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UnitedHealth Group, based in Minnetonka, Minn., says it expects to lose $650 million on health exchange plans this year. Many people who bought the plans are in relatively poor health, the company says.

UnitedHealth To Leave Most Obamacare Exchanges In 2017

Blaming a lack of profitability, UnitedHealth says it will drop out of most health marketplaces insurance exchanges next year. The insurer's first quarter profits in 2016 were $1.6 billion.

Not Over Till It's Over: Runner's Early Celebration Costs Her The Bronze

American distance runner Molly Huddle is the latest athlete to learn the hard way about premature victory celebrations.

Joyce Mitchell appears in court in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Monday. She was sentenced to 2 years and four months to 7 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

N.Y. Prison Worker Who Helped Inmates Escape Gets Up To 7 Years

Joyce Mitchell, 51, provided tools such as hacksaws, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses to two convicted killers ahead of their June 6 prison break.

Microsoft Announces 'Surface,' Its Foray Into The Tablet World

Microsoft said the tablet is made to work perfectly with Microsoft's new operating system.

Jackson Cahn, who graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., is one of the 3 million young adults the Obama administration says would have risked going without insurance if the health care law hadn't allowed them to stay on their parents' policies. Because of the law, his mother, June Blender, was able to add him to her insurance.

If Health Law Falls, Coverage For Young Adults Gets Tricky

One of the most popular parts of the health overhaul law is a provision that lets parents keep children on their insurance policies until age 26. Several big insurers say they plan to keep that in place even if the Supreme Court strikes down the rest of the law. But it may not be so easy.

Law enforcement personnel take cover Friday afternoon after cornering two escaped prisoners off of Route 30 in Malone, N.Y. One prisoner, Richard Matt, was shot dead by law enforcement. Authorities were still searching for escapee David Sweat late Friday night.

Police Shoot, Kill Escaped New York Convict

Law enforcement officials killed Richard Matt in Franklin County, N.Y. The other escapee, David Sweat, is still at large. The two men broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility June 6.

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