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The Jets’ Aaron Rodgers era is finally underway. In likely the most heavily-anticipated game in the team’s recent history, the Jets host the Bills at MetLife Stadium on the first “Monday Night Football” of the season. Expectations haven’t been this high in decades, and it begins under the national spotlight in primetime. The Jets have been under a microscope all offseason as the featured team of this year’s “Hard Knocks” series on HBO.

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis AKA: TB Why it’s so scary: One of the world’s most common infectious diseases, TB spreads easily through the air when infected people cough or sneeze. It’s increasingly becoming resistant to the drugs used to treat it. Data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention All medical illustrations provided by the CDC ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sa7SZ6arn1%2BstKO0jp%2BpqKakobavsY6aqa2hk6GycLnEnqtmrJiaeq%2B1xqGrppmimnqjrcKtnKuhkWQ%3D

Explore More The Health Department shut down one of the Chick-fil-A’s in Midtown on Wednesday due to a permitting issue — and hungry New Yorkers were devastated. “What the f–k?!,” fumed a passerby who attempted to enter the location at 46th Street and Sixth Avenue, only to be stopped by a pair of signs saying it was closed. “Screenshot this s–t,” another said, pointing to the notices. While it’s unclear exactly when the Chick-fil-A was ordered closed, management said the poultry purveyor would reopen by Thursday.

Every so often, there are news stories about a police department that decided to pull drivers over to hand out gifts. The gifts have included Christmas presents, hundred-dollar bills and in the latest story, ice cream cones. The media loves these stories. They show the police engaging in charity or community-building. The stops generate charming videos of drivers who were pulled over and expected to get a costly ticket but instead received a present.

Explore More Billionaire David Tepper is weighing a move to convert his hedge fund Appaloosa into a family office as he increases his focus on running the Carolina Panthers, sources told The Post. The tough-talking tycoon, who scooped up the NFL franchise last year for $2.2 billion, has been gradually returning outside capital over the last few years, as bumpy market conditions have made it more difficult to reap outsize returns.

Explore More Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Christmas plans might result in hardly any festive cheer for King Charles, a royal expert has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex skipped out on merry festivities with the royal family last year, and according to royal expert and historian Tessa Dunlop, the couple will be looking to sit out a trip to Harry’s home soil again this year. “Christmas is coming and we want Meghan and Harry to inject the Windsor brand with a bit of transatlantic tension,” Dunlop told the Mirror.

- Part of the pirate fantasy is this idea of a life of total freedom at sea, but how free were the pirates who did not fit the historically-represented European captain that we see at the center of most stories? Let's take a look at freedom through the lens of one of the most famous pirates ever, Black Caesar. You may have heard of the adventures of the larger-than-life African chieftain who blundered alongside Blackbeard.

Walmart is expanding its employee health-care plans to cover more situations in which its staff might seek an abortion, making the nation’s largest private employer the latest firm to offer enhanced access to reproductive health services after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Arkansas-headquartered Walmart, which has 1.6 million employees in the United States, said it would cover abortions “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest.” It will also pay for the procedure in the event of miscarriage, a lack of fetal viability or an ectopic pregnancy, when a fetus implants outside the uterus.

      The Uptown from its main level (Courtesy of Cineplex Odeon) On Dec. 19, 1997, people across the country flocked to theaters to see "Titanic." On that day in Columbia, moviegoers experienced the first multiplex in the Washington region that featured all stadium seating and all digital sound. United Artists Snowden Square set sail with 14 wall-to-wall screens, including two that measure about 60 feet wide.