Year: 2014

5 ways you could be sabotaging your weight loss … No variety: If you're eating the same foods every single day – healthy or not – your body will soon …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was running a mild fever and will stay in the hospital overnight on Tuesday after treatment for a benign enlarged prostate, a Treasury spokesperson said. "After his successful outpatient procedure today, Secretary Lew's doctor recommended he stay overnight for observation due to a low-grade fever," Treasury spokeswoman Natalie Wyeth Earnest said in a statement. In an earlier statement, she said the surgical procedure had gone well and that Lew expected to resume his normal work schedule next week. …

By Fayen Wong and Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) – Some of China's struggling firms are finally getting the reception that regulators have been hoping for — a cold shoulder from banks in the form of smaller and costlier loans. Interviews with 15 that agreed to discuss their funding showed that more discriminate lending, long a missing ingredient of China's economic transformation, has become a reality. Up against a cooling Chinese economy and signs that authorities will not step in every time a loan goes bad, banks are becoming more hard-nosed and selective about whom they lend to. There are signs that even state-owned firms, in the past fawned over by lenders for their government connections, have to contend with higher rates, lower lending limits and more onerous checks by banks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — People who've started applying for health insurance but aren't able to finish before the March 31 enrollment deadline will get extra time, the Obama administration announced Tuesday.

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Missouri officials were preparing on Tuesday to execute a man convicted of abducting, raping and strangling a teenage girl who was working as a gas station attendant. Jeffrey Ferguson, 59, was twice convicted for killing 17-year-old Kelli Hall, who he kidnapped with an accomplice as she ended her evening shift at a metropolitan St. Louis service station on February 9, 1989. Ferguson is scheduled to be executed at 12:01 a.m. local time on Wednesday at a state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He would be the third man executed in Missouri this year.