The US Postal Service is putting out another call for mail carriers, this time hosting three local hiring fairs to help candidates begin the complex process of applying for a government job. USPS said its personnel will be available to provide information about the positions, answer questions, and walk future employees through the application process…
Read more
No team is ever the same, as executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias made sure to point out. But if they’re not identical, there are at least similarities — the kind that can be seen when rebuilds approach fruition. Be it in Houston, where Elias served as the Astros’ amateur scouting director in…
Read more
With the Ravens’ season opener just two months away, the aftershocks of an injury-filled 2021 are still rippling through the team. Until there’s clarity on which rehabilitating Ravens will be cleared for training camp later this month, it’s hard to know just who might be ready for Week 1. Quick recoveries and good health this…
Read more
Q: Ira, do you agree that Pat Riley and Andy Elisburg have done a poor job in upgrading the 2023 Heat roster? They now don’t have the money to seriously sign another star to play with the current core. Only option is a trade that could decimate the Heat’s younger players. The Heat’s competitors in…
Read more
Elon Musk mocked Twitter’s efforts to force him to purchase the company — in a tweet, of course. Early Monday, Musk tweeted four images of him laughing next to captions that read: “They said I couldn’t buy Twitter. Then they wouldn’t disclose bot information. Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court.…
Read more
By Emily Nicolle and Isabelle Lee | Bloomberg Bitcoin bulls beware: Wall Street expects the cryptocurrency’s crash to get a whole lot worse. The token is more likely to tumble to $10,000, cutting its value roughly in half, than it is to rally back to $30,000, according to 60% of the 950 investors who responded…
Read more
Official COVID-19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet takes hold. The Omicron offshoot BA.5 became the dominant variant in the US last week, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and…
Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Bay Area doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico as a way to maintain access for people in southern states where abortion bans have been enacted. The idea is to provide a clinic aboard a ship in federal waters, and out of reach of state laws,…
Read more
Nearly half of the teams in the NFC are either rebuilding, or seemingly tanking to position themselves to select high in what is supposed to be a quarterback-rich 2023 NFL draft. That opinion is based on many of the head-scratching moves made and the lack of roster improvement for about a dozen of the teams…
Read more
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News An ounce of prevention … well, you know the rest. In medicine, prevention aims to spot problems before they worsen, affecting both a patient’s health and finances. One of the more popular parts of the Affordable Care Act, which allows patients to get certain tests or treatments without forking out cash…
Read more
