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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Julian Sayin passed for two touchdowns, C.J. Donaldson ran for two scores, and the Ohio State defense forced three turnovers that resulted in 21 points as the No. 1-ranked Buckeyes beat No. 17 Illinois 34-16 on Saturday.Sayin completed 19 of 27 passes for 166 yards. Donaldson rushed for 44 yards. Jeremiah Smith had five catches for 42 yards and a TD for the Buckeyes (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten).Illinois’ Luke Altmyer threw for 248 yards and a touchdown with an interception. Aidan Laughery ran for 50 yards and a TD. Collin Dixon had four catches for 46…

Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.The number of available, stand-alone drug plans has fallen for a few years, and that trend will continue for 2026. Most markets will still have several choices, but some options are becoming particularly sparse for shoppers with low-income subsidies. And help may be harder to find because some insurers no longer pay brokers commissions for new business.Shoppers have from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 to find new coverage that starts in January.Some things to consider:Here’s who needs a Medicare Part D planRegular Medicare, which…

DALLAS (AP) — Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer started for the sixth-ranked Sooners in their Red River rivalry game against Texas on Saturday, returning to the lineup 17 days after surgery on his throwing hand.Mateer injured his right hand in Oklahoma’s home win over Auburn on Sept. 20. He had surgery four days after that during a bye week, then didn’t play in the home win over Kent State last Saturday.Keontez Lewis also was back for the Sooners, just a week after a scary incident when the receiver’s momentum sent him headfirst into a brick wall behind the end zone in…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Ty Simpson threw for 200 yards and three touchdowns, including the clincher on fourth down to Daniel Hill with 3:16 to go, and eighth-ranked Alabama held off No. 14 Missouri 27-24 on Saturday to give the Crimson Tide their fifth consecutive win.Jam Miller added 85 yards rushing before leaving with an injury in the fourth quarter, and Kevin Riley and Isaiah Horton also had TD catches for Alabama (5-1, 3-0 SEC), which has won seven straight over Missouri dating to Sept. 8, 1975.Beau Pribula tried to rally the Tigers (5-1, 1-1) late, hitting Donovan Olugbode for…

What a difference a year makes.At last year’s San Francisco Tech Week, OpenAI was valued at a mere $157 billion, and there was unease about whether tech had truly left the doldrums of the post-COVID downturn behind.Now OpenAI has reached a lofty $500 billion valuation. AI has gone mainstream and is fueling investor frenzy in all manner of startups. The good times are back in tech, and San Francisco is the white hot center of it all.”This year, there’s an energy I haven’t seen in a long time,” said Gwyneth Borden, founder and CEO of Remynt, a fintech startup. “There’s…

This week, OpenAI announced that apps can now run directly inside ChatGPT, letting users book travel, create playlists, and edit designs without switching between different apps. Some immediately declared the app platform of the future — predicting a ChatGPT-powered world where Apple’s App Store becomes obsolete. An open question was answered today – “what will the AI-native distribution channel be?” It looks like ChatGPT will be that channel with 800M active users + the Apps SDK.This is likely as important as Steve Jobs announcing the app store in March of 2008 … pic.twitter.com/6RCbIi0foq— Anish Acharya (@illscience) October 7, 2025 But…

High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said.Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday. About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a hospital…

Difficult-to-treat infections caused by dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria are on an alarming upward climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned in a recent health alert.Known colloquially as “nightmare bacteria” or “superbugs,” bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) have become significantly more common since 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC researchers found in a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Sept. 23.These bacteria are resistant to even some of the strongest antibiotics, making the nearly 70% increase in infections caused by them a potential public health issue, the CDC said.”This sharp rise in NDM-CRE means…

Jennifer Choate’s pregnancy was uncomplicated — until it wasn’t. Two and a half weeks before her March 6, 2025 due date, the 27-year-old went to the emergency room at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center after experiencing headaches and high blood pressure.Doctors thought Choate might be suffering from preeclampsia and induced labor. Her fiancée rushed to her side. Choate chatted with him and her care team as her labor progressed normally. Suddenly, she was struck with an excruciating pressure in her chest and head.”It was not painful but it felt like someone was squeezing me as hard as…

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters lit flares and waved flags as they marched to the stadium ahead of Norway’s 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Israel on Saturday.Public broadcaster NRK said around 1,000 protesters arrived at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.A banner about the war in Gaza was carried by the protesters in what appeared to be a peaceful march.A police line formed close to the stadium but at a measured distance from the protesters, some of whom chanted “Shut down the embassy”, while others carried red cards and one woman held up a small sign saying “Game Over…