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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Manager Bob Melvin was fired Monday by the San Francisco Giants after the club missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season.Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey announced the decision Monday. Posey had shown his confidence in Melvin by exercising the veteran manager’s contract option for the 2026 season on July 1.But Melvin said after Sunday’s 4-0 victory against Colorado to conclude his second season that he had received no assurances about managing in 2026.“It is what it is,” he said, “we’ll see what the next day brings.”The Giants finished 81-81 for one more victory…

On a recent Saturday near Seattle, Cheryl Ewaldsen pulled three golden loaves of wheat bread out of her kitchen oven.The fragrant, oat-topped bread was destined not for her table, but for a local food bank, to be distributed to families increasingly struggling with hunger and the high cost of groceries.“I just get really excited about it knowing that it’s going to someone and they’re going to make, like, 10 sandwiches,” said Ewaldsen, 75, a retired university human resources director.Ewaldsen is a volunteer with Community Loaves, a Seattle-area nonprofit that started pairing home bakers with food pantries during the COVID-19 pandemic…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan reported two new polio cases in the southern province of Sindh, health officials said Monday, a blow to efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling disease among children. This brings the total to 29 cases across the country since January, despite several immunization drives.The virus was detected in two young girls in the cities of Badin and Thatta, according to a statement from the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program.Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where transmission of the wild poliovirus has never been stopped, according to the World Health Organization. Some parents in Pakistan…

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it as a problem — and they have started Maximor to replace spreadsheets with AI agents for the grunt work finance teams perform. Excel spreadsheets are everywhere in finance. Even with dedicated ERP, CRM, and billing systems, many mid-sized companies and enterprises still export transactions into Excel for manual reconciliation. Teams often treat spreadsheets as makeshift databases, sometimes even relying on functions like VLOOKUP — a function used to pull…

2025-09-29T09:31:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shared a four-step plan for resolving workplace conflicts. Bosworth emphasizes seeking valuable feedback in corporate conflict resolution. Bosworth said the approach has helped him understand when he’s having an “emotional reaction.” Workplace conflicts spare no one, and often it’s the C-suite that has to find…

Dr. Jennifer Avegno’s cellphone has been blowing up all week, with texts from other parents and colleagues asking, “What the heck? This doesn’t seem right,” she tells Yahoo.The texts are in response to a Sept. 22 White House press conference in which President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted unproven claims that taking acetaminophen — the active ingredient in Tylenol — during pregnancy raises autism risks.Avegno is the director of the New Orleans Health Department. She’s also an emergency physician and mom to a 23-year-old autistic son. So she’s a go-to source of information for other families…

Walmart executive Sravana Karnati has over 25 years of leadership experience at companies like Amazon, Disney, and Oracle — and he looks for two key traits when he hires engineers.”I look for the fundamentals and ability to learn,” the executive vice president of Global Tech platforms told Business Insider.Karnati said while he’s never hired a candidate for “specific knowledge,” he wants to know they have domain expertise. Anyone in a technical position, including those in project manager roles, need to understand the architecture, dependencies, and risks involved in the work they do, the executive said.”It is not about whether you…

DUBLIN (AP) — Irish police say no formal complaint has been filed regarding an early morning incident in Dublin involving Pittsburgh Steelers backup quarterback Skylar Thompson and that they haven’t established if there was a robbery.The Steelers said the 28-year-old Thompson was involved in a weekend “situation” in the Irish capital, but neither the team nor police have confirmed reports in Irish media that the player was robbed early Saturday.“No formal complaint has been made by any person at this time,” the national police, called An Garda Síochána, said in a statement Monday.“Following preliminary enquiries, An Garda Síochána has no…

Jensen Huang said President Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could put the American dream further out of reach for immigrants.The Nvidia CEO said on an episode of the “BG2 Pod” published Friday that the Trump administration’s move to change America’s H-1B visa program is “a great start,” but added that the $100,000 fee “probably sets the bar a little too high.”The policy “at least eliminates illegal immigration” and abuse of the visa system, but the steep cost might mean more investment outside the US, Huang said.He agreed with tech investor and podcaster Brad Gerstner that the fee also tilts…

Cale Makar has difficulty recognizing the college hockey landscape in the wake of a seismic shift that has transformed the sport in the mere five years since he left UMass to join Colorado in the NHL.From the introduction of name, image and likeness money to the NCAA lifting its ban on Canadian Hockey League players in November, Makar was captivated by the sheer number of players committing to Division I programs this offseason. It seemed like a mass exodus culminating with Gavin McKenna — the NHL’s prospective 2026 No. 1 draft pick — committing to Penn State.“It’s a crazy world.…