Arsenal are seven points clear of Manchester City at the top of the table following their convincing 4-2 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday, but they are likely to face a tougher evening against opponents whose head coach, Eddie Howe, has not played down their prospects of challenging the leaders at the end of the campaign. Newcastle’s goalless draw at home to Leeds United brought their six-match winning run in the Premier League to an end while making it more than seven-and-a-half hours since they conceded a goal in all competitions....

Iniesta, 33, is expected to move to the Chinese Super League at the end of the season after confirming that this will be his last year at Camp Nou. Arthur, who has agreed to join Barca and could make his move to Spain as early as July, is disappointed he will not get the chance to play alongside his idol. “I’m sad,” he told Sport. “I started to understand football in a different way, watching Iniesta play with Barcelona....

As a Black kid in the fourth grade with a fairly voracious reading habit, I had read a couple of books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, who went by one of the most famous pseudonyms in modern literature: Dr. Seuss. But by and large, his books it did nothing for me. Even at my elementary school age, I was looking for enlightenment. I grew up in one of the more criminally disturbed neighborhoods in Houston, and I was trying to transcend my surroundings....

Blake Bortles, who went No. 3 overall to the Jaguars, had been the great hope after Johnny Manziel failed and Teddy Bridgewater fell. But thanks to a disastrous training camp and an even worse preseason so far, Bortles has forced Jacksonville’s hand to find a different starting QB, stat. MORE: Where Bortles ranks among QBs For now, that’s backup Chad Henne, back in the competition. But another rumored solution to the situation is, ironically, a QB taken in the 2014 fifth round by another feline football team, the Bengals’ AJ McCarron....

One important driver of rising food prices is getting lost in the conversation—and it’s important that we pay attention because things will only get much worse. Agriculture produces almost everything we eat and drink, and because it is wholly reliant on the weather, it is one of the most sensitive sectors in our entire global economy to climate change. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and every new season brings greater risks that disaster will strike a significant producing area of some crop, somewhere....

Teams had one more Saturday practice planned, the proverbial happy hour at 2:30 p.m. ET. Kurt Busch, for one, needed the work after damaging his car. MORE: 10 drivers to watch at Fontana | Sunday’s starting lineup | Cup’s closest finishes Edwards turned the fastest lap in Saturday’s early practice, 187.906 mph on the two-mile track at Auto Club Speedway. And Martin Truex Jr., a fellow Toyota driver, was second behind Kyle Busch on the chart....

The latest Monmouth University poll found that 54 percent of Republicans were “not at all confident” that Biden would be able to make Washington more cooperative, and a further 16 percent said they were “not too confident.” Twenty-nine percent of Republicans said they were either very or somewhat confident in the newly-inaugurated president’s ability to unite lawmakers from both parties on Capitol Hill. A further 1 percent said they didn’t know how they felt on the matter....

Results of a survey conducted by the New York Times and Sienna College, which collected responses from 759 likely Georgia voters between October 13 and 19, suggested a majority of participants who had not yet voted aimed to do so in-person. While 18 percent of individuals surveyed said they planned to submit mail-in ballots, 45 percent said they intended to vote in-person during Georgia’s designated early voting period, and 32 percent said they would vote in-person on Election Day....

Following the report’s release, top Democratic officials, including President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have called on the three-term governor to resign. Several of Cuomo’s aides in Albany have also distanced themselves from the embattled governor, Additionally, a poll from Quinnipiac University found seven out of 10 New Yorkers think he should resign from office because of the allegations. With his inner circle shrinking, Cuomo has not made any public statements about his future plans, only addressing the situation in a video denying the allegations last week....

It’s not clear why Fitzpatrick didn’t renew his lease on the home in Chatham, a posh Morris County suburb, but one way or another he is moving, no matter how his months-long contract stalemate with the Jets is resolved. MORE: AFC division-by-division predictions Hilary Taylor, the house’s listing agent, told NJ.com that it has been a rental property for several years, and an online listing shows that the 7,700-square-foot, $9,500 per month house became available for rent on July 15....

The new tactic comes in the wake of the voting rights failure that Democrats say is urgently needed to protect democracy from Republican attacks on the ballot box, and after some Democratic donors to Sinema warned in a January letter that her inaction would lead them to abandon her and ask for their money back. Ian Danley, the executive director of Arizona Wins, a coalition of more than 30 progressive groups — including LUCHA Arizona, Mi Familia Vota, Our Voice Our Vote and others — knocked on two million doors for Sinema, and together they spent $20 million during the last cycle....

Coming off his Olympic experience, which included a 25-point, six-rebound performance in a near-upset of the Americans in pool play, Jokic—who had been the MVP of Serbia’s qualifying tournament—was poised for a lot of big things. He was entering his second season with the Nuggets. His performance on the international stage showed he had all the tools required of the modern center and the skill to surpass the best-known Serbian center in NBA circles—Vlade Divac....

An FDA official confirmed to Newsweek on Thursday that Pfizer “has submitted a request to FDA to amend its emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in children 5 through 11 years of age.” “The agency will hold a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Oct. 26 to solicit input from its independent scientific and public health experts on the data and information in the request,” the FDA official said....

The significance of the aorta and the implications of aortic aneurysm have been known since long before the common era (BCE). The first relatively successful surgical treatment for aortic aneurysms wasn’t developed until the late 1800s, and only became dependable in the second half of the 20th century. Anatomy The ascending aorta originates at the aortic valve. The valve only allows blood to flow in one direction, out of the left ventricle chamber of the heart and into the aorta....

Asensio, 21, has made an impressive start to the season, scoring four goals in six games in all competitions for Madrid. Asensio 66/1 to be CL top scorer The Spain international, who arrived at Madrid from Mallorca in 2014, is considered one of the brightest young talents in the world. Asensio was linked to PSG, among other clubs, last month, but the attacker is happy at Madrid. “I don’t know how much I’m worth… I guess what my [release] clause says,” he told COPE....

Tetsuo Yajima, the director of Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle, spoke to Japanese outlet Oricon about the film’s themes. The spotlight Pokémon, Zarude, acts as a father to the young boy Koko, and ideas about parenthood and how to raise children are present throughout the film. Yajima told the outlet that after becoming a recent father, his “outlook on life that [he] had until now changed” and this new film reflects that....

England kept the Ashes alive with a thrilling one-wicket win over Australia in the third Test — Stokes the hero after a brilliant 135 not out. He was also England’s key man in the World Cup final against New Zealand on July 14, and six weeks on from that success he was the toast of the team again, with the hosts drawing level at 1-1 with two Tests to play....

Surrey batsman Roy — such a key cog in the England side that won the Cricket World Cup on home soil earlier this year — has found runs hard to come by during the Ashes series against Australia. The right-hander managed just 57 runs in six innings at the top of the order and, due to his issues against the new ball, was moved into the middle order for the fourth Test at Old Trafford, swapping positions with Joe Denly....

Smith was untroubled on a dismal, weather-affected first day in Manchester after missing England’s dramatic series-leveling win at Headingley due to concussion. The former Australia captain made a shaky start on Thursday but punished Archer for failing to take a caught and bowled chance when he was on 65. Smith, unable to play in Leeds due to a blow inflicted by paceman Archer in the second Test at Lord’s, went on to score his 11th Ashes hundred - a tally which only the great Don Bradman has bettered....

China’s National Health Commission reported 101 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, 98 of which were locally transmitted. Of these 98, 89 were recorded in the far western region of Xinjiang, where a new outbreak has occurred. The last time China reported more than 100 new infections in a single day was April 12, when 108 new cases were announced. Unlike the latest batch of infections, however, most of the April 12 cases were imported....