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Field goal in OT gives Kansas City 2-0 start

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs thought they had beaten the Indianapolis Colts on a bizarre fumble in overtime Sunday night. The Colts ended up with a chance to win instead, yet chose to play for a tie. And once again, Patrick Mahomes and the rest of his crew made an ...

Rodgers shoulders blame for Steelers loss

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A year ago, Aaron Rodgers engineered a drive at Gillette Stadium that helped the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the team that went on to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. That version of Rodgers wasn't anywhere to be found in Sunday's 20-3 loss to the New England ...

McCaffrey joins elite company with 100th career TD

McCaffrey joins elite company with 100th career TD SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey put himself in some elite company with two short touchdown runs. McCaffrey's two 1-yard TDs in a 35-13 win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday made him the fourth-fastest player in the Super ...

Report accuses Ohio-based grocery giant Kroger of frequent overpricing

An analysis of government inspections and a survey of customers find that incorrect prices are frequent in the stores of Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger. It said they’re usually in the store’s favor. Cincinnati-based Kroger is the third-largest grocery chain by sales in the United States. It has been accused of using its size to avoid competition and to use other tactics to drive up prices. For example, in a 2024 trial to block a proposed merger with Albertson’s, the Federal Trade Commission presented testimony from a Kroger executive who said the company hiked the price of ...

The CLARITY Act failed, but bitcoin did not

The Senate's rejection of the CLARITY Act was not simply another episode of Democrats opposing President Donald Trump or Republicans failing to maintain party unity. Nor was it a declaration that cryptocurrency has no future in the United States. The bill was overtaken by a more fundamental dispute involving ethics, enforcement and public trust. The procedural motion failed 49-50, well short of the 60 votes required to advance. Every Democrat who voted opposed it, joined by Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Josh Hawley, Jerry Moran and Thom Tillis. Tillis voted no for the procedural ...

The lynching epidemic that wasn’t

Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say, but sometimes they are just paranoid. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of the Squad, organized 59 fellow Democrats to co-sign a letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened. The document pronounced its signatories "extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country." "The series of deaths," the letter continues, "raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation's history." Pressley and her ...