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Can a spotlight on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce help the NFL draw more Gen Z and female fans?
Eager as the National Football League has been to cater to the recent public fixation with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it’s certainly not taking any credit for creating the outsized storyline that has emerged around the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “Not orchestrated by the...
NY appeals court declines to halt Trump’s civil fraud trial while he contests a pretrial ruling
NEW YORK — A New York appeals judge declined Friday to halt Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, rebuffing the former president’s request to postpone it while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of control of such assets as Trump Tower. The appellate judge agreed that control over...
Police find at least 115 bodies at Colorado ‘green’ funeral home under investigation
CAÑON CITY, Colo. — Police said Friday they have found at least 115 bodies at Colorado ‘green’ funeral home under investigation for improper handling of remains. Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said they are coordinating with other agencies to determine if there is any wrongdoing. The Return to Nature Funeral...
A Texas killer says a prison fire damaged injection drugs. He wants a judge to stop his execution
HOUSTON — Attorneys for a condemned Texas killer have asked a federal judge to stop his execution, alleging the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe. The Texas Attorney General’s Office says testing done...
Police issue arrest warrant for 19-year-old acquaintance in death of Philadelphia journalist
PHILADELPHIA — Police said Friday that they have issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old acquaintance in the death of a Philadelphia journalist who went from sleeping on the street to working for the mayor to writing urgent columns on the city’s most pressing social issues. Josh Kruger, 39, was...
Police bodycam video shows arrest of suspect in 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur
LAS VEGAS — Newly released police body camera video shows officers arresting Duane “Keffe D” Davis on suspicion of murder in the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip. Davis, 60, was walking near his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson on Sept. 29 when...
Expanding Big Ten weighs competition, rivalries, TV ratings and road trips to make football schedule
Weighing competitive balance, traditional rivalries, television ratings and some very long road trips, the Big Ten produced 262 versions of a football schedule to find the one that best fit its soon-to-be 18-team, bicoastal conference. The Big Ten released five seasons’ worth of football opponents for each of its schools...
Former Penguins coach Kevin Constantine fired by WHL’s Wenatchee Wild
WENATCHEE, Wash. — Former NHL coach Kevin Constantine was fired as coach of the Wenatchee Wild on Thursday, a day after he was suspended indefinitely by the Western Hockey League for making “derogatory comments of a discriminatory nature.” In its first season in Washington after moving from Winnipeg, Manitoba, the...
11-time Pro Bowl receiver Larry Fitzgerald now helping young players maximize earning potential
Larry Fitzgerald is attacking the board room the same way he took on cornerbacks during a sensational NFL career. The 11-time Pro Bowl wide receiver who caught more passes for more yards than every player in league history other than Jerry Rice has transitioned smoothly to the corporate world since...
Who might replace McCarthy as House speaker? What are Republicans already demanding for their vote?
WASHINGTON — For Republicans, it’s a question with no clear answer: Who becomes House speaker after Kevin McCarthy? It’s not at all certain that any of the GOP candidates will be able to round up enough votes — 218, if all lawmakers are present and voting — to ascend to...
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy and against the death penalty. Mohammadi, 51, has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. “This prize is first...
Fields, Moore lead the Bears to their 1st win of the seasonVideo
LANDOVER, Md. — Music blared from the Chicago Bears locker room after a victory for the first time in almost a year, and players danced and jumped around with joy. All thanks to Justin Fields and DJ Moore being perfectly in tune. Fields and Moore connected eight times for 230...
Browns running game spinning its wheels since losing Nick Chubb
CLEVELAND — Moments before the season kicked off, Nick Chubb trotted on to the field inside a roaring Cleveland Browns Stadium while toting a No. 32 flag to honor Jim Brown, the legendary running back who died in May. Chubb ran to the opposite end zone and handed it to...
Russian strike on cafe kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelenskyy seeks more Western supportVideo
HROZA, Ukraine — A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv. Rescuers searched for survivors...
Trump ‘temporarily’ drops lawsuit against former lawyer-turned-witness Michael Cohen
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has dropped his $500 million lawsuit against Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who is now a key witness in a criminal case against him, Cohen and a Trump spokesperson said Thursday night. But the former president did not waive his right to sue...
Ex-treasurer for Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to conspiracy, tells of bogus loan and fake donorsVideo
NEW YORK — The ex-treasurer for U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Thursday to a fraud conspiracy charge and implicated the indicted New York Republican in a scheme to embellish his campaign finance reports with a fake loan and fake donors. Nancy Marks, who was a close aide to Santos...
Dartmouth tells NLRB basketball players are students — for real — not employees
BOSTON — Dartmouth College lawyers argued Thursday that the Ivy League school’s basketball players should not be considered employees because they are unpaid members of a money-losing program whose need-based scholarships don’t depend on their participation or talent. In a National Labor Relations Board hearing to determine whether the team...
Dick Butkus, fearsome Hall of Fame Chicago Bears linebacker, dies at 80Video
CHICAGO — A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, “The Most Feared Man in the Game.” Opponents who wound up on the business end of his bone-rattling hits could testify that wasn’t an exaggeration. Butkus,...
Pennsylvania chocolate factory fined for failing to evacuate before fatal natural gas explosion
WEST READING — A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed warnings from employees about a natural gas leak, according to the...
Black voting power gets boost in Alabama as new U.S. House districts chosen by federal judges
MONTGOMERY — Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The judges stepped in to pick a new congressional map after ruling that one drawn by Alabama illegally diluted...
Mets GM Billy Eppler quits 3 days after David Stearns hired above him
NEW YORK — Billy Eppler quit as New York Mets general manager Thursday, three days after David Stearns was hired above him as the team’s first president of baseball operations. “I wanted David to have a clean slate, and that meant me stepping down,” Eppler said in a statement released...
NCAA trashes UNC, deems WR Tez Walker eligible to play
The NCAA accepted Tez Walker’s transfer waiver Thursday, making the wide receiver eligible to play for the 14th-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels after the university fought for months to get him on the field. The NCAA released a terse statement saying its staff received new information that had not been...
X removes article headlines in latest platform update, widening a rift with news media
SAN FRANCISCO — X, formerly known as Twitter, has stopped showing headlines on articles shared on the platform. Now, X only displays an article’s lead image and a link to the story. Plans for the change were first reported by Fortune in August, when owner Elon Musk confirmed in a...
Donald Trump may visit the Capitol to address Republicans as they pick a new speaker
WASHINGTON — Former President and GOP front-runner Donald Trump is in talks to visit Capitol Hill next week as Republicans debate who should be the next speaker of the House following Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The trip would be Trump’s first to...
Report of fatal New Jersey car crash fills in key gap in Menendez federal bribery investigation
BOGOTA, N.J. — The then-future wife of powerful U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Nadine Menendez, killed a man with her car in December 2018 and was sent from the scene without being charged, according to new details that match an auto “accident” that prosecutors cite in their sweeping federal indictment of...
