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Finding a way to win is never a bad thing, which was precisely what happened during the Chargers’ overtime victory over the Philadelphia Eagles last week. It might have been tough for viewers of “Monday Night Football” to watch, a mistake-filled game, but the Chargers were OK with it. Style points? None were awarded. No big deal. “It wasn’t perfect, but we did what we had to do to win,” Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said in the wake of their grittiest victory of the season. The Chargers also recognized in the aftermath of their victory over the defending Super Bowl…
On December 31, the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare policies that were enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025 are set to expire. The U.S. Senate held a couple of votes on Thursday but did not renew them. So it may be that on January 1, the program will return to the original Obamacare subsidies. Democrats are portraying the imminent return of original Obamacare as a Republican effort to destroy healthcare. They have finally admitted that the Affordable Care Act is a dismal failure. The original program that’s about to return used tax dollars to subsidize health insurance policies for people…
How swiftly must a California apartment seeker act to grab a new residence? Well, my trusty spreadsheet reviewed some curious data from ApartmentList that tracks how long vacant units go unrented in 46 large U.S. metropolitan areas – including six from California. The focus was on the six-month average through November, compared with 12 months earlier and with the average pace dating back to 2019. This “time on market” benchmark can give renters a sense of how quickly their decision-making must be – and how that timing varies by market. When markets are tight, empty units usually rent quickly. When…
LOS ANGELES — World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto plans to pitch for Team Japan in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, while Roki Sasaki is not expected to participate, according to reports from Japanese publications. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani already announced on his Instagram account that he plans to play for Japan (the defending champion) in the WBC this spring. The Dodgers met with Team Japan manager Hirokazu Ibata during the Winter Meetings in Orlando earlier this week. But Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes would not confirm the Yamamoto or Sasaki decisions. “There’s still conversations with Major League Baseball and the…
When it comes to foreigners wishing to visit the super-rich and super-developed nation that is the United States of America, it helps to be from another super-rich, super-developed nation, because then you don’t need a visa to get in for 90 days of tourism or business. You can look on a federal government world map that shows the 42 countries in the visa waiver program, and see that it includes all the nations of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and for some unexplained reason, Chile. Argentina, no; Chile, si. Go figure. If you’re not on the…
By JOSH JACQUOT, Edmunds If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, the remaining weeks of December could very well be a great time to buy. Several recurring industry trends converge at year-end, creating favorable conditions that can help you save money. The auto experts at Edmunds have come up with three key reasons why December often delivers the opportunity for better deals — and what to know to ensure you get the best one. Year-end sales quotas and dealership incentives Manufacturers and dealers operate under annual targets, and December is when they make their most concerted effort to…
In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones he likes) was all smiles during an Oval Office visit from Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and mayor-elect of New York City. For months, the two men traded the harshest of insults. Mamdani was a “communist” and “radical left lunatic”; Trump a “fascist” and “despot.” Yet with New York’s mayoral election over and cameras clicking, the insults were on hold. The men praised each other as “rational” and “productive.” Trump even joked that…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that within the next five years, AI could eradicate half of all entry-level jobs and increase unemployment by up to 20%. University of Louisville professor and computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy makes a darker prediction, claiming that 99% of jobs will be eliminated by robots and AI in the next five years. These appear to be scary times indeed – AI is now creating images of people with the correct number of fingers and the future that was promised where AI takes our jobs is no longer some ominous event in the distance. Computer nerds just…
By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson is in a last-minute sprint to develop a Republican alternative, as his party refuses to extend tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage. Johnson, R-La., huddled behind closed doors Friday morning — as he did days earlier this week…
By JOHN RABY A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last month in the nation’s capital is being transitioned from hospital acute care to in-patient rehabilitation, a doctor said Friday. Staff. Sgt. Andrew Wolfe was airlifted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with a critical gunshot wound to the head on Nov. 26. Wolfe and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom were ambushed as they patrolled a subway station three blocks from the White House. Beckstrom died the next day. Wolfe has “made extraordinary progress,” Dr. Jeffrey Mai, a MedStar neurosurgeon, said in a news release. “He is now breathing on his…