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Rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson is backing up veteran Joe Flacco in Baltimore with Robert Griffin III inactive for the Ravens’ opener with the Buffalo Bills. Now the question is whether the 2016 Heisman Trophy winner gets on the field. This is the first time Ravens coach John Harbaugh has kept three quarterbacks on his opening

GENEVA — In a record result for European soccer, top-tier clubs combined to make a first-time profit of 600 million euros ($694 million) last year. UEFA says its research of 711 clubs’ financial accounts ending in 2017 showed they turned around a 300-million euro loss ($347 million) the previous year. Their total revenue of 20.1

NEW YORK — Serena Williams was fined a total of $17,000 for three code violations during her loss to Naomi Osaka in the U.S. Open final. On Sunday, a day after the match, the tournament referee’s office docked Williams $10,000 for “verbal abuse” of chair umpire Carlos Ramos, $4,000 for being warned for coaching, and

TORONTO — Lynda La Plante’s 1980s British crime series “Widows” had a curious hold of filmmaker Steve McQueen as a 13-year-old boy. The show was about a group of women who, after their criminal husbands are killed, band together to pull off the raid their dead spouses had planned. The women were, to young McQueen

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is blocking Netflix and other popular streaming services with little to no academic use in the classroom for a pilot program aimed at improving reliable connections to academic sites in the school’s largest lecture halls. School officials are blocking the streaming services for the first 10 weeks of the

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Matthew Fitzpatrick sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to retain his European Masters title Sunday in a playoff against Lucas Bjerregaard. Fitzpatrick had holed a shorter birdie putt on the same 18th green 20 minutes earlier to card a 3 under 67. That forced a playoff with Denmark’s

BISMARCK, N.D. — A Rhode Island woman accused of funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica through her airline job goes on trial in federal court in North Dakota this week. She is the last of 27 defendants in the case that began seven years ago this month. Here’s a look at the

DETROIT — Authorities say three young men were shot to death in a White Castle on Detroit’s west side. Police say the three men believed to have been in their late teens or early 20s were found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds at around 12:25 a.m. Sunday in the restaurant’s lobby. The restaurant’s windows had

LOS ANGELES — The horror movie “The Nun” has topped the domestic box office in its first weekend, scoring a best for the “Conjuring” franchise. Studio estimates on Sunday say the Taissa Farmiga film brought in $53.5 million from North American theaters. It’s the fifth consecutive weekend that a Warner Bros. movie has held first

President Donald Trump has tweeted his disapproval of the NFL on Sunday morning before the first full slate of games. The president has criticized players for their demonstrations protesting social injustice during the national anthem, and the league for not requiring players to be on the sideline at attention when “The Star-Spangled Banner” is played.

ATLANTA — The Latest on Tropical Storm Florence (all times local): 1:40 p.m. Cruise lines are redirecting their ships to avoid the path of Hurricane Florence as it begins to bear down on the United States. Carnival Cruise Line said Sunday that it had changed the schedule of its cruise ships to accommodate tropical weather

ATLANTA — The Latest on Tropical Storm Florence (all times local): 11 a.m. Forecasters say Tropical Storm Florence has turned into a hurricane and is swirling toward the East Coast for what could be a direct hit toward the end of the week. The storm’s sustained winds reached 75 mph (121 kph), just over the

DETROIT — A black pastor’s controversial eulogy at Aretha Franklin’s funeral laid bare before the world what black women say they have experienced for generations: sexism and inequality in their houses of worship every Sunday. In eulogizing the beloved artist known as the Queen of Soul, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. declared that as “proud,

LOGANSPORT, Ind. — Authorities say two young siblings have died in a northern Indiana house fire while their mother escaped with an infant through a second-story window. Logansport Police Lt. A.J. Rozzi tells the Pharos Tribune a 1-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl died. Assistant Fire Chief Mark Strong says firefighters pulled the two children from

LOGANSPORT, Ind. — Authorities say two children have died in a northern Indiana house fire, and a woman jumped from the home’s second story with a baby to escape it. Logansport Assistant Fire Chief Mark Strong says firefighters pulled the two children from the second floor of the burning house on Logansport’s south side shortly

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Police in Greece’s second-largest city say a protest rally that determined nationalists staged near an international trade fair where the prime minister was keynote speaker resulted in eight arrests. Authorities in Thessaloniki estimated that 6,000 people attended Saturday’s rally opposing Greece’s agreement with neighboring Macedonia to end their long dispute over the

LONDON — Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas has ended speculation over his future by signing a new three-year contract with Team Sky. The 32-year-old Thomas, whose previous deal was set to expire at the end of 2018, had been the subject of interest from other teams. However, the Welshman has decided to stay with

WASHINGTON — The Latest on Vice President Mike Pence (all times local): 10:10 a.m. Vice President Mike Pence says he’d agree to take a lie detector test “in a heartbeat” to prove he isn’t the author of an anti-Trump New York Times opinion piece. A top Pence aide has already said the vice president didn’t

LONDON — Britain’s interior minister says the U.K. will nab two men accused of using a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury if they ever set foot outside Russia. Britain has charged two alleged agents of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency in absentia with the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and

STOCKHOLM — The Latest on Sweden’s general election (all times local): 12:35 a.m. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says he intends to remain in the job after his center-left party recorded its worst election performance. Lofven, who brought the Social Democrats to power in 2014, said “the results are still unclear” from the election held

STOCKHOLM — The Latest on Sweden’s general election (all times local): 10:55 p.m. The leader of a far-right party that campaigned with an anti-migrant message says the party has “won” Sweden’s national election. Returns reported by the Scandinavian country’s election commission showed the Sweden Democrats placing third in the parliamentary election held Sunday. Addressing supporters

MADRID — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has saved over 300 migrants attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea this weekend. The service says it rescued 160 migrants from six boats on Saturday, and another 172 migrants from four boats on Sunday in the Strait of Gibraltar. Spain has become a leading entry

AUBURN, Ala — One person is dead and four people have been injured following a shooting at a McDonald’s near Auburn University in Alabama. Auburn Police say in a statement that officers responded to the restaurant on West Magnolia Ave. just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday and found a 20-year-old man from Tuskegee dead from gunshot

BARCELONA, Spain — A few thousand Spaniards are marching in Barcelona in favor of national unity and against the separatist movement in northeastern Catalonia. The marchers are cheering when residents hang Spanish flags on their balconies as they pass by. The march comes two days before Catalonia’s regional holiday called “La Diada,” which in recent

MIAMI — A third tropical storm has formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday morning that Tropical Storm Isaac was centered about 1,540 miles (2,475 kilometers) east of the Windward Islands. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect, but officials say it is expected to become