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PITTSBURGH — The Cleveland Browns lost their best offensive player Monday night to what’s expected to be a season-ending knee injury.In the grand scheme of an all-in season that’s off to a horrendous offensive start, I hesitate to call Nick Chubb the team’s most important player. That’s debatable, as are many things involved with a Browns team that followed a dominant Week 1 win with a bizarre and avoidable 26-22 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.Chubb is pretty much irreplaceable, and now the reeling Browns have to figure out how to make the offense go without him. Early in the second…

The killing of a Sikh separatist has set off a quickly escalating battle between two major allies of the United States.First came the stunning allegation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Monday that “agents of the Indian government” were involved in the assassination of the Sikh separatist, a Canadian citizen, on Canadian soil.That was followed by vehement denials from India and allegations that Canada is a haven for terrorists, as both countries expelled diplomats.The allegation about the killing, which shocked and angered Canadians, came after President Biden has spent much of the past few months courting Prime Minister…

As the San Diego Padres play out the string in one of the most disappointing campaigns in major-league history, a club that spectacularly collapsed two years ago must again confront the shakiness of its foundation.Padres president of baseball operations and general manager A.J. Preller continues to prove himself to be a gifted evaluator and collector of high-end talent. His default setting of simply trying to outwork the competition, however, has not always sat well with managers, players, coaches and other team officials.Many who have worked for Preller praise him for his work ethic and eye for talent. Many also criticize…

The Sikh separatist whose killing in British Columbia this summer has suddenly set off a major diplomatic dispute between Canada and India was a prominent advocate of the creation of an independent nation, Khalistan, that would include parts of India’s Punjab State.The separatist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, had moved to Canada in the mid-1990s, according to Indian news reports, after a period in which the Indian government was cracking down on the Sikh movement.Decades later, the Indian government declared him a terrorist, accusing him of plotting a violent attack in India linked to his advocacy. And in June, two masked…

For the past several years it has not been clear if the NBA fully understood the damage that the league and players were creating as a result of the load management that was becoming more and more fashionable.Teams and players were “following the science.” Anyone who complained too loudly on behalf of the fans was dismissed as a curmudgeonly dinosaur who didn’t understand the advancements in research and data that have come along in the last decade-plus.It appears as if, finally, a reckoning has arrived.When commissioner Adam Silver stood behind a podium last week to discuss the league’s new fight…

“Os Tincoãs have always enchanted me since I was a little girl when I heard my mother sing the group’s songs,” said Margareth Menezes, Brazil’s minister of culture, who is also a musician, in a phone interview. “They represent the African roots of Brazilian music.”Despite critical praise, appearances at festivals and the recognition of artists like João Gilberto — who recorded a version of the group’s “Cordeiro de Nanã” alongside Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil — Os Tincoãs did not take off. In 1983, the group (with a new member, Badu, replacing Heraldo) traveled to Angola, accompanying the…

The police in Illinois were searching for the former N.F.L. player Sergio Brown after his mother was found dead from multiple injuries related to an assault near a creek behind her home on Saturday, the authorities said.The Brown family alerted the police after being unable to reach either of them, the Maywood Police Department said in a news release.“Maywood police officers initiated a missing person report and began making attempts to locate both individuals,” the news release said.Maywood, a village of about 23,000 residents, is about 12 miles west of downtown Chicago.The body of Myrtle Brown, 73, was discovered near…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Monday that “agents of the government of India” had carried out the assassination of a Sikh community leader in British Columbia in June, an explosive allegation that is likely to further sour relations between the two nations.Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Trudeau said that he had raised India’s involvement in the shooting of the Sikh leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Group of 20 summit meeting earlier this month “in no uncertain terms.” He said the allegation was based on intelligence gathered by the…