The 2024 NFL season is finally upon us. When the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs face off Thursday night in a rematch of last season’s AFC Championship Game, so begins an action-packed, highly entertaining, high-stakes marathon like none other.From well-established icons to old faces in new places and fresh-faced franchise saviors, the league is full of impactful figures whose performances will define the season.We’ve zeroed in on 24 of the most intriguing players to watch during this 2024 NFL regular season.Once again, the future Hall of Famer will try to rescue the Jets and transform them into Super Bowl…
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A Bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) at a gas station in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Bitcoin steadied after snapping a rare 14-day winning streak as a mood of caution supplanted the risk appetite that drove up a variety of assets at the start of the year. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCall it a diabolical new twist on an old scam: ATM fraudsters are turning to bitcoin.Data the Federal Trade Commission provided to NBC News show the amount of money consumers have reported losing to scams involving Bitcoin ATMS rose nearly…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The tragedy that took the life of Columbus Blue Jackets star winger Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, still doesn’t seem real. At an evening vigil outside Nationwide Arena on Friday, fans placed flowers, candy and candles in a makeshift memorial by the main entrance. A lonesome bagpipe wailed in the background.It will be a long time before this blanket of grief lifts. And there will be tortuous reminders that Gaudreau is no longer with us, no longer doing what he did so well with the Blue Jackets — such as the start of training camp, the…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens to President Donald Trump during a meeting with business leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Feb. 3, 2017.Evan Vucci | APElon Musk’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump was meant to buoy the candidate’s chances in November. But more than a month after Musk officially put his weight behind Trump, a series of Democratic attacks have suggested that the endorsement has exposed a vulnerability. Since the tech billionaire endorsed Trump on July 13, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked Musk for his anti-worker stances.…
Follow live coverage of Day 7 at the 2024 US OpenNEW YORK — Karolina Muchova already had shot of the tournament sewn up when she produced a contender for the best performance of the U.S. Open so far.Muchova’s 6-3, 7-6(5) win over Naomi Osaka Thursday night was a masterclass of variety and shotmaking. In one service game in the second set, Muchova held to love thanks to two volley winners, an ace, and a devilish slice that a discomfited Osaka could only flub into the net.Osaka wasn’t at her best, but rallied in the second set, and briefly threatened to…
With up to 17 rooms to clean each shift, Fatima Amahmoud’s job at the Moxy hotel in downtown Boston sometimes feels impossible.There was the time she found three days worth of blond dog fur clinging to the curtains, the bedspread and the carpet. She knew she wouldn’t finish in the 30 minutes she is supposed to spend on each room. The dog owner had declined daily room cleaning, an option that many hotels have encouraged as environmentally friendly but is a way for them to cut labor costs and cope with worker shortages since the COVID-19 pandemic.Unionized housekeepers, however, have waged…
“Normally, we don’t meet these kinds of teams,” Erling Haaland reflected on the third of his three goals on Saturday. “Normally, teams drop more, but West Ham needed a goal and the line was higher and I had space to go in behind.”The thing is, it was Haaland who afforded Manchester City that extra option by scoring the two goals that obliged West Ham to change their approach in the first place.For the first of them, he struck after City won the ball back high up the pitch, exposing a gaping hole as West Ham tried to play out from…
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) dances as he leaves the stage after speaking alongside former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard during a town hall meeting in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, 2024. Kamil Krzaczynski | Afp | Getty ImagesFormer Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign, is advising the GOP nominee to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy pivots in their upcoming debate.Harris “has already shown that she is trying to move away from her record, move away from her positions,” Gabbard said in a Sunday interview on CNN’s…
People cast their votes for Germany’s Parliamentary (Bundestag) election at a poll station in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 2021.Abdulhamid Hosbas | Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesGermans were voting in two eastern states on Sunday, with the far-right AfD on track to win a state election for the first time and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition set to receive a drubbing just a year before federal elections.The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling first on 30% in Thuringia and is neck-and-neck with the conservatives in Saxony on 30-32%. A win would mark the first time a far-right party has the most…
The first full Saturday of the college football season is in the books, and the College Football Playoff race is already top of mind.Yes, it’s only one week of games. Yes, we always overreact to Week 1. Yes, there’s a ton of football still to be played. But it’s impossible to ignore the new 12-team CFP because every Football Bowl Subdivision team enters the season with a chance to make the field now. And even one week of action was enough to inform some takeaways that will impact the CFP race the rest of the way.Here are five Playoff-adjacent lessons…
