A Florida health care executive has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after his conviction on 20 counts in what prosecutors described as a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. A Miami federal judge imposed the sentence Thursday on Philip Esformes in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history. Prosecutors had sought a […]
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The cosmetics industry is about to get a funny makeover. Paramount released a trailer for its beauty biz comedy “Like a Boss” on Thursday, featuring lots of bawdy moments. (See the video above.) Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne star as makeup entrepreneurs who turn to a ruthless magnate, played by Salma Hayek, to bail them
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Image copyright Reuters British Airways has started emailing passengers to cancel flights two weeks ahead of another strike by pilots. The industrial action on 27 September is expected to affect hundreds of flights and tens of thousands of passengers. The dispute is over a pay-rise which pilots say is not high enough. Pilots staged a
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What a difference a presidential portrait makes. Two years ago, Amy Sherald’s painting career was slowly if belatedly picking up steam. She was 44 and after a four-year hiatus from art — for family illness and her own heart transplant — had had a handful of solo shows, including a four-day pop-up affair on New
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Aaswath Raman was driving through a village in Sierra Leone in 2013 when an idea came to him as suddenly as, perhaps, a light bulb switching on. The village was not equipped with electricity, and Dr. Raman, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, was unaware he was in a village until
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If things had worked out differently, they might have been walking out together in the blue of Europe on the opening day of the 2019 Solheim Cup. Instead, Nelly and Jessica Korda will be proudly wearing U.S. colors on Friday when they become the first sisters to be paired in the biggest team event in
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And despite years of unrelenting attacks, Defense Department officials continue to put the number of Taliban fighters at somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 fighters, a range that has not changed for several years. What is the American military actually doing in Afghanistan? The American military has long waged a series of off-again-on-again military campaigns in
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U.S. stocks rose in midday trading Thursday after the U.S. and China took more steps to ease tensions in their long-standing trade war that threatens to hurt the broader global economy. Technology stocks led the gains and helped extend Wednesday’s rally. Tech companies, particularly chipmakers, are heavily impacted by the trade war because many of
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Image copyright Getty Images A victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) who was traumatised by her reversal procedure has welcomed the opening of support clinics in England. Jane, not her real name, said she felt “helpless” following the operation, blaming a lack of emotional support. Now eight walk-in FGM centres, in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and
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BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Ace says he’s “just trying to get on with life” as he waits for a new kidney. The presenter has been having dialysis sessions three times a week for about 18 months after kidney failure. And he says more people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds should donate their organs. NHS
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