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UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest healthcare company, shocked investors Tuesday by reporting unexpectedly awful financial performance. It’s the second consecutive quarter the company has committed that sin. As a result, UHG is no longer just a company that missed its numbers. It’s something much more rare: A huge enterprise—No. 3 on the Fortune 500—confessing fundamental, long-standing problems endemic throughout the organization …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband “Park” has put me in an impossible position. One of his coworkers breeds Siberian Huskies and gave him a 10-week-old puppy to surprise our kids with. It was a complete surprise to me, too—the first I learned of it was …

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Director Matt Shakman is explaining why The Fantastic Four: First Steps didn’t give continuity to the post-credits scene in Thunderbolts from earlier this year. The Marvel Studios film starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not in …

Deion Sanders visited his son Shilo at Buccaneers training camp, but his other NFL rookie son, Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, asked him to stay away. Deion Sanders told Michael Irvin that Shedeur believes his current place on the Browns’ depth chart doesn’t justify any special attention like a Hall of Famer father on the practice field. “Shedeur told me not …

Most of the attention in the Saints’ quarterback competition is focused on Spencer Rattler and second-round pick Tyler Shough, but the team has insisted Jake Haener is also involved and Friday’s practice showed that’s more than just idle chatter from head coach Kellen Moore. Haener worked with the first team for the first time in the team’s third practice of …

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., said Thursday he is disappointed that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did not give him a heads-up about the sweeping reorganization of the Agriculture Department that she announced earlier in the day and said he would schedule a hearing on the matter.Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Rep. …

It was a a star-studded evening in West Hollywood, where Justin Bieber celebrated the recent launch of his new album, Swag. In attendance, of course, was his wife Hailey Bieber and their close friend Kendall Jenner—both aligning on a dual dress code for the evening. Justin, meanwhile, stuck to his own color-popping aesthetic. The Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner schools …

On Wednesday, hours after Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a $1.5 billion, 50-episode deal with Paramount, the 27th season premiere of “South Park” aired on Comedy Central. Like most episodes of “South Park,” it featured a heavy dose of naughty words that my editor probably won’t let me write without using asterisks. Unlike most episodes of “South Park,” this …

The Raiders’ decision to release defensive tackle Christian Wilkins a year into the four-year, $110 million deal he signed before last season was the subject of the first question of head coach Pete Carroll’s press conference on Friday. Wilkins only played five games last season because of a foot injury and he remained sidelined through the team’s offseason program. News …

A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by films like Jurassic Park. A newly identified dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus qinglong, discovered in China, presents a significant shift in how scientists think about dinosaur behavior. Instead of the traditional portrayal of terrifying, roaring creatures, Pulaosaurus is believed to have communicated with chirps, much …