A Texas trooper who had an altercation with South Carolina's Nyck Harbor after his touchdown on Saturday was sent home from the game, according to the state Department of Public Safety.
Harbor scored on an 80-yard reception in the second quarter of the game against Texas A&M and ran into the tunnel limping following the score. As he and three other players were walking back to the field, the trooper walked in between Harbor and another player and bumped into them as they passed each other.
The trooper and Harbor turned around and the trooper pointed at Harbor with both hands and said something to him. Harbor was quickly pushed away by his teammate and they continued to the field.
The public safety department issued a statement saying the trooper was sent home.
"Our Office of Inspector General (OIG) is also aware of the incident and will be further looking into the matter. No additional information will be released at this time," the statement reads.
The video was widely shared on social media with many commenting on it, including Lakers star LeBron James.
A Virginia woman says she walked into a local hospital for help with a collapsed breast implant, but ended up undergoing a surgery she claims was unnecessary and has been life-altering.
In her $25 million lawsuit, she also claims the surgeon who performed the operation should never have been allowed to perform breast reconstruction.
When Mandy Moore walked into the Richmond Breast Center on July 17, 2023, she says she only wanted one thing.
"I had told them I just wanted my implants removed, I wasn't 20 anymore, I had enough breast tissue," Moore said.
A mammogram showed one implant had collapsed, but Moore says when she arrived, she received shocking news from a nurse practitioner at the center.
According to her lawsuit, Moore alleges she was told that the breast surgeon in the practice, Dr. Sasa Grae Espino, had reviewed her records and that she was almost certain to develop breast cancer.
"It wasn't going to be a question of if but when, and I should really think about having a double mastectomy," Moore said they told her.
She previously underwent testing after her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, but those results were negative for gene mutations that increase breast cancer risk.
And yet she claims a nurse practitioner at the center and Espino encouraged her to undergo a preventative double mastectomy with implants.
"Did you feel like if I don't get this done, I will get breast cancer?" Investigative Reporter Melissa Hipolit asked Moore.
"Absolutely because that is what they told me, and I believed every word that they said," Moore replied.
So, Moore consented to the surgery.
On August 22, 2023, she met Espino for her pre-op appointment, but her lawsuit claims Espino never discussed alternative treatment options. Six days later, Espino performed the operation at CJW Hospitals.
By August of the following year, one of the new implants had flipped" and migrated," according to the lawsuit.
Moores operative note states this occurred "after being involved in a car crash."
So, Espino operated on Moore again, the lawsuit stated.
The wounds from this second surgery "did not heal and she developed more problems," the lawsuit claims.
Just two months later, Espino performed another revision surgery.
"I'm thinking what the hell is going on," Moore said.
At the end of 2024, Espino abruptly left Richmond Breast Center, according to the lawsuit, and moved to Alabama to take a part-time position at the University of Alabama at Birminghams Montgomery Breast Surgery Program.
A new breast surgeon at the Richmond Breast Center saw Moore and delivered news that she said left her devastated.
"She said to me she read all my medical, and she would never have done a double mastectomy," Moore said.
According to medical records quoted in the lawsuit, the new surgeon wrote that Moore's mammogram "did not show any concerning abnormalities" and that she "would not have recommended risk-reducing mastectomies."
She also noted Espino "is not a board-certified plastic surgeon.
"From the very beginning to the very end, this was mismanaged," Dr. Lewis Ladocsi, a board-certified plastic surgeon with Richmond Plastic Surgeons, said.
Ladocsi performs breast reconstruction surgeries and works with a lot of patients who have breast cancer or genetic mutations. The Scripps News Group station in Richmond, Virginia, showed him Moore's medical records.
"Although her breast cancer risk was high, about twice what is the normal breast cancer risk, the appropriate management for that situation was closer observation, it was not surgical intervention," Ladocsi said.
Moore has now filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Richmond Circuit Court.
"You can never go back after a woman has a mastectomy," Moore's attorney, Rand Robins with LANTZ & ROBINS, P.C., said. "To take that away from her when it never needed to happen is unforgivable."
Robins argues that Espino acted "in violation of the standard of care" and was "highly motivated by the money she earned for performing these procedures.
He also claims CJW Hospitals and HCA negligently credentialed Espino to perform reconstructive surgeries, alleging in the lawsuit that she was not professionally qualified to perform reconstructive and plastic surgery."
Espino completed a general surgery residency at VCU in 2016 and a breast surgical oncology fellowship at Northwestern in 2017, according to the Virginia Board of Medicines practitioner information.
Two years later, she talked about breast cancer screening and prevention on CBS 6's Virginia This Morning program.
"I want patients to look in the mirror and be happy with who they are and happy with what they look like in 5 years, 10 years, 15 years," Espino said on the show at the time.
According to the lawsuit, plastic surgeons generally perform breast reconstruction, and "it is very unusual for a breast surgeon to perform breast reconstruction procedures."
"Do breast surgeons [typically] do breast reconstruction like the implants?" Hipolit asked Dr. Ladocsi.
"Typically they do not," he replied. "The patients have to look for plastic surgeons when they have reconstruction of any sort, and they have to look for the interlocking arcs of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons on the doctor's business cards or logo or websites."
Moore has also filed a complaint with the Virginia Board of Medicine, and hopes to get strong enough for one more surgery to repair the damage.
But she says the emotional harm she's suffered is irreparable.
"Shame on you, shame on you, I can't even cry anymore because I am just so mad," she said.
CBS 6 tried to contact Dr. Espino.
Attorney Elizabeth Papoulakos, a partner with Harman Claytor Corrigan and Wellman, responded with the following statement:
"Dr. Espino is a board-certified general surgeon, currently licensed in Virginia and Alabama to practice medicine and surgery. Her practice is focused on the comprehensive breast care for women, including but not limited to mastectomies, breast reconstruction and breast conserving surgery. She also treats benign disease and performs surgical breast biopsy and reduction mammoplasty. Dr. Espino attended medical school at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, completed a general surgery residency at VCU Health in Richmond, Virginia, and completed a breast surgery fellowship at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. During this specialized fellowship, Dr. Espino was trained by surgical oncologists and plastic surgeons to perform breast oncologic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Espino received certification in oncoplastic breast surgery in 2023 from the National Consortium of Breast Surgery. Dr. Espino was previously employed as a breast surgeon with Richmond Breast Center in Richmond, Colonial Heights and Spotsylvania, Virginia. Dr. Espino was credentialed and had privileges at multiple Richmond area hospitals to practice oncoplastic breast surgery."
Chippenham and Johnston Willis Hospital, HCA, and another defendant in the lawsuit have filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing in part that she filed her lawsuit too late.
In its response, CJW denies it made the decision to permit Espino to perform complex breast reconstruction surgeries for patients and denies it was highly profitable for CJW when Espino performed mastectomies and breast reconstruction surgeries together.
When we asked HCA Healthcares Capital Division about Moores claims, spokesperson Wes Hester sent us the following statement:
"Dr. Sasa Espino was previously credentialed by Chippenham and Johnston-Willis Hospitals to perform breast reconstruction surgeries. Dr. Espinos request for privileges was carefully reviewed by a Credentials Committee and Medical Executive Committee. These committees evaluate many factors including the providers formal training, certifications, licenses, and past surgical experienceincluding procedures performed during residency, fellowship, and at other facilities. The committees also review case logs and other documentation to ensure the provider has demonstrated competency in the requested procedure. Our hospital providers are continuously evaluated through an ongoing professional practice review to maintain high standards of care."
In the days ahead, we'll introduce you to another former patient who has filed a lawsuit alleging Espino botched her breast surgery.
This story was initially reported by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy. To learn more about how we use AI in our newsroom, click here.This story was originally published by Melissa Hipolit with the Scripps News Group station in Richmond, Virginia.
Federal officials confirmed that a surge of immigration enforcement in North Carolina's largest city had begun as agents were seen making arrests in multiple locations Saturday.
"We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed," Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
Local officials, including Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, criticized such actions, saying in a statement they "are causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty."
"We want people in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to know we stand with all residents who simply want to go about their lives," said the statement, which was also signed by County Commissioner Mark Jerrell and Stephanie Sneed of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg education board.
The federal government hadn't previously announced the push. But Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden confirmed earlier this week that two federal officials had told him that Customs agents would be arriving soon.
Paola Garcia, a spokesperson with Camino a bilingual nonprofit serving families in Charlotte said she and her colleagues have observed an increase in Border Patrol and ICE agents pulling people over since Friday.
"Basically what we're seeing is that there have been lots of people being pulled over," Garcia said. "I even saw a few people being pulled over on the way to work yesterday, and then just from community members seeing an increase in ICE and border patrol agents in the city of Charlotte."
Willy Aceituno, a Honduran-born U.S. citizen, was on his way to work when he saw Border Patrol agents chasing people.
"I saw a lot of Latinos running. I wondered why they were running. The thing is, there were a lot of Border Patrol agents chasing them," he said.
Aceituno, a 46-year-old Charlotte resident, said he himself was stopped twice by Border Patrol agents. On the second encounter, they forced him out of his vehicle after breaking the car window and threw him to the ground.
"I told them, 'I'm an American citizen," he told The Associated Press. "They wanted to know where I was born, or they didn't believe I was an American citizen."
Finally, he was allowed to go free after showing documents that proved his citizenship.
Charlotte is a racially diverse city of more than 900,000 residents, including more than 150,000 who are foreign-born, according to local officials.
Local organizations responded by having trainings, trying to inform immigrants of their rights, and considering peaceful protests. President Donald Trump's administration has defended federal enforcement operations in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago as necessary for fighting crime and enforcing immigration laws.
But Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat with a Republican-majority legislature, said Friday that the "vast majority" of those detained in these operations have no criminal convictions, and some are American citizens."
He urged people to record any "inappropriate behavior" they see and notify local law enforcement about it.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department had emphasized ahead of time that it isn't involved in federal immigration enforcement.
Acceding to President Donald Trump's demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.
Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an eventful week in which congressional Republicans released nearly 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate and House Democrats seized on emails mentioning Trump.
Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn't explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to investigate. None of the men he mentioned in a social media post demanding the probe has been accused of sexual misconduct by any of Epstein's victims.
Hours before Bondi's announcement, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he would ask her, the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein's "involvement and relationship" with Clinton and others, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.
Trump, calling the matter "the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans," said the investigation should also include financial giant JPMorgan Chase, which provided banking services to Epstein, and "many other people and institutions."
"This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats," the Republican president wrote, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of alleged Russian interference in Trump's 2016 election victory over Bill Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Asked later Friday whether he should be ordering up such investigations, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: "I'm the chief law enforcement officer of the country. I'm allowed to do it."
In a July memo regarding the Epstein investigation, the FBI said, "We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties."
The president's demand for an investigation and Bondi's quick acquiescence is the latest example of the erosion of the Justice Department's traditional independence from the White House since Trump took office.
It is also an extraordinary attempt at deflection. For decades, Trump himself has been scrutinized for his closeness to Epstein though like the people he now wants investigated, he has not been accused of sexual misconduct by Epstein's victims.
None of Trump's proposed targets were accused of sex crimes
A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson, Patricia Wexler, said the company regretted associating with Epstein "but did not help him commit his heinous acts."
"The government had damning information about his crimes and failed to share it with us or other banks," she said. The company agreed previously to pay millions of dollars to Epstein's victims, who had sued arguing that the bank ignored red flags about criminal activity.
Clinton has acknowledged traveling on Epstein's private jet but has said through a spokesperson that he had no knowledge of the late financier's crimes. He also has never been accused of misconduct by Epstein's known victims.
Clinton's deputy chief of staff Angel Urea posted on X Friday: "These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The rest is noise meant to distract from election losses, backfiring shutdowns, and who knows what else."
Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, but was spared a long jail term when the U.S. attorney in Florida agreed not to prosecute him over allegations that he had paid many other children for sexual acts. After serving about a year in jail and a work release program, Epstein resumed his business and social life until federal prosecutors in New York revived the case in 2019. Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Summers and Hoffman had nothing to do with either case, but both were friendly with Epstein and exchanged emails with him. Those messages were among the documents released this week, along with other correspondence Epstein had with friends and business associates in the years before his death.
Nothing in the messages suggested any wrongdoing on the men's part, other than associating with someone who had been accused of sex crimes against children.
Summers, who served in Clinton's cabinet and is a former Harvard University president, previously said in a statement that he has "great regrets in my life" and that "my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgement."
On social media Friday night, Hoffman called for Trump to release all the Epstein files, saying they will show that "the calls for baseless investigations of me are nothing more than political persecution and slander." He added, "I was never a client of Epstein's and never had any engagement with him other than fundraising for MIT." Hoffman bankrolled writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against Trump.
After Epstein's sex trafficking arrest in 2019, Hoffman said he'd only had a few interactions with Epstein, all related to his fundraising for MIT's Media Lab. He nevertheless apologized, saying that "by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice."
Bondi, in her post, praised Clayton as "one of the most capable and trusted prosecutors in the country" and said the Justice Department "will pursue this with urgency and integrity to deliver answers to the American people."
Trump called Clayton "a great man, a great attorney," though he said Bondi chose him for the job.
Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump's first term, took over in April as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York the same office that indicted Epstein and won a sex trafficking conviction against Epstein's longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2021.
Trump suggested while campaigning last year that he'd seek to open up the government's case files on Epstein, but changed course in recent months, blaming Democrats and painting the matter as a "hoax" amid questions about what knowledge he may have had about Epstein's yearslong exploitation of underage girls.
On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three Epstein email exchanges that referenced Trump, including one from 2019 in which Epstein said the president "knew about the girls" and asked Maxwell to stop.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of having "selectively leaked emails" to smear Trump.
Soon after, Republicans on the committee disclosed a far bigger trove of Epstein's email correspondence, including messages he sent to longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon and to Britain's former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Andrew settled a lawsuit out of court with one of Epstein's victims, who said she had been paid to have sex with the prince.
The House is speeding toward a vote next week to force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein.
"I don't care about it, release or not," Trump said Friday. "If you're going to do it, then you have to go into Epstein's friends," he added, naming Clinton and Hoffman.
Still, he said: "This is a Democrat hoax. And a couple, a few Republicans have gone along with it because they're weak and ineffective." __
Bedayn reported from Denver. Associated Press writer Chris Megerian aboard Air Force One contributed to this report.
A man has been arrested after federal officials alleged that he destroyed property while trying to confront New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, Alina Habba.
Keith Michael Lisa, 51, has been arrested, FBI spokesperson Emily Molinari confirmed Saturday.
Molinari did not say when or where Lisa was arrested, what charges he might face, whether he was in jail, or when he might go before a judge. It's unclear whether Lisa is represented by a lawyer. The federal public defender in Newark didn't immediately respond to an electronic message Saturday asking whether it was representing Lisa.
The FBI on Friday had offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information about Lisa, saying he was wanted on charges of destroying government property and possession of a dangerous weapon inside a U.S. court facility. That bulletin said Lisa tried to enter a federal office building in downtown Newark on Wednesday with a bat and was turned away. Lisa returned without the bat, the bulletin said, and was admitted. He then went to the U.S. Attorney's office, where Habba works, and destroyed property, the bulletin said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a post on X on Saturday that the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations had worked together to arrest Lisa.
"No one will get away with threatening or intimidating our great U.S. attorneys or the destruction of their offices," Bondi wrote.
Habba was previously President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, representing him in various cases and acting as his spokesperson on legal matters. She served as a White House adviser briefly before Trump named her as interim U.S. attorney in March.
"We got him," Habba wrote on X on Saturday. "This Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi and our federal partners will not tolerate any acts of intimidation or violence toward law enforcement. So grateful to the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations for their tireless work to capture him. Now justice will handle him."
Bondi had vowed that federal officials would find and prosecute the person, writing earlier that "Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period."
Trump formally nominated Habba as New Jersey's permanent U.S. attorney on July 1, but the state's two Democratic U.S. senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim opposed it, stalling the confirmation process.
A few weeks later, as Habba's 120-day interim appointment was expiring, New Jersey federal judges moved to replace her with her second-in-command. Bondi then fired that prosecutor and renamed Habba as acting U.S. attorney.
Last month, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a case challenging her appointment. It hasn't ruled.
A Mega Millions player in Georgia won the $980 million jackpot on Friday, overcoming abysmal odds to win the huge prize.
The numbers selected were 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57 with the gold Mega Ball 7.
The winner overcame Mega Millions' astronomical odds of 1 in 290.5 million by matching all six numbers. The next drawing will be on Tuesday.
A winner can choose an annuity or the cash option a one-time, lump-sum payment of $452.2 million before taxes. If there are multiple jackpot winners, the prize is shared.
There were four Mega Millions jackpot wins earlier this year, but Friday's drawing was the 40th since the last win on June 27, a game record, officials said.
In September, two Powerball players in Missouri and Texas won a nearly $1.8 billion jackpot, one of the largest in the U.S. The current Mega Millions jackpot isn't among the top 10 U.S. lottery jackpots but would be the eighth-largest for Mega Millions since the game began in 2002.
Other prizes
Mega Millions offers lesser prizes in addition to the jackpot. The odds of winning any of these is 1 in 23.
There were more than 800,000 winners of non-jackpot prizes from the Nov. 11 drawing.
Tickets are $5 each and are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Half the proceeds from each Mega Millions ticket remains in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold. Local lottery agencies run the game in each jurisdiction and how profits are spent is dictated by law.
Gambling addictions
Sometimes, gambling can become addictive.
The National Council on Problem Gambling defines problem gambling as "gambling behavior that is damaging to a person or their family, often disrupting their daily life and career."
It is sometimes called gambling addiction or gambling disorder, a recognized mental health diagnosis. The group says anyone who gambles can be at risk.
It's National Problem Gambling Helpline, 1-800-522-4700, connects anyone seeking assistance with a gambling problem to local resources.
President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "'Wacky' Marjorie" and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year's midterms "if the right person runs."
The dismissal of Greene once the epitome of "Make America Great Again," sporting the signature red cap for President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months, as Greene has seemingly moderated her political profile. The three-term U.S. House member has increasingly dissented from Republican leaders, attacking them during the just-ended federal government shutdown and saying they need a plan to help people who are losing subsidies to afford health insurance policies.
Accusing the Georgia Republican of going "Far Left," Trump wrote that all he had witnessed from Greene in recent months is "COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" adding, of Greene's purported irritation that he doesn't return her phone calls, "I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day."
In a response on X, Greene wrote Friday that Trump had "attacked me and lied about me." She added a screenshot of a text she said she had sent the president earlier in the day about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, which she said "is what sent him over the edge."
Greene called it "astonishing really how hard he's fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level," referencing next week's U.S. House vote over releasing the Epstein files.
Writing that she had supported Trump "with too much of my precious time, too much of my own money, and fought harder for him even when almost all other Republicans turned their back and denounced him," Greene added, "I don't worship or serve Donald Trump."
Trump's post seemingly tied a bow of finality to fissures that widened following this month's off-cycle elections, in which voters in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races flocked to Democrats in large part over concerns about the cost of living.
Last week, Greene told NBC News that "watching the foreign leaders come to the White House through a revolving door is not helping Americans," saying that Trump needs to focus on high prices at home rather than his recent emphasis on foreign affairs. Trump responded by saying that Greene had "lost her way."
Asked about Greene's comments earlier Friday as he flew from Washington to Florida, Trump reiterated that he felt "something happened to her over the last month or two," saying that, if he hadn't gone to China to meet leader Xi Jinping, there would have been negative ramifications for jobs in Georgia and elsewhere because China would have kept its curbs on magnet exports.
Saying that people have been calling him, wanting to challenge Greene, Trump added, "She's lost a wonderful conservative reputation."
Greene's discontent dates back at least to May, when she announced she wouldn't run for the Senate against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff, while attacking GOP donors and consultants who feared she couldn't win. In June, she publicly sided with Tucker Carlson after Trump called the commentator "kooky" in a schism that emerged between MAGA and national security hardliners over possible U.S. efforts at regime change in Iran.
That only intensified in July, when Greene said she wouldn't run for governor. Then, she attacked a political "good ole boy" system, alleging it was endangering Republican control of the state. Greene embarked on a charm offensive in recent weeks, with interviews and appearances in media aimed at people who aren't hardcore Trump supporters. Asked on comedian Tim Dillon's podcast if she wanted to run for president in 2028, Greene said in October, "I hate politics so much" and just wanted "to fix problems" but didn't give a definitive answer.
That climaxed with an appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show "Real Time," followed days later by a Nov. 4 appearance on ABC's "The View." Some observers began pronouncing Greene as reasonable as she trashed Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana for not calling Republicans back to Washington and coming up with a health care plan.
"I feel like I'm sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene," said "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin.
"Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie," said co-host Joy Behar.
"I'm not a Democrat," Greene replied. "I think both parties have failed."
Disney reached a new agreement with YouTube Friday to return content from major networks like ESPN and ABC to YouTube TV's subscription service.
"Subscribers should see channels including ABC, ESPN, and FX returning to their service over the course of the day," YouTube said in a social media message Friday.
Disney channels became inaccessible on YouTube TV at the end of October due to unresolved contract disputes. Channels offering content from ESPN, ABC, National Geographic and some college sports went dark on YouTube's platform.
YouTube TV originally said Disney's terms for the deal were too expensive and limiting for its users, and accused Disney of using its content as leverage in negotiations.
Disney countered that it wasn't getting fair rates from YouTube. It said YouTube, which is owned by Google, was using its market dominance to eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms weve successfully negotiated with every other distributor.
The blackout ran for about two weeks.
The companies say their new agreement will extend for multiple years.
This new agreement reflects our continued commitment to delivering exceptional entertainment and evolving with how audiences choose to watch," the companies said in a joint statement.
We are pleased that our networks have been restored in time for fans to enjoy the many great programming options this weekend, including college football.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to roll back some of the restrictions on commercial flights it implemented at 40 major U.S. airports during the shutdown.
The agency says the current mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% beginning at 6 a.m. Saturday, even though the record 43-day shutdown ended Nov. 12. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said restrictions would remain until staffing at air traffic control facilities stabilizes and safety metrics improve.
The rollback comes amid continued improvements in staffing levels, the FAA and Department of Transportation said Friday, adding that they will continue to monitor the situation throughout the weekend and evaluate whether normal operations can resume.
By Friday afternoon, the flight tracking website FlightAware showed just 159 cancellations for Saturday in the U.S.
The unprecedented order, in place since Nov. 7, has affected thousands of flights. The head of the FAA said troubling data showed the measure was needed to ease pressure on the aviation system as the shutdown entered its second month and controller absences rose. Unpaid for more than a month, many controllers cited financial strain and the need to take on side jobs.
The flight cuts started at 4% and later grew to 6%. The FAA originally had a 10% target, but officials held off on further rate increases because they said more controllers were coming to work amid news that Congress was close to reaching a deal to end the shutdown.
Duffy hasnt shared the specific safety data that prompted the cuts, but he cited reports during the shutdown of planes getting too close in the air, more runway incursions and pilot concerns about controllers responses.
How long it will take for the aviation system to stabilize is unclear. The flight restrictions upended airline operations in just a matter of days. Many planes were rerouted and arent where theyre supposed to be. Airlines for America, the trade group of U.S. airlines, warned there could be residual effects for days.
Some experts predicted the problems could linger longer but airline executives were optimistic that flying could quickly return to normal ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel week.
The nationwide shortage of controllers isnt new, but the shutdown put a spotlight on the problem and likely made it worse. Duffy said that by the end of the shutdown, 15-20 controllers were retiring daily and some younger controllers were leaving the profession.
Health officials in Washington state say they have identified the nation's first human case of bird flu since February, pending confirmatory testing.
A Grays Harbor County, Washington, resident preliminarily tested positive for the infection, the Washington State Department of Health said Thursday. Health officials say they're still investigating the source of the infection, including contact with wild or domestic birds.
The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions, state health officials said. They developed a high fever, confusion, and respiratory distress and were hospitalized in early November. The person's treatment is ongoing.
In 2024 and early 2025, infections were reported in 70 people in the U.S. most of them workers on dairy and poultry farms. One person died, but most of the infected people had mild illnesses.
While the U.S. hadnt seen a human infection in months, bird flu cases have been happening recently in poultry flocks and livestock.
In the past month, nearly 70 U.S. poultry flocks either commercial or backyard were found to have bird flu infections, with more than 1.7 million birds affected, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. The last confirmed livestock detection was about a month ago in Idaho dairy cows, according to USDA.
The CDC characterizes the risk to the general public as low, although it is higher for people who work with cattle and poultry or who are in contact with wild birds.
Lawmakers in Indiana say an effort to redraw congressional districts in the sate will not move forward.
In a Friday statement, Indiana state Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said there was not enough support in the chamber for a redistricting push.
"Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state's congressional maps," the statement read. "Today, I'm announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December."
Indiana's Senate will next reconvene on January 5.
Late in October, Indiana's Republican Governor Mike Braun called a special session to pursue redistricting, following pressure from President Donald Trump on multiple states to secure more seats in the U.S. house.
On Friday Gov. Braun criticized lawmakers' decision not to pursue the redistricting.
""I called for our legislators to convene to ensure Hoosiers voices in Washington, DC are not diluted by the democrats gerrymandering," the governor's statement read. "Our state senators need to do the right thing and show up to vote for fair maps. Hoosiers deserve to know where their elected officials stand on important issues."
Republican-led legislatures in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have undertaken their own redistricting efforts.
Democrats in California responded with a ballot measure this November to pursue their own favorable changes. Voters approved the proposal, which could give Democrats a new five-seat edge in the House of Representatives.
He received a job offer after he listed his contact information in the Maryland Film Office directory.
"Put in their name, info and resume and you're just in a directory that assistant directors or producers can kind of go to if they need extra hands on a project, so that they contact you," Carr said.
As a recent college graduate, Carr was looking for production work. So when someone claiming to be film producer Jamie Buckner offered him a job, he listened.
"They said they wanted to take me on as a production assistant and that they were willing to pay $1,500, which is way more than I think anyone is ever paid to be a production assistant," Carr said.
But he wanted to know more about the opportunity and sent his name, address, and phone number as requested.
"They sent, like it was a whole list of like lighting equipment, and they said they were going to pay me up front and that they would walk me through purchasing the equipment and everything, and that's when it really clicked for me that it was like definitely not legitimate," Carr said.
The scammer even asked to meet at a local restaurant. Instead, Carr reached out to someone he trusted his mother, Nancy, who works with AARP to warn others about scams.
"So I just sent her screenshots of some of the emails I received, and I was like, 'Hey, does this look like a scam?' And she said yes," Carr said.
"Anyone in my circle, I want them to have good things and so I didn't want to automatically, you know, be the negative person saying this isn't real, but it only took me a few seconds to really get out of the ether and say no, this really isn't real," Carr's mother said.
Job scams are on the rise, with 75,364 reports in the first half of the year and a median loss of $2,100, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
"We've got people who've been furloughed. The job market here is really tight, and so there are a lot of people, especially with the holidays coming, there are a lot of people who are looking, if not for a permanent job, they're looking for at least a gig to get them through," Nancy Carr said.
Her advice for anyone who thinks they may be targeted by a scam is to pause, reflect and protect: Dont act too quickly, and take a moment to consider whether the offer and pay make sense.
She advises to also search the name of the company or hiring manager plus the words "scam" or "complaint." That's how Eamonn found a warning about this job scam online.
A spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Commerce, which is connected to the Maryland Film Office, said: "We are aware of this scam which apparently has been going on for quite a while. It has been reported to the state police for their follow up. Also we do not believe the Maryland Crew and Resource Directory is where they are getting names from."
The Scripps News Group also reached out to the talent agency representing the real Jamie Buckner, but has not yet heard back.
"You want it to work. You want it to be the job. But you just have to really reflect, talk to other people about it. Have you had experience with this company? Have you had experience with this kind of work?" Nancy Carr recommended.
No legitimate employer will send you a check, ask you to deposit it, and then buy equipment or send money back. When that check bounces, you're left owing the bank.
Click here for additional information from the FTC on how to spot and avoid job scams.
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The Trump administration will deploy federal Border Patrol agents to Charlotte, North Carolina, for its ongoing immigration crackdown as early as this weekend, according to Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden.
The sheriff said he was contacted by two federal officials and was told U.S. Border Patrol agents could arrive Saturday or the beginning of next week. However, details plans were not disclosed.
Some local officials said they've already received unconfirmed reports of plainclothes officers in various neighborhoods.
The deployment to the Queen City comes after border patrol agents spent about a month in Chicago, prompting protests and demonstrations.
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles and North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein have not said if they received the same intel.
In a presser expressing opposition to the deployment, Charlotte City Council Member-Elect JD Mazuera Arias said, "This is not about public safety. It is not about finding criminals. It is about fear. It is by quotas, and it's about control."
Other state and local officials released a statement earlier this week in solidarity with their immigrant communities.
"More than 150,000 foreign-born residents live in our city, contributing billions to our economy and enriching every neighborhood with culture, hard work, and hope," it stated. "Our message is simple: Mecklenburg County and Charlotte are communities of belonging. We will stand together, look out for one another, and ensure that fear never divides the city we all call home."
A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharmas latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
The deal overseen by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane would require members of the Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7 billion over 15 years. The new agreement replaces one that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of the family against future lawsuits. The judge said he would explain his decision in a hearing on Tuesday.
It's among the largest in a series of opioid settlements brought by state and local governments against drugmakers, wholesalers and pharmacies. It could close a long chapter and maybe the entire book on a legal odyssey over efforts to hold the company to account for its role in an opioid crisis connected to 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999, including from heroin and illicit fentanyl.
Lawyers and judges involved have described it as one of the most complicated bankruptcies in U.S. history. Ultimately, attorneys representing Purdue, cities, states, counties, Native American tribes, people with addiction and others were nearly unanimous in urging the judge to approve the bankruptcy plan for Purdue, which filed for protection six years ago as it faced lawsuits with claims that grew to trillions of dollars.
Purdue lawyer Marshall Huebner told the judge that he wishes he could conjure up $40 trillion or $100 trillion to compensate those who have suffered unfathomable loss. But without that possibility, he said: The plan is entirely lawful, does the greatest good for the greatest number in the shortest available timeframe.
The opposition is much quieter this time around
The saga has been emotional and full of contentious arguments between the many groups that took Purdue to court, often exposing a possible mismatch between the quest for justice and the practical role of bankruptcy court.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a previous deal because it said it was improper for Sackler family members to receive immunity from lawsuits over opioids. In the new arrangement, entities who don't opt into the settlement can sue them. Family members are collectively worth billions, but much of their assets are held in trusts in offshore accounts that would be hard to access through lawsuits.
This time, the government groups involved have reached an even fuller consensus and there's been mostly subdued opposition from individuals. Out of more than 54,000 personal injury victims who voted on whether the plan should be accepted. just 218 said no. A larger number of people who are part of that group didn't vote.
Unlike with other proceedings, there were no protests outside the courthouse.
A handful of objectors spoke during the three-day hearing, sometimes interrupting the judge. Some said that only the victims, not the states and other government entities, should receive the funds in the settlement. Others wanted the judge to find the members of the Sackler family criminally liable something Lane said is beyond the scope of the bankruptcy court, but that the settlement doesn't bar prosecutors from pursuing.
A Florida woman whose husband struggled with addiction after being given OxyContin following an accident told the court that the deal isn't enough.
The natural laws of karma suggest the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma should pay for what they have done, Pamela Bartz Halaschak said via video.
Deal would be among the biggest opioid settlements
A flood of lawsuits filed by government entities against Purdue and other drugmakers, drug wholesalers and pharmacy chains began about a decade ago.
Most of the major ones have already settled for a total of about $50 billion, with most of the money going to fight the opioid crisis. Theres no mechanism for tracking where it all goes or overarching requirement to evaluate whether the spending is effective. Those hit the hardest generally havent had a say.
Besides contributing cash, members of the Sackler family would formally give up ownership of the company. None have been on its board or received payments since 2018. Unlike a similar hearing four years ago, none were called to testify in this week's hearing.
The company would get a name change to Knoa Pharma and new overseers who would dedicate future profits to battling the opioid crisis. That could happen in the spring of 2026.
Family members would be barred from involvement in companies that sell opioids anywhere in the world. And they would not have their names added to institutions in exchange for charitable contributions. The name has already been removed from museums and universities.
Company documents, including many that would normally be subject to lawyer-client privilege, are to be made public.
Some people hurt by Purdues opioids would receive some money
Unlike the other major opioid settlements, individuals harmed by Purdues products would be in line for some money as part of the settlement. About $850 million would be set aside for them, with more than $100 million of that amount carved out to help children born dealing with opioid withdrawal.
All of money for the individual victims would be delivered next year.
About 139,000 people have active claims for the money. Many of them, however, have not shown proof that they were prescribed Purdues opioids and will receive nothing. Assuming about half of the individual claimants would qualify, lawyers expect that those who had prescriptions for at least six months would receive about $16,000 each and those who had them more briefly would get around $8,000, before legal fees that would reduce what people actually receive.
One woman who had a family member suffer from opioid addiction told the court by video Thursday that the settlement doesn't help people with substance use disorder.
Tell me how you guys can sleep at night knowing people are going to get so little money they cant do anything with it, asked Laureen Ferrante of Staten Island, New York.
Christopher Shore, a lawyer representing a group of individual victims, said in court Friday that the settlement is a better deal than taking on Sackler family members in court. Some Sacklers are bad people, he said, but the reality is that sometimes bad people win in litigation.
Most of the money is to go to state and local governments to be used in their efforts to mitigate damage of the opioid epidemic. Overdose death numbers have been dropping in the past few years, a decline experts believe is partly due to the impact of settlement dollars.
U.S. President Donald Trump was at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday for a wreath-laying event to honor those who have served as the nation celebrated Veterans Day.
He was introduced to the audience in the amphitheater by Vice President JD Vance, a former Marine. President Trump and Vice President Vance both wore gloves and overcoats against the cold in Washington, and the president also had a red scarf.
Today, to every veteran we love our veterans we say the words too often left unsaid: Thank you for your service. Thank you," President Trump said.
"We love you. We salute you. And we will never forget what youve done to keep America safe, sovereign and free," he added.
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Trump lays wreath at Arlington Cemetery to mark Veterans Day
President Trump also acknowledged a long list of administration officials present at the ceremony, including House Speaker Mike Johnson. He saluted Johnson for the big victory of the government being on the verge of reopening after a lengthy shutdown.
President Trump said hed like to personally acknowledge more people attending, but that low temperatures made him rethink that: Its a little cold.
President Trump then laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then reached out and touched the wreath before taps was played. He, Vance and other top administration officials saluted throughout the song.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to continue limiting SNAP benefits paid in November, extending a temporary stay that it had placed on payments last week.
The court's order is set to expire at Midnight on Thursday, as a potential deal to reopen government and fund SNAP draws closer. Congress is widely expected to finalize a bipartisan funding deal to reopen the government, which is now awaiting a House vote, later this week. As part of the deal, SNAP is expected to be fully funded through the fiscal year.
The Trump administration has signaled it will support that bipartisan deal.
"We have support from enough Democrats and we're going to be opening up our country," President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon. "I'll abide by the deal. The deal is very good."
Still, the more than month-long shutdown has put significant strain on the SNAP system and the millions of Americans who depend on it to pay for food. The Trump administration has told states like New Jersey and Hawaii that they are not going to be reimbursed for money already spent on SNAP and EBT cards while the legal fight plays out.
In the last weeks, SNAP funding became the critical focus of a back-and-forth legal fight during the shutdown. The administration initially said it could not use contingency funds to cover full November SNAP benefits. After several states and nonprofit groups sued, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the government to use all available funding to fully cover the benefits, rather than only a partial amount.
The administration appealed that ruling, eventually bringing the issue to the Supreme Court. On Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a temporary stay to allow the appeals process to play out. On Sunday, the appeals court declined to extend that stay, leaving the lower courts order requiring full benefits in place.
Hannah Everett is a first-time mom, but she said she knew in her gut something was wrong with her 4-month-old baby, Piper. She never could have guessed the issue would be her organic baby formula.
Piper has been hospitalized at Golisano Children's at the University of Kentucky since Saturday, after Hannah discovered they had been using formula that was recalled for a potential link to cases of infant botulism.
Everett said she first noticed Piper wasn't eating as much and was having fewer bowel movements.
Everett's grandmother was babysitting Piper when a friend reached out to her about the ByHeart infant formula recall.
"So I immediately texted my grandmother. I was like, you need to check the lot numbers on our cans, any cans in the trash, everything, and sure enough, it was an empty can that we had just completely finished," Everett said.
The family had purchased the formula on Amazon, with no way of knowing it would later be linked to the type of bacteria that produces a toxin that causes botulism.
Dr. Sean Michael McTigue, division chief of pediatric infectious disease at Golisano Children's at UK, emphasized that parents shouldn't panic over the recall.
"The vast majority of babies who have eaten this formula are going to be fine. Infantile botulism, even with known exposure, is very rare," McTigue said.
The doctor explained that infant botulism occurs when babies ingest spores that can germinate in the gut and produce the toxin, causing muscle weakness and other symptoms. In some cases, those symptoms could be severe.
Parents should be alert for several warning signs of infant botulism, including:
Constipation Inability to suck from a bottle or difficulty feeding Trouble swallowing Pooling of breast milk or formula in the mouth Drooling Gurgling or choking sounds when eating Becoming weak and floppy
"But if you have a baby who has become constipated and is now showing difficulty feeding, really, those gurgling noises, milk drooling from the mouth, the inability to suck and swallow normally, those would be things that would make a parent want to seek medical care because that is something that's not going to be normal," McTigue said.
If warning signs are present, McTigue assured parents that infant botulism is treatable and babies recover fully with proper care.
"What is absolutely known is that this is something that is completely reversible. So, with treatment, over time, as these neuromuscular junctions repair themselves, the full expectation is for that baby to return to 100% their normal healthy baseline," McTigue said.
Meanwhile, Piper's IV has been removed and she's returning to her normal, smiley self. While she may need a short-term feeding tube, doctors tell the Everetts that she's on the mend.
"So we did get lucky that one of my girlfriends saw it so quickly and we acted so quickly. People here at UK have just been amazing, so we've just been very lucky," Everett said.
Everett said she's grateful she trusted her instincts and immediately sought medical care for her daughter.
A wine company is recalling bottles of Prosecco sold at Costco due to the risk of bottles shattering and causing lacerations.
F&F Fine Wines has announced a recall of Kirkland Signature Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG. The bottles pose a risk of breaking or shattering, and may then cut the user.
The company says there have been ten reports of shattering bottles, and one case where a user was injured as a result.
The drink was sold in green glass bottles with the UPC 196633883742. The recall applies to more than 941,000 individual bottles sold in Costco stores.
Affected bottles were sold between April and August of 2025, in Costco stores in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Users are directed to throw away any recalled bottles and contact Ethica Wines to arrange a refund from Costco.
A new study reveals pregnant women in the U.S. face a 37% higher risk of being killed by gun violence than non-pregnant women, highlighting a deadly intersection of domestic violence and gun access.
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School analyzed more than 7,000 homicides across 37 states from 2018 to 2021, finding homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women. Firearms were used in nearly 80% of these cases.
The study, published Monday in JAMA Network Open, shows that states with higher gun ownership rates have significantly more pregnancy-related homicides. For every 1% increase in state-level firearm ownership, firearm homicides of pregnant women increased by 8%.
Louisiana topped the list with 111.4 firearm homicides per 1 million live births, while several states including Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma reported none during the study period.
"Our findings suggest that risks of pregnancy-associated homicide are shaped not only by individual factors but also by broader systems of inequity," the researchers said.
Black women accounted for the highest proportion of victims at nearly 58% despite representing a smaller share of the overall population.
Women aged 20 to 24 years old were the highest age group proportion of homicides in pregnant women, the study said.
Most suspects in these homicides were men, and the majority of killings occurred at home or in medical settings shortly after emergency arrival, the study said.
"With more than three-quarters of these deaths caused by firearms, firearm homicide must be considered a maternal health crisis," the researchers wrote in their conclusion. "These deaths are not random. They are predictable and therefore preventable. Preventing homicide during pregnancy will require urgent and coordinated actions from policymakers, public health advocates, and health care systems to address this leading cause of death in pregnant women."
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