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Fantasy plays: Players to start and sit for NFL Week 1 09/06/2023 08:23pm • After a long six months without football, the NFL returns this week, and with it, fantasy football is back. Now that drafts are firmly in the rearview mirror, we can turn our attention to the most important part of fantasy: your starting lineup. I don’t have to tell you to start your studs. But wh A Guide to Scholarships for International Students 09/06/2023 08:00pm • Finding scholarships for international students may seem next to impossible, but they exist. As prospective undergraduate students research their options for studying in the U.S., they should be aware of what might land them a coveted scholarship award. "A strong applicant will have demonstrated lea 5 Best Cryptocurrency Exchanges 09/06/2023 08:00pm • In recent years, cryptocurrency has transformed from a niche, speculative market to a mainstream asset class. Even billionaires like Ray Dalio and Paul Tudor Jones allocate a small portion to crypto, underlining its growing significance. For many, cryptocurrencies serve as an inflation hedge, a spec 9 of the Best Bond ETFs to Buy Now 09/06/2023 08:00pm • In an investment landscape often dominated by the allure of high-flying stocks, bonds have quietly but consistently been the bedrock for risk-averse investors looking to lower portfolio volatility and limit drawdowns. The calming influence of bonds has become so ingrained in portfolio management tha The Great Salt Lake is shrinking rapidly and Utah has failed to stop it, a new lawsuit says 09/06/2023 07:17pm • Utah officials have pushed the Great Salt Lake to the brink of an ecological collapse because they allowed upstream water to be diverted for decades to farmers growing alfalfa, hay and other crops, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups. The conservationists wa Moroccan senate president delays historic trip to Israel due to illness and says he will return 09/06/2023 06:38pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Morocco's senate president has postponed a historic visit to Israel due to a medical emergency, the Israeli parliament announced Wednesday. The announcement came just a day before Enaam Mayara was scheduled to visit Israel's Knesset, or parliament, on a trip aimed at cementing the CO2 pipeline project denied key permit in South Dakota; another seeks second chance in North Dakota 09/06/2023 06:31pm • South Dakota regulators on Wednesday denied a construction permit for a carbon dioxide pipeline project, one month after a North Dakota panel did the same to a similar project by another company. Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to build a 1,300-mile (2,092 kilometers) pipeline network across Illinois, Justin Fields gets chance to show he can be the passer the Bears need, starting against Packers 09/06/2023 06:27pm • LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears talked throughout the offseason about Justin Fields' improvement throwing the ball. It's time to see if he really is ready to take a step forward as a passer. The Green Bay Packers figure to put Fields' passing to the test when they visit Chicago in Sunda UAW chief: Union to strike any Detroit automaker that hasn't reached deal as contracts end next week 09/06/2023 06:24pm • DETROIT (AP) — The head of the United Auto Workers warned Wednesday that the union plans to go on strike against any Detroit automaker that hasn't reached a new agreement by the time contracts expire next week. “That’s the plan,” President Shawn Fain responded when asked if the union would s Grand Slam tournaments are getting hotter. US Open players and fans are feeling that this week 09/06/2023 04:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Murray prepared for the steamy conditions often found at the U.S. Open by simulating the “brutal heat and humidity” in New York this time of year with the help of, well, an actual steam room at his home. The 36-year-old British tennis star set the humidity in there at 70% Christie says DeSantis put 'politics ahead of his job' by not seeing Biden during hurricane visit 09/06/2023 03:17pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had put “politics ahead of his job” by declining to meet with President Joe Biden during the Democrat's weekend visit to survey Hurricane Idalia's damage in DeSantis' state. “Your job as gove Things to know about aid, lawsuits and tourism nearly a month after fire leveled a Hawaii community 09/06/2023 02:37pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Nearly a month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed at least 115 people, authorities on Maui are working their way through a list of the missing that has grown almost as quickly as names have been removed. Lawsuits are piling up in court over liability f Palestinian attacker wounds 2 people in stabbing attack outside Jerusalem's Old City 09/06/2023 11:13am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian youth stabbed two people, moderately wounding one of them, in an attack Wednesday outside a main entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, authorities said. Israeli police said the teen carried out the attack near Jaffa Gate after getting off a bus. The suspect, a 17-ye King Charles III’s visit to France will include a state dinner at Versailles and a stop in Bordeaux 09/06/2023 07:13am • LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel to France later this month for a state visit that was postponed in March due to fears that protesters demonstrating against President Emanuel Macron’s economic policies would disrupt the pageantry. Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Paris and Bordeaux Floods from Tropical Storm Haikui kill 2 and displace thousands in China's Fujian province 09/06/2023 03:04am • BEIJING (AP) — At least two people have been killed and thousands forced to evacuate by floods brought by Tropical Storm Haikui in China’s southeastern coastal Fujian province, local authorities reported Wednesday. Schools were closed and flights suspended, while more than 30,000 people were mo