READ THIS NEXT: USPS Says You Can’t Do This With Your Mail After Nov. 5. As an independent federal agency, the USPS is responsible for providing regular mailing service to all Americans. But sometimes the situation is simply out of its hands. According to the Postal Service’s website, operations at postal facilities can be disrupted for different reasons, including natural disasters such as floods or fires and quarantines. The agency strives to keep all Americans updated about any adjustments through up-to-date service alerts....

READ THIS NEXT: USPS Is Making This Major Delivery Change, Starting Oct. 2. During the overwhelming Omicron surge this past winter, the U.S. government developed a program to send free at-home COVID tests to Americans, as tests became harder to find in stores. The White House tapped the USPS to handle the operations of this initiative, and the agency started taking, processing, shipping, and delivering orders in Jan. 2022. At the time, President Joe Biden had committed to making one billion at-home COVID tests available to Americans for free, which included 500 million for allocation through the USPS....

READ THIS NEXT: Dr. Fauci Warns That Vaccinated People “Need to Realize” This Now. But despite the rise in cases and hospitalizations, COVID-related deaths are still falling in the U.S. Even as the country closes in on the tragic milestone of one million deaths, the average number of new deaths caused by the coronavirus has actually declined by 1.2 percent in the last week, according to the CDC. “What has been remarkable in the latest increase in infections we’re seeing is how steady serious illness and particularly deaths are eight weeks into this,” White House COVID response director Ashish Jha, MD, told the Associated Press (AP) on May 25....

1 Ocean Thrills Clements was paddleboarding near Dana Point, Orange County, when he spotted the giant blue whale swimming along barely a few feet away from him. His excitement at the encounter was palpable, and he can be heard saying, “Oh my God… oh my God… holy s—, oh my God, here he comes!” as the whale swims beside and underneath him. “He’s coming up, he’s coming up, oh my God, oh my God!...

Smith Point Beach had two shocking shark attacks in July—which makes the shark-wrestling even more concerning. In Murray’s video, the man can be seen dragging the sand tiger shark onto the beach with the help of another person. He then handles the shark with his bare hands before eventually unhooking it and putting it back into the water. The two shark attacks in July were also caused by tiger sharks: A lifeguard was attacked on July 3 and bitten on the chest by a five-foot shark, making it back to shore after fighting it off with his bare hands....

1 “Just Kind of Freaked” Amanda Skuban, who filmed the emergency landing through her car windshield, said she “just kind of freaked.” In the video, the small plane—said to be a Cessna 180—flies low over a four-lane roadway, banks heavily to the right, and lands hard on its wing before skidding into a nearby driveway and ending up on its nose. Keep reading to see the video. 2 Pilot Admits It Was His Fault: “I’m Embarrassed”...

1 Leaving a Huge Mess Footage posted by the New York City Police Department shows the thieves almost falling on top of each other from the force with which they break through the window. Using a sledgehammer, the suspects smashed into the store and can be seen knocking over the cases to steal the items inside. The three men also use the sledgehammer to break into display cases, leaving the floor covered with broken glass....

READ THIS NEXT: Top Virus Expert Just Issued This Urgent Warning to All Vaccinated People. While some people experience few to no symptoms when infected with COVID, not everyone is as lucky. According to the CDC, older adults are more likely to have their infection turn severe. “The risk increases for people in their 50s and increases in 60s, 70s, and 80s,” the agency explains. “People 85 and older are the most likely to get very sick....

RELATED: Lowe’s Is Making This Major Change to Stores, Starting in February. According to a Jan. 31 announcement, Walmart is creating a new partnership with Angi, a popular home service website formally known as Angie’s List. Under this collaboration, shoppers will be able to add a home assembly service to their Walmart orders, both in-store and online, and someone from the Angi team will come over and put it together for them....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Use This Common Medication, the FDA Has a Major New Warning for You. In the interest of public health and safety, the FDA is responsible for regulating a number of products consumers use, including food and dietary supplements. But unlike most of the medicines you see on the market, the agency doesn’t have to approve food products and supplements before they’re sold to the general public....

This new research out of China, led by scientists from Procter & Gamble Company and the Single-Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published in the journal mBio on Mar. 9. The researchers studied 40 participants whose oral hygiene routine was interrupted over the course of a month. They found that in between 24 to 72 hours of abandoning their normal routine, there was a steep decrease in the amount of “good oral bacteria” (rothia species) along with the anti-inflammatory chemical betaine....

RELATED: Dr. Fauci Says This Is What Happens If You Combine the Moderna & Pfizer Shots. The study, which was discussed during an online presentation on May 18, found that giving a Pfizer shot after an AstraZeneca shot “greatly enhanced” immunity. The CombivacS clinical trial from Carlos III Health Institute examined 663 people who received an AstraZeneca shot followed by a Pfizer shot, and a control group that didn’t receive any booster shot....

RELATED: 15 Beloved, Long-Term Celebrity Couples, Then and Now. In her interview with People, Iman explained that she met Bowie when she briefly lived in Los Angeles in 1990. “I had never intended to move there. It’s not one of my favorite places,” she said. “It’s so vast but I personally believe now that was my destiny. My destiny was calling me to get there so I could meet David....

RELATED: This Is the Worst Zodiac Sign to Marry, Astrologers Warn. Aries are the go-getters of the zodiac and when it comes to relationships, they like to take charge. This makes them incredibly confident, romantic partners. However, Aries have very little patience and are known to have a hairpin trigger temper should they feel disrespected. And, they aren’t afraid to call anyone out for any reason. And while passion is important for building a long-lasting relationship, so is patience and understanding....

1 Not Alone Pizzato had just finished using the bathroom when she realized there was a huge huntsman spider lurking underneath the toilet seat—one that had been there for at least 20 minutes. Pizzato had her phone handy, and took video of the gruesome arachnid. “I just went to the toilet, and I got up and flushed the toilet and there is a big … spider under the seat,” she says in the TikTok post....

1 Love Triangle It all started in the workplace, allegedly. Sports Direct worker Franks and her coworker Rutt Ruttna were both vying for the attention of their boss, James Prest, allegedly, even though they both knew Prest was in a relationship. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb 2 Murderous Intent “I’m looking for the murder of a woman. I have £1,000, and I am willing to pay more. This woman has caused a lot of problems for myself and others,” one of the messages from Franks said according to Metro UK....

The January Public Health England (PHE) study—referred to as the SIREN study—found that those with immunity from antibodies may still be able to carry the virus in their nose and throat. These people would then be capable of infecting others with COVID despite the antibodies keeping them safe from getting sick themselves. According to a statement from the researchers, some people with naturally acquired immunity “carry high levels of virus and could continue to transmit the virus to others....

During a Feb. 22 partner call with the CDC, Clifford McDonald, MD, of the CDC COVID-19 Emergency Response Team, confirmed that individuals will neither have to prove their ability to pay for a COVID vaccine before having it administered to them, nor will they have to prove their citizenship. “The federal government is providing vaccine free of charge to all people living in the United States,” McDonald explained. “No one can be denied a vaccine if they are unable to pay a vaccine administration fee....

To discover this, researchers at Johns Hopkins School Medicine examined the behaviors of a random sample of more than 1,000 people in Maryland in late June. The results found that those who had been to a place of worship three or more times within the two weeks prior to the study had a far greater infection rate than those who did not—16 times, to be precise. That’s almost four times the rate of those who had taken public transportation the same number of times in that time period (4....

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cloth face coverings should be washed after every single use, whether by hand or in a washing machine. However, not all methods of mask-washing are created equal from a germ-killing perspective.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb So, how should you be cleaning your mask? The CDC recommends using your usual laundry detergent and tossing your mask in with your laundry, using the highest temperature wash appropriate for the mask....