NEW YORK (AP) — A person with knowledge of the deal says the New York Knicks have agreed to trade center Willy Hernangomez to the Charlotte Hornets. The person says the Knicks will receive a pair of second-round picks and Johnny O'Bryant in the deal that was agreed to Wednesday, the day before the NBA trade deadline. The person spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade is not yet official. The deal was first reported by Yahoo! Sports. Hernangomez was an all-rookie selection last season and had been identified by team management during the summer as an important piece of the Knicks' future. But the Knicks then acquired Enes Kanter from Oklahoma City in the Carmelo Anthony trade and Hernangomez fell to third in the center rotation behind Kanter and Kyle O'Quinn. The deal comes hours after the Knicks lost All-Star Kristaps Porzingis to a torn ACL. ___ More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights … [Read more...] about AP source: Knicks trade center Willy Hernangomez to Hornets
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AP: Nearly 11.8M enroll for Obama health law in 2018
Washington – Nearly 11.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage this year under former President Barack Obama’s health care law, about 3 percent less than last year, according to a new tally by the Associated Press.Enrollment remained remarkably stable despite President Donald Trump’s disdain for “Obamacare,” and repeated efforts by the Republican-led Congress to repeal the program. The Trump administration also cut the sign-up window in half, slashed the ad budget, and suddenly stopped a major subsidy to insurers, which triggered a jump in premiums.“If you had asked me a year ago whether enrollment for 2018 would be almost equal to 2017, I would have laughed at you,” said Larry Levitt, who follows health law for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “So long as lots of people are still getting insurance it becomes much harder to take that away.”The outlook for next year, however, remains unclear. Congress has repealed … [Read more...] about AP: Nearly 11.8M enroll for Obama health law in 2018
AP Exclusive: Vatican to interview Chile victim in person
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony from a Chilean sex abuse victim after his pleas to be heard by Pope Francis were previously ignored, the victim told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The switch from a planned Skype interview came after the AP reported that Francis received a letter in 2015 from Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of Chile's most notorious pedophile priest. Cruz wrote the pope that one of the priest's proteges, Bishop Juan Barros, was present for his abuse and did nothing, and questioned Francis' decision to make him a diocesan bishop. Barros has denied seeing or knowing of any abuse committed by the Rev. Fernando Karadima, a charismatic priest sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for sexually abusing minors. Francis sparked an outcry during his recent visit to Chile by strongly defending Barros, describing the accusations against him as slander, and saying he never heard from any … [Read more...] about AP Exclusive: Vatican to interview Chile victim in person
AP count: Nearly 11.8M enroll for Obama health law in 2018
Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar and Kevin S. Vineys, Associated Press Updated 11:09 am, Thursday, February 8, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Jon Elswick, AP Image 1of/5 CaptionClose Image 1 of 5 In this Dec. 15, 2017 photo, the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington. A new tally by The Associated Press finds that nearly 11.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage this year under former President Barack Obama’s health care law. That’s only about 3 percent less than last year, remarkably stable despite President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to repeal or undercut the program. The Affordable Care Act offers subsidized private health insurance to … [Read more...] about AP count: Nearly 11.8M enroll for Obama health law in 2018
AP: ‘Fancy Bear’ hackers took aim at US defense contractors
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian hackers exploited a key vulnerability in U.S. cyber defenses to come within reach of stealing some of the nation's most secret and advanced defense technology, an Associated Press investigation has found. What may have been stolen is uncertain, but the cyberspies clearly took advantage of poorly protected email and scant direct notification of victims. The hackers known as Fancy Bear, who also intruded in the U.S. election, went after at least 87 people working on military drones, missiles, rockets, stealth fighter jets, cloud-computing platforms, or other sensitive activities, the AP found. Thirty-one agreed to interviews. Employees at both small companies and defense giants like Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co., Boeing Co., Airbus Group and General Atomics were targeted. Contacted by the AP, those companies offered no comment. "The programs that they appear to target and the people who work on those programs are some of the most … [Read more...] about AP: ‘Fancy Bear’ hackers took aim at US defense contractors