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Stomach bugs on cruise ships recently hit a nearly two-decade high as more people than ever board the vessels, underscoring how easily viruses spread on contained voyages. While cruises are in a global spotlight after a rare hantavirus outbreak killed three people on an ocean liner since April, mild gastrointestinal illnesses are far more common on ships. They have risen for the last four years to the highest since 2007, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program. The data tracks ships with 13 or more passengers with foreign itineraries that dock at one…

This article is part of a sponsored series by Fulcrum. A day in the life of an account manager at Heffernan Insurance Brokers. Lauren Sebastiani remembers the rhythm of the old workflow clearly. Proposals went out to a vendor and came back in 24 hours. Policy checks shipped off and returned in two weeks, sometimes longer. Each deliverable came with a second round of work: reviewing, verifying, logging into Epic, updating fields by hand. “It was a very tedious thing before,” she says. Lauren is an account manager and team lead at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, where she has been in…

The suggestion comes after Iranian warnings that several important cables in the strait were a vulnerable point for economies in the Middle East. Iran’s comments expose an invisible foundation of the internet and globalisation itself: the web of more than 500 undersea cables that carries more than 95% of international data traffic. We may think the internet lives in a kind of virtual cloud. But its physical underpinnings are vulnerable – and that vulnerability is becoming a very real geopolitical concern. Gulfs, Straits and Cables Several of the world’s most critical submarine cable routes run through the Middle East. Narrow…

The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday. Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce had all insisted they were innocent of one of the city’s most notorious crimes. They were finally declared innocent by a judge in February after investigators determined the crime was committed by…

Vice President JD Vance this week announced new steps in the Trump administration’s initiative to root out fraud in federal health programs, including a $1.3 billion deferral in Medicaid funding to California. “How long are people going to pay into programs if they know that that money doesn’t go to a low-income kid who needs healthcare, but that money goes into a fraudster getting rich?” Vance said during an event at the White House, adding that taxpayers and program beneficiaries are victimized by such fraud. The Republican administration also is imposing a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and…

An Illinois man who suffered severe injuries to his hand and fingers in a dog attack received a $300,000 settlement, the law firm John J. Malm & Associates said. The man attacked by two pit bulls while taking his German Shepard for a walk in the town of Elgin. The incident occurred when he tried to separate the pit bulls from his dog, at which point he was attacked. Local animal control authorities cited the owner of the pit bulls, and the dogs were officially declared dangerous animals under applicable regulations, the man’s attorneys said. These findings played a key…

The operator of the massive cargo ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is now facing criminal charges for actions leading up to and after the crash that killed six people more than two years ago. The Dali container ship’s power loss caused it to lose propulsion and steering and ram into the bridge’s supports, leading to the deadly collapse and closing Baltimore’s port for months. In addition to the new charges announced Tuesday, the companies that own and operate the ship have faced a slew of legal challenges, many of which have been resolved with settlements. Maryland officials…

NASHVILLE — The future of property-casualty insurance is here and it looks a lot like … a devoted personal assistant for the policyholder, one that moves at lightning speed and never complains or takes a day off. “You want your customer personalization to really come across as a concierge service,” said Russell Page, chief information officer for Hagerty, an insurer that specializes in coverage for classic cars and specialty vehicles. Page Page spoke this week at the Insurance Innovators USA annual conference in Nashville. He and others stressed that rapidly evolving technology, including artificial intelligence systems, while far from perfect,…

Dream Finders Homes Inc. submitted a $704 million offer to acquire rival homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc., which rejected the bid as too low. Jacksonville, Florida-based DFH is offering $25.75 per share in cash for Beazer, according to a statement Monday that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. The bid represents a roughly 40% premium to Beazer’s closing price on May 5, the day on which DFH submitted the offer to the target’s board, the statement shows. Beazer rose 34% to close at $25.16 in New York trading Monday, giving the company a market value of about $688 million. DFH…

American Family Insurance has launched a branded reality competition series, “Designed To Last,” a first-of-its-kind show that reimagines how to think about protecting homes and families against increasing climate risk. The four-episode series sponsored by American Family Insurance premiered May 5 and streams on Hulu. Watch the trailer here. “Designed To Last” brings together architects, engineers and inventors to tackle one of today’s most urgent challenges: safeguarding homes against unpredictable and extreme real-world conditions. Through high-stakes design challenges, the series showcases innovative solutions that aim to fortify homes while inspiring audiences to think differently about preparedness, protection and resilience. Each…