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Ohio State, Penn State and LSU remained the top three teams in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday, Oregon is back in the top five and South Florida is ranked for the first time in seven years.There was some movement inside the top 10, but the biggest changes came from Nos. 11 to 25.Ohio State, whose 70-0 win over Grambling was among a bevy of weekend blowouts, received 57 of the 65 first-place votes from the media panel. Penn State got five first-place votes and LSU two.No. 4 Oregon, which thrashed Oklahoma State, received the other first…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers looked right at home with a touchdown pass on his first drive with the Pittsburgh Steelers.Well, after the boos from New York Jets fans and the sack on the first play.With New York leading the season opener 3-0, Rodgers jogged onto the field for the first time with the Steelers and the Jets fans in the MetLife Stadium stands — who once cheered him — greeted him with a loud chorus of boos.Rodgers made his debut with Pittsburgh on Sunday to begin his 21st NFL season after a two-year stint with the Jets…
High school history teacher Katharina Matro often pulls materials from the Smithsonian Institution website as she assembles her lessons. She trusts its materials, which don’t require the same level of vetting as other online resources. She uses documents and other primary sources it curates for discussions of topics like genocide and slavery. As the White House presses for changes at the Smithsonian, she’s worried she may not be able to rely on it in the same way. “We don’t want a partisan history,” said Matro, a teacher in Bethesda, Maryland. “We want the history that’s produced by real historians.”Far beyond…
Hello, wellness enthusiasts! My name is Kaitlin Reilly, and I am here to share the internet’s best tips for living your best life.Connection is crucial for both our physical and mental health. In fact, research has shown that people with meaningful social connections — from close friends to the neighbor you wave hello to — may even live longer than those without them. One woman who knows all about the benefits of making new friends is Mary Lou Mayo, who, at age 100, is teaching a class called “Friends for Older Adults.” Yahoo spoke to Mayo about the course, and…
Hello, wellness enthusiasts! My name is Kaitlin Reilly, and I am here to share the internet’s best tips for living your best life.Connection is crucial for both our physical and mental health. In fact, research has shown that people with meaningful social connections — from close friends to the neighbor you wave hello to — may even live longer than those without them. One woman who knows all about the benefits of making new friends is Mary Lou Mayo, who, at age 100, is teaching a class called “Friends for Older Adults.” Yahoo spoke to Mayo about the course, and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marty Kausas, the 28-year-old CEO of Pylon, which has raised $51 million from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Pylon was started by myself and my two cofounders, Robert Eng and Advith Chelikani. We went through Y Combinator with a very half-baked idea. Three months later, we raised our $3.2 million seed round from General Catalyst. A year later, we raised a $17 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz. We just announced our Series B last month.The team now is around 55 people. At…
Serhan Tekkılıç listened intently on a Zoom call as his friend on the screen recounted the first time she had ever felt sad. A 28-year-old mixed media artist, Tekkılıç had not planned on having a profound conversation that April afternoon while sitting in a coffee shop near his apartment in Istanbul, but that was the nature of freelancing as an AI trainer.Tekkılıç and his friend were recording conversations in Turkish about daily life to help train Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok. The project, codenamed Xylophone and commissioned by Outlier, an AI training platform owned by Scale AI, came with a list…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country and with organizers seeking to keep off-court disruptions — like audience members booing him — from being seen on the TV broadcast. Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate. He’ll be watching the men’s final between second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz, a…
MONZA, Italy (AP) — Max Verstappen claimed a dominant victory at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday ahead of McLaren’s title contenders Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.It was a first win since May for Verstappen – and only his third of the season — and capped a memorable weekend at Monza for Red Bull’s four-time world champion, who had posted the fastest lap in Formula 1 history at the track on Saturday to claim pole position.“That was unbelievable guys! Well done everyone,” Verstappen said on team radio. “We executed that really well. What an unbelievable weekend. We can be really…
NEW YORK (AP) — There is a lot at stake when No. 1 Jannik Sinner meets No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz in the U.S. Open men’s final on Sunday — with President Donald Trump expected to be at Arthur Ashe Stadium.Sinner, a 24-year-old from Italy, is trying to become the first repeat men’s champion at Flushing Meadows since Roger Federer won five championships in a row there from 2004 through 2008.He’s also bidding for his third Grand Slam title of the season, after the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and fifth of his career.Alcaraz, a 22-year-old from Spain, is seeking his sixth…