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Centene raises 2024 profit forecast on strength in commercial plans
The health insurer banks more on commercial plans and state government-backed Medicaid health plans, which cover medical care costs for people with limited income and resources. Commercial plan memberships grew to 4.77 million at the end of the first quarter from 3.53 million from a year earlier, and helped partially cushion impact from a drop in Medicaid plan members. On an adjusted basis, the health insurer now expects annual profit of more than $6.80 per share, compared with its previous forecast of more than $6.70.
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Everything we know about Severance season 2
Ben Stiller’s dark workplace thriller will soon return to Apple TV+. Here is what we know about Severance season 2.
- The Guardian
Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches
Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penalties
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Natural beauty Princess Andre looks so much like model mum Katie Price in candid video
Princess Andre looked so much like her model mum Katie Price in glowing video. See video.
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Rishi Sunak would be 'off his head' to call a summer general election, says former Cabinet minister
Ex-Brexit Secretary Sir David Davis warned it would be ‘suicidal in political terms’ to go to the country within a few months
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Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police
Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. Elijah McClain’s 2019 death in Aurora, Colorado, was a rare exception: Two paramedics were convicted of giving McClain an overdose of ketamine, the same drug given to Jackson.
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UPDATE 1-Centene raises 2024 profit forecast on strength in commercial plans
Centene Corp raised annual profit forecast and beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Friday, helped by higher premiums from its commercial insurance business. The health insurer banks more on commercial plans and state government-backed Medicaid health plans, which cover medical care costs for people with limited income and resources. Commercial plan memberships grew to 4.77 million at the end of the first quarter from 3.53 million from a year earlier, and helped partially cushion impact from a drop in Medicaid plan members.
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Colorado paramedic to be sentenced in Elijah McClain's death, bringing case to a close
A Colorado judge on Friday is expected to sentence a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, the last defendant to face jail time for the young Black man's death. McClain, 23, died after police slammed him to the ground soon after stopping him and put him in a chokehold at least twice. Paramedics injected him with an excessive dose of ketamine, an anesthetic used for sedation, after police said he was in a state of "excited delirium."
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Loungers boss says 'the UK economy is holding up well' as sales grow
Sales at the chain grew by almost 25%
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Jack Whitehall reacts after Prince William calls his jokes 'dad-like'
The future King previously said: ‘I’ve been asked to produce a dad joke, so I’m trying to channel Jack Whitehall’
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Austria's insolvent Signa sells Venice's Hotel Bauer to German group
Insolvent Austrian property company Signa Prime Selection, part of the troubled Signa empire, has sold the luxury Hotel Bauer on Venice's Grand Canal as part of a deal with German industrialist family business Schoeller Group, Signa Prime said on Friday. Signa, the property group founded by Rene Benko, has become the biggest casualty so far in Europe's real estate crisis, with creditors filing claims totalling billions of euros. The group's holding company that sits at the centre of a web of hundreds of firms has declared insolvency, as have two of its most important units, Prime and Signa Development.
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Welcome to the real Clarkson's Farm
As season 3 comes out on May 3, The Standard were given a look around Diddly Squat. No visit is complete without a trip to the famous farm shop, which sells everything from fudge to Clarkson-themed jerky.Plus there's a visit the pigs, who are the stars of the new season. The show has become one of Prime Video's most popular: will you be watching when it launches?
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TikTok star Morgan Riddle reveals why she is 'supportive' of Botox
Morgan Riddle is "supportive" of Botox because it makes her feel good about herself.
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Selena Gomez feels 'sad' over today's beauty standards
Selena Gomez feels "sad" over the beauty standards of her generation and is hoping to use her own brand to inspire individuality.
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Julia Fox explains why Kanye West romance left a 'sour taste' in her mouth
The OMG Fashun co-host has said that despite only dating the rapper for a month in 2022, she is still best known for being his girlfriend. "That's why I have such a sour taste in my mouth about dating anyone in this sphere," Julia told InStyle in an interview published on Thursday. "Because I don't ever want to just be known as someone's girlfriend. I know I'm so much more than that." She continued, "And I feel like that happens so much to women in this industry.
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COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan defends oil and gas investments
Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting that despite climate targets, fossil fuel demand remains strong. As the host of the United Nations COP29 climate summit in November, Azerbaijan will oversee negotiations among nearly 200 countries on how to raise more finance to combat climate change and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet.
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‘They’re not having kids’: NYU professor says young Americans struggling, ‘have every reason to be enraged’
Is the American Dream fading?
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Indy PopCon's celebration of geekiness kicks off today at the Indiana Convention Center
Indy PopCon's celebration of geekiness kicks off today at the Indiana Convention Center
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‘To expect Mark Rowley to have overall control is just a fallacy’
This week, Rishi Sunak refused to offer his backing to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner over the row that erupted after one of his officers threatened to arrest Gideon Falter, an “openly Jewish” man, for walking in central London during a pro-Palestinian protest.