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A Chiefs' three-peat? Here's the company they keep 09/05/2024 06:27am • As the 2024 NFL season kicks off, Kansas City has a chance to make history. The Chiefs are pursuing a third straight NFL championship, something that has never happened in the Super Bowl era. And yes, we know Green Bay has won three straight NFL titles twice, but there was no championship game wh Cyclones visit No. 21 Hawkeyes for CyHawk game. Ferentz says rivalry 'underappreciated' outside Iowa 09/05/2024 06:10am • From the Missouri River to the Mississippi River and the 310 miles in between in Iowa, Saturday is a red-letter day for college football fans. Iowa State visits No. 21 Iowa for the next iteration of the CyHawk Series, one of the rare rivalry games played early each season. Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferent No. 25 Clemson looks to move past critics, get in win column against tricky foe Appalachian State 09/05/2024 06:10am • CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) ��� Amid the upset and angst, the critical voices and demands for change, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he focuses on one thing ��� getting the 25th-ranked Tigers to rise to their potential. That starts this week against Appalachian State on Saturday night. It has been an uncom Still 'Highway Stars': Deep Purple rocks Jiffy Lube Live to celebrate 50 years of 'Smoke on the Water' 09/05/2024 04:29am • Forget the political red and blue of our heated campaign season, this weekend, Virginia will be Deep Purple. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band rocks Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday as the "Highway Stars" round the Capitol Beltway for their "Smoke on the Water" 50th anniversary tour with fire Imane Khelif's Olympic gold inspires Algerian girls to take up boxing 09/05/2024 03:59am • AIN TAYA, Algeria (AP) ��� In the weeks since Algeria's Imane Khelif won an Olympic gold medal in women's boxing, athletes and coaches in the North African nation say national enthusiasm is inspiring newfound interest in the sport, particularly among women. Khelif's image is practically everywhere, A M��ori king who urged racial unity in New Zealand is laid to rest and a new queen rises 09/05/2024 01:55am • NG��RUAW��HIA, New Zealand (AP) ��� They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived in mourning black with crowns of ferns and kawakawa leaves, bone carvings or wedges of deep green pounam Students in Bangladesh forced out the country's leader a month ago. Where do things stand now? 09/05/2024 01:54am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� A month ago, a student-led movement ousted Bangladesh���s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, after weeks of protests and clashes that killed over 600 people and pushed the country to the brink of chaos. What began as student protests over government jobs became a large-scale Chinese families seeking to escape a competitive education system have found a haven in Thailand 09/05/2024 12:48am • CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) ��� The competition started in second grade for DJ Wang���s son. Eight-year-old William was enrolled at a top elementary school in Wuhan, a provincial capital in central China. While kindergarten and first grade were relatively carefree, the homework assignments started pil Trump's new crypto business could create more conflicts if he's elected president 09/05/2024 12:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Donald Trump is promising to make America the ���crypto capital of the planet��� if he returns to the White House. Fulfilling that promise would likely pay off for him personally. Amidst his run for president, Trump has launched a new venture to trade cryptocurrencies that he's p US Open: Jessica Pegula upsets No. 1 Iga Swiatek to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal 09/04/2024 11:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The questions wouldn't stop for Jessica Pegula: Why was she 0-6 in Grand Slam quarterfinals heading into her U.S. Open matchup against No. 1 Iga Swiatek? What could Pegula do to change that? Came up during her on-court interview after winning in the previous round. And again at th Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix bring 'Joker:��Folie������Deux��� to Venice Film Festival 09/04/2024 11:00pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� Five years after ��� Joker ��� won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, director Todd Phillips can���t help but be a little nervous about returning with its sequel. ���Joker: Folie �� Deux,��� one of the festival's most anticipated films of the 81st edition of the festi Rams confident in interior of offensive line after late position swaps for Jackson and Avila 09/04/2024 10:05pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Rams spent the offseason preparing to play Jonah Jackson at left guard and Steve Avila at center. The two flipped spots late in the buildup to Sunday���s season opener at the Detroit Lions, and all indications are it will be Jackson snapping the ball to quarterba CEOs of Albertsons and Kroger says shoppers would see lower prices after merger 09/04/2024 09:58pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� The chief executive officers of Kroger and Albertsons insisted Wednesday ��� under questioning from the federal government ��� that merging would allow the two supermarket companies to lower prices and more effectively compete with retail giants like Walmart, Costco and Amazo Caitlin Clark and the Fever are a playoff team and hungry for more 09/04/2024 09:50pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana Fever coach Christie Sides slept through her team's historic playoff-clinching moment Tuesday night. Rookie guard Caitlin Clark watched the decisive game, then went to bed. For the WNBA's top-drawing team, the end to a seven-year playoff drought on a night it didn't pla Colts begin another season trying to snap the NFL's longest opening-game winless streak 09/04/2024 08:52pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indianapolis long snapper Luke Rhodes sits quietly at his locker, getting ready for practice. As one of the five longest-tenured Colts players, Rhodes knows exactly what he's about to be asked. Days before the start of another NFL season, his eighth, Rhodes is trying to answer