PHILADELPHIA — A week after the Detroit Lions’ offense kicked into gear, it found itself stuck in the mud at Lincoln Financial Field.

In a game that was supposed to be a litmus test for this team’s title hopes, the Lions came up short offensively on just about every big play against the reigning Super Bowl champions.

Detroit went 4-for-15 on third down and tied an NFL record, according to TruMedia data, by whiffing on all five of its fourth-down attempts as they were K.O.’d by the title defenders in a 16-9 loss on “Sunday Night Football.”

Detroit’s key cogs in the passing game — quarterback Jared Goff, wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and the entire offensive line — all earned their fair share of the blame for Detroit’s shortcomings.

The Lions (6-4) entered the day in first place in the NFC North and are now in third. The Eagles are 8-3.

Could the protection have been better? Sure. The Eagles’ pass rush was humming on Sunday night, and it was most noticeable during a fourth-and-goal from the 4-yard line: Goff had a wide-open Brock Wright for a would-be touchdown, but with edge rusher Jaelen Phillips, the Eagles’ shiny deadline acquisition, barreling down on him after cleanly beating Penei Sewell, he made an ill-advised throw to St. Brown that fell incomplete.

Still, a number of the conversions just came down to poor execution — an underthrown pass here, a blatant drop there — as the Lions let the opportunity they’ve waited for slip right through their fingers. Goff targeted St. Brown six times on third and fourth down, connecting on none of them. He targeted Jameson Williams once on fourth down; the pass was low, but catchable, and dropped.

Goff set a career-low in completion rate (14-for-37, 37.8%) as he threw for 255 yards, a touchdown and an interception with a passer rating of 60.1. St. Brown had two catches for 42 yards on a whopping 12 targets. Williams had four catches for 88 yards and a 40-yard touchdown.

The Lions’ defense held up its end of the bargain, holding the Eagles to 273 yards of offense and 3-for-13 on third down. It was repeatedly put in bad spots — the Eagles had three drive starts in Lions territory during the first half, including an early field-goal drive that started at Detroit’s 11 after an interception. Saquon Barkley was held to 3.2 yards per carry (83 yards on 26 attempts).

Not all the blame can be attributed to the players. Sunday night was not Dan Campbell’s best coaching performance. He kept going for it on fourth down until perhaps the most important one of the game; with 5:10 remaining and the Lions down 10, Detroit surrendered their weapons and punted it away.

Detroit miraculously had a chance to get back in the game on Philadelphia’s final possession. After cutting the deficit to 16-9, the Lions appeared to get a stop on third-and-8 with 1:47 remaining that would’ve given them the ball back, but the officials — who’d let handsy cornerback play go all game — threw a pass-interference flag on Lions cornerback Rock Ya-Sin.

Of course, the Eagles deserve their credit, too. They were far and away the better team on Sunday night, which is perhaps a more difficult reality to grapple with than the one in which the Lions simply wasted their opportunities.

Philadelphia’s pass rush sure looks Super Bowl-caliber, and they made sure Goff felt the heat down-in, down-out. He was 0-for-10 with an interception when pressured, according to Pro Football Focus live data.

And the Eagles’ run defense was as mean as ever. Jahmyr Gibbs was limited to 39 yards on 12 carries — but had a career-high 107 receiving yards — as David Montgomery carried it six times for 27 yards.

The Lions got a quick stop to start the game and immediately started moving the ball on offense. The Eagles reversed the momentum when Jordan Davis deflected a pass at the line of scrimmage, and it was intercepted by Cooper DeJean, who returned the ball to Detroit’s 11-yard line.

Detroit’s defense held and limited the Eagles — the NFL’s No. 1 red zone offense entering Sunday — to a field goal that made it 3-0 at 9:43 in the first quarter.

The Lions gambled on fourth-and-1 from their own 48-yard line, rushing to the line after getting stuffed on third-and-short to try another handoff. But Gibbs was stuffed again, resulting in a turnover on downs. But Detroit’s defense got another stop, forcing a three-and-out on the ensuing possession.

Detroit was stopped again in its own territory during the following series. Facing a fourth-and-2 at their own 43, the Lions ran a direct snap to Grant Stuard, who was stuffed short of the line for another turnover on downs. The Eagles turned this stop into points, adding a 34-yard field goal off the foot of Jake Elliott for a 6-0 lead with 6:02 to go in the half.

The failed fake punt was the first of two costly coaching decisions in the first half.

The Lions’ offense got on track in the blink of an eye, taking the ball 74 yards in three plays as Jameson Williams exploded for a 40-yard touchdown. He caught a pass from Goff over the middle and accelerated into the end zone, drawing a personal foul for excessive celebration when he celebrated by hugging the goalpost.

The Eagles then marched right down the field for a touchdown to regain the lead near the end of the first half. After A.J. Brown caught an 11-yard pass to set up first-and-goal at the 5-yard line with more than a minute left in the half, Campbell — who had all three timeouts in his pocket — allowed Philadelphia to burn off most of the remaining clock and give the ball back to Detroit with a 13-6 lead and only 16 seconds left in the half.

Photo gallery from Sunday Night Football matchup between the Lions and Eagles

Jalen Hurts gave Philadelphia the lead with a 1-yard rushing touchdown via the “Tush Push,” the Eagles’ infamous quarterback sneak.

The Lions caught a break early in the third quarter when Philadelphia was called for a false start before attempting the “Tush Push,” which NBC rules analyst Terry McAulay said should have been a neutral-zone infraction on Lions defensive tackle Tyleik Williams.

Detroit’s defense got off the field with a stop on the ensuing third-and-6, then raced down the field behind some significant gains from Gibbs, including a 42-yard reception. The Lions again failed to convert on a money down as Goff, under heavy pressure, threw an incompletion to a covered St. Brown instead of a wide-open Brock Wright on fourth-and-goal at the 4 for the turnover on downs.

Takeaways as lifeless Lions offense flounders in 16-9 loss to Eagles

The Lions’ defense continued to get stops as the offense continued to sputter. Detroit had another fourth-down attempt near midfield near the end of the third quarter, but again the St. Brown connection faltered, as Goff misfired to his most trusted weapon for Detroit’s fifth turnover on downs.

The Eagles took a big step toward putting the game away when they added a 49-yard field goal from Elliott with 10:15 remaining.

The Lions gave themselves an opportunity when they stopped a pair of “Tush Pushes” to force a turnover on downs in Philadelphia territory with 2:57 to go. Detroit made it a one-score game with a 54-yard field goal from Jake Bates.

But after kicking the ball away with all three timeouts, the Lions couldn’t get the stop required as officials made a controversial third-down pass interference call on Ya-Sin to all but end the game.

It was a cold and blustery evening at Lincoln Financial Field, when the the Detroit Lions arrived to face a Philadelphia Eagles squad that had won seven of their first nine games of the season.

Dan Campbell is quite familiar with the hostile environment, as he spent several seasons playing for the New York Giants.

“To go back to all this, in my own history I was in the NFC East for seven years. Philly, I know it well and it’s a special place to play,” Campbell said in an interview with FOX-2. “It is hostile, it’s gonna be as hostile as a place we’ve ever been to. It is an electric atmosphere, man. Our guys are going to love this. We get a champion, get to play a champ, it’s gonna be a heavyweight fight. We’ve got to be on cue, and it’s just the type of game that we love, so this is perfect.”

Both teams understood the significant ramifications of the NFC heavyweight showdown.

After 60 mins of action, the Lions’ offense was not able to overcome Vic Fangio’s stingy Eagles defense.

Next up is a home contest against the New York Giants at Ford Field.

Here are several takeaways from the Lions’ 16-9 loss to the Eagles:

 

Eagles defense forces early turnover

After Detroit won the opening coin toss, the defense was able to force a stop on the Eagles opening offensive drive.

Campbell decided to start the game on their first possession passing the football, finding Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jahmyr Gibbs for early completions.

Unfortunately, the Eagles defensive line made a play early in the Week 11 contest. Jordan Davis was able to tip a Jared Goff pass that was intended for tight end Brock Wright, resulting in Cooper DeJean interception that was returned to the Lions 11-yard line.

After a sudden change of possession, Detroit’s defense held, as the Eagles were forced to settle for a Jake Elliott 27-yard field goal.

Lions offense struggles to establish rhythm in first half

It was tough sledding for Detroit’s offense throughout their first four offensive possessions.

Last week, Detroit was able to move the football quite easily. In the rougher weather conditions, the ability to extend drives early in the game proved to be quite difficult.

Unfortunately, rookie right guard Tate Ratledge left the game during the team’s third offensive possession. He was replaced by Trystan Colon for a brief period of time before returning to action.

Eagles linebacker Jaelan Phillips made his presence felt by sacking Goff in the first quarter.

Early in the second quarter, Campbell made the decision to go for it on fourth-and-1 near midfield. The Eagles defensive line, which stuffed Jahmyr Gibbs the play prior, was able to again stuff Detroit’s rushing attack, forcing a turnover on downs.

Jameson Williams helps team, also hurts team

The Eagles capitalized on sniffingn out Detroit’s attempt at a fake punt in the second quarter.

After taking a 6-0 lead, the Lions found their top two offensive weapons on their sixth offensive drive of the first half.

Amon-Ra St. Brown was on the receiving end of a 34-yard reception. The very next play, Goff found Jameson Williams, who was then able to easily scamper for a 40-yard touchdown.

After jumping into the uprights, the speedy wideout incurred an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, forcing kicker Jake Bates to try a 48-yard extra-point. Williams celebration ended up costing his team.

In tougher conditions, Bates sent the extra point wide right, keeping the game tied at 6-6.

Super Bowl champs put clamps on Lions’ offense, Eagles prevail

Lions do not execute at championship level on fourth down

Last week, Gibbs recorded three touchdowns against Washington, becoming the sixth player in NFL history to score 40 prior to his 24th birthday.

On Detroit’s first drive of the second half, the team was not able to execute on fourth down, as a Goff pass was low and unable to be caught by Williams.

Following a defensive stop, Gibbs sparked the offense, assisting the team move down the field and into the red zone. He took a screen pass for a big gain, bursting 42 yards to the Philadelphia 24-yard line.

However, after Gibbs took three more runs inside the Eagles’ 10, the drive stalled out. On fourth down, the Eagles defensive line pressured Goff, forcing the incompletion on a toss to St. Brown.

Photo gallery from Sunday Night Football matchup between the Lions and Eagles

Eagles defensive line exposes Lions offensive line

The Eagles feature one of the top defensive line units in the league. As the game went on, and noticeably in the third quarter, the offensive line struggled to protect Goff enough to allow him enough time to make throws.

It was pointed out on the television broadcast just how much difficulty Detroit’s offensive line had with Phillips and Jordan Davis.

As a result, Goff was regularly pressured, hurried and struggled to consistently find his receivers in stride or in position to allow for yards after the catch. He had multiple passes batted at the line of scrimmage and was forced off platform routinely.

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The Detroit Lions’ offense couldn’t get anything going in their Sunday Night Football matchup, turning the ball over on downs five times in a 16-9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, their fourth loss of the season, dropping them to third in the NFC North standings.

Here are all the sights from the game:

Takeaways as lifeless Lions offense flounders in 16-9 loss to Eagles

Super Bowl champs put clamps on Lions’ offense, Eagles prevail

President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.

We have nothing to hide, and its time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

Trump's statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters.

The presidents shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it in the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.

It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP. In his return to office and in his second term as president, Trump has largely consolidated power in the Republican Party.

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I DONT CARE! Trump wrote in his social media post. All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT.

Lawmakers who support the bill have been predicting a big win in the House this week with a deluge of Republicans voting for it, bucking the GOP leadership and the president.

In his opposition to the proposal, Trump even reached out to two of the Republican lawmakers who signed it. One, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, met last week with administration officials in the White House Situation Room to discuss it.

The bill would force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison. Information about Epsteins victims or ongoing federal investigations would be allowed to be redacted.

There could be 100 or more votes from Republicans, said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., among the lawmakers discussing the legislation on Sunday news show appearances. I'm hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this legislation when it comes up for a vote.

Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced a discharge petition in July to force a vote on their bill. That is a rarely successful tool that allows a majority of members to bypass House leadership and force a floor vote.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had panned the discharge petition effort and sent members home early for their August recess when the GOP's legislative agenda was upended in the clamoring for an Epstein vote. Democrats also contend the seating of Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., was stalled to delay her becoming the 218th member to sign the petition and gain the threshold needed to force a vote. She became the 218th signature moments after taking the oath of office last week.

Massie said Johnson, Trump and others who have been critical of his efforts would be taking a big loss this week.

I'm not tired of winning yet, but we are winning, Massie said.

The view from GOP leadership

Johnson seems to expect the House will decisively back the Epstein bill.

Well just get this done and move it on. Theres nothing to hide, adding that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been releasing far more information than the discharge petition, their little gambit.

The vote comes at a time when new documents are raising fresh questions about Epstein and his associates, including a 2019 email that Epstein wrote to a journalist that said Trump knew about the girls. The White House has accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the Republican president.

Johnson said Trump has nothing to hide from this.

Theyre doing this to go after President Trump on this theory that he has something to do with it. He does not, Johnson said.

Trump's association with Epstein is well-established and the president's name was included in records that his own Justice Department released in February as part of an effort to satisfy public interest in information from the sex-trafficking investigation.

Trump has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and the mere inclusion of someones name in files from the investigation does not imply otherwise. Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial, also had many prominent acquaintances in political and celebrity circles besides Trump.

Khanna voiced more modest expectations on the vote count than Massie. Still, Khanna said he was hoping for 40 or more Republicans to join the effort.

I don't even know how involved Trump was, Khanna said. There are a lot of other people involved who have to be held accountable.

Khanna also asked Trump to meet with those who were abused. Some will be at the Capitol on Tuesday for a news conference, he said.

Massie said Republican lawmakers who fear losing Trump's endorsement because of how they vote will have a mark on their record, if they vote no, that could hurt their political prospects in the long term.

The record of this vote will last longer than Donald Trump's presidency," Massie said.

A MAGA split

On the Republican side, three Republicans joined with Massie in signing the discharge petition: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Boebert.

Trump publicly called it quits with Greene last week and said he would endorse a challenger against her in 2026 if the right person runs.

Greene attributed the fallout with Trump as unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files. She said the country deserves transparency on the issue and that Trump's criticism of her is confusing because the women she has talked to say he did nothing wrong.

"I have no idea whats in the files. I cant even guess. But that is the questions everyone is asking, is, why fight this so hard? Greene said.

Trumps feud with Greene escalated over the weekend, with Trump sending out one last social media post about her while still sitting in his helicopter on the White House lawn when he arrived home late Sunday, writing The fact is, nobody cares about this Traitor to our Country!

Even if the bill passes the House, there is no guarantee that Senate Republicans will go along. Massie said he just hopes Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will do the right thing.

The pressure is going to be there if we get a big vote in the House," Massie said, who thinks we could have a deluge of Republicans.

Massie appeared on ABC's This Week, Johnson was on Fox News Sunday, Khanna spoke on NBC's Meet the Press and Greene was interviewed on CNN's State of the Union.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lucas Raymond scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period and the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Sunday night.

Alex DeBrincat also scored and Cam Talbot had 18 saves as Detroit rebounded from a 5-4 overtime loss to Buffalo at home on Saturday.

Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers, who snapped a three-game winning streak and fell to 1-7-1 at home to go along with their league-best 9-1-1 road mark. Jonathan Quick finished with 40 saves.

Raymond scored his fifth of the season with 3:47 remaining as he brought the puck into the offensive zone up the right side, skated around the back of the net and beat Quick from between the circles.

DeBrincat opened the scoring with his ninth on the power play at 9:30 of the second. Raymond and Patrick Kane had assists on the play, with Kane getting his 1,352nd point — one behind Guy Lafleur for 30th place on the all-time scoring list.

Zibanjead tied it with his seventh on the power play with 8:01 remaining in the middle period. Artemi Panarin had an assist on the play, giving him 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his last six games.

New York, which beat Nashville last Monday for its lone home win, has been shut out five times and scored once in two other losses at Madison Square Garden.

Before the game, the Rangers honored Hall of Fame journalist Larry Brooks, who passed away on Nov. 13 at 75. Brooks primarily covered the Rangers for the New York Post in a career spanning five decades.

Up next

Red Wings: Host Seattle on Tuesday night to start a three-game homestand.

Rangers: At Vegas on Tuesday night to begin a three-game trip.

— By ALLAN KREDA, Associated Press

Travelers at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport should see things return to normal starting at 6 a.m. Monday, now that the FAA is lifting all flight restrictions put in place during the record 43-day federal government shutdown.

Detroit was among 40 major airports nationwide forced to cut flights by as much as 6 percent reductions triggered by air traffic controllers working without pay and a system stretched thin by staffing shortages. The FAA eventually eased the cuts to 3 percent as conditions improved, but todays move officially removes all limits.

The flight caps had fueled thousands of delays and cancellations across the country. On the worst day November 9 airlines canceled more than 2,900 flights nationwide.

Major hubs like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta were hit hard, but airlines can now restore full schedules system-wide. And the timing matters: the Thanksgiving travel period typically the busiest stretch of the year is about to begin, with heavy passenger volumes expected.

With the restrictions gone, Detroit travelers should notice smoother operations and more available flights as the holiday rush kicks off.

By JOHN HANNA and JACK DURA The Associated Press

CARBONDALE, Kan. (AP) — Four law enforcement officers were shot Saturday morning while responding to a domestic violence call at a home in a rural area south of Topeka, and a 22-year-old male suspect died of gunshot wounds at the scene.

The suspect’s 77-year-old grandfather also was wounded in the gunfire but he and the law enforcement officers are all expected to recover, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said.

The shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. Three Osage County sheriff’s deputies and one Kansas Highway Patrol trooper were shot, the KBI’s director and the patrol’s superintendent said.

Two deputies underwent surgery at a Topeka hospital and were in good condition, the KBI said, and the third deputy was discharged. The trooper was transferred from the same hospital to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

“After being on scene less than 10 minutes, gunfire erupted,” patrol Superintendent Erik Smith said during a news conference at the Carbondale City Library.

Carbondale is a town of about 1,300 people about 16 miles south of Topeka, the state capital, off Highway 75.

The shooting stunned neighbors John and Heather Roberts, who live about a mile north of where it occurred on the same two-lane road. They never sensed any problem in any of the family members, such as drugs, alcohol abuse or violence, and they said the suspect’s grandmother gave Christian books to area children she knew.

They said it is not uncommon to see law enforcement vehicles on the road outside their home because they live at the line between Osage County, home to Carbondale, and Shawnee County, home to Topeka, and vehicles turn around there or the counties exchange prisoners.

John Roberts said he was putting siding on his barn when two law enforcement vehicles flew down the road in the morning.

“Both of them were running, I would say, well over 100 miles an hour as they went by,” he said. “Then the city of Topeka officers started going by. That’s when I started to really get concerned.”

He said the suspect visited the shop he has at his home to return tools and was “a good kid.” Roberts added that many families in the area own guns because hunting is a common hobby, and that was the case with this family.

“I love the family. They’re great people,” Heather Roberts said, adding that she and her husband were praying for the wounded officers too.

She said every time the suspect visited their home, he would give her a hug and he was “very respectful.”

“I don’t know what snapped in him today, but his grandparents loved him very much,” she said.

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Dura reported from Bismarck, North Dakota.

Exiled by the elite after his conviction for sexually soliciting a teenage girl and failing to rehabilitate his image as a sexual predator, an embittered Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 believed his old friend Donald Trump had escaped scrutiny.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote to his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that April, noting Trump had “spent hours at my house” with Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent women to speak out about being abused by the financier, who died by suicide in April.

The correspondence, obtained from Epstein’s estate by the House Oversight Committee, was included among more than 20,000 documents released this week that brought the men’s relationship history into greater focus. Scores of emails in the cache chart Epstein’s obsession with Trump as he spiraled into scandal and his Palm Beach neighbor ascended to the presidency.

Epstein was at a low point when he sent the missive to Maxwell after serving jail time in Florida for soliciting a 16-year-old. Two months earlier, a Manhattan judge had rejected a bid to downgrade his sex offender status, despite the well-connected wealth manager having then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., in his corner.

Giuffre had publicly spoken out about her allegations that Epstein trafficked her to powerful men for sex, sharing with the Daily Mail a now-infamous photograph of her with his friend Prince Andrew and Maxwell as apparent evidence.

Epstein’s 2011 email to Maxwell marveled that Trump, then hosting “The Apprentice” and floating a run for president had “never once been mentioned.”

“I have been thinking about that…,” Maxwell replied.

Democrats released Epstein’s 2011 message to Maxwell among a set of emails early Wednesday that appeared to suggest the president knew about the financier’s depraved lifestyle and its young victims.

Claiming that their colleagues across the aisle had engaged in a cherry-picking mission, House Republicans later published thousands of Epstein’s digital files online, revealing Giuffre’s identity in the 2011 message, which the Democrats had previously redacted. Many came to the president’s defense, arguing that it proved nothing. Giuffre, they noted, had denied that Trump had abused her or that she’d seen him abuse others in the years before her death.

The president has long denied engaging in any abuse and claimed he stopped talking to Epstein — whom he’d counted as a friend since the 1980s — in the early 2000s over a dispute related to real estate.

On Friday, following a barrage of reporting about the emails, Trump took to his social media site Truth Social to slam what he calls the “EPSTEIN HOAX.” He demanded the Justice Department investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, would head the probe.

Dirt on Trump

The trove of Epstein emails released this week, massive in volume and spanning 2011 to 2019, includes 1,625 references to Trump, although there is no direct communication between the two men.

Made clear throughout is that — whether or not he did — Epstein maintained he had dirt on Trump.

Messaging ahead of a presidential debate in December 2015, Epstein asked his quasi-consultant, Trump biographer Michael Wolff, with whom he spoke regularly, how Trump might best answer a potential question about their relationship.

“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff responded.

“Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

Wolff suggested it could be time to pull the trigger less than two weeks before Trump won the presidency in 2016, following the release of “Filthy Rich,” a book about Epstein’s perversions.

“There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?” Wolff wrote on Oct. 29. It’s not clear from the release whether Epstein responded.

The batch of emails released this week, made searchable online by the Courier Newsroom, is separate from the federal government’s investigative records — the so-called “Epstein files” — whose release the House of Representatives is set to vote on next week.

The trove sheds light on Epstein’s state of mind in the years before his death, and how closely he followed the president’s whereabouts, policy moves, and his own set of scandals. In countless typo-laden emails, the Brooklyn-born financier situated himself as a POTUS expert in conversations with journalists and various confidants, spoke with members of Trump’s inner circle, and sought to shape U.S. policy.

In June 2018, he asked former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland to convey a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his willingness to provide insight on Trump.

His correspondence with Wolff is featured throughout the records, and Epstein also frequently spoke about Trump with former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr., joking about sending him a photo of Trump with girls in bikinis in his kitchen in December 2015.

Epstein communicated regularly with the often foul-mouthed former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, whom he told Trump was “borderline insane,” the emails show.

He also chatted often with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who in August 2018 told the financier they had to discuss “a crazed jihad against u,” and that “somebody big has u in the gunsights.”

After Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws for then-President Trump in the now-notorious Stormy Daniels hush money scheme in 2018, Epstein alluded to his insider’s perspective in correspondence with Kathy Ruemmler, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama aide, with whom the cache shows he frequently chatted.

“You see, i know how dirty donald is,” the financier quipped. “my guess is that non-lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip.”

“The real villain”

That December, The Miami Herald published the most complete account yet of allegations Epstein had serially exploited vulnerable teenage girls. The piece laid out how Epstein had effectively gotten off with a slap on the wrist in his 2008 plea deal due to former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, who Trump had tapped as his Labor Secretary.

Epstein strategized with Wolff, who believed “directly debunking” the claims wasn’t the right move.

“That’s going against virtue itself,” Wolff wrote. “What I’d like to do is game out everything, creating a structure for thinking this through. Definitely not a piecemeal response. Figure out where we want to be and where we can reasonably get and work backwards.”

Epstein replied, “im thinking what would trump do.”

“Claims are ludicrous and self-serving, media is working with the other side’s lawyers, this is all about Donald Trump,” Wolff responded.

“…all about Donald Trump, the real villain,” Epstein said.

Less than two months later, Epstein explicitly implicated Trump, mentioning Mar-a-Lago to Wolff in a partially redacted email on January 31, 2019, and writing, “trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

Epstein was apparently still focused on the president the following June, when an email outlining some of Trump’s potentially questionable financial dealings landed in his inbox. Epstein’s accountant Richard Kahn sent over “interesting findings” from financial disclosures, or what Kahn called “trumps 100 pages of nonsense.”

Within eight weeks, Epstein was dead. Officials said he’d killed himself in his lower Manhattan jail cell a month after his arrest on sweeping sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell, his longtime partner in crime, was indicted a year later for aiding the abuse for at least a decade in the 1990s and convicted at trial in December 2021. This summer, she was transferred to a cushy prison facility in Bryan, Texas, after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, for a highly unusual sit-down.

Transcripts of the meeting showed that Epstein’s longtime right-hand revealed little new information but notably praised the president, whom she is reportedly now planning to ask for a pardon.

EAST LANSING (AP) — Isaline Alexander scored 20 points off the bench and No. 24 Michigan State thrashed Western Michigan 98-44 on Sunday.

Alexander, a senior whose past two seasons were cut short by injury, was 9-for-9 shooting and made 2 of 5 free throws.

Grace VanSlooten had 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists for Michigan State (4-0). Kennedy Blair delivered 14 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Rashunda Jones scored 13 points.

The Spartans scored the first 18 points of the game and led 31-5 after one quarter. Michigan State dominated the third quarter in similar fashion, outscoring the Broncos 33-7 due in large part to a scoring streak of 21-2.

The Spartans had a huge 39-1 advantage in points after turnovers. Western Michigan turned it over 29 times compared to only four miscues for Michigan State.

De’Ahna Richardson scored 11 points and Kailey Starks 10 for the Broncos (1-3). Ariana Wilkes had 10 rebounds and the Broncos outrebounded the Spartans 43-37.

Michigan State entered the game second in the NCAA and second in the Big Ten in assists per game, averaging 27.3. The Spartans had 28 assists on Sunday.

The Spartans have won 12 in a row in the series after trailing 8-7 in the early days of the in-state matchup.

Up next

Michigan State: Eastern Illinois visits on Thursday.

Western Michigan: The Broncos host Roosevelt on Tuesday.

Saline quarterback Tommy Carr, the grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, has switched his college commitment to the Wolverines.

He had been committed to Miami of Ohio.

Carr (6-foot-3, 195 pounds) is ranked a three-star prospect by 247Sports. He is ranked the No. 7 player overall in Michigan in 2026 and the No. 29 quarterback nationally in the 2026 recruiting class.

Saline’s run in the Michigan high school football playoffs ended Friday night with a 42-28 loss to Detroit Cass Tech in a Division 1 regional final. Carr led Saline to a 10-2 record this season, passing for 2,797 yards and 37 touchdowns

Carr is the younger brother of Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr and the son of former Michigan QB Jason Carr.

Michigan’s 2026 recruiting class has 25 commitments and is ranked No. 10 nationally by 247Sports.

President Trump announced he’s withdrawing his support of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling his former ally a “ranting lunatic” and a “disgrace to our great Republican party” for publicly blasting his handling of various issues, including the Epstein files.

In a wild post shared on his social media platform Friday night, Trump wrote that despite accomplishing what he called “record achievements for our country” and turning the U.S. into the world’s “hottest” nation, all that “Wacky Marjorie” does is “complain, complain, complain.”

He said he would endorse a challenger against Greene “if the right person runs” in next year’s midterm elections, claiming the people of her district are similarly “fed up with her and her antics.”

The political breakup appears to be the culmination of a dispute that had been simmering for at least six months, which the president suggested began when he discouraged Greene from running for Senate or governor.

She also “told many people that she is upset” that Trump doesn’t “return her phone calls anymore,” the president said.

“With 219 congressmen/women, 53 U.S. senators, 24 Cabinet members, almost 200 countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can’t take a ranting lunatic’s call every day,” Trump wrote on Truth Social around 8:30 p.m. Friday.

President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today. Apparently this is what sent him over the edge.

The Epstein files.

And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other… pic.twitter.com/EcUzaohZZs

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) November 15, 2025

Less than an hour later, the polarizing Georgia lawmaker — and former MAGA powerhouse — fired back at Trump’s claims in a lengthy post on X, sharing a screenshot of a text message she said “sent him over the edge.”

“President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today,” she wrote, posting a message in which she tells the president about the importance of “releasing the Epstein files.”

Greene was one of a handful of Republicans to sign on with House Democrats to force a vote over releasing the files related to the sex trafficking investigation into the disgraced late financier.

“It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out — that he actually goes to this level,” Greene continued.

Despite being a longtime and ardent supporter of the president and the MAGA agenda, Greene said she doesn’t “worship or serve Donald Trump.”

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Early Saturday morning, Trump doubled down on his attack, slamming “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” as someone who has “betrayed the entire Republican party when she turned left.”

A few hours later, Greene suggested the exchange is making her fear for her life.

“I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” she wrote on X. “The man I supported and helped get elected.”

“As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me, which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone,” wrote Greene, who in 2019 famously stalked and confronted Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg with claims that his gun control activism was being funded by Democrats.

“The political industrial complex and the toxic violent nature of American politics must end,” she said. “Our country is worth saving and it can only be done if we pull together and save ourselves.”

The nation's most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of U.S. military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump administration's intentions in South America as it conducts military strikes against vessels suspected of transporting drugs.

The arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford and other warships, announced by the Navy in a statement, marks a major moment in what the administration insists is a counterdrug operation but has been seen as an escalating pressure tactic against Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro. Since early September, U.S. strikes have killed at least 80 people in 20 attacks on small boats accused of transporting drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Ford rounds off the largest buildup of U.S. firepower in the region in generations. With its arrival, the Operation Southern Spear" mission includes nearly a dozen Navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and Marines.

The carrier strike group, which includes squadrons of fighter jets and guided-missile destroyers, transited the Anegada Passage near the British Virgin Islands on Sunday morning, the Navy said.

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Rear Adm. Paul Lanzilotta, who commands the strike group, said it will bolster an already large force of American warships to "protect our nations security and prosperity against narco-terrorism in the Western Hemisphere.

Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander who oversees the Caribbean and Latin America, said in a statement that the American forces stand ready to combat the transnational threats that seek to destabilize our region.

Holsey, who will retire next month after just a year on the job, said the strike group's deployment is "a critical step in reinforcing our resolve to protect the security of the Western Hemisphere and the safety of the American Homeland.

In Trinidad and Tobago, which is only 7 miles from Venezuela at its closest point, government officials said troops have begun training exercises with the U.S. military that will run through much of the week.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Sean Sobers described the joint exercises as the second in less than a month and said they are aimed at tackling violent crime on the island nation, which has become a stopover point for drug shipments headed to Europe and North America. The prime minister has been a vocal supporter of the U.S. military strikes.

The exercises will include Marines from the 22nd Expeditionary Unit who have been stationed aboard the Navy ships that have been looming off Venezuela's coast for months.

Venezuelas government has described the training exercises as an act of aggression. It had no immediate comment Sunday on the arrival of the aircraft carrier.

Meanwhile, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Sunday that U.S. troops have been training in Panama, underscoring the administrations increasing focus on Latin America.

Were reactivating our jungle school in Panama. We would be ready to act on whatever Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth needed, he told CBS Face the Nation."

The administration has insisted that the buildup of American forces in the region is focused on stopping the flow of drugs into the U.S., but it has released no evidence to support its assertions that those killed in the boats were narcoterrorists. Trump has indicated military action would expand beyond strikes by sea, saying the U.S. would "stop the drugs coming in by land.

The U.S. has long used aircraft carriers to pressure and deter aggression by other nations because their warplanes can strike targets deep inside another country. Some experts say the Ford is ill-suited to fighting cartels, but it could be an effective instrument of intimidation for Maduro in a push to get him to step down.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States does not recognize Maduro, who was widely accused of stealing last years election, as Venezuelas legitimate leader. Rubio has called Venezuela's government a transshipment organization that openly cooperates with those trafficking drugs.

Maduro, who faces charges of narcoterrorism in the U.S., has said the U.S. government is fabricating a war against him. On his Facebook page, Maduro wrote on Sunday that the Venezuelan people are ready to defend their homeland against any criminal aggression.

Venezuelas government recently touted a massive mobilization of troops and civilians to defend against possible U.S. attacks. Maduro and other officials in Venezuelas socialist party also have been attending rallies this weekend to back the creation of neighborhood committees that will be in charge of increasing membership in Venezuelas socialist party, and promoting the partys policies.

Trump has justified the attacks on drug boats by saying the U.S. is in armed conflict with drug cartels while claiming the boats are operated by foreign terrorist organizations.

He has faced pushback from leaders in the region, the U.N. human rights chief and U.S. lawmakers, including Republicans, who have pressed for more information on who is being targeted and the legal justification for the boat strikes.

Senate Republicans, however, recently voted to reject legislation that would have put a check on Trumps ability to launch an attack against Venezuela without congressional authorization.

Experts disagree on whether or not American warplanes may be used to strike land targets inside Venezuela. Either way, the 100,000-ton warship is sending a message.

This is the anchor of what it means to have U.S. military power once again in Latin America, said Elizabeth Dickinson, the International Crisis Groups senior analyst for the Andes region. And it has raised a lot of anxieties in Venezuela but also throughout the region. I think everyone is watching this with sort of bated breath to see just how willing the U.S. is to really use military force.

President Donald Trump is warning Indiana Republicans that anyone who opposes a new redistricting push could face a primary challenge, escalating tensions inside the party.

Trumps comments on Sunday came after Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said Friday that there was not enough support in the chamber to move forward with redistricting.

Trump singled out Bray directly, accusing him of jeopardizing Republicans chances of controlling the U.S. House after the 2026 midterms.

"Any Republican that votes against this important redistricting, potentially having an impact on America itself, should be PRIMARIED," Trump said on Truth Social.

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He also took aim at Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, who called a special session to pursue redistricting after pressure from the Trump administration.

"Governor Mike Braun, perhaps, is not working the way he should to get the necessary Votes," Trump said. "Considering that Mike wouldnt be Governor without me (Not even close!), is disappointing!"

Redistricting battles are playing out across the country. Republican-led legislatures in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have worked to craft maps favorable to the GOP.

Meanwhile, Democrats in California advanced their own strategy in response to Republicans: A ballot measure passed in November that gives the party a favorable map and could allow Democrats to pick up as many as five seats in 2026.

There are currently 219 Republicans and 214 Democrats in the House

Detroit native and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jack White will headline the Thanksgiving halftime show when the Detroit Lions host the Green Bay Packers on Turkey Day, the team announced on Sunday afternoon.

Detroit legend Eminem and his long-time manager and president of Shady Records, Paul Rosenberg, will serve as Executive Producers of the show, along with Jesse Collins Entertainment.

White is a 12-time GRAMMY winner, and he was inducted as a member of The White Stripes into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame on November 8.

The Lions are partnering with Feeding America for the show, as viewers will be asked to donate to help fight hunger around the holiday season at this link.

As part of an annual tradition that has become as synonymous with Thanksgiving as turkey and stuffing, the Lions game against the Packers will be nationally televised FOX at 1 PM EST on Thursday, Nov. 27.

Its no magic trick: The third installment in the thieving magician Now You See Me series beat the high-profile action pic The Running Man at the North American box office this weekend. Lionsgates Now You See Me: Now You Dont pulled in $21.3 million, while Paramounts The Running Man made $17 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Now You See Me: Now You Dont, which cost a reported $90 million to produce, comes almost 10 years after the second film. Including ticket sales from 64 international territories, its worldwide opening is estimated to be around $75.5 million. Going into the weekend, it was expected to be a closer race between the two newcomers.

The first two movies in the Now You See Me series, released in 2013 and 2016, earned over $686 million worldwide. This installment, directed by Ruben Fleischer, sees the return of the original Four Horsemen, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco, and introduces three younger magicians into the mix: Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt and Justice Smith. A fourth film is already in the works.

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Reviews were mixed on Rotten Tomatoes, coming in at 59%. According to PostTrak polling, audiences were a bit more positive, with 63% saying they would definitely recommend.

Audience scores were slightly less for The Running Man, which had a 58% definitely recommend. Both earned a B+ CinemaScore, but more people chose the franchise. One key difference is that women made up more of the Now You See Me audience (54%). They only accounted for 37% of The Running Man ticket buyers.

Edgar Wright directed and co-wrote The Running Man, the second adaptation of Stephen Kings novel, first published in 1982. The first film starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was released in 1987 to mixed reviews and a tepid box office, earning only $38 million against a $27 million budget. The new version stars Glen Powell, who has had a good track record starring in box office hits, from the romantic comedy Anyone But You to Twisters.

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Paramount Pictures released The Running Man in 3,400 domestic locations and 58 international markets. Worldwide, it earned $28.2 million against a reported $110 million budget.

The weekends other new opener, Keeper, the third feature from Longlegs filmmaker Oz Perkins, cratered with $2.6 million and a D+ CinemaScore. But as an acquisition title for Neon, its also not a disaster.

Third place went to Predator: Badlands with $13 million in its second weekend, followed by Regretting You in fourth with $4 million. Black Phone 2 rounded out the top five with $2.7 million, bringing its domestic total to $74.7 million after five weeks in theaters.

In anticipation of the big budget musical Wicked: For Good, which opens next week, Universal Pictures put Wicked back in 2,195 theaters, where it made $1.2 million barely missing a spot in the top 10.

The box office should pick up considerably when Wicked 2 blows into theaters, followed by Zootopia 2 before the Thanksgiving holiday. Comscore's Paul Dergarabedian said it could be one of the highest grossing five-day Thanksgiving frames of all time.

DETROIT — The issue came up again during Tarik Skubal’s post-Cy Young Award media teleconference Wednesday night.

Not that issue.

Of course, he was asked about his future with the Tigers and he said what he has said all along: He loves being a Tiger. He hopes he can be a Tiger for a long time. But the ultimate decision is largely out of his control.

But that’s not the issue we’re talking about here.

If there is one loose thread that still needs to be secured from the 2025 season, one topic that keeps coming up in media and fan debates, it’s manager AJ Hinch’s decision to pull Skubal after the sixth inning of the season-ending, 15-inning loss in Seattle in Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

To review:

The Tigers took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth on Kerry Carpenter’s clutch, left-on-left homer off reliever Gabe Speier. And Skubal was cruising. He set down 14 straight Mariners hitters from the second through the sixth, punching out 10 of them including seven in a row in one stretch.

In the sixth, as his pitch count pushed toward 100, he struck out J.P. Crawford with a 99.7-mph heater and finished the inning with a three-pitch punch-out of Cal Raleigh — 99.7, 99.1 and 100.9 mph on his 99th and final pitch.

But the seeds for the decision to pull him at that point were planted an inning earlier, as Hinch explained after the game.

“Easy decision,” Hinch said. “After the fifth, I checked in on him how he was doing physically and emotionally, and we both knew that he had one (inning) left. You know, he emptied his tank and obviously was emotional coming off the mound, and I think that signals exactly where we were in the game.

“He gave us everything he could.”

The Mariners tied the game in the bottom of the seventh against relievers Kyle Finnegan and Tyler Holton and ultimately won it on a walk-off single by Jorge Polanco in the 15th inning.

By that time, Skubal had been out of the game for nine innings. And by the time he addressed the media post-game, the sixth-inning decision was buried beneath the rubble of the heartbreaking ending.

Wednesday night was the first time he talked in depth about that decision and, as usual, he provided some much-needed insight and clarity.

“That was the decision that was made and me and AJ are always on the same page,” he said. “I really respect everything that he does. He’s got a plan for everything. Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of the stuff about how the fans were disappointed or whatever. But it’s just the way the game of baseball is.”

Skubal took the mound in the sixth inning knowing it was going to be his last. And accordingly, he went full-throttle. The 100.9-mph fastball that he blew by Raleigh was pitch 99 of the game and career-high pitch 3,152 of the season.

It came in his career-high 216th inning.

While it may look like you’re watching a video game when Skubal is dominating like that, he’s still a human being. And, as he intimated, he was pitching through some aches and pains.

“The season will run you down a little bit,” he said Wednesday.

But there was a baseball strategy component to the decision that trumped whatever fatigue issues Skubal might’ve been dealing with. Due up for the Mariners in the bottom of the seventh inning that night were right-handed hitters Julio Rodriguez, Polanco and Eugenio Suarez.

Polanco’s presence probably sealed the decision. You might remember, Polanco homered twice off Skubal in Game 2 and seemed to be seeing his pitches as well as any Mariners hitter.

“The way the at-bats had gone with Polanco, even earlier in that game he hit a foul-ball homer,” Skubal said. “I just don’t think that matchup was going to be in the cards that night.”

As it turned out, Finnegan walked Polanco and gave up a two-out single to Josh Naylor, which set the table for pinch-hitter Leo Rivas’ game-tying single off Holton.

“Look, I’m going to go out and compete and give it everything I have,” Skubal said. “I knew my outing was coming to a close there with Polanco looming. Hindsight is 20-20. If you could write a perfect script, we obviously would go do that. I would love to throw 300 pitches every time out. I just don’t know if that’s realistic. Especially in that setting with the lead and nine outs to go.

“I trust our guys in the bullpen 10 out of 10 times to end a game like that.”

That sixth inning decision is fun to debate. But it was well thought-out, logical and on-brand for how Hinch managed all season. It was mutually agreed upon and hardly fatal. If you are looking to point fingers, scoring in just one of 15 innings, going 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position (0 for 6 in extra innings) and leaving 10 runners on base is more the culprit.

“We played in one of the best win-or-go-home games in baseball history,” Skubal said. “We came out the wrong side of that. But at the same time, I thought everybody competed and left it all out there, including myself. As an athlete, that’s all you really can do.”

No more loose threads.

A trip to Los Angeles isnt complete without a visit to Venice Beach.

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Several thousand people took to the streets of Mexico City on Saturday to protest crime, corruption and impunity in a demonstration organized by members of Generation Z, but which ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.

The demonstration was mostly peaceful but ended with some young people clashing with the police. Protesters attacked police with stones, fireworks, sticks and chains, grabbing police shields and other equipment.

The capitals security secretary, Pablo Vzquez. said 120 people were injured, 100 of them police officers. Twenty people were arrested.

In several countries this year, members of the demographic group born between the late 1990s and early 2010s have organized protests against inequality, democratic backsliding and corruption.

The largest "Gen Z protests took place in Nepal in September, following a ban on social media, and led to the resignation of that nations prime minister. In Mexico, many young people say they are frustrated with systemic problems like corruption and impunity for violent crimes.

We need more security said Andres Massa, a 29-year-old business consultant who carried the pirate skull flag that has become a global symbol of Gen Z protests.

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Arizbeth Garcia, a 43-year-old physician who joined the protests said she was marching for more funding for the public health system, and for better security because doctors are also exposed to the insecurity gripping the country, where you can be murdered and nothing happens.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum still has high approval ratings despite a recent spate of high profile murders that includes the assassination of a popular mayor in the western state of Michoacan.

In the days leading up to Saturdays protest, Sheinbaum accused right-wing parties of trying to infiltrate the Gen Z movement, and of using bots on social media to try to increase attendance.

This week some Gen Z social media influencers said they no longer backed Saturdays protests. While elderly figures like former President Vicente Fox, and Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego published messages in support of the protests.

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Saturdays march was attended by people from several age groups, with supporters of the recently killed Michoacan Mayor Carlos Manzo, attending the protest wearing the straw hats that symbolize his political movement.

The state is dying, said Rosa Maria Avila, a 65-year-old real estate agent who traveled from the town of Patzcuaro in Michoacan state.

He was killed because he was a man who was sending officers into the mountains to fight delinquents. He had the guts to confront them, she said of Manzo.

Mattias Samuelsson scored at 1:05 of overtime as Buffalo rallied from a three-goal deficit to snap a five-game losing streak with a 5-4 win over Detroit on Saturday night.

Tage Thompson had a goal and set up Samuelsson's winner. Josh Doan also had a goal and an assist as the Sabres got their first road win this season. Buffalo had gone 0-5-2 in road games as the only team not to have a road victory

Ryan McLeod scored the tying goal on a short-handed breakaway. Alex Tuch also scored while Colten Ellis made 24 saves.

Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin added an assist. He rejoined the team after a three-game leave of absence. Dahlin spent a week in Sweden visiting his fiancee, who is recuperating from heart transplant surgery.

Alex DeBrincat scored two goals for the second straight game for the Red Wings. He also had two goals and an assist against Anaheim on Thursday.

Dylan Larkin scored his team-high 11th goal and Patrick Kane scored his first goal since Oct. 15. Lucas Raymond added three assists and John Gibson made 22 saves.

The teams scored 29 seconds apart midway through the first period. Kane tapped in a pass from Ben Chiarot but Tuch answered with a backhander after Gibson couldn't corral a loose puck in the crease.

Detroit led 4-2 after two periods. Raymond assisted on all three of the Red Wings' goals during the period. Larkin lifted a shot into the upper left-hand cornet of the net during a four-on-four situation in between DeBrincat's goals. Doan scored late in the period, deflecting Dahlin's shot from the point.

Thompson's goal at 4:25 of the third pulled the Sabres within one. McLeod converted his short-handed goal midway through the period for the tying goal.

Up next

Sabres: Host Edmonton on Monday night.

Red Wings: Visit New York Rangers on Sunday.

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