Maria Aspan
Stories
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Economy
The stock market had a great 2024. What will next year bring?
Investors are watching the Fed, the AI boom, and President-elect Donald Trump's promised economic policies.
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National
Big Health Care is ending a terrible year. Is anyone happy with this business?
Patients are protesting, bipartisan lawmakers are threatening regulation – and investors are selling their shares.
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Health Care
The health care industry's very bad year
The killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO has sparked scrutiny of the business of health care. But even the investors making money from this business have been unhappy with it this year.
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Health Care
Is this health care's Occupy Wall Street moment?
The consumer outrage unleashed by the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes at a time when populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Trump.
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National
A high school friend of Luigi Mangione remembers a teenager with enormous potential
A prep-school valedictorian and Ivy-educated tech worker, Luigi Mangione grew up wealthy, smart and successful. Now police have charged the 26-year-old with the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO.
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National
What we know about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in United Healthcare CEO's killing
Mangione was arraigned on firearms and forgery charges in Pennsylvania after his arrest Monday evening, and is expected to face charges in New York as well.
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National
Search continues for the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO
The search continues for the person who shot and killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel yesterday. Police have said it was a target, pre-planned attack.
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National
The CEO of a health insurance giant is gunned down on a busy Manhattan street
New York police say Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the country's largest health insurer, was the target of a preplanned attack. Authorities are searching for the person who did it.
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Economy
Trump picks Wall Street CEO Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
Lutnick, a billionaire investor who has been overseeing Trump's transition, will oversee a sweeping federal bureaucracy and have a role in enforcing Trump's promised tariffs.
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Politics
Trump picks Wall Street investor Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary
President-elect Trump picked Lutnick, the CEO of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, to be his next Commerce Secretary.