READ THIS NEXT: USPS Is Suspending Mail Delivery Here, Effective Immediately. The holiday season is approaching faster than any of us are ready for—except for, perhaps, the USPS. The Postal Service said it has “been planning for months to make this the best holiday season yet.” In fact, the agency recently revealed that its preparations for the 2022 holiday season began all the way back in January. According to the USPS, several “critical investments” have been made ahead of the season to aid its preparedness....

READ THIS NEXT: USPS Is Getting Rid of This Permanently, as of Jan. 31. Last month, the USPS confirmed that some of its leased facilities are set to shutter in 2023. First on the chopping block is the Mack’s Inn Contract Postal Unit in Island Park, Idaho. According to a press release from the USPS, this postal facility will be closing, effective Jan. 15. “The current provider has chosen to terminate their contract,” the agency explained....

1 6.8-Million-Mile Trip Ends Spectacularly NASA launched the DART—for Double Asteroid Redeflection Test—from California last November. It was aimed at the asteroid Dimorphos, about 6.8 million miles away from Earth. The craft made contact with the massive, 560-foot-wide space rock on Monday night around 7:14 p.m. It slammed into the asteroid at 14,000 miles an hour and was destroyed instantly. NASA’s goal: To see if such a collision could knock the asteroid off its orbit, something that might come in handy some day if an asteroid threatened this planet....

RELATED: Walmart Just Sent This Warning to Shoppers. Walmart has confirmed that it will soon shutter two separate stores across the U.S. One of these locations is in Louisville, Kentucky, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. “This decision was not made lightly and was reached only after a thorough review process,” Walmart spokesman Brian Little told the newspaper.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb The other Walmart store closing is in the Greater Cincinnati area in Forest Park, Ohio, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Shop at Walmart, Get Ready for This “Fantastic” New Change. As the world’s largest retailer, Walmart’s inventory is varied. The retailer is also always introducing new products, including Bubble Skin Care, which launched at Walmart this summer. The skin care line is aimed at eco-conscious Gen Z shoppers, and you can now purchase a select number of sprays and serums both in-store and online. Walmart took things a step further in July....

RELATED: Walmart Is Getting Rid of This, Effective Immediately. Shopping at Walmart usually involves finding a reasonable price on whatever you need, even if it isn’t on sale. But if you happen to notice more of the store’s eye-catching “rollback” signs during your next visit, you’re not just catching your location on a lucky day. According to executives, the deals are helping to create a feeling for customers that prices in the store are still low, affordable, and manageable amid the record-high inflation that has sent price tags soaring at other retailers, CNN reports....

“Having a safe and effective vaccine distributed by the end of 2020 is a stretch goal, but it’s the right goal for the American people,” Francis Collins, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a statement.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb On July 27, one of the first large-scale studies to test the safety and effectiveness of a COVID vaccine officially began. The specific vaccine was developed by the NIH, in collaboration with biotech company Moderna Inc....

In a new interview, Smith shared that one of his co-stars wouldn’t speak to him or make eye contact with him in order to keep one aspect of their characters constant, even when they weren’t on camera. And he confirmed that it only made the production more intense. Read on to see what Smith shared about his fellow actor and to find out how they started actually talking for the first time....

1 Alleged Dine and Dash The incident in question was sparked off when police were called to a Chili’s restaurant in Harry Reid International Airport, regarding a woman who had allegedly dined and dashed. The officers looked for the woman—who they later discovered was Bustami—in the airport, but had trouble finding her. Eventually, airport employees pointed the police in the right direction after recognizing Bustami from her description. 2 Busted...

The recent study, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, analyzed takeout containers made of common types of plastic from five cities across China. After subjecting them to different conditions, such as rinsing and submerging them in hot water to expose them to higher temperatures, the researchers found that tiny pieces of plastic fell from the inside of the containers and onto the food inside them in every instance. The biggest offenders, containers made from polystyrene with rough surfaces, shed as many as 29 pieces of microplastics....

In a report released July 24, the CDC surveyed 274 respondents who had tested positive with symptomatic coronavirus from April 15 to June 25. Out of those patients, 35 percent reported that they were not back to their “usual state of health” 14 to 21 days after being tested for the coronavirus, and 26 percent of those were patients ages 18 to 34. The presence of chronic conditions played a part in some of these prolonged cases in young adults, but 19 percent of the 26 percent had no previous chronic medical conditions....

Read the original article on Best Life. During an on-air interview on Dec. 15, Moncef Slaoui, MD, chief medical adviser for Operation Warp Speed, told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he was bullish on the doses providing long-term protection from serious illness, if not infection. “Prevention of infection … may be shorter-lasting, maybe lasts three, four, six months,” Slaoui said before adding “prevention of disease, in my humble opinion as an expert, is probably going to last a year or two years, three years....

RELATED: This Is the One Weed You Should Never Pull, Experts Say. Earlier this month, scientists and plant experts called for anyone with a Bradford pear tree in their yard to cut it down. These trees are tricky, as they have beautiful white blooms, but they actually endager surrounding wildlife and “choke out other plants,” as reported by USA Today. In addition to being dangerous to wildlife, when these trees cross with other pear varieties, the offspring—called Callery pears—produce thorns and thickets that can puncture the tire of your car....

According to a June 24 report in the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) has decided to do away with the term “master” as it applies to real estate, noting that it could be perceived as having ties to slavery. In its place, the group will be using the word “primary” as in “primary bedroom” and “primary bath.” “This topic is currently being debated across the real estate industry, and the national standards organization for MLSs (multiple listing services) will be considering a similar change that could make ‘primary’ the new standard nationally,” HAR said in a statement....

Over time, Burke, now 65, and Designing Women executive producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason—the latter of whom also created the show—found their way to a friendly relationship once again. But, when they were in a bad place, they definitely didn’t hold back about it. Read on to find out more about all the drama surrounding Designing Women. READ THIS NEXT: See Designing Women Star Delta Burke Now at 65....

In an interview with the New York Post, a couple of Jeopardy! champs revealed their biggest advantage when it came to bringing home some serious cash from the game show. Read on to find out more. RELATED: Jeopardy! Just Did This for the First Time Ever. J! Archive is a “fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players” with “428,903 clues and counting.” On the website, anyone can view the clues from any episode of the game spanning back to 1985....

READ THIS NEXT: 10 Small Towns in the U.S. That Feel Like Stepping Back in Time. The Swiss Alps is a bucket-list destination for many a skier, but if traveling to Switzerland isn’t in the cards, a trip to New Hampshire might do the trick. At the base of the 6,288-foot Mount Washington (the highest peak in the Northeast) is the Omni Mount Washington Resort. “[It’s] surrounded by nearly 800,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest and is home to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire’s largest ski area, boasting 464 acres of skiing and snowboarding on 63 trails and 35 glades and offering countless all-season activities including mountain biking, horseback and sleigh riding, indoor and outdoor climbing, fly fishing, disc golf, scenic Gondola rides, alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, terrain parks, and more,” according to a hotel spokesperson....

And it makes sense! Acting as a child is a lot different than definitively choosing to make it your career as an adult, and in so many cases, the entertainment industry chews up and spits out those who may not have been cut out for it in the beginning—or those whose real passions lie elsewhere. Read on for 11 of the most famous child stars of the ’70s and to find out what made them take a different path....

The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss was briefly married to Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen, but their love ultimately wasn’t meant to be. The couple was only wed for an eight-month period between 2009 and 2010, and years later, Moss told New York Magazine that it was actually a difficult time for her. “Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn’t think that I was that young,” she told the outlet in 2014....

Do you get the feeling that there are more twins around these days than there used to be? No? Well, you should, because according to a new study in the journal Human Reproduction, the “twinning rate” has increased by one-third since the ’80s—up from 9 to 12 twins per 1,000 deliveries. Currently that adds up to about 1.6 million twins born each year across the world—meaning one out of every 42 babies is a twin....