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The lawsuit filed inCaliforniaThursday alleges that Trader Joe’s deceived customers into believing its French Roast Low Acid whole bean coffee had significantly more caffeine than it did.

"It is so common that it is now cliché that coffee drinkers depend on the caffeine contained therein to provide them with the energy they need to get through the day,” the lawsuit said, according to several media outlets.

But when the coffee was tested, it was found to contain half the caffeine of a regular blend, according to the lawsuit.

The French Roast Low Acid coffee has 51 percent of the caffeine of Trader Joe’s Dark French Roast coffee and 45 percent of the caffeine of Trader Joe’s House Blend coffee,NBC Newsreported, citing the lawsuit.

The Independenthas reached out to Trader Joe’s and the customer’s attorney for comment.

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It’s standard not to indicate the amount of caffeine in coffee on a product’s label “unless some process is used to reduce the amount of caffeine,” the lawsuit said.

“For example, full caffeinated coffee does not have any special labeling denoting that it is fully caffeinated, but 'decaf' and 'half-caff' coffees are labelled as such," the lawsuit said.

Trader Joe’s customers claim the French Roast Low Acid coffee "does not disclose that it is 'decaf' and 'half-caff' coffee.”

Since the coffee is not labeled as such, customers were led to “purchase the product believing that it is fully caffeinated when it is not."

The lawsuit seeks to bar Trader Joe’s “unlawful sales and marketing” of the product, according to theNew York Post, as well as monetary damages.

Trader Joe’s is also facing a separate lawsuit, in which aPortland woman claims she found a fingertipfrom a rubber glove in the grocery chain’s orange juice.

Julee O’Neil was “concerned that the human hand that was in the tip of the glove was also severed and was part of the pulp she had been periodically drinking,” the lawsuit said, according to multiple outlets.

Livramento has been a regular — when healthy — in Thomas Tuchel’s England squads this season and is valued because of his ability to play both at right back and left back.

He sustained what Newcastle manager Eddie Howe described Friday as a “bad injury” in the 2-1 loss to Bournemouth last weekend and has already undergone an initial scan.

“He is due to have another scan at the weekend to determine the full extent of his time out,” Howe said. “We will wait and see whether he plays again this season.”

The Premier League finishes on May 24 and England’s final World Cup squad must be submitted by May 30.

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England’s first-choice right back appears to be Chelsea’s Reece James, who is currently injured, whileTuchel has been overlookingReal Madrid's Trent Alexander-Arnold. Burnley's Kyle Walker retired from international duty in March.

It leaves Jarell Quansah and Ezri Konsa – naturally center backs – and Ben White, who hasn’t been a regular starter for Arsenal, as other potential right-back options.

The World Cup begins June 11 and takes place in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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That will be up to the players, and time will determine whether it’s a pedestrian group, maybe one that winds up exceeding expectations … or even falling short of what already seems set as a low bar. Regardless, it’s never too early to give a microwaved assessment of something that probably can’t be fairly judged until at least 2029 – so let’s (prematurely) label the winners and losers of the 2026 draft’s first round:

2026 NFL Draft Round 1 grades:Analysis for every pick

1. Las Vegas Raiders – QB Fernando Mendoza, Indiana

The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft brings franchise‑defining moments as teams make their selections from the top of the board.

See how picks 1 through 32 came off the clock as the next generation of NFL talent enters the league.

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New York Jets – OLB/DE David Bailey, Texas Tech

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Arizona Cardinals − RB Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame

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Tennessee Titans − WR Carnell Tate, Ohio State

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New York Giants − LB Arvell Reese, Ohio State

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Kansas City Chiefs (from Browns) − CB Mansoor Delane, LSU

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Washington Commanders − LB Sonny Styles, Ohio State

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New Orleans Saints − WR Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State

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Cleveland Browns (from Chiefs) − OL Spencer Fano, Utah

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Giants (from Cincinnati Bengals) − OL Francis Mauigoa, Miami (Fla.)

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Dallas Cowboys (from Dolphins) − S Caleb Downs, Ohio State

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Miami Dolphins (from Cowboys) − OT Kadyn Proctor, Alabama

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Los Angeles Rams (from Atlanta Falcons) − QB Ty Simpson, Alabama

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Baltimore Ravens − G Olaivavega Ioane, Penn State

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers − DE Rueben Bain Jr., Miami (Fla.)

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Jets (from Indianapolis Colts) − TE Kenyon Sadiq, Oregon

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Detroit Lions − OT Blake Miller, Clemson

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Minnesota Vikings − DL Caleb Banks, Florida

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Carolina Panthers − OT Monroe Freeling, Georgia

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Philadelphia Eagles (from Green Bay Packers via Cowboys) − WR Makai Lemon, USC

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Pittsburgh Steelers − OT Max Iheanachor, Arizona State

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Los Angeles Chargers − DE/OLB Akheem Mesidor, Miami (Fla.)

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Cowboys (from Eagles) − DE Malachi Lawrence, Central Florida

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Browns (from Jacksonville Jaguars) − WR KC Concepcion, Texas A&M

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Chicago Bears − S Dillon Thieneman, Oregon

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Houston Texans (from Bills) − G Keylan Rutledge

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Dolphins (from 49ers) − CB Chris Johnson, San Diego State

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New England Patriots (from Texans via Bills) − OT Caleb Lomu, Utah

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Chiefs (from Rams) − DT Peter Woods, Clemson

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Jets (from Denver Broncos via Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers) − WR Omar Cooper Jr., Indiana

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Titans (from Patriots via Buffalo Bills) − DE Keldric Faulk, Auburn

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Seattle Seahawks − RB Jadarian Price, Notre Dame

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See 2026 NFL Draft first round picks, from No. 1 to No. 32

1. Las Vegas Raiders – QB Fernando Mendoza, IndianaThe first round of the2026 NFL Draftbrings franchise‑defining moments as teams make their selections from the top of the board.See how picks 1 through 32 came off the clock as the next generation of NFL talent enters the league.

WINNERS

New York Jets' franchise QB

No idea who that is. Arch Manning? Dante Moore? Joe Burrow?Get back to us in 2027. But Gang Green’s plan to construct a support system for the man who will doubtless end the franchise’s (almost) six-decade Super Bowl drought – even ending a playoff absence that extends to 2010, now the longest in major North American professional team sports, would be remarkable – seems to be off to a promising start. Pass rusher David Bailey became the franchise’s highest-drafted defender ever, coming off the board second overall – and a good defense is often among a QB’s best friends. But the Jets chose twice more in Round 1, getting Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq 16th overall and Indiana WR Omar Cooper Jr. after GM Darren Mougey snuck back into the bottom of the round at the 30th spot. A nice influx of talent, if not youngsters who will necessarily be ready to make major contributions in 2026 … which would only benefit a team clearly positioning itself to draft early again in 2027.

Fernando Mendoza?

The draft’s presumptive No. 1 pick for – five? – months, heofficially changed that LinkedIn profileto employed after officiallyjoining the Las Vegas Raiders. Mendoza will almost doubtless be the face of this draft, for better or worse, forevermore, and simply has to become the first Silver and Black quarterback to notch a playoff win in nearly a quarter of a century to justify his investment. But, certainly on a human level if you buy what his adoring college teammates are selling, it sounds like he's up to the task. A word of advice: Don’t let Kirk Cousins keep you out at all hours on the slots and tables. Good luck, pal.

Shedeur Sanders

First, theBrowns traded downfrom No. 6 to obtain some mid-round ammo. Then they drafted OL Spencer Fano ninth overall before getting game-breaking WR KC Concepcion at No. 24. If Sanders, who famously plummeted to Round 5 a year ago, fails to lock down the QB1 job this season, it almost certainly won’t be because Cleveland failed to load up on solid talent around him.

Dan Orlovsky

QB Ty Simpson’s No. 1 media advocate was vindicated – after the ESPN analyst and former NFL backup QB unabashedly stumped for the former Alabama passer throughout the pre-draft process – whenthe Rams picked him 13th overalldespite intense speculation that Simpson wouldn’t hear his name called at all Thursday. Good luck, Ty. Congrats, Dan, who got to take a victory lap on ESPN’s air with Pat McAfee.

2027 first-round draft picks

Despite all of Thursday night’s trade activity, none of the deals involved a Round 1 selection for next year – which is expected to boast a lot more star power than this year’s draft. The Jets, who obtained valuable 2027 picks from the Colts and Cowboys at last year’s trade deadline, are currently the only team in possession of multiple first-round selections next year.

Ohio State

Having four players going off the board in the top 11 selections is quite the recruiting messaging for the Buckeyes. Suck it, oh-fer Michigan.

Jeremiyah Love

Hecame off the board third overall, to the Arizona Cardinals, his draft slotting set to guarantee him more than $50 million – almost a 50% bump from the market-setting $36 million guarantee the Eagles’ Saquon Barkley collected with his most recent extension.

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Pittsburgh

The Steel City hosted its first draft in more than 78 years – and it looked marvelous. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced at the end of the evening that Pittsburgh set a Round 1 attendance record of 320,000. Expect that figure to balloon – significantly – into the weekend.

LOSERS

Steelers

Meanwhile, the local team apparently didn’t do as well as it had hoped. Per reports, the AFC North champs – still not necessarily sure who their quarterback will be in 2026 – wereall set to take USC WR Makai Lemonwith the 21st overall pick … not knowing a cross-state jump had occurred, thePhiladelphia Eaglesliterally swooping in to sink their talons into Lemon after moving up from the 23rd spot to 20. Welp. But who knows? Sometimes the move you don’t make winds up serving you well, and fallbackMax Iheanachorof Arizona State might actually address what could be a far more pressing need given the questions about the neck injury Steelers OT Broderick Jones is dealing with.

Jeremiyah Love

He’s got a (ginormous) bag. He’s also headed to a literal and figurative football desert where the Cardinals appear to have plenty of running backs (James Conner, Tyler Allgeier, Trey Benson) but no long-term prospects at quarterback … nor much short- or intermediate-term hope in the NFC West, home of the Super Bowl championSeahawks, who drafted Love’s former Notre Dame backfield mate (Jadarian Price) Thursday, and two other teams that won at least 12 games last season. While Love is getting paid even beyond a Barkley level, he also seems headed to the kind of suboptimal situation that Barkley dealt with at the outset of his career. Woof.

Mike Vrabel

Dude. You don’t owe me an apology. An explicit one to the Patriots might be nice, and a public one to your family seems incumbent at this point.Either say more or say less. But this week’s approach clearly isn’t working at this point … though the internet’s ability to torpedo your rep certainly is.

Defensive backs

Thursday was kind to Mansoor Delane, the Kansas City Chiefs trading up to get the former LSU cornerback with the sixth overall selection. Otherwise, Round 1 was largely unkind relative to the DBs. S Caleb Downs, widely projected as a top-five pick going into this draft, wound up going 11th overall to the Cowboys. Former Oregon S Dillon Thieneman also went lower than expected, landing in Chicago with the 25th selection. San Diego State CB Chris Johnson, who picked up steam late in the pre-draft process, snuck into Round 1, too, going to Miami two spots after Thieneman. Otherwise? Nada. Tennessee CBs Jermod McCoy and Colton Hood, Clemson CB Avieon Terrell and Toledo S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren were among the most notable players slipping into Day 2.

Kayvon Thibodeaux

The fifth overall pick from the 2022 draft suddenly looks like theGiants’ No. 4 pass rusher after Arvell Reese joined him, Brian Burns and Abdul Carter on the depth chart. Thibodeaux, somewhat ironically the first pick of GM Joe Schoen’s tenure, is only under contract for one more season. He’s averaged fewer than six sacks per year to this point of his career, and it’s worth wondering if the Giants should expedite his departure by trying to obtain whatever future draft assets they can get for Thibodeaux.

Rams' Super Bowl 61 hopes?

Super Sunday will be staged in Sofi Stadium to cap the upcoming season – five years after the Rams won their only championship in L.A. … at SoFi. Reigning MVP Matthew Stafford and Co. certainly seem to have the requisite firepower to hoist another Lombardi Trophy next February, especially if they iron out their special teams issues. But drafting Simpson with the 13th overall pick, while perhaps a forward-looking move with Stafford evaluating his desire to continue playing on a year-to-year basis, almost certainly isn’t going to help the Rams much in 2026. Or 2027.

Tennessee Titans' franchise QB

That would most definitely be Cam Ward. After weeks of widespread speculation that Love would be the pick here, there were quite a few 11th-hour projections – perhaps due to smoke inhalation – that Tennessee would go with a defender to supercharge Robert Saleh’s defense. But the Titans weren’t compelled to move up from the fourth spot to No. 3, where Love wound up going to Arizona, yet didn’t take Ohio State LB Arvell Reese or Sonny Styles, either – opting instead for Buckeyes WR Carnell Tate. The takeaway? The Titans did indeed place an emphasis on upgrading Ward’s weaponry … but failed to get the one that almost certainly would have had the biggest impact. They even traded back into the first round at No. 31 … but for DE Keldric Faulk, who can only help Ward indirectly, unlike Love’s former Irish teammate, Jadarian Price, who went to Seattle with the next and final pick of Thursday night.

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Bones in Well

The Richmond school’s board of visitors voted Friday to fund what VCU calls the East Marshall Street Well Project, an effort to right wrongs committed more than a century ago. Construction of the memorial and burial site are expected to start in summer of 2027.

“Years ago, VCU initiated this journey because we recognized a profound obligation to restore the human dignity of the people who were not afforded respect in their physical existence," VCU President Michael Rao said in a story about the effort posted on the school'swebsite. "The East Marshall Street Well Project’s sacred mission is to ensure every life is honored with the permanence and reverence they deserve.”

The circular memorial will feature a “unity chamber” inspired by the Toguna structures of Dogon culture in West Africa. Its design “is intended to encourage humility and thoughtful discussion by purposefully having a low roof to facilitate seated reflection,” said Stephen Davenport, assistant vice president for social and economic development in the VCU Division of Community Engagement and the administrative lead for the project.

Workers in 1994 uncovered a brick-lined well containing human bones during construction of the Kontos Medical Sciences Building on the VCU medical center campus. Sifting through mud, researchers also found hair and skin, as well as remnants of leather shoes and glass bottles.

Based on archival records from the Medical College of Virginia, researchers believe the remains were dumped in the well between the 1840s and 1860s.

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“A preliminary anthropological analysis of the recovered human remains showed some postmortem signs of dissection and amputation consistent with anatomical training and surgical procedure practice,” VCU researchers concluded in a paper published this year. “The constant demand for cadavers led to routine grave robbing practices, mainly targeting African American burial grounds, to supply the medical school.”

Archaeologists were given a short time to examine the burial site after the 1994 discovery. Before construction continued, the remains were removed by backhoes and sent to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Initial analysis estimated that a minimum of 44 adults and nine children were recovered from the well.

Interest in the remains was renewed in 2011 after the release of a film by a VCU professor and a separate report by two forensic anthropologists.

DNA study results released in February identified at least 43 distinct adults and three juveniles of “predominantly African heritage,” most likely from Central-West Africa. Several sets of remains bore traces of European ancestry.

Skeletal analysis “provided insight into the heavy labor endured by these individuals during their lives and the disregard for their bodies after death,” the study found.

Associated Press reporter John Raby contributed to this report.

College sports is allegedly on itslast financial leg, the five-year NIL era spending spree on daddy’s debit card crushing everyone’s future. The bill has come due, and it’s — here’s that catch-all word again — unsustainable.

They’re out of answers, and the only thing left is toexpand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams, and jam that debit card in the ATM one more time while ignoring the dwindling balance.

Unless, of course, you’re the University ofAlabama.

Big talk:Ty Simpson didn't hurt Indiana's feelings, he exposed Alabama's flaws

Alabama, ladies and gentlemen, justextended a football coachafter two seasons that included missing the CFP, and earning the No. 9-seed beforesustaining the worst bowl game lossin the history of the program.

Alabamaextended the contract of coach Kalen DeBoerthrough 2033 — at $12.5 million per season — after his teams lost eight games over his first two seasons.

Alabama just committed $87.5 million to a coach whose team lost to Vanderbilt for the first time nearly half a century, and lost by 21 to Oklahoma (as a 14-point favorite) with a CFP spot on the line.

Alabama just committed to exorbitant buyouts ― if this thing goes sideways, which it very well could — of up to $67.5 million (2027), $56.2 million (2028) and $45 million (2029) for a coach whose team lost by 14 to Florida State (as a 13.5-point favorite) in the 2025 season opener.

The Noles won five games in 2025: East Texas A&M, Kent State, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech and You Know Who.

Alabama just extended the contract by two years and increased the annual salary by $2.25 million, for a coach whose teams lost the two most important games of 2025 — the SEC championship game against Georgia, and the Rose Bowl against Indiana — by a combined 66-10.

To say nothing of losing to Michigan (as a 13.5-point favorite) a year earlier in a bowl game, while the Wolverines may as well have played a linebacker at quarterback.

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"We are pleased to extend Coach DeBoer and are proud to have him leading theCrimson Tidefootball program," Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said in a statement. "He is an excellent coach and has done a commendable job developing our student-athletes.”

What,$10.25 million annuallythrough 2031 wasn’t enough? Because Michigan and Penn State may or may not have kicked the tires on DeBoer, Alabama doubles down on a coach who not only hasn’t proven anything, but has had a run of embarrassing, unnerving losses.

I get it, following the greatest coach in the history of college football isn’t exactly the easiest lift. But I can think of many coaches — yes, many — who wouldn’t have pulled off the quad box of losing to Vandy, the worst Oklahoma team since the 1990s, an FSU program in shambles, and a Michigan team that couldn’t throw a forward pass.

All as a double-digit favorite.

Let’s call it what it is: fiscally reckless. That or an unthinkable gamble by one of the most respected athletic directors in college sports.

Look, athletic directors are running departments with annual budgets surpassing anything that could’ve been dreamed as recent as 2020, and want to do everything they can to support their coaches and give them every opportunity to win big. It’s the prudent thing to do with such a large and potentially valuable asset.

But to do it mere months after LSU paid $53 million toBrian Kellyto not coach, after Penn State waswilling to pay James Franklin $49 millionbefore he took another job, and afterFlorida paid Billy Napier$21 million? To fire off a contract extension for a coach who is 20-8 in two seasons, knowing that these large buyouts have become financial anvils around the necks of universities?

The same universities whose presidents are — and I know this is going to shock you — the reason college sports is so fiscally dysfunctional in the first place.

It’s hilariously absurd that coaches in the SEC and Big Ten are complaining about paying top-dollar to keep a backup player, or that player will go to the Big 12 and ACC to make more money.

You might want to start with your own fiscally reckless houses first, fellas.

That or suck it up and take the buyout when it eventually goes sideways.

Matt Hayesis the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X at@MattHayesCFB.

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