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The Patriots will try to get some big plays for Tom Brady and their offense, which has been hurt by poor line play. They’ll face a strong 3-4 pass rush from the Chiefs, led by outside linebackers Justin Houston and Tamba Hali. MORE: Scoreboard | Stats | Week 4’s must-see images FIRST QUARTER The Chiefs receive, but a good-looking drive stalls just after crossing midfield, ending with a punt from the New England 46 at the 9:39 mark....

Charles can thank Kansas City’s defense for clinching the win. MORE: Week 11 scores | Photos | Arrowhead vs. CenturyLink The Chiefs stopped Lynch and the Seahawks on fourth down three times in the final quarter Sunday, helping to preserve a 24-20 victory in a rare meeting between former division rivals. Charles ran for 159 yards and two touchdowns, and Knile Davis also ran for a score, as the Chiefs (7-3) won their fifth straight game and moved into a tie for first in the AFC West....

Although Houston has yet to sign the $13.1 million franchise tag, Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt is confident that a long-term deal is near, according to the Kansas City Star. MORE: Latest mock draft | Get to know La’El Collins | Sam: I wasn’t the only gay NFL player “I’ve been very consistent in saying that we not only value Justin as a football player, that we not only value Justin as a person and leader, and we want him to be a Chief for life,” Hunt said at this week’s NFL meetings in Arizona....

Kansas City had to dig out of an early deficit again as the Chiefs trailed 10-0 in the first quarter. Similar to the 24-point comeback last week against the Texans, the Chiefs again stormed back behind their high-powered offense. MORE: Everything you need to know about Super Bowl 54 in Miami Patrick Mahomes finished the day 23-of-35 for 294 yards and three passing touchdowns, in addition to a dazzling 27-yard touchdown scramble in the second quarter....

Bonucci almost quit after son’s illness The Serie A champions were beaten on penalties in Doha, but Massimiliano Allegri’s men sit top of Serie A and face Porto in the last 16 of the Champions League after winning their group. And defender Chiellini wants Juve to draw strength from the fact they suffered a Supercoppa defeat to Napoli in a shootout two years ago before going to the brink of European glory....

Chiellini, named Juve’s new captain following the departure of veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, has signed a two-year deal that runs until 2020. Defensive partner Barzagli, meanwhile, has signed on for another season that will take him past his 38th birthday next May. The duo have been core members of a Juve team that has dominated in Serie A, winning each of the past seven league titles. And coach Massimiliano Allegri, who was previously linked with Arsenal but appears set to stay in Turin, will be able to rely on the experienced pair again for the 2018-19 campaign....

The Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, China, recorded a field strength of 45.22 Tesla (T) on August 12 from its high-powered hybrid magnet. The previous record was set in 1999 at MagLab in the U.S., which measured a stable magnetic field at 45 T. The highest magnetic field strength ever created was measured at 1,200 T in 2018. However, this field was not stable. Magnets are metals that naturally produce magnetic fields....

Chinese men are literally dying for a smoke. With 320 million smokers–more than 90 percent of them male–China consumes a whopping one third of the world’s cigarettes each year, the equivalent of a pack a day, every day, for every man, woman and child in the United States. And Chinese smokers are starting to pay the price. Already one in every eight male deaths in China is caused by smoking, and scientists predict the ratio will rise sharply, to one in three by the year 2050....

Nuclear arms analysts combing through satellite images of the desert plains in northwestern China have now found what they believe are 230 silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch sites in Yumen, Gansu, and Hami, Xinjiang, respectively. The Chinese government has not signed on to arms control treaties like New START, despite the wishes of co-signatories the U.S. and Russia. Beijing says it plans to keep its nuclear arsenal at a “minimum level,” but the buildup of its silos deep inland—beyond the reach of most conventional weapons—has experts questioning China’s stated commitments....

Chinese are hitting the road in record numbers. Car ownership more than tripled between 2000 and 2006, and China is now the world’s second largest auto market after the United States. This love affair is spawning booming new auto-service industries, from vehicle accessories to roadside eateries. For better or worse, China is beginning to look—and taste—a lot like America in the 1950s. McDonald’s and KFC (known for its Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets all over the country) plan to open 25 drive-through restaurants in China; both began testing the waters with drive-ins in Beijing and elsewhere in 2005....

“All party comrades should take their faith in Marxism and the socialism with Chinese characteristics as their life’s purposes,” Xi said. The celebrations began on Monday night at Beijing’s Olympic stadium, which emphasized China’s rise in economic and political power. On Tuesday, Xi held a ceremony to award the medals. The celebrations will conclude on Thursday at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday. Members of the organization were commemorating the 30th anniversary of China and the group finalizing relations with each other. “China resolutely opposes hegemonism and power politics, wishes to maintain friendly relations with its neighbors and jointly nurture lasting peace in the region and absolutely will not seek hegemony or even less, bully the small,” Xi said to the nations during the virtual conference....

Lieber, the 62-year-old ex-chair of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, was accused of hiding his involvement in China’s Thousand Talents Plan, which recruits people from foreign countries who are able to share secrets about their country’s technologies and intellectual properties. Prosecutors said Lieber organized conferences, published articles, and applied for patents on the behalf of Wuhan University of Technology. In return, the university paid him $50,000 a month....

In just three weeks, the death toll from the pneumonia-causing coronavirus has risen from three deaths to 910. On Sunday, China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 97 deaths, representing a 12 percent increase from the previous daily briefing and the most deaths in a single day. Of those 97 people, the vast majority—91 people—were from the Hubei province, where Wuhan, the origin city for the virus, is located. Two were in the neighboring province of Anhui and one each was reported in Jiangxi province, Hainan province and Gansu province....

The short bulletin, released via the embassy’s official account on messaging and social media app WeChat on Monday, predicted a further escalation of fighting, saying the “worsening tensions” looked to be “rising sharply.” The majority of its citizens in Ukraine had already left the country, the security notice said. It urged remaining Chinese nationals to leave “as soon as possible.” The government placed the number of Chinese citizens in Ukraine at around 6,000, the first of whom were evacuated west in buses on February 28, a full four days after the hostilities began....

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said Thursday that activity by U.S. military ships and surveillance planes directed at China has increased significantly under Biden’s administration, as the U.S. military presence in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait is promoting “regional militarization and threatening regional peace and stability.” While Biden did not discuss any military threats in his address Wednesday, he did emphasize that China and others were “closing in fast” in economic and technological terms....

The cases were found during initial screenings conducted throughout the Chinese city. A total of 97 cases were recorded, with others anticipated being found in the coming days. Around 12 million tests have already been distributed and 7.8 million of those were returned with samples. All citizens have been ordered to shelter in place as the investigation continues. The outbreak could pose a major problem for one major event. Tianjin is only an hour from Beijing, where the Winter Olympic Games are still scheduled to begin on February 4....

An electric Cahill recorded his second brace for City in the 2-1 victory over Central Coast at AAMI Park, scoring both goals before half-time. The City players wore black armbands after it was revealed Van ’t Schip’s father had died on Thursday. Cahill wrote on Twitter: “Was great to win for our old manager.” The Dutchman resigned his City post a few weeks ago to be with his father in the Netherlands....

But for the first time, the magazine will reportedly have a transgender athletes grace the cover. Caitlyn Jenner will be on the cover of a summer issue of Sports Illustrated, according to US Weekly. MORE: Mother-son duo to compete in Olympics Jenner, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1976 Olympics as Bruce Jenner, will wear “nothing but an American flag and her Olympic medal,” the report said....

Homes in the town were ravaged by the fire, reduced to ash and metal. A post office and elementary school in the town were also destroyed. Downed power lines and poles destroyed by the fire littered the streets. One Grizzly Flats resident, Derek Shaves, said he visited the town Tuesday after evacuating late Monday. He said that his home and most of the houses in his neighborhood were destroyed....