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MAYNOOTH, Ireland (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was dressed in black, appropriately, to field questions about Guinness.The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback spoke to the international media Friday at a resort hotel where the team is staying ahead of Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.Can’t avoid the Guinness questions in Ireland, it seems.“I don’t really drink beer, but if I do, I drink Guinness. I’ve heard it tastes different off the tap in Ireland,” he said hours after the team’s flight landed.The four-time NFL MVP said he’s tried Guinness across the border in Northern Ireland.“It was great, but I’m excited to see what…

In the wake of the White House’s announcement on Monday of a potential link between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and autism, the administration also unveiled the launch of the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI).Under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the initiative will award $50 million to about a dozen projects looking at finding the causes of autism and improving outcomes for autistic individuals.Some institutions, such as Boston Children’s Hospital, will look to identify environmental exposures that may lead to autism while others, such as Drexel University, will examine the of diet and its interactions with other exposures in the…

Major Silicon Valley leaders shrugged their shoulders when they were slapped with a new $100,000 fee for new H-1B hires.While much of the tech world was confused and outraged at President Donald Trump’s late-Friday visa overhaul, Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said the policy would create “more certainty” for high-value jobs.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC, “I’m glad to see President Trump making the moves he’s making.” And OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was similarly optimistic, saying that “streamlining” the process of getting the smartest people into the US and “aligning financial incentives seems good to me.”American companies hire up to 85,000…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Fans who filled the massive grandstands in darkness Friday morning at the Ryder Cup nearly two hours early got what they came to see: Bryson DeChambeau cranked his driver 344 yards just short of the green and the Americans won the opening hole.And thus began perhaps the most anticipated Ryder Cup on U.S. soil, played at notoriously rowdy Bethpage Black on Long Island amid tighter security for the late morning arrival of President Donald Trump.U.S. captain Keegan Bradley showed up 90 minutes before the opening shot, grabbed a microphone to address the crowd and said, “Let’s…

The 60-homer mark remains a magical threshold in baseball.Babe Ruth was the first hitter to reach it in a season, and nobody else did until Roger Maris 34 years later. Then it was another 37 years until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa surpassed 60 home runs in 1998, part of a power surge in which there were six 60-homer seasons between ’98 and 2001.After that, it took over two decades before New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit 62 in 2022. Now Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh has 60 this year, and fittingly the American League MVP race is coming down…

Dr. Mehmet Oz told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on “The Takeout” Thursday the Trump administration is not advising pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol under any circumstances — as President Trump’s announcement this week about an alleged link between the painkiller and fever reducer and autism draws pushback from medical experts.Oz — a former surgeon and television personality who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency that is under the Department of Health and Human Services — said that if a pregnant woman develops a high fever, a doctor will likely encourage her to…

SUMENEP, Indonesia (AP) — Three health care workers rode motorbikes into the Indonesian city of Sumenep, carrying doses of measles vaccine and a list of children who needed them. With blue medical boxes in hand, they went from house to house administering the life-saving shots.The health workers on wheels are part of the regional government’s latest efforts to curb a deadly measles outbreak on Madura Island that has persisted for the past nine months. More than 2,600 children have already been infected this year and 20 have died.But efforts to stop the outbreak from spreading through the predominately Muslim population…

Two US senators have questions for Big Tech and other top companies over their use of H-1B visas amid the Trump administration’s push to slow down foreign worker hiring practices.In letters sent to 10 companies on Wednesday, including Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, and JPMorgan Chase, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin said they were concerned about the use of H-1B visa workers while the tech sector experiences a “high unemployment rate.”The senators cited the layoffs the companies conducted in recent years and the number of H-1B visas they applied for in 2025.In the letter addressed…

Charlie Javice, the fintech entrepreneur convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase, got bad news from her New York judge — she must show up for a sentencing scheduled for Monday despite her request for more time.Defense lawyers had told the judge and prosecutors that Javice could not safely fly to New York due to health concerns that remain redacted from the public record. She had asked for what prosecutors opposed as an unspecified, “lengthy” delay.”Application denied,” her judge wrote in Thursday night’s tersely worded final denial.The judge cited “reasons given in my prior order” from Monday, when he initially denied a…

Charlie Javice is due to be sentenced in New York on Monday for defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175M.On Thursday night, the judge denied Javice’s last-minute request for a postponement.Javice’s lawyers had asked for more time, saying she cannot fly to New York due to health reasons.Charlie Javice, the fintech entrepreneur convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase, got bad news from her New York judge — she must show up for a sentencing scheduled for Monday despite her request for more time.Defense lawyers had told the judge and prosecutors that Javice could not safely fly to New York due to health concerns…