"Sleeping On The Job": DC Opens Medicaid Investigation Following Nurse And Aide Neglect Claims D.C.’s inspector general has opened an investigation after complaints surfaced about home health nurses and aides allegedly sleeping while on duty, following a News4 I-Team report that included hours of video showing caregivers appearing to sleep overnight, according to NBC . The investigation stems from...
"Sleeping On The Job": DC Opens Medicaid Investigation Following Nurse And Aide Neglect Claims D.C.’s inspector general has opened an investigation after complaints surfaced about home health nurses and aides allegedly sleeping while on duty, following a News4 I-Team report that included hours of video showing caregivers appearing to sleep overnight, according to NBC . The investigation stems from the account of Damon Brooks, a D.C. resident who shared his experience publicly in December. His story, viewed by more than half a million people online, described repeated instances where he said caregivers failed to respond when he needed assistance. NBC writes that Brooks, a paraplegic sports journalist, relies on in-home care through the District’s Elderly and Persons with Physical Disabilities waiver program, which is funded by Medicaid. He said he struggled for years with aides who could not be awakened at night, even as he worried that speaking out could jeopardize his care. “Sadly, like, I've had large gaps in my schedule. Sometimes I get people, sometimes I don't,” Brooks said. After the story aired, Brooks said investigators from the Office of the Inspector General contacted him. “They explained to me that some of the things that I've been subjected to were not right. They were deemed fraudulent, and that they're opening an investigation to see how they could possibly assist me with hopefully rectifying the issue,” he said. He added that since the report, he has not seen aides sleeping on the job. “I don't want anybody to be a casualty or anybody to lose the quality of life due to somebody's negligence,” Brooks said. The report also renewed scrutiny of broader staffing challenges in the program. D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson, who chairs the health committee, said the issue extends beyond the District. “It’s a complicated issue, but it’s certainly not an issue that is unique to the District,” she said. Henderson noted that over four years, D.C. has lost a...
March WTI crude oil (CLH26 ) on Friday closed up +1.71 (+2.88%), and March RBOB gasoline (RBH26 ) closed up +0.0307 (+1.67%). Crude oil and gasoline prices rose sharply on Friday, with crude oil posting a 1-week high. Friday's slump in the dollar index (DXY00 ) to a 3.5-month low...
March WTI crude oil (CLH26 ) on Friday closed up +1.71 (+2.88%), and March RBOB gasoline (RBH26 ) closed up +0.0307 (+1.67%). Crude oil and gasoline prices rose sharply on Friday, with crude oil posting a 1-week high. Friday's slump in the dollar index (DXY00 ) to a 3.5-month low...
The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Friday tumbled to a 3.5-month low and finished down by -0.82%. Friday's yen strength undercut the dollar after the yen whipsawed from a 1-week low up to a 4-week high on speculation that the Japanese government was intervening in the forex market to support...
The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Friday tumbled to a 3.5-month low and finished down by -0.82%. Friday's yen strength undercut the dollar after the yen whipsawed from a 1-week low up to a 4-week high on speculation that the Japanese government was intervening in the forex market to support...
Coroner is yet to determine the cause of death of Piper James, a 19-year-old Canadian woman found surrounded by dingoes on Monday In the early hours of Monday morning, a young woman’s body was found being mauled by a pack of dingoes near a shipwreck on a windswept stretch of white sand beach on an island off the east coast of Australia. The island was K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, in so...
Coroner is yet to determine the cause of death of Piper James, a 19-year-old Canadian woman found surrounded by dingoes on Monday In the early hours of Monday morning, a young woman’s body was found being mauled by a pack of dingoes near a shipwreck on a windswept stretch of white sand beach on an island off the east coast of Australia. The island was K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, in southern Queensland, home to about 150 human inhabitants and a population of dingoes genetically distinct from those on the mainland. Called wongari in the language of its Butchulla traditional owners, the lean yellow and white canids are sacred to the First People and indelibly entwined in the cultural fabric of this world-heritage listed sand island. Continue reading...
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) edged up 0.03% to 6,915.16 in a choppy session, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) rose 0.28% to 23,501.24 on tech strength, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) fell 0.58% to 49,098.70, pressured by Intel’s slide. A steep post-earnings drop in Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) weighed heavily on the Dow and broader tech sentiment, while gains in Nvidia (NAS...
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) edged up 0.03% to 6,915.16 in a choppy session, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) rose 0.28% to 23,501.24 on tech strength, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) fell 0.58% to 49,098.70, pressured by Intel’s slide. A steep post-earnings drop in Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) weighed heavily on the Dow and broader tech sentiment, while gains in Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) , Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) , Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) , and a more than 5% jump in Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) helped power the Nasdaq higher. Intel’s fourth-quarter earnings report negatively impacted markets today, but there was still some positive momentum for other names. The chipmaker painted a downbeat picture for the coming months, mainly due to supply constraints. Continue reading
Many people love saving for retirement in traditional IRAs or 401(k)s because of the up-front tax break. Shielding some of your income from the IRS could result in lots of tax savings from year to year. The downside of having a traditional retirement account is having to worry about required minimum distributions , or RMDs. Those could create a huge tax headache for you in retirement if you don't ...
Many people love saving for retirement in traditional IRAs or 401(k)s because of the up-front tax break. Shielding some of your income from the IRS could result in lots of tax savings from year to year. The downside of having a traditional retirement account is having to worry about required minimum distributions , or RMDs. Those could create a huge tax headache for you in retirement if you don't need the money. But if you blow off your RMDs, you could risk a 25% penalty on the sum you fail to remove. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Tesla has quietly changed how buyers access its driver-assistance features in the United States. The automaker has removed Autosteer from the final vehicle configurator for the Model 3 and Model Y. The change marks a major shift in how Tesla bundles its core Autopilot functions. Until recently, Tesla included Autosteer as part of its standard Autopilot package. The feature handled lane centering w...
Tesla has quietly changed how buyers access its driver-assistance features in the United States. The automaker has removed Autosteer from the final vehicle configurator for the Model 3 and Model Y. The change marks a major shift in how Tesla bundles its core Autopilot functions. Until recently, Tesla included Autosteer as part of its standard Autopilot package. The feature handled lane centering while driving on highways and marked roads. New orders now list only Traffic Aware Cruise Control, or TACC, as standard equipment. The update pushes buyers toward Tesla’s Full Self-Driving subscription. The company prices the service at $99 per month. The move signals Tesla’s growing focus on recurring software revenue rather than bundled features. Autopilot quietly unbundled Tesla still includes TACC across all Model 3 and Model Y trims. The system controls speed and braking based on surrounding traffic. It does not provide lane-keeping assistance. Without Autosteer, drivers must actively steer at all times. The experience mirrors early Tesla vehicles from over a decade ago. Those models offered cruise control but lacked advanced lane guidance. The configurator change first appeared alongside the launch of a lower-priced Standard trim in October. Tesla did not issue a formal announcement. Buyers only noticed the change during the final configuration step. Confusion followed. Tesla’s online feature comparison charts still list Autosteer under most trims. However, the final purchase screen omits the feature entirely. Instead, Tesla offers a 30-day Full Self-Driving trial. Push toward subscriptions Tesla has steadily repositioned its software as a paid upgrade. Full Self-Driving remains the company’s most ambitious product. It promises automated driving features, though regulators still require active driver supervision. By removing Autosteer from standard packages, Tesla narrows the gap between basic driving assistance and Full Self-Driving. Buyers who want lane centering now...
Welcome to ETF IQ, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the $19 trillion global ETF industry. I’m Bloomberg News reporter and anchor Katie Greifeld . Speed of Sound We know that stakes in private companies can appear in ETFs, as evidenced by the ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (ticker XOVR), which owns a slice of SpaceX. It appears that Ron Baron has broken the sound barrier with his own holding...
Welcome to ETF IQ, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the $19 trillion global ETF industry. I’m Bloomberg News reporter and anchor Katie Greifeld . Speed of Sound We know that stakes in private companies can appear in ETFs, as evidenced by the ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (ticker XOVR), which owns a slice of SpaceX. It appears that Ron Baron has broken the sound barrier with his own holding. Baron Capital’s Baron First Principles ETF (which aptly trades under the ticker RONB) has a nearly 22% weighting to SpaceX, Elon Musk’s privately held rocket company, Bloomberg data show. Its second-largest holding is Tesla — a public company — while its third-biggest allocation is a 5.5% stake in xAI, a Musk-owned artificial intelligence company. Baron’s willingness to experiment with private company holdings could help the firm become “the next active ETF star,” in the view of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Eric Balchunas. SpaceX is reportedly considering a public debut in 2026 — which could break a sound barrier of its own, given that a potential $1.5 trillion valuation is being discussed — meaning that the pop potential in that particular name is high. So why don’t more issuers add a dash of private companies to their ETFs? Actually procuring the exposure is one question mark, but even before that, concerns still linger as to whether the wrapper is suitable for private shares. Here’s JPMorgan Asset Management’s global head of private markets and customized solutions Jed Laskowitz on that topic : At this point, we’re not doing that in our ETF lineup, we do own private companies in some of our mutual funds. I think over time, we’ll continue to look at it. I do think any time you’re going to put private, illiquid assets in a daily valued liquid vehicle, you have to do it really carefully... We don’t have immediate plans to do it in ETFs, but the private space is growing, the private market is $20 trillion, they’re forecast to be $30 trillion. Is the ETF the right vehicle for t...