Kansas City is trying to stay a game ahead of Pittsburgh, which plays on Monday. New Orleans is trying to keep pace with Green Bay, which won on Saturday. The Chiefs have a red-hot Patrick Mahomes about to secure his second NFL regular-season MVP award in three seasons. The Saints will be getting Drew Brees back at quarterback to duel him, instead of dual-threat supersub Taysom Hill. Here’s everything to know about betting on Chiefs vs....

The hospital is located in Colorado, where medical and recreational marijuana use is legal. However, the hospital does not dispense medical marijuana. “Our hospital neither advises the use of it nor recommends nor prescribes, or even talks with patients about how to use it,” Jennifer Jorgensen, PharmD, clinical pharmacist at The Children’s Hospital Colorado, tells Verywell. “But families in our communities are coming into the hospital and they’re already reading about medical marijuana online and seeking it out....

Lawmakers in the southwestern Japanese city of Ishigaki voted Monday to change the name of the East China Sea administrative area of Tonoshiro to Tonoshiro Senkaku by October 1. The change was said to prevent confusion with the similarly named Tonoshiro district in downtown Ishigaki but adds a reference to the Japanese name for the contested isles, which are also claimed by China and Taiwan. Both nations expressed frustration with Japan’s move....

The 31-year-old, who has started just four Bundesliga matches in 2016-17, has joined the struggling Andalusian side for the remainder of the season. The Colombia international is expected to leave for the Chinese Super League following the end of the campaign, with Dortmund having reached an agreement with Chongqing Lifan last week over a reported €12million deal. Pulisic pens new Dortmund deal “Colombian striker Adrian Ramos trained on Tuesday with the Granada squad, with the permission of Borussia Dortmund,” a Granada statement confirmed....

The government is incentivizing scientists to research the virus’ origins in southern China with grants of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the internal documents, which were obtained by the AP. The region where the virus was first identified is of immense interest to the international scientific community, but much of that information has been withheld from the rest of the world because of China’s control over the release of details....

China is well on its way to building a planned 10 million 5G mobile base stations by 2024, wiring virtually the whole country for game-changing technologies. It has already deployed some of them in its response to COVID-19. Sensors connected to smartphones and linked to centralized databases monitor the vital signs of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens and visitors in real time. Three-dimensional facial imaging allows these systems to monitor the mobility of people and contact with others....

The unsubstantiated claim has been promoted by government officials and in stories like “Russia reveals evidence of U.S.-funded bio-program in Ukraine” on the website of the state-run China Global Television Network, the Associated Press reported. “This Russian military operation has uncovered the secret of the U.S. labs in Ukraine, and this is not something that can be dealt with in a perfunctory manner,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Thursday....

They’re beginning to get their wish. A year ago, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” became the first off-Broadway production to be translated into Mandarin. Its producer, Broadway Asia Entertainment, is now working on Chinese-language versions of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” a musical based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, due to be staged in China later this year, and “The Wizard of Oz,” scheduled for 2009. And British producer Cameron Mackintosh is creating a Chinese-language version of “Les Misérables,” set to open at Beijing’s National Grand Theatre in November....

The sanctions were put in place over China’s alleged genocide and human rights abuses primarily against the Uyghurs in the western Xinjiang region. Products made from alleged forced labor include raw cotton, tomato products, gloves, fishing gear, silicon and solar energy components, the U.S. said. The new ban on imported goods “indicates that the U.S. has no scruples about smearing China by every means,” Wang Wenbin said. Independent investigations have discovered Uyghurs and other Chinese Muslims being held in detention camps to work in factories to produce a variety of goods....

In downtown Changsha, capital of the Hunan province and a city of more than 10 million people, a huge plume of black smoke smothered the blue skyline, and large items and bits of debris were seen falling off the 42-floor building. State broadcaster CCTV said that dozens of storeys of the 715-foot-tall China Telecom building “burned with great intensity.” A video on social media appeared to show scores of people fleeing the state-owned company building as the fire engulfed the skyscraper....

In a piece published in English in state-owned outlet People’s Daily, the newspaper invoked a line widely attributed to President Lincoln, who is believed to have said during an 1858 debate: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The opinion column, which warns America risks its reputation by “promoting lies,” comes as top U....

Brent Christensen, the outgoing director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), criticized China’s multifaceted diplomatic, economic and military pressure against Taiwan during an interview given to Apple Daily on June 1. “Only one side is violating the other side’s air defense identification zone every day,” Christensen was quoted as saying. “It is not Taiwan that has caused the deterioration in cross-strait relations.” Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Chinese government’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), responded at a fortnightly press conference on Wednesday, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)....

The country’s latest COVID-19 outbreak began in Nanjing, a city of more than nine million people, in late July. Officials have conducted three rounds of testing on the city’s residents and put hundreds of thousands under lockdown. The Nanjing outbreak, which was first detected at an airport, had spread to 15 other cities, according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese media have reported that the Nanjing Lukou International Airport has suspended all flights until August 11, to curb the spread of the virus....

The Royals do have a rich playoff history to draw upon, but there still was only one man who had collected four hits in a postseason game for Kansas City. It should not come as a surprise that it was George Brett, the franchise’s iconic player, who went 4-for-4 with two homers in the tide-turning Game 3 of the 1985 ALCS, and 4-for-5 with a pair of runs scored and a stolen base in the decisive Game 7 of the World Series....

According to reports, Jenner is liaising with political consultants and is being assisted by Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren. The story was first reported by Axios, who said the two initially met over Jenner’s work with the American Unity Fund, a GOP nonprofit focused on LGBT issues. Bookmakers currently have the former athlete to win a California governor election at odds of 100-1—meaning prospects are not looking good for the former Olympic athlete....

“Wow, @TheRock, you can’t just try to quietly delete transphobic attacks without giving a groveling apology and expect to ever work in Hollywood again,” the former president’s eldest son tweeted on Saturday, alongside a screenshot of a 2011 tweet. “Do @UnderArmour, @Ford, @Apple, @Netflix and the rest of his sponsors/partners agree with this hateful rhetoric?” The screenshot showed a 2011 tweet from Johnson where he told a person: “It’s not our fault you’re turning tranny tricks to put yourself thru nursing school....

Caixinha, most recently in charge of Al Gharafa in Qatar, has signed a three-year contract at Ibrox to replace Mark Warburton, who left in chaotic circumstances last month. Celtic’s dominance of Scottish football has been unrivalled in the wake of Rangers being liquidated, reformed and forced to climb back up the divisions, starting from the fourth tier in 2012-13. Carrick: Man Utd closer to Chelsea But in a dig at Brendan Rodgers’ side, Caixinha says it is Rangers who are the biggest team in the Old Firm rivalry....

It’s about time we woke up to the importance of this mineral. Huge segments of the population still receive far less than the amount needed to maintain strong bones and teeth and to help prevent osteoporosis. Only 10 percent of women 50 and younger consume the recommended 1,000 milligrams of calcium each day. And less than a third of U.S. teens consume the 1,300mg they need each day to support normal bone growth....

On Friday, Jessie Mercer of Chico, California, presented the sculpture at Butte County’s Center for Learning and Resilience after completing the project the previous Saturday. “This goes so much further than art,” Mercer told local news station KCRA. “It’s a representation of people.” She went on to say that her goal for the project was to “try to make this look joyful,” despite the fact that “it’s ridden with sorrow....

Pictures taken by NASA’s Aqua satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) show the shocking difference in water coverage across northern California between December 16, 2022, and January 3, 2023. The deluge began on December 31 across northern and central California. According to the Bay Area National Weather Service (NWS), 5.46 inches of rain fell in a single day in San Francisco, making December 31 the second-wettest day since records began in 1849....