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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Pick your adjective to describe the Kansas City Chiefs this season — charmed, serendipitous, fortunate or just plain lucky — and it probably fits, and not just because they keep winning games that come down to the wire. Every time they need help at a position, they've found someone sitting on the couch, seemingly waiting for their call. First it was wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who returned to the Chiefs just before the season after Marquise Brown was lost to shoulder surgery. Then it was running back Kareem Hunt, who likewise returned to his former team when Isiah Pacheco broke his fibula. Left tackle D.J. Humphries came next when other options at the position were struggling, and this week it was Steven Nelson, who came out of retirement to help a secondary that has struggled for weeks. "Just got an opportunity, got a call. Was very excited about it," said Nelson, who spent his first four seasons in Kansas City before stints in Pittsburgh and Houston, and ultimately calling it quits in June so he could spend more time with his family. "I've got two daughters and been spending a lot of time with him," Nelson said, "but still trying to work out. It was kind of the perfect scenario, getting the call, especially where this team has been and this point in the season. Great opportunity." It's been a perfect opportunity for all of them. Perfect fits for the Chiefs, too. Each could have signed just about anywhere else and been able to contribute, yet they were still sitting around when Chiefs general manager Brett Veach reached out. In the case of Smith-Schuster, Hunt and Humphries, there were some concerns about injuries that had kept some teams away, but the Chiefs were willing to take a risk on them. Smith-Schuster, who has dealt with knee trouble for years, missed some time with a hamstring injury this season. But he still has 202 yards and a touchdown receiving, and has provided some veteran leadership in the locker room. Hunt was coming off a sports hernia surgery, a big reason why the Browns — whom the Chiefs visit Sunday — declined to bring him back after five years spent in a one-two punch with Nick Chubb. But when Pacheco went down, Hunt stepped in and their offense barely missed a beat; he has run for a team-leading 608 yards and five touchdowns in 10 games. Humphries was still rehabbing a torn ACL at the start of the season, but the former Pro Bowl tackle was cleared just before the Chiefs called him. Kingsley Suamataia and Wanya Morris had struggled to protect Patrick Mahomes' blind side, so they brought in Humphries to help out. And while he hurt his hamstring late in his debut last week against the Chargers, the Chiefs still hope he'll be recovered and fully up to speed in time for the stretch run and the playoffs. "I'm in Kansas City, bro. I'm pretty ecstatic. It don't get much better than this," Humphries said. "Everybody is excited for me to be here and that's a really good feeling. You're getting All-Pro guys' arms outstretched, like, 'We're so glad you're here.'" The providential signings don't stop at those four players, either. When the Chiefs lost kicker Harrison Butker to knee surgery, they signed Spencer Shrader off the Jets practice squad, and he promptly kicked a game-winner against Carolina. But then Shrader hurt his hamstring and landed on injured reserve. The 49ers had just waived Matthew Wright, and the Chiefs signed him up. He's gone 8 for 9 on field-goal tries, has been perfect on PATs, and banged the game-winner off the upright and through last week against Los Angeles. Just like Smith-Schuster, Hunt and Nelson, Wright had been with Kansas City a couple of years ago. "It definitely helps, him knowing how we do things, how we practice and what we expect," Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub said. "That all helped, for sure. And he's a veteran. He's been a lot of places. It wasn't like he was a rookie off the street." Or off the couch, for that matter. NOTES: Butker planned to kick again Thursday and could come off IR to face the Browns on Sunday. "He looked good," Toub said. "We have to see how he responds." ... Humphries (hamstring) did not practice Thursday. RT Jawaan Taylor (knee) was limited. ... SS Justin Reid will likely handle kickoffs against Cleveland. He has a stronger leg than Wright and also puts another athletic and adept tackler on the field on special teams.Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten have emotional reunion as fans say ‘don’t separate' thembet365 head office 。

US Election Don't miss out on the headlines from US Election. Followed categories will be added to My News. Kamala Harris’s campaign chiefs have unleashed on Joe Biden, the media and their fellow Democrats in a bid to explain her devastating defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. Three weeks after the US election, the Vice President’s top aides broke their silence and weighed into the blame game, as Ms Harris returned from a holiday in Hawaii to thank her volunteers and encourage them to “keep fighting”. “I still strongly believe the light of America’s promise will burn bright as long as we never give up ... We’ve got a lot of work to do,” she said, amid reports that she was mulling over running for president again in 2028 or to lead her home state of California. US Vice President Kamala Harris has thanked her volunteers and encouraged them to “keep fighting” after returning from a holiday in Hawaii. Picture: Saul Loeb / AFP The masterminds of her unsuccessful campaign spoke out on Pod Save America, a podcast run by Barack Obama’s former aides, with Ms Harris’s senior adviser David Plouffe talking up their efforts in the face of what he said was a “pretty brutal” political atmosphere. “This political environment sucked. We were dealing with ferocious headwinds,” he said, pointing to widespread dissatisfaction with the direction of the country under Mr Biden, the President’s poor approval ratings and the anger among voters about inflation. Mr Plouffe – who spearheaded Mr Obama’s 2008 election victory – said there was “a price to be paid” for Ms Harris being thrust into the race after Mr Biden’s “pretty catastrophic” debate against Mr Trump, leaving her with just 107 days to campaign. “We inherited a deficit, we got it to even, but the thing never moved,” he said. Senior adviser to Kamala Harris and former campaign manager to Barack Obama David Plouffe. He said the Trump campaign’s most effective attack ad against Ms Harris tied her to the President’s “Bidenomics” record. But fellow senior adviser Stephanie Cutter said Ms Harris felt “tremendous loyalty” to Mr Biden and believed it “wouldn’t be a clean break” had she decided to criticise his record. “Vice presidents stick by their presidents, and she wasn’t willing to change that precedent,” she said. “We were never going to satisfy anybody ... Too many people thought that she would be a continuation, which on the economy was the incumbent-killer.” Ms Harris’s campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon hit out at the “completely bulls***t” criticisms of the Vice President for failing to face the press at the start of her campaign, with Ms Cutter adding that the questions she did receive in interviews were “dumb”. Kamala Harris’s campaign chiefs say the most effective attack ad from the Trump campaign tied Ms Harris to the President’s “Bidenomics” record. Picture: Saul Loeb / AFP Deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks also blasted members of the Democratic Party for “eating our own” by condemning decisions they did not agree with. “If you’re in the Democratic Party and you step out of line, you get punished for it ... by your own party,” he said, adding: “Republicans do not do that.” Mr Fulks revealed he dealt with an “insane” amount of internal angst over an advertisement that included a swear word, as he complained that his party was “losing the culture war”. Ms Cutter also said the Vice President was “ready, willing” to appear on America’s most popular podcast hosted by Joe Rogan but that Mr Trump ended up recording his interview on the only day she was available to do it in Texas. Podcaster Joe Rogan with President-elect Donald Trump, musician Kid Rock and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Picture: Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC The campaign chiefs maintained they always believed it was a neck-and-neck race, with Ms O’Malley Dillon pointing out that the swing to Mr Trump was only three percentage points in the battleground states, compared to eight points across the rest of the US. “Where she campaigned, we did way better than the rest of the country,” she said. “We did make real progress against these national headwinds.” Ms Harris emerged on Tuesday (local time) for a brief call with her supporters, saying she was “proud of the race we ran”. “I know this is an uncertain time. I’m clear-eyed about that ... and it feels heavy,” she said. “The fight that fuelled our campaign ... that did not end on November 5th.” More Coverage Trump meets the limits of his landslide Tom Minear Why Kamala Harris is starting to sound like Joe Biden Tom Minear Originally published as Kamala Harris’s top aides unleash on Biden, media and Democrats over presidential election defeat Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories US Election MAGA team: Trump makes his final top pick Policy advocate Brooke Rollins joins a billionaire hedge fund manager, an ex-WWE boss, and a TV doctor as one of the top characters proposed for the Trump cabinet. See who else is in. 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Why China’s red bosses are in tizzy over its youth Edmund Burke said, “The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” What is China’s youth trying to tell its leadership today? A spate of incidents in recent weeks has given communist bosses a scare. First, thousands of students were seen cycling more than 30 miles from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng in central China, all for a soup-dumpling breakfast. This march of the young was initially encouraged by Chinese authorities, before they got cold feet and cracked down on cycle rides. Then eight people were killed and 17 injured in a stabbing spree on a college campus in eastern China. The suspect was reportedly lashing out for failing an exam, not receiving his graduation certificate, and dissatisfaction over internship compensation. All of this will give authoritarian China’s leadership sleepless nights, as the economy slows down and prospects for the youth dim. Recall that it was young people protesting with blank papers that forced Chinese authorities to lift their extreme Covid restrictions in 2022. But it’s not just China. The young everywhere are always a potential disruptor of the status quo. They can galvanise nations or herald revolutions. Be it the fall of the Berlin Wall, Vietnam or the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests, it’s the young who struck the first blow, brought about great change. The lesson for China: listen closely to the young. What motivates them? What troubles them? Is the economic situation causing them to despair? Is the stress of exams taking a toll? Is social media distorting their perception of reality? Reading the pulse of counter-culture trends is vital. Is Banksy a youth icon in West? Are lots of India’s young listening to the tunes of Sidhu Moose Wala? Understand, then connect. Don’t stifle. Oldies in power don’t always get this.Trump names Andrew Ferguson as head of Federal Trade Commission to replace Lina Khan

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Tory shadow defence minister Mark Francois has taken a swipe at Ed Miliband and called on Britain to “drill baby, drill” after it emerged today that oil fields surrounding the islands are larger than estimated. News today revealed that recoverable reserves of oil near the Falklands are now valued at an eye-watering £74 billion. An independent assessment of the Sea Lion field, within the North Falkland Basin and 136 miles to the north of the archipelago, has pushed up the estimated recoverable oil from 791 million barrels to 917 million barrels, equivalent to double the annual output of the entire North Sea. Rockhopper Exploration, which is the company leading the project, announced plans to extract 532 million barrels initially, reports the Telegraph, up from a previous estimate of 312 million, with most of the remainder potentially recoverable under future plans. Despite Labour’s ban on new oil and gas licences after coming to power, the Falkland Islands government has approved production in a move which illustrates the self-governing territory’s autonomy over its natural resources. Responding to the major discovery, MP Mark Francois said it is “absolutely fantastic” and “would be a great resource”. He jokingly added: “Provided Ed Miliband can get over it and doesn't try and impose any sort of restrictions on the Falkland Islands government.” Speaking on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s nightly GB News show, Mr Francois argued: “We spend a lot of money, quite rightly, defending the Falkland Islands, it would be great if we could use some of this oil wealth to relieve the pressure on the defence budget so that the Falklands pay more towards their own defence.” “There are lots and lots of potential advantages in this, and I cannot see any downsides. We should drill baby, drill around the Falklands. “China is responsible for almost a third of total global emissions today. By the way, they're still opening one coal fired power station a month. “The UK is responsible for approximately 1%, but that doesn't mean because we're only responsible for 1% we shouldn't make an effort, but it's a global problem. “And so you've got to get the major emitters like China and India and the US and Brazil to do something more muscular about it. “Even if we all went back to living in caves tomorrow, and I think that's what some people would like, it wouldn't scratch the damage that China is doing day in, day out. “So we just have to have a proportionate way of dealing with this and allowing the Falklands to use oil - we're an island, we've used oil for decades. That doesn't mean that the planet is finished, we've just got to be realistic about it. “In the meantime, if people want to save the planet they want to go and protest outside the Chinese Embassy.” The discovery has sparked concerns that it will reignite geopolitical tensions over the islands between Britain and Argentina. The South American rival has previously condemned oil exploration in the area as illegal and sought to rally international support against it.

Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss said Friday he is being treated for cancer and is recovering from major surgery. In an appearance on Instagram Live , Moss, aided by a cane, introduced himself as a cancer survivor and thanked his “prayer warriors” for their support. Moss said a cancerous mass was found in his bile duct, between his pancreas and liver. He said he had surgery to put a stent in his liver on Thanksgiving and then underwent a 6-hour procedure about a week ago to remove the cancer. He said he was hospitalized for six days and released on Friday. The surgery was a Whipple procedure, Moss said. The operation involves removing the head of the pancreas, part of the small intestine, the gallbladder and the bile duct, according to the Mayo Clinic . “I didn’t think I would ever be in a position like this, as healthy as I thought I was,” Moss said. Moss said he will undergo radiation and chemotherapy. “All the prayers, the well wishes, I really felt that, my family felt that,” Moss said, wearing a hoodie with the words “Team Moss.” Moss stepped away from his role as an analyst on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” on Dec. 6. RELATED COVERAGE Sean McVay’s Rams are on a roll toward the playoffs after 2 big wins in a 5-day stretch De’Vondre Campbell’s mid-game quitting overshadowed the 49ers’ offensive woes Jets running back Hall ‘looks promising’ to play vs. Jags, but cornerback Reed is doubtful “As soon as I get healthy to get back out with guys, I will be on set. ... Hopefully I can be with you guys soon,” Moss said. “My goal is to get back on television with my team.” Moss wore a gray hoodie with the words “Team Moss” and asked for donations on his website, saying the money would go primarily toward cancer research. The 47-year-old Moss was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 after playing 14 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings (1998-2004, 2010), Oakland Raiders (2005-06), New England Patriots (2007-10), Tennessee Titans (2010) and San Francisco 49ers (2012). Moss is second in NFL history with 156 touchdown catches and had an NFL-record 23 TD receptions in 2007 for the Patriots. ___ This story has been corrected. A previous version reported erroneously that the cancer was outside Moss’ bowel duct. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflWhat Does Dental Player Patterson's $4.1 Billion Deal Mean For Other Players?