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NFL roundup: Cowboys and Chiefs suffer late collapses; Lamar Jackson’s season could be over

Par : Agencies
  • Gardner Minshew’s heroics inspire Arizona

  • Jackson needs surgery on injured thumb

Chad Ryland kicked a winning 42-yard field goal in overtime after missing a PAT that would have won the game with six seconds left in regulation, and the Arizona Cardinals rallied for a wild victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. The Cardinals beat Dallas for the fifth consecutive time and improved to 5-0 at AT+T Stadium, the home of the Cowboys that opened in 2009.

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© Photograph: Stacy Revere/Getty Images

© Photograph: Stacy Revere/Getty Images

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New York City Marathon: Andreas Almgren wins on debut as Sheila Chepkirui reclaims crown

  • Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui wins second women’s title

  • USA’s Jessica Jessica McClain finishes in second

  • Sweden’s Andreas Almgren wins men’s race on debut

Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women’s race of the New York City Marathon on Sunday for the second time, while Sweden’s Andreas Almgren claimed the men’s title in his first ever race over the distance.

Almgren was making his debut at 26.2 miles after a successful career running half marathons and the 10,000m. He pulled away from Yemaneberhan Crippa of Italy in the final mile to take the victory in two hours, six minutes and one second. Crippa finished 13 seconds behind. Kamohelo Mofolo of Lesotho was third, edging out defending champion Benson Kipruto.

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© Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

© Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

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One person killed in shooting outside Magic City Classic football game in Alabama

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  • Eight injured in shooting outside Legion Field

  • Annual game draws huge crowds to Birmingham

One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting outside Legion Field after the annual Magic City Classic football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Alabama, said.

Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most spectators and families had left the stadium property after the game, but the shooting happened nearby, where vendors were set up along Graymont Avenue.

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© Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

© Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

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Packers’ Josh Jacobs faces fresh abuse allegations from three women in police records

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  • Three women contacted police after Jacobs’ May arrest

  • One alleged the Packers star threatened to kill her

  • Lawyers call allegations ‘uncorroborated’ and ‘old’

As police investigated the battery case involving Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs following a May altercation with his then-girlfriend, multiple other women contacted them to detail their own allegations against him.

Those accounts were included in evidence regarding Jacobs’ battery case that the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released on Friday night in response to a public records request. Green Bay TV station NBC 26 first reported the records’ release.

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© Photograph: Kayla Wolf/AP

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More than 50m Americans cast ballots in early voting with three days to go before midterms

Record number of early votes cast, with Democrats outnumbering Republicans in states which collect that information

There has been a surge of early voting for the US midterm elections, with millions more Americans going to the polls compared with the last such election amid a series of tight contests that will determine control of Congress.

More than 50.5m early votes have been cast across the US as of Saturday morning, according to an analysis by the University of Florida. This is already nearly 5m more votes than the total number of early votes made in the last midterm elections, in 2022.

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© Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

© Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

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Federal judge bars DoJ from threatening election workers to stop processing ballots

Order says local officials can’t be forced to separate or stop counting ballots that the government deems to be disputed

A federal judge has barred the justice department from threatening or coercing election workers to stop processing ballots.

The temporary restraining order issued by the US district judge Trina Thompson in the northern district of California late Friday also bars the justice department from demanding local election officials segregate or not count ballots that the federal government deems may have been illegally cast by immigrants, something that is exceedingly rare.

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© Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

© Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

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Retired Michigan teacher released from Russian prison believed he would never be freed

Stephen Hubbard said that only when he was being taken from Moscow to St Petersburg did he believe he was ‘going somewhere’

In his first comments since recently being released from a Russian prison, a retired Michigan teacher said he only believed he would be freed when he got new clothes.

Stephen Hubbard, 74, remarked on Friday that he had heard many times previously that he would be released – but never really trusted what he was told, adopting a philosophy of “seeing is believing” and “actions speak louder than words”.

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© Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

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ExxonMobil and Chevron top estimates for Q3 as Americans feel gas price pain

Business is booming for two biggest US oil companies, with both benefiting from higher prices and record production

ExxonMobil and Chevron reported better than expected quarterly results on Friday as the oil majors benefited from higher prices and record production.

The boon for oil companies has simultaneously been a major pain point for consumers, who say the higher cost of living, especially gas prices, will affect how they vote in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

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© Photograph: Jenny Kane/AP

© Photograph: Jenny Kane/AP

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Alaska prosecutor investigates alleged Democratic plot to confuse voters with second Dan Sullivan

Mary Peltola denies knowledge as party accused of recruiting spoiler candidate with same name as sitting Republican

The top federal prosecutor in Alaska confirmed on Friday the existence of a criminal and a civil investigation into an alleged scheme by Democrats to confuse voters by recruiting a spoiler candidate on the ballot for US Senate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, senator Dan Sullivan.

Speaking at a news conference in Anchorage on Friday, US attorney Michael Heyman cited reporting by the New York Times which suggested that the Senate campaign of Democrat Mary Peltola and national Democrats had, in his words, “orchestrated a sprawling conspiracy to recruit and prop up Daniel J Sullivan as a sham candidate”.

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© Photograph: Nathaniel Wilder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

© Photograph: Nathaniel Wilder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Packers beat Panthers as Green Bay’s Christian Watson returns after mid-game hospital visit

  • Carolina Panthers 19-27 Green Bay Packers

  • Packers WR has 113 receiving yards despite injury

Jordan Love threw three touchdown passes, Josh Jacobs scored twice and the Green Bay Packers withstood three turnovers to beat the Carolina Panthers 27-19 on Thursday night.

Love went 30 of 41 for 288 yards with touchdown passes to Tucker Kraft, Matthew Golden and Jacobs plus an interception. Although he rushed for only 39 yards on 21 carries against the NFL’s lowest-ranked run defense, Jacobs scored on a four-yard catch and one-yard run for the Packers (5-3).

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© Photograph: Tannen Maury/UPI/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tannen Maury/UPI/Shutterstock

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DHS cites risk to more than 40,000 personnel in effort to take leaked data offline

The Department of Homeland Security asked an Icelandic hosting company to take down data obtained through hack

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked ⁠an Icelandic hosting company on Thursday to take down or limit access to data related to thousands ⁠of agency personnel, saying ⁠the content ​put them at risk, according to the request posted online by hosting company FlokiNET.

The database “places more than ⁠40,000 identifiable individuals at risk of harassment, stalking and physical harm”, the request said.

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© Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

© Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

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