Patrick Mahomes gets support from his wife, Brittany Mahomes, and Kevin Durant as the Chiefs face a must-win game to stay alive in the playoff race.

Transgender athlete Blaire Fleming made disputed claims about former teammate Brooke Slusser's eating disorder and academics at San Jose State.

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“Celebrating the resurgence of West Ham is a bit premature, chides Eric Peterson. “They’re on a three-game winless streak, with those games against: a sinking Bournemouth, a floundering Manchester United, and an imploding Liverpool. Facing Brighton, which hadn’t lost since October before running into an irresistible Aston Villa, will provide a sterner, and truer, test.”

They’re much better than they were; United battered Brighton; and Villa were not irresistible in midweek. I don’t think West Ham will go down, do you?

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Known for acute observations of class system, Parr’s images were often in vivid colour with more than a dash of humour

Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.

A statement from the Martin Parr Foundation on Sunday said: “It is with great sadness that we announce that Martin Parr died yesterday at home in Bristol.

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A selection of the best images from around the world this weekend

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The Bills return to Orchard Park at 8-4 with a chance to solidify playoff footing, fresh off a clean dispatching of Pittsburgh. The BetMGM bonus code NYPDM1500 is available to gain up to $1,500 in extra betting value for Bengals vs. Bills or any other Week 14 NFL matchup on Sunday. Burrow’s return has jolted the Bengals,...

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A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.

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Howard claimed he only used the racial slur after being stabbed, but Edwards testified that the victim called him the word the moment he saw him.

The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday.

• Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’

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Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and insisted: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”

After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the first, Stokes suggested the telling difference was that the home side had been superior in the “moments in the game where the heat is on and the pressure is really, really cooking” whereas his players “have all been guilty at moments [of] letting the pressure, the occasion, the circumstances, get to us”.

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Judiciary says a criminal case has been opened after online images showed a number of unveiled female competitors

Judicial authorities in Iran have arrested two organisers of a marathon held on an island off the country’s southern coast after images emerged showing women taking part in the race without hijabs.

The arrests on Saturday come as the authorities face increasing criticism from ultraconservatives who accuse them of inadequate efforts to enforce a mandatory headscarf law for women amid fears of growing western influence on the Islamic republic.

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Last week’s proceedings in murder case of Brian Thompson showed a mix of politics, social comment and drama

The trial of Luigi Mangione is one of the most eagerly awaited cases in recent American criminal history and last week’s court appearances by the accused killer acted as a sort of trailer for the still unscheduled main event.

As a New York court weighed whether evidence was gathered illegally during Mangione’s arrest on charges of fatally shooting a top healthcare executive on the streets of New York, America got a taste of the trial’s potent mix of politics, social comment, conspiracy theory and Hollywood-style murder drama.

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Daniel Andreas San Diego, now 47, is fighting extradition from the UK amid accusations he set off three pipe bombs in 2003

Twenty-two years ago, a dark-haired, bespectacled young man vanished off the streets of San Francisco. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 25-year-old information technology specialist, diehard vegan and animal rights activist, was the FBI’s main suspect in a series of pipe bombings that exploded in front of the headquarters of Chiron Corporation and Shaklee Corporation, two Bay Area companies, in August and September of 2003.

Communiques attributed to the Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade were posted to the website of an animal rights magazine, claiming the attacks were carried out to highlight both firms’ alleged work with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British research company that conducted tests for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other chemical companies and had drawn the ire of activists on both sides of the Atlantic opposing its tests on animals.

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The pistachio-crammed craze makes a superb gift. Our in-house perfectionist tries all the fiddly bits for you …

If you’re asking what on earth chocolate has to do with a city with an average annual temperature of 28C, then you must have been stuck in the desert for the past three years. Because, since its creation in the UAE in 2022, apparently to satisfy chocolatier Sarah Hamouda’s pregnancy cravings for pistachio and pastry, this bar has taken over the world. Though food (among those with the luxury of choice, at least) has never been immune to the absurdities of fashion, the internet has supercharged and globalised the process, so much so that pistachios, which back in January were dubbed “the new pumpkin spice” by this very newspaper, are now everywhere, from Starbucks lattes to Aldi mince pies.

The thing is, however, that whatever your thoughts on green, sugary, coffee-adjacent beverages, Hamouda’s Dubai chocolate developed for Fix Dessert Chocolatier has triumphed, because it really does taste as good as it looks: crunchy pastry, sweet chocolate and rich, slightly savoury nut butter are an incredibly satisfying combination, so a big bar of it is guaranteed to impress under the Christmas tree. Experience demands that I suggest you wrap it in a pet-proof box, however – emergency vet bills are no one’s idea of a great present.

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With a return to thinness in the fashion industry, catwalks spanning size, age and race may be the secret of the Kors appeal

The sale of Versace to Prada this week in a $1.4bn deal marked a new chapter for two storied Italian fashion houses.

It also left Versace’s former parent company, Capri Holdings, with an even greater focus on Michael Kors, the 44-year-old brand know as America’s Armani that made up about 70% of sales in its last financial year.

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They fear justice department could seek to withhold sections of documents as deadline approaches

MacArthur Park has morphed into L.A.’s new ground zero for fentanyl, a collapsing, zombie-apocalypse landscape where overdoses hit nonstop, crime crews rule the corners and what was once a neighborhood park is teetering on the edge of full-blown collapse.

The Jets return to MetLife for their penultimate home date with a bit of juice after Tyrod Taylor’s late-game heroics against Atlanta. Use the bet365 bonus code NYPBET for a $150 bonus offer on Jets vs. Dolphins or any other NFL Week 14 matchup. Gang Green steps up to a Dolphins team that’s ripped off...

An expert from Wirecutter helps Morning readers with their trickiest holiday gift searches.

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Authorities say strain of virus that has killed wild boars in Catalonia is one often used for experiments in secure facilities

Spanish authorities investigating the African swine fever outbreak in Catalonia are looking into the possibility that the disease may have leaked from a research facility and are focusing on five nearby laboratories as potential sources.

Thirteen cases of the fever have been confirmed in wild boars in the countryside outside Barcelona since 28 November, prompting Spain to scramble to contain the outbreak before it becomes a serious threat to its pork export industry, which is worth €8.8bn (£7.7bn) a year.

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Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith contends that the Edmonton pilot is not a product launch but “early-stage field research” that will assess how the technology performs and reveal the safeguards needed to use it responsibly.

Tax hikes being considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul and other moderate Democrats to satisfy NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his radical supporters would cause a mass exodus of New Yorkers, ex-Gov. George Pataki charged.