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Pro Picks: Week 7 brings a Super Bowl rematch, another London game and an NFC North showdown 10/18/2024 02:30pm • Pro Picks is a weekly column where AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi shares his picks for upcoming games. For all previous Pro Picks, head here. ___ A Super Bowl rematch, another London game and a first-place showdown in the NFC North highlight Week 7 in the NFL. There are six home underdogs, too. T Broncos' blowout of Saints featured 2 of QB's best friends: a great ground game and dominant defense 10/18/2024 02:28pm • ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — When Sean Payton was preparing to hand over his offense to a rookie quarterback for the first time in his 17 years as an NFL head coach, he said two essential ingredients for success were a good ground game and a stout defense. Both showed up in the Broncos' 33-10 smackdown Proposed Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge expansion could lead to buyout of mining project 10/18/2024 02:18pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency proposed an expansion of the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge on Friday, which could lead to a buyout offer for land intended for a private company's mining project that conservationists have fought for years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, is dead at 61 10/18/2024 02:11pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. He was 61. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war Sinwar's killing opens up opportunity and much uncertainty for the war in Gaza 10/18/2024 01:46pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off. Sinwar’s killing on Wednesday decapitates the Palestinian militant group that was already A court in Italy rejects the outsourced detention of the first migrants sent to Albania 10/18/2024 01:36pm • ROME (AP) — A court in Italy on Friday ruled against the right-wing government’s move to detain 12 migrants at newly opened centers in Albania, highlighting a key hurdle in the administration’s plan to outsource some of its migrant processing to the Balkan country. The 12 migrants were part of Reba McEntire finds a new on-screen family in NBC's 'Happy's Place' 10/18/2024 01:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Reba McEntire finds herself behind the bar in her latest return to network TV, making a series that's a nicely calibrated cocktail of drama and comedy. “The things that are most important in my life is love, hope, faith, happiness, energy, light. And that’s all of the things th Prague bans nighttime pub crawls to deal with drunk and rowdy visitors 10/18/2024 12:03pm • PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech capital has approved a ban on organized nighttime pub crawls, a popular pastime for tourists that has raked in the cash for bars but caused misery for residents and authorities alike. The outings, which see boisterous tourist groups moving from bar to bar in Prague’s hist New Zealand needs one more win to retain America's Cup after building 6-2 lead over Britannia 10/18/2024 12:01pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Emirates Team New Zealand built a 6-2 lead over INEOS Britannia in the America’s Cup finals on Friday to move just one point away from successfully defending the oldest trophy in international sport. New Zealand's yacht Taihoro won both of the day's regattas in view of th Right-wing influencers hyped anti-Ukraine videos made by a TV producer also funded by Russian media 10/18/2024 11:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin could not have asked for better publicity at a better time when Ben Swann, a self-described independent journalist who promotes conspiracy theories, released a 12-part video series he promised would reveal dark truths about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Swa Major upgrades at safety position spark Packers' surge in takeaways 10/18/2024 11:30am • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The position that ranked among the Green Bay Packers’ biggest weaknesses last year has developed into a major strength. Green Bay underwent an offseason overhaul at safety by signing Xavier McKinney from the New York Giants and drafting Javon Bullard in the second round an Shohei Ohtani homers to lead off NLCS Game 4 for Dodgers against Mets 10/18/2024 10:52am • NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani made his point. After Ohtani helped cap the Los Angeles Dodgers' Game 3 win in the NL Championship Series with a three-run, eighth-inning homer, teammate Freddie Freeman gave the Japanese star what sounded like some good-natured ribbing. “Freddie talked to me to mak European soccer's best record this season is at stake in Scottish top-of-the-table game 10/18/2024 10:19am • The European soccer club with the best record this season — 13 wins from 13 games — isn't one that most would have expected. This team spent last season in the bottom half of a domestic league it hasn't won since 1985 and has never qualified for the Champions League in its modern format. It is, Pollin family reflects on Washington Capitals, 50 years after team’s founding 10/18/2024 10:14am • Last weekend, the Washington Capitals began their 50th season in the National Hockey League (NHL), and along the way, the franchise has seen everything from the very worst season ever recorded to a Stanley Cup Championship. Soon, a lifelong Capital might also become the NHL’s all-time lead South Africa asks Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy out of the capital 10/18/2024 10:12am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has asked Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy out of the administrative capital, Pretoria, in a move that's seen as appeasing ally China. The South African foreign ministry said Friday that it had given Taiwan a “reasonable” timeframe of six months