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Giants and Bengals are both trying to overcome slow starts heading into a Sunday night showdown 10/11/2024 05:35pm • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Getting off to a slow start really isn't that surprising when it comes to the New York Giants, who have made the playoffs once since 2016. The Cincinnati Bengals are another story. They went to the Super Bowl in the 2021 season and were 12-4 the following year and los Noisy neighbors, other loud nuisances has Prince George’s Co. ready to tighten its rules 10/11/2024 05:16pm • No one likes a noisy neighbor, or excessive noise that comes from people loudly passing their way past one's property. But the laws surrounding noise in Prince George’s County, Maryland, have become somewhat outdated, with the current state laws stronger than the county's rules. After some inci Stock market today: Wall Street rises to close its latest record-setting week as banks jump 10/11/2024 05:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records Friday as big banks rallied following a run of reassuring profit reports. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% to top its all-time high set earlier in the week and close out its fifth straight winning week, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 409 poin Basketball Hall of Fame to induct 13-member class led by Vince Carter and Chauncey Billups 10/11/2024 04:45pm • A look at the 13-member class of 2024 being enshrined Sunday in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Vince Carter An eight-time All-Star during his NBA-record 22 seasons. The NBA Rookie of the Year in 1999, Carter is the only player to play in four different decades. He won an Olympic gold The UN says that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months 10/11/2024 04:29pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian officials say aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months and warn that critical lifelines in the territory's north, where Israel has renewed its military offensive, have been cut off. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq delivered the grim news Friday, s Israeli forces kill 2 Lebanese soldiers and injure 2 UN peacekeepers in separate strikes 10/11/2024 04:10pm • BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three on Friday, Lebanon's military said, just hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two of them for the second day in a row. The incidents entangling 20 expressions with historical origins that may surprise you! 10/11/2024 03:52pm • This content is sponsored by Long Fence. Every day, you likely use numerous expressions, idioms, proverbs and slang that don’t have a literal meaning. If you've pondered why you phrase things in a certain way, you might be able to speculate on their origins. However, some English expressions ar US sees a window for a new push to break political deadlock in Lebanon to ease conflict 10/11/2024 03:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With Israel’s sabotage and military operations in Lebanon taking out many of Hezbollah’s senior leaders, some in Washington and elsewhere believe there may be a window for a new push to break the political deadlock in Lebanon to try to ease escalating war. To that end, Secret Brazil starts blocking irregular online gambling as concern rises over addiction 10/11/2024 03:48pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil on Friday started blocking over 2,000 gambling websites designated as irregular, part of a push by the government to regulate the sector. The move comes as concerns grow about addiction, especially among tens of millions of vulnerable people. Authorities have begun enforcin Southern European leaders want Lebanon's army to reassert itself in the country's south 10/11/2024 03:31pm • PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of nine southern European Union countries on Friday pledged support for Lebanon’s armed forces to reassert control over the country’s southern territory in hopes of bringing peace to an area plagued by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. In a joint declarat Pochettino era of US soccer begins against Panama, with eyes on 2026 World Cup 10/11/2024 03:27pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A new era for United States soccer is set to begin, led by an Argentine coach expected to deliver big results at the 2026 World Cup on American soil. Former Tottenham and Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino makes his U.S. debut in a pair of friendlies, leading the team against How octopuses inspired Virginia Tech researchers to create new type of adhesive 10/11/2024 03:20pm • Using mechanisms inspired by nature, Virginia Tech researchers have created a new adhesive based on the shape of octopus suckers. "We're really interested in trying to grab on quickly, and release easily from wet or submerged objects," said Virginia Tech Associate Professor Michael Bartlett. Sebastian Coe tells AP his run to be IOC president might not be such a longshot after all 10/11/2024 03:06pm • He's been tough on Russia, led the charge to put prize money in the pockets of athletes and pushed for a definitive but much-derided resolution in the longstanding debate over transgender athletes. Some might say Sebastian Coe's penchant for going against the grain makes him more of a thorn in the s Abortion has passed inflation as the top election issue for women under 30, survey finds 10/11/2024 02:54pm • Abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30 since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, according to results released Friday of a survey of female voters by KFF. About 2 in 5 in Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons 10/11/2024 02:31pm • The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo aga