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The Sunday afternoon games of Week 7 featured plenty of kicker heroics, particularly in the NFC North: CLUTCH @jakebates30!#DETvsMIN | 📺 FOX pic.twitter.com/0h4IAxgA5o — Detroit Lions (@Lions) October 20, 2024The NFC North is the best (and tightest) race in the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs breezed to a road victory over the banged-up San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl rematch, New York Giants fans got a bitter taste of Saquon Barkley on Sunday, and did the Jacksonville Jaguars maybe, sort of, get back on track with a convincing win over the New England Patriots in London?The Athletic NFL writers…

The Netflix Albuquerque Studios film and television production studio lot in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesThis report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.What you need to know todayConsecutive winning weeks All major U.S. indexes rose Friday for their sixth consecutive winning week. That’s the longest streak this year for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, both of which hit record highs. Asia-Pacific markets traded…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There have been plenty of times the New York Giants offense has needed a spark since Brian Daboll took over as coach in 2022. But he had never benched quarterback Daniel Jones based on performance.That changed Sunday. With the Giants’ listless offense managing just 104 yards and 3 points in the first three quarters, Daboll pulled Jones. It made no difference, as backup quarterback Drew Lock failed to provide the “spark” Daboll was seeking in a demoralizing 28-3 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.GO DEEPERDaboll says QB Jones ‘remains’ Giants starter despite benching vs. EaglesDaboll immediately committed to…

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) enters the hall during the meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (not pictured), October 11, 2024, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesIran has been one of Russia’s few staunch allies throughout the war against Ukraine, but Tehran now faces the strain of indirectly fighting its nemesis Israel on two fronts.Under pressure — but still defiant — Iran could start looking to Russia for help, given its need for greater air defense capabilities and military intelligence to detect a highly-anticipated but yet-to-materialize direct Israeli attack on Iran, analysts told CNBC.Russia is well-positioned to provide Tehran with such capabilities, but the extent to which it will assist…

FIFA isn’t hiding it anymore.When you’re in desperate need of a big broadcast deal and some major American sponsors in the next few months, the time for subtlety has passed.Lionel Messi Inter Miami have qualified — with the word qualified doing more heavy lifting than a skinflint picking up the bar tab after a big night out — for next summer’s new-fangled, massively-enlarged Club World Cup, to be played in the United States.How and why have Lionel Messi Inter Miami been deemed worthy of a spot among the top 32 football clubs in the world? Why, by winning the 2024…

Blinkit and Zomato logos are seen in this illustration taken June 27, 2022.Dado Ruvic | ReutersIndia’s biggest group of retail distributors has asked the antitrust authority to investigate three quick commerce companies — Zomato’s Blinkit, Swiggy and Zepto — for alleged predatory pricing, a letter showed on Sunday.Quick commerce is a new shopping rage in India, with companies promising deliveries of anything from groceries to electronics within 10 minutes, reshaping how Indians shop and challenging e-commerce giants such as Amazon.In a letter dated Oct. 18, All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation, which represents 400,000 retail distributors of major companies including Nestle and Hindustan Unilever, told the antitrust body quick commerce…

LONDON — The Jacksonville Jaguars found the end zone for the final time Sunday, this touchdown ensuring the latest New England Patriots loss would end in blowout fashion, like so many others. Some 35 yards away, coach Jerod Mayo removed his headset and looked around Wembley Stadium, at nothing and at everything, left in disbelief by his team’s play.Mayo took this job riding a wave of optimism with a franchise that badly needed change after nearly a quarter-century under Bill Belichick. Now, seven games into his tenure, the Patriots are setting records for futility not seen in decades. They lost…

A man is seen taking a photo near the Netflix logo inside a studio hall in Mumbai. Ashish Vaishnav | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThis report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.What you need to know todayConsecutive winning weeks All major U.S. indexes rose Friday for their sixth consecutive winning week. That’s the longest streak this year for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, both of which hit record highs. Europe’s…

As investors attempt to navigate volatile global markets, Morgan Stanley is reiterating its recommendation to buy dividend stocks. The investment bank noted that the MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan High Dividend Index has slightly underperformed the MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan index in the third quarter of the year, but its analysts continue to see potential looking ahead. “We recommend balanced and flexible strategy investors supplement their portfolio with dividend income, given high uncertainty into U.S. elections on November 5, and with a global monetary easing cycle likely to put a stronger focus on dividend yield,” Morgan Stanley’s analysts wrote in an…

Oregon moved up to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 college football poll Sunday for the first time since 2012 after Texas became the third top-ranked team in the country to lose this season by falling to Georgia. No. 15 Alabama dropped to its lowest ranking in 14 years following its loss to Tennessee.The Ducks, who shut out Purdue on Friday, received 59 first-place votes to go from No. 2 to the top spot and Georgia jumped three spots to No. 2 after its win at Texas. Georgia received two first-place votes and the Longhorns slipped to No. 5.…