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The offenses were exchanging blow for blow and combined for eight touchdowns and nine field goals on the night. Stephen Gostkowski’s kick from 28 yards as time expired gave the Patriots the win. MORE: Week 6 results, highlights Tom Brady continued to thrive with the return of Julian Edelman and the addition of Josh Gordon. Brady threw for 340 yards and one touchdown, as well as a rushing score. Pats rookie running back Sony Michel racked up 106 yards on the ground, his second 100-yard rushing performance in his last three games....

As the AHA notes, this rate is nearly triple what it was in 1963. In fact, childhood obesity has become so alarmingly prevalent and such a threat to children’s health that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has an entire website dedicated to its prevention and treatment. But hope is not lost. Parents everywhere will be happy to know that a variety of organizations, in addition to the AHA and the AAP, and including the World Health Organization (WHO), have joined in the fight to end childhood obesity....

Tuesday’s “routine” operation involving the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur was announced by the the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Yokosuka, Japan. The transit was “in accordance with international law” and “demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the statement said. “The United States military will continue to fly, sail, and operate anywhere international law allows,” it added. Zhang Chunhui, a spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, described the Navy’s operation as a “publicity stunt,” which he said “sends the wrong signal to Taiwan independence forces....

The Chinese are invading Tibet–again. Four decades after the People’s Liberation Army seized the kingdom and crushed an uprising by the followers of the Dalai Lama, Beijing has found a more effective method of conquest: money. In 1992 the government lifted controls on Chinese migration to Tibet, then made it worthwhile by offering jobs that paid two or three times the rate of the same work in China’s interior. Last year alone Beijing invested some $270 million in 62 projects including the plaza near the Potala and a solar-powered radio and TV station that will broadcast Communist Party propaganda in Tibetan....

At a Security Council briefing on the war in Ukraine, Ambassador Zhang Jun expressed concerns about the “protracted and extended” nature of the conflict, which had produced a “dire” humanitarian crisis with mounting civilian casualties. The senior Chinese diplomat then dedicated one-third of his time to the North Atlantic Alliance. “The Ukraine crisis has once again sounded the alarm for the world. Blind faith in a position of strength, the expansion of military alliances and the pursuit of one’s own security at the expense of the security of other countries will inevitably lead to a security dilemma,” said Zhang....

At a monthly press briefing in Beijing, China’s Defense Ministry spokesperson Tan Kefei said the country “firmly opposes” recent remarks by American officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who chided China for its South China Sea claims during a weeklong visit to Southeast Asia in July. “Beijing’s claim to the vast majority of the South China Sea has no basis in international law. That assertion treads on the sovereignty of states in the region,” the Pentagon chief said while in Singapore....

Beijing was responding to comments made by William Lai, who Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen chose as her vice presidential running mate for the coming election. Lai said on Monday that he is a “realistic worker for Taiwan independence,” adding that the state—officially called the Republic of China—is not “attached” to mainland China. Taiwan—sitting just 80 miles from the Chinese coast across the Taiwan Strait—has acted as an independent nation for more than 70 years, having emerged from the last bastion of the nationalist forces that lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communist Party....

The frequency of Beijing’s flights near its democratic neighbor has declined since spring, when Taiwan’s Defense Ministry logged record-breaking figures. The highest monthly tally was in April, when 107 People’s Liberation Army warplanes, including nuclear-capable heavy bombers, flew into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ). In July, the Chinese military flew only 17 sorties near Taiwan, none involving fast-moving fighter aircraft. Taiwan’s Republic of China Air Force issued radio warnings to approaching PLA warplanes beginning at 7:47 a....

Right after Indianapolis blocked a second-quarter punt and recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes led a 10-play, 75-yard scoring drive. Right after Indianapolis forced a fumble deep in Kansas City territory midway through the third quarter, Dee Ford stripped Colts quarterback Andrew Luck of the football. Kansas City’s defense, which struggled throughout the regular season, held the Colts below 300 total yards....

From September 2-9, 243,373 children tested positive for COVID-19—which AAP said was the second-highest number of child cases in a week since the pandemic began. That week, they accounted for almost 29 percent of reported cases. Children under the age of 18 make up 22.2 percent of the United States population, according to AAP. The week before saw 251,781 cases, for a total of 495,154 child cases since August 26....

Interested in immersing your kids in exotic cultures without risking jet lag and peanut-butter-sandwich scarcities? Houston’s museum provides a unique window into the way other societies live in two of its exhibits. “Yalalag, A Mountain Village in Mexico,” allows children to experience a new culture through the exploration of an actual Oaxacan village. The village centers on the zocalo, or town square, where visitors can barter for fruits and vegetables at the open-air mercado, or visit “La Miscelanea” for a more familiar grocery-shopping experience....

PSG prefer Alexis deal Last staged in 2004, the Intercontinental Cup was contested by the winners of the Copa Libertadores and the Champions League, South America and Europe’s premier club competitions, respectively. FIFA’s Club World Cup also pits the holders of each continent’s top prize against one another, but Dominguez believes there is scope for the one-off match to return. The Paraguayan also wants fixtures between the Europa League and Copa Sudamericana winners, as well as a game featuring the European Championship and Copa America holders....

Foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunyin revealed that Beijing would be sanctioning senior government officials, members of Congress, as well as non-governmental representatives as part of the country’s countermeasures against the U.S. Hua did not reveal what the punitive actions would entail or who would be on Beijing’s sanctions list, but she said the measures were in response to U.S. “malign behavior” and “meddling” in affairs related to Hong Kong and Taiwan....

In his call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Joe Biden administration had sent more positive signals than those received under Donald Trump, but that he was unhappy about “new shocks” that continued to emerge in the already delicate U.S.-China relationship. Wang said President Biden responded positively to Xi Jinping’s “three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation” when China’s leader proposed the guidelines during their high-level summit last November....

In a statement released by the Chinese Embassy in London, an embassy spokesperson said, “A handful of British MPs cooked up this motion on Xinjiang in disregard of facts and common sense with a view to discrediting and attacking China. This move gravely violates international law and the basic norms governing international relations and grossly interferes in China’s internal affairs. The Chinese side firmly opposes this and expresses its strong condemnation....

Qiu Ziming, 38, becomes the first person to be prosecuted and sentenced under a new law prohibiting the defamation of Chinese heroes and martyrs. The guilty verdict and punishment were announced by Jianye District People’s Court in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on Monday. Qiu, a former investigative journalist with a large social media following, was arrested on February 19 after he cast doubt on the government’s official death toll from the Galwan Valley clash last June....

Their most notable scrap involved tit-for-tat penalties in March when the European Union said it sanctioned four Chinese officials and one entity responsible for the ongoing rights violations against Uyghurs in northwestern China. Beijing responded immediately with dramatic super sanctions of its own. The episode led to the breakdown of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), a deal nearly a decade in the making, which was said to be highly coveted by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a geopolitical tool to drive a wedge in Europe’s transatlantic partnership with the United States....

That’s what a lot of people thought. But officials of the WHO do not issue passports and were not terribly amused. The prospect of a sudden baby boom would hardly advance their efforts to control the global population. Even as they denied the rumors, promoters around the world came forward with real offers. Millennium babies will win a car from a newspaper in Russia, and 100 francs from local authorities in France....

Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby was asked about Beijing’s reported hypersonic missile tests in July and August, as well as the nature of the U.S.’s own capabilities. He declined to comment on specifics but told a regular press briefing on Monday that China risks fueling an arms race. “The bottom line is we know that they’re trying to advance military capabilities, capabilities that we believe are only going to increase tensions in the region and beyond,” Kirby said, before repeating Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s description of China as America’s “number one pacing challenge....