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Cameron Rising threw for 415 yards, ran for three touchdowns and scampered up the middle for a go-ahead two-point conversion with 48 seconds left in No. 20 Utah’s 43-42 victory over No. 7 Southern California on Saturday night.Rising rushed a yard for a touchdown on fourth down to set up the deciding conversion.Caleb Williams threw for 381 yards and five touchdowns for Southern California (6-1, 4-1 Pac-12). Utah (5-2, 3-1) held the Trojans on their last-ditch drive, handing them their first loss as a record crowd of 53,609 shook Rice-Eccles Stadium and then flooded the field.The Utes needed every one…

The Pacific Northwest, known for its dreary, wet weather much of the year, is seeing summer-like weather as a high pressure system has pumped up temperatures and put first responders on alert for fires.Multiple high temperature records were broken in the Seattle area Saturday, where the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport reached a high for the date of 77, 16 degrees above normal, and Quillayute Airport on the northern Washington coast reached a record of 83, federal forecasters said.The high pressure ridge is pushing air west, resulting in dry offshore winds that get warmer as they move down mountain slopes and the…

“Saturday Night Live” opened this week’s episode taking on one of the most notable moments in news as of late: the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Kenan Thompson, who played Rep. Bennie Thompson, opened the NBC variety show by introducing the crowd to the committee’s ninth and final hearing. “January 6 was one of the most dramatic and consequential moments in our nation’s history, so to fight back we assembled a team of monotone nerds to do a PowerPoint,” Thompson’s Bennie Thompson said. He then went on to say the committee has been looking into the…

A man was shoved onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack on Saturday morning — the latest violent incident in the Big Apple’s underground, according to police. The 26-year-old man was standing on the platform at the East 149th Street station waiting for a northbound 6 train around 11:50 a.m. when a stranger suddenly pushed him onto the tracks, cops said. The man did not make any contact with the third rail and was helped back up to the platform by a good Samaritan before any trains arrived, police said. The suspect, a man, fled…

Temperatures are set to rise over the next week, with mild conditions until Halloween, capping 2022 as the hottest year in Britain that has ever been recorded Britain is set to experience “freakishly-hot” temperatures ahead of Halloween as an “African plume” will push the mercury up to 23C (73F), forecasters say. The Autumnal Indian Summer is set to end the hottest year the UK has ever experienced, Daily Star reports. Monday is forecasted to be the beginning of the warm run, which will last for up to six days. Wednesday is predicted to be the hottest day at around 22C.…

A day after President Joe Biden drew criticism from conservatives on social media for giving unsolicited dating advice to a young teen girl in California, the president is again in hot water for claiming the “economy is strong as hell.”The comment came during a conversation with a reporter at a Baskin Robbins in Portland, Oregon, who asked the president if he had any worry about the strength of the U.S. dollar amid rising inflation.With a chocolate chip ice cream cone in his hand, Biden answered: “I’m not concerned about the strength of the dollar. I’m concerned about the rest of…

In a wide-ranging speech during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Party’s Congress, Xi spoke firmly about China’s resolve for reunification with the self-governed island, which Beijing considers part of its territory.Noel Celis | AFP | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said China reserves the option of “taking all measures necessary” against “interference by outside forces” on the issue of Taiwan.In a wide-ranging speech Sunday, Xi spoke firmly about China’s resolve for reunification with the self-governed island, which Beijing considers part of its territory.He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the ruling Communist Party of…

The Seattle Mariners waited 21 years to host a postseason game, so they sure made up for lost time.But the instant classic did not fare in their favor as the Houston Astros advanced to their sixth straight American League Championship Series with their 1-0, 18-inning win, sweeping the Mariners in the best-of-five series.There were just seven baserunners from the 10th to the 17th innings, but in the 18th, Jeremy Pena had had enough. He finally turned the scoreboard on with a leadoff homer, and that was all that was necessary.Yuli Gurriel led off the ninth inning with a single off…

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has thanked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his “strong partnership” in assisting flood-affected communities, with additional financial support announced for LGAs in Victoria and Tasmania. “National government, state government, local government all working together – that’s how we keep people safe and that’s how we recover from what is a record-breaking flood event,” he said. Source: Sky News

After suffering months of supply chain chaos, a dearth of drivers and surging fuel prices, Germany’s trucking industry is facing a new crisis: a chronic shortage of the liquid that keeps its vehicles on the road. AdBlue, a mixture of urea and deionised water, is the lifeblood of logistics. But stocks are drying up after SKW Piesteritz, a company in the east German town of Wittenberg, which is one of Germany’s biggest sources of the solution, halted production to cope with the soaring price of gas. Dirk Engelhardt, head of the BGL, a trade body for the haulage industry, said…