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As most of us have heard, a health care CEO was recently murdered in New York City. It goes without saying that no one should ever condone this kind of violence. However, it has unleashed anger across the nation about a health care system that serves the financial interests of stockholders and executives at the expense of the health and lives of people across the country.
I am not one of the millions covered by UnitedHealthcare, or any other form of insurance for that matter, because I am one of the 19,000 Wyomingites who fall into the coverage gap.
I’m stuck without health insurance after a series of life events including leaving my job to care for my sick mother and then my husband. After my husband passed away, I tried looking for a job but have not had any luck. I live off the small amount of life insurance that my husband left behind. I am denied Medicaid for the simple fact that I don’t have small children in my home. 
It’s scary. I pray to God each day that I can stay healthy. A broken arm falling on ice or, even worse, some sort of significant illness could lead to a lifetime of debt. Our health care system just isn’t working for most of us, and I can relate to the frustrations others have expressed when it comes to navigating the health care landscape in America.
Unfortunately, Wyoming stacks additional challenges on top of those already endemic to the broken American system. We rank at the lower end when it comes to many health care indicators, including lack of maternity services, expensive insurance costs, and dwindling access to doctors and nurses in rural communities. We are also one of only ten states that have not closed the coverage gap by expanding Medicaid.
In Wyoming, a family of three making $11,619 makes “too much” to qualify for Medicaid, according to a report recently published by Community Catalyst. Most people can’t imagine living off this little. This makes it nearly impossible for many to get health coverage, including 1,038 direct-care workers who provide things like home health care and nursing services.
We should also keep in mind that Wyoming is aging fast; according to a report published by the state’s Economic Analysis Division, between 2022 and 2023, the state’s elderly population grew by 3.5%, while the state’s total population only rose 0.4%. Many of us will have to make hard choices about how to care for those we love.
Universal access to affordable health care is critical to the long-term health of our families, friends and neighbors.
As the only state in the West that has not closed the gap, Wyoming has missed out on $1 billion in federal resources and more than a decade of opportunity that could have saved lives and improved health for so many.
I realize there is no miracle cure for all that ails health care in America. I do know that Medicaid works, and expanding access to Medicaid would help me and many others in this beautiful state.
I encourage the incoming Legislature to listen to the people’s anger at the current health care system and do something about it. Pass Medicaid expansion, close the coverage gap and help Wyoming become a healthier place to live.
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In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary can infiltrate organizations, move laterally and evade detection. eCrime groups like SCATTERED SPIDER and North Korea-nexus adversaries such as FAMOUS CHOLLIMA exemplify the use of cross-domain tactics, leveraging advanced techniques to exploit security gaps across interconnected environments.
The foundation of these attacks is built around the exploitation of legitimate identities. Today’s adversaries no longer “break in”; they “log in” – leveraging compromised credentials to gain access and blend seamlessly into their targets. Once inside, they exploit legitimate tools and processes, making them difficult to detect as they pivot across domains and escalate privileges.
The rise in cross-domain and identity-based attacks exposes a critical vulnerability in organizations that treat identity security as an afterthought or compliance checkbox rather than an integral component of their security architecture. Many businesses rely on disjointed tools that address only fragments of the identity problem, resulting in visibility gaps and operational inefficiencies. This patchwork approach fails to provide a cohesive view or secure the broader identity landscape effectively.
This approach creates gaps in security tools, but also can create a dangerous disconnect between security teams. For example, the divide between teams managing identity and access management (IAM) tools and those running security operations creates dangerous visibility gaps and exposes weaknesses in security architecture across on-premises and cloud environments. Adversaries exploit these gaps to perpetrate their attacks. Organizations need a more comprehensive approach to defend against these sophisticated attacks.
To protect against cross-domain attacks, organizations just move beyond patchwork solutions and adopt a unified, comprehensive strategy that prioritizes identity security:
Modern security begins with consolidating threat detection and response across identity, endpoint and cloud within a unified platform. By placing identity at the core, this approach eliminates the inefficiencies of fragmented tools and creates a cohesive foundation for comprehensive defense. A unified platform accelerates response time and simplifies security operations. It also reduces cost by improving collaboration across teams and replacing disconnected point solutions with a streamlined architecture that secures identity against cross-domain threats.
Robust identity protection requires end-to-end visibility across hybrid environments spanning on-premises, cloud and SaaS applications. Unifying security tools eliminates blind spots and gaps that adversaries like to exploit. Seamless integration with on-premises directories, cloud identity providers like Entra ID and Okta, and SaaS applications ensures a complete view of all access points. This full-spectrum visibility transforms identity systems into fortified perimeters, significantly reducing adversaries’ ability to infiltrate.
With identity as a focal point of unification and visibility, organizations can pivot to real-time detection and response. A cloud-native platform, like the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform, uses cross-domain telemetry to secure identity, endpoints and cloud environments by identifying, investigating and neutralizing threats. Features like risk-based conditional access and behavioral analysis proactively protect identity systems, blocking attacks before they escalate. This unified approach ensures faster responses than fragmented systems and a decisive edge against modern adversaries.
When it comes to comprehensive protection against cross-domain attacks, CrowdStrike sets the industry standard with the Falcon platform. It uniquely combines identity, endpoint and cloud security with world-class threat intelligence on adversary tradecraft and real-time threat hunting for a holistic defense against identity-based attacks. CrowdStrike’s approach relies on:
As adversaries exploit the seams between identity, endpoint and cloud environments, the need for a unified security approach has never been greater. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivers the integration, visibility and real-time response capabilities necessary to combat cross-domain threats head-on. By combining cutting-edge technology with world-class threat intelligence and expert management, CrowdStrike enables organizations to fortify their defenses and stay ahead of evolving attack tactics.
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During the fourth quarter, the market leased 10.7 million square feet of office space.
Full-year 2024 office leasing volume in Manhattan totaled 35.7 million square feet, the highest annual total since 41.5 million square feet in 2019. During the fourth quarter, the market leased 10.7 million square feet of office space, building on Q3 leasing volume to achieve the strongest leasing quarter since Q4 2019, according to Savills Research & Data Services.
Most of the activity remains concentrated in Midtown Manhattan and among top-quality buildings in major transit hubs. Midtown accounted for 77% of leasing volume during the fourth quarter, its highest share since Q1 2021. The Penn Plaza, Grand Central and Plaza South submarkets combined to account for 48.2% of quarterly leasing volume.
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CLEVELAND — Although nobody won the $178 million Powerball jackpot in the latest drawing that was held on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, the Ohio Lottery says there were thousands of winners who hit smaller prizes throughout the state.
Here’s a list of all the prizes won in Ohio:
Powerball officials say there were also winning tickets worth $1 million sold in Arizona and North Carolina.
The lucky numbers from the Monday night drawing were 6, 12, 28, 35, 66 and Powerball 26. The Power Play option was 3x.
The jackpot now climbs to $200 million for the next Powerball drawing, which is set for Saturday, Jan. 4 at 10:59 p.m. That prize has a cash option worth $90.7 million.
Powerball lottery officials say the odds of hitting the jackpot are one in 292,201,338, which is slightly better than the Mega Millions odds of one in 302,575,350. The odds of hitting a $1 million winning ticket in Powerball, meanwhile, are one in 11,688,053.52.
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After Covid-19, world leaders agreed to work together to strengthen global health systems, but negotiations on a new agreement have stalled
Five years ago, the world was hearing the first reports of a mysterious flu-like illness emerging from Wuhan, China, now known as Covid-19.
The pandemic that followed brought more than 14 million deaths, and sent shock waves through the world economy. About 400 million people worldwide have had long Covid. World leaders, recognising that another pandemic was not a question of “if” but “when”, promised to work together to strengthen global health systems.
But negotiations on a new pandemic agreement stalled in 2024, even as further global public health threats and emergencies were identified. If a new pandemic threat emerges in 2025, experts are yet to be convinced that we will deal with it any better than the last.
While experts agree that another pandemic is inevitable, exactly what, where and when is impossible to predict.
New health threats emerge frequently. World health leaders declared an outbreak of mpox in Africa an international public health emergency in 2024. As the year ended, teams of specialists were probing a potential outbreak of an unknown illness in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, now thought to be cases of severe malaria and other diseases exacerbated by acute malnutrition.
Maria van Kerkhove, interim director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention at the World Health Organization (WHO), is concerned about the bird flu situation – the virus is not spreading human to human but there have been an increasing number of human infections in the past year.
While there is a well-established international monitoring system specifically focused on influenza, surveillance in sectors such as trade and agriculture, where humans and animals mix, is not comprehensive enough, she says. And she stresses that the ability to properly assess the risk “depends on the detection, the sequencing, the transparency of countries to share those samples”.
The Covid-19 pandemic left health systems worldwide “really shaky” and has been followed by a long list of other health crises, she says. “Seasonal influenza started circulating, we had an mpox emergency, we’ve had Marburg, we’ve had cholera, we’ve had earthquakes, we’ve had floods, measles, diphtheria, dengue, Oropouche. Health systems are really buckling under the weight and our health workforce globally has really taken a beating. Many have left. Many are suffering from PTSD. Many died.”
What keeps her up at night, she says, is “complacency”, worrying that the response to a new threat will be hampered by “the notion that ‘it’ll just go away’, or ‘it’ll burn itself out’”.
The world has never been in a better position when it comes to the expertise, technology and data systems to rapidly detect a threat, Van Kerkhove says. The expansion of genomic sequencing abilities to most countries worldwide, and better access to medical oxygen and infection prevention and control, remain “really big gains” after the Covid-19 pandemic, she adds.
It means her answer to whether the world is ready for the next pandemic “is both yes and no”.
“On the other hand, I think the difficulties and the trauma that we’ve all gone through with Covid and with other outbreaks, in the context of war and climate change and economic crises and politics, we are absolutely not ready to handle another pandemic,” she says. “The world doesn’t want to hear me on television saying that the next crisis is upon us.”
The world of public health is “fighting for political attention, for fiscal space, for investment” – rather than nations working to stay in “a steady state of readiness”, she says.
The long-term solution, she says, is “about getting that level of investment right. It’s about getting that sense of urgency correct. It’s about making sure that the system isn’t fragile.”
Rwanda’s minister of health, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, found himself dealing with two major disease outbreaks in 2024: Africa’s mpox public health emergency, and 66 cases of Marburg virus in his own country.
He also co-chairs the governing board of the Pandemic Fund, set up in November 2022 as a financing mechanism to help poorer countries prepare for emerging pandemic threats.
If the next pandemic arrives in 2025, he warns: “Sadly, no, the world is not ready. Since the Covid public health emergency ended last year, too many political leaders have turned their attention and resources toward other challenges. We are entering once again what we call the cycle of neglect. People are forgetting just how costly the pandemic was to human lives and to economies and are failing to heed its lessons.”
He says the Pandemic Fund “urgently needs more resources to fulfil its mission” – it has received requests from low- and middle-income countries totalling $7bn (£5.6bn) to fund pandemic preparation and response investments, against $850m available.
In 2022 the WHO began negotiations for a new pandemic accord that would provide a firm basis for future international cooperation. But talks failed to yield a result by an initial deadline of the annual World Health Assembly in May 2024. Negotiators are now aiming for a deadline of this year’s May meeting.
So far the talks have actually worsened trust levels between countries, says Dr Clare Wenham of the department of health policy at LSE.
There is no agreement on what Wenham calls “the big elephant in the room” of “pathogen access and benefit sharing” – essentially, what guarantees poorer countries are given that they will have access to treatments and vaccines against a future pandemic disease, in exchange for providing samples and data that allow those therapies to be created. Research suggests more equal vaccine access during the Covid-19 pandemic could have saved more than a million lives.
“[Governments] are just so far apart, and no one is really willing to budge,” says Wenham, with only 10 days of actual negotiating time scheduled before the World Health Assembly deadline. Practical questions remain about the feasibility of what is being proposed, she adds, “even if you get over the fundamentals of how unwilling governments are to compromise”.
Her assessment is blunt: “We’ve had the biggest pandemic of our lifetimes, and we’re worse prepared than we were when we went in.”
She is among commentators who fear that any accord pushed through in May will lack real teeth, agreeing only a top-level framework, with trickier detailed decisions delayed.
But those involved in the process have rebutted that idea. Anne-Claire Amprou, co-chair of the WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, said as December talks drew to a close: “We need a pandemic agreement which is meaningful, and it will be.”

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