NEW YORK — The New York Mets agreed to one-year contracts with eight players Friday to avoid salary arbitration, including shortstop Francisco Lindor, outfielder Michael Conforto and first baseman-outfielder Dominic…
Twitter croudsourcing found effective for dermatologic diagnoses
At the start of the pandemic, many doctors on the front lines turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to find guidance and solace directly from their peers. In…
Business clicks but doesn’t collect
There is a mathematical formula at work in the massive national mission to get the 'R' rate of infection down. In manipulating the formula, the variable over which ministers have…
AT&T TV Now is now AT&T TV — here’s what that means
AT&T TV Now is no more. New customers can no longer sign up for telecom’s skinny bundle TV service, similar to YouTube TV or Hulu with Live TV. Instead, customers…
Putin critic Alexei Navalny detained upon return to Russia after poisoning
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained after defiantly flying back to Moscow on Sunday, his spokesperson said, months after he was left in a coma when he was…
Padres avoid arbitration with Pham, 4 others
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres agreed to an $8.9 million, one-year contract with Tommy Pham, avoiding arbitration with the outfielder who was limited to 31 games last season…
Wives bore the brunt of child care during the shutdown
Traditional gendered patterns of child care persisted during the COVID-19 shutdown, with more than a third of couples relying on women to provide most or all of it, according to…
Private equity firm eyes stake in All Blacks
US private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire a stake in New Zealand’s All Blacks, according to reports. The transaction would be for a stake of up…
We gave this laptop a 7, then a Swedish metal band turned it up to 11
If you’re interested in learning about the Lenovo Legion 5i gaming laptop, I now have much more than a mere written review to share with you. Swedish metal band Iron…
Airstrike in Afghanistan bombs Taliban target. Now 18 members of one family feared dead.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Mir Hatim says he spent the early hours of Jan. 10 sifting through the bombed-out house of his relatives, searching for their bodies in the rubble. “Everyone…