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For years, the Chiefs most recognizable fan operated in the shadows. A regular at games since 1983, Matt Black cheered on KC through very little thick and and a whole lot of thin, an era marked mostly by a series of sports tragedies overseen by then head coach Marty Schottenheimer. …

The US seems to have it in for gig workers and those who use them.

California – the fifth-largest economy in the world – has significantly curtailed the ability of companies located there to hire independent contractors and freelancers in lieu of employees. The US Department of Labor has issued …

The families of those killed in the

Nottingham

On Wednesday a report found that Valdo Calocane, who killed students Barnaby Webber, 19, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, …

A spectre of inevitability hangs over New Orleans in the final run-up to America’s high holy day. The Kansas City Chiefs, having spent the past half-decade as the National Football League’s most dominant force, are on the verge of something never before seen: a third successive Super Bowl title.

Theirs …

The new Super League season begins next week with a growing level of excitement around rugby league’s premier competition. Wigan Warriors face Leigh Leopards in a mouthwatering derby as they look to emulate

last year’s quadruple

We were introduced to the term

Gambler’s Fallacy

More than 6,000 Syrians in Britain are stuck in limbo because of an ongoing freeze on their asylum claims, two months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The Home Office announced a “pause” on Syrian asylum seekers’ claims

on 9 December

When Sandra French returned to her beloved 1930s apartment, she found the building reduced to rubble and ash. “It was so weird,” she recalls. “Out of the rubble, there was a little bright object. It was a pencil holder I bought in Italy, I believe, in 2008 and was sticking …

It was just a few mangled sentences spoken in the darkness on an airport tarmac. But Donald Trump’s comments this week – his most significant yet regarding the UK – were enough to give heart to people in Downing Street and the Foreign Office.

“UK is out of line. But …

Mutiny may be in the air when the Church of England’s normally staid ruling body, the General Synod, meets for a five-day session next week.

The gathering of the 500-member church parliament follows a series of tumultuous events that have resulted in the unprecedented

resignation of the …