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A Mexican migrant allegedly assisted by a Wisconsin judge in evading arrest by immigration authorities earlier this year has been deported, officials said Friday.

Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, who has a lengthy criminal history, was sent back to his native country on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said.

"Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a previously removed illegal alien, has a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse. Judge Hannah Dugan's actions to obstruct this violent criminal’s arrest take activist judge to a whole new meaning," said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

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Most Americans are probably more than ready for the federal government shutdown -- now the longest in U.S history -- to end.

But how it ends is very important. As any parent or anyone who has observed a two-year-old throwing a tantrum knows, if you give in to unrealistic demands now, it will be worse down the road.

That candy bar grabbed at the checkout line today will become many more in the days ahead if the child is screaming and stomping to get it. It is a power play, and parents must enforce their authority.

If the Democrats succeed in extorting out of Republicans, who are in charge, even a one-year extension of the Obamacare enhanced subsidies, which are due to expire at the end of this year by the Democrats' own legislation, the demands will be more the next time there needs to be a short-term extension of government funding.

Elections have consequences. The Democrats lost last fall, and they are trying to leverage their minority position in the Senate into $1.5 trillion in new healthcare spending and a rollback of the Medicaid reforms, such as work and citizenship requirements, that Republicans put in the "Big Beautiful Bill."

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What do people on the outside think of the LSU situation?

It was barely a week ago that Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry forced himself into LSU business once again. After head coach Brian Kelly was fired with a $53 million buyout that still may be negotiated down, athletic director Scott Woodward was also fired with a buyout of more than $6 million, on day after Landry said the school’s Board of Supervisors would hire the next coach.

“He needs to stay in his lane,” one athletic director told The Athletic, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He’s a typical fan who has an ego, he’s going to try to engineer what they’re doing. He doesn’t know how to hire a coach and doesn’t know his actions have turned people off.”

Shortly after Kelly was fired, Landry complained about coaching agents, incorrectly saying that Kelly and Jimbo Fisher had the same agent, and that taxpayers would pay for a buyout. (They do not.) He repeated similar points on The Pat McAfee Show, saying, “Everyone is in agreement in Louisiana, the next coach we hire is going to have a patently different contract. If that agent can’t see what’s coming down the pike.”

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A bike-riding vandal scrawled swastikas at a Brooklyn yeshiva early Wednesday, just hours after Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race and raised fears of a new “normalization of antisemitism.”

Security staff called cops after discovering the hateful symbols drawn in red paint on the pillars and window of the Magen David Yeshiva on McDonald Avenue around 6 a.m., police said.

Surveillance video of the crime captured the lone suspect, who wore a fedora and was dressed in black, riding up to the yeshiva on a bicycle and stopping long enough to scrawl the swastikas.

“But here you have a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, a Jewish school with a massive attendance…. It’s very traumatic.”

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As the deadline was minutes away, the Saints dealt Penning for a bag of peanuts. A late Day 3 pick in two years was the price to peel away Penning. That certainly seems more about the Saints attitude towards the former first round pick than it was the offer on the table. Still, it's something.

New Orleans Saints 2026 Draft picks

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The 2026 Draft will be huge for the Saints, who are clearly a rebuilding team. New Orleans needs to load up on picks so that it can stack young talent and eventually return to being a competitive team. With eight current picks in next year’s draft, the first step of that process is off to a great start.

Of course, a rebuild is usually a multi-year process, and it’s always great to add young talent, so adding draft picks in future drafts is important as well. That’s what New Orleans did by sending Penning to the offensive line-needy Chargers for a 2027 sixth-round pick. Here’s a look at how the Saints' picks are currently shaping up for that draft.


New Orleans Saints 2027 Draft picks

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The picks in the 2027 Draft, which will surely change by the time it’s actually time to make selections, is relatively thin right now for New Orleans. The Saints posses their first five picks, and now have a sixth rounder thanks to the Penning trade. However, New Orleans gave up its original 2027 six for wide receiver Ja'Lynn Polk, and their seventh for Davaughn Vele.

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1. LSU
Record over the last five years: 40-21
The Athletic’s estimated valuation: $1.23 billion (10th among Power 4 programs)
Job grade: A

LSU is a top-five job in college football, maybe top-three. How can it not be when Les Miles and Ed Orgeron recently won national championships here? It has titles, tradition and unique local support. It has a hold of its talent-rich state like very few schools — one of the few remaining places where kids really do commit to the school and not the coach. LSU will always get almost all of the best kids in Louisiana because that’s the culture. After a few years of LSU falling behind in player spending, that changed this year, with an $18 million roster and the nation’s top-ranked transfer class. There’s a reason LSU was able to pull an unprecedented move of hiring a winning Notre Dame head coach four years ago.

But with all that comes the highest of bars. You have to compete for and win national championships here. Brian Kelly, a very successful coach otherwise, couldn’t do it. Was that because of Kelly’s personality, or was it because the flattening of the sport’s competitive structure has made it harder for all the top schools to win big? The school leadership and involvement of politicians also make for a bit more for a coach to navigate. Still, almost anyone could be an option here. LSU is that good of a job.

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A Mississippi teenager will be tried as an adult after he allegedly confessed to beating his grandmother to death at their church.

Jadynn Hamilton, 17, was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the beating death of his 73-year-old grandmother, Ollie Hamilton. According to Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley, Ollie Hamilton was pronounced dead by paramedics when they responded to a 911 call from Smith Chapel Holiness Church on Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. Monroe County Sheriff Kevin Crook told local ABC and NBC affiliate WTVA that Jadynn Hamilton eventually confessed to killing his grandmother.

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