough signatures on Tuesday to get the proposal included on the ballo…
Five missing workers in Oklahoma well fire presumed dead
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Officials on Tuesday called off the search for five missing workers and declared it “a recovery mission,” a day after a fiery explosion at an oil and gas drilling site in eastern Oklahoma.
