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Croke Park will be the setting for Ireland’s first regular-season NFL game when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.“Croker” is more than just a national stadium. It’s the home of the Gaelic Athletic Association, which is deeply rooted in Irish culture and history.The 82,300-capacity Dublin stadium — Páirc an Chrócaigh in Irish — hosts the hugely popular All-Ireland finals in Gaelic football and hurling each summer. They are Ireland’s equivalent of a Super Bowl.The capacity for Sunday’s NFL game will be around 75,000, in part because a standing section will be fitted with seats.“It’s hard to overexaggerate…

Special teams are sure kicking up a fuss in the young 2025 NFL season.There were four big blocked field goal attempts in Week 3 to go with four walk-off field goals, including one that sent the Broncos to their second straight loss despite Denver having never trailed in the fourth quarter of either game.Two of the blocked field goals came in the same quarter of the same game against a kicker who had never been blocked before.Three of the blocks came in the final two minutes, something that hadn’t happened in the NFL since at least 1990, and the four…

OpenAI is expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan beyond India. The company launched its sub-$5 ChatGPT Go paid plan for the country’s users last month and now is rolling out the same plan in Indonesia for Rp75,000 ($4.50) per month. The ChatGPT Go plan is a mid-tier subscription option that sits between OpenAI’s free version and its premium $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus plan. Users get 10 times higher usage limits than the free plan for sending questions or prompts, generating images, and uploading files. The plan also allows ChatGPT to remember previous conversations better, enabling more personalized responses over time, ChatGPT…

Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures to take on viral vibe-coding rivals like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt by letting users build full, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts rather than just quick prototypes. Accel and Together Fund joined Salesforce Ventures in the all-equity seed round, which comes only three months after Rocket.new launched its platform in beta in June. Since its debut, the startup has crossed 400,000 users — including over 10,000 paid subscribers — in 180 countries and reached $4.5 million in annual recurring…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres are headed back to the playoffs for the fourth time in six seasons.The Padres clinched a playoff berth with a 5-4, 11-inning win against the three-time NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night.Freddy Fermin, acquired from Kansas City at the trade deadline on July 31, singled in automatic runner Bryce Johnson with one out in the 11th to set off a wild celebration in front of a sellout crowd of 42,371 at Petco Park.The Padres pulled within 2 1/2 games of the idle Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West race…

Newly announced changes to the H-1B visa program sparked confusion and chaos in Silicon Valley over the weekend, but two of tech’s most prominent leaders seem optimistic.CNBC interviewed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday about changes to the H-1B program, days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee to the visa application.”We want all the brightest minds to come to the United States. Remember immigration is the foundation of the American dream, and we represent the American dream,” Huang said. “And so I think immigration is really important to our company…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Pushed around on defense and manhandled when they had the ball, the Baltimore Ravens stumbled mightily at home in an ugly, surprising defeat.The Ravens allowed the Detroit Lions to amass 426 yards — including a whopping 224 on the ground — which proved to be simply too much for Lamar Jackson and Baltimore’s high-powered offense to overcome.Jackson was sacked seven times, Derrick Henry fumbled in the fourth quarter when the game was still close, and Baltimore absorbed a humbling 38-30 loss on Monday night.The final score was deceptively close. In truth, the Ravens (1-2) let a 21-14…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction on Monday, saying the government likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires specific procedures and explanations for federal funding cuts. Instead, the government informed UCLA in generalized form letters that multiple grants from various agencies were being suspended but offered no specific details.In August, UCLA announced that the Trump administration had suspended $584 million in federal grants over…

The Trump administration announced on Monday, Sept. 22, that it had found the “answer to autism” – a claim experts, advocacy groups and the autism community are calling dangerous and regressive.Trump announced plans to reveal the supposed cause of autism spectrum disorder during a Sept. 21 memorial rally for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, telling memorial-goers, “I think you’re going to find it to be amazing.”In a press conference, Trump, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) RFK Jr. and other officials, claimed that Tylenol use during pregnancy could contribute to the development of autism in children, a contrast to current medical guidelines…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery ran for two touchdowns apiece, and the Detroit Lions bullied their way to a 38-30 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night.The Lions (2-1) sacked Lamar Jackson seven times and outrushed the Ravens 224 yards to 85. Detroit scored on drives of 98 and 96 yards against a Baltimore front that was without defensive lineman Nnamdi Madubuike and showed little ability to handle the Lions physically up front.Up 31-24 at the two-minute warning, Detroit converted on fourth-and-2 from its own 49 when Jared Goff completed a 21-yard pass to Amon-Ra St.…