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UnitedHealth Group Inc. cut its annual forecast and reported its first earnings miss in more than a decade, in a foreboding sign that sent shares across the insurance industry tumbling. The company said it was blindsided by rising medical costs as the first quarter closed, upending a forecast it had affirmed just three months ago. […]

President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s termination from his position can’t come quickly enough, arguing that the U.S. central bank should have lowered interest rates already this year, and in any case should do so now. Trump, derisively nicknaming the Fed chairman he nominated in his first term as “Too Late,” wrote

In 2018, the first statewide election since Donald Trump became president, fed-up New York Democrats sent a loud message to the national party. Powerful Congressman Joe Crowley lost his primary to a progressive upstart named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while other House incumbents survived uncomfortably close challenges. A half-dozen state Senate Democrats who had joined forces with

Seventy home health nurses at the nonprofit provider Centerlight Healthcare reached a labor deal on Wednesday that reinstates their health insurance coverage, which they say was illegally revoked by their employer earlier this year. The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, threatened to go on strike on April 14 if they couldn’t

CLIMATE RESILIENCE: New York City Health + Hospitals has cut its carbon emissions related to anesthesia products in half due to changes in operating room practices that halt leakage of harmful gases, the health system said Wednesday. Four public hospitals – Bellevue, Elmhurst, Jacobi and North Central Bronx – stopped using a centralized pipe system

Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and acclaimed author Anna Quindlen has sold her longtime Upper West Side home after almost three decades, records show. Quindlen — whose novels include 1991’s Object Lessons, her first, and 2023’s After Annie, her latest — parted ways with the 5-story property on West 71st Street for $4.8 million, according to

The home of a music shop that served East Harlem for over five decades has been sold. Platinum Realty Associates purchased the building that housed Casa Latina Music Shop at 151 E. 116th St. in a three-building deal for $5.4 million. The transaction closed April 8, according to the city register. The store offered guitars,

Bars, bodegas and brew-lovers were staring down a potential major beer distribution disruption this week, but they can now breathe a sigh of relief. Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors and its workers have agreed to a contract, the company told Crain’s this morning. It did not share details of the agreement but said the strike

Bars, bodegas and brew-lovers could be in for a rude awakening in the coming days as the city is staring down a potential major beer distribution disruption. Hundreds of workers at Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors walked off the job on Tuesday and pledged to strike until negotiators reached a new contract agreement with management.

New York City will likely enter into a mild recession as a result of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime and the resulting chaos in the global economy, according to city Comptroller Brad Lander, who projected that the downturn will cost the city nearly 36,000 jobs by the end of 2025 and depress tax revenue. Lander,