Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei taken off in ambulance after collision, head injury vs. Columbus

Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei taken off in ambulance after collision, head injury vs. Columbus

Seattle Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei is being evaluated for a head and neck injury after being taken off the field in an ambulance following a scary collision. The incident took place late in stoppage time in the Sounders' 1-1 draw with the Columbus Crew on Sunday. In the 97th minute of the match, Columbus was awarded a free kick outside the box. But during the set piece, Frei was hit in the head with a Columbus player's knee. The keeper instantly went down, with his Sounders teammates quickly calling over the medical staff. After the collision, Frei appeared to go into a fencing response — a position taken by the body in reaction to head trauma or a concussion — indicating that the head injury may be severe. Both teams gathered near Frei in the box before the ambulance was driven on the field. The Sounders crowd began to cheer Frei's name as he was loaded into the ambulance. Ambulance enters field to attend to Stefan Frei who was kneed in the head during corner kick. The game has been call. Scary scenes and concerns for Frei. ⁦@CascadiasportsN⁩ ⁦@SoundersFC⁩pic.twitter.com/p8QpgOxHrb — MazvitaMaraire (@MazvitaMaraire)July 6, 2025 After the game, Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer told reporters that Frei was being evaluated for a head and neck injury, though he was "alert" when he was being loaded into the ambulance. "As soon as we get a definitive, a real, good clarity on the extent of the injury, we'll give you more. I don't want to speculate. He is going to the hospital, but he is fine," Schmetzer said. "I'm very happy for our medical staff because they did a good job to be careful. We can't underestimate that type of stuff." We're all with you,@Stefan24Frei💚An update from Head Coach Brian Schmetzer:"Stefan is being evaluated for a head and neck injury. He got hit pretty hard. We're in the early stages of that evaluation. As soon as we get a definitive, a real, good clarity on the extent of the…pic.twitter.com/79eJFr6W2K — Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC)July 7, 2025 Despite the collision occurring so close to the end of the game, the game clock continued to tick for another five minutes before it was finally called off. Schmetzer could be heard asking officials to "just stop the game," with Columbus coach Wilfried Nancy agreeing, before the referees blew the final whistle in the 103rd minute. The Crew were awarded a corner kick prior to Frei going down, meaning that the kick would have likely been the final play of the game. A scary moment to end the Crew game with Seattle goalie Stefan Frei going down on a play at the net.Brian Schmetzer says "just the stop the game, Wilfried Nancy agrees and tells the ref to end the game.This is so much bigger than 3 points, the MLS community is praying Frei:pic.twitter.com/bUcN12M68O — Adam King (@AdamKing10TV)July 6, 2025 Postgame, Schmetzer began to tear up while thanking Nancy for agreeing to end the game. "Wilfried, I appreciate what he did," Schmetzer said, visibly emotional. "Because the ref wasn't gonna stop the game. And everybody knew the game should have been stopped. So, good on him. So thank you Wilfried." Brian Schmetzer was emotional in thanking Wilfried Nancy for advocating for the Seattle Sounders and Columbus Crew match to be stopped after a traumatic head injury occurred to Seattle GK Frei. The PRO officials were asserting a corner kick and Nancy argued to stop the match.pic.twitter.com/cMMtlXF2hz — Noah Riffe (@NoahRiffe)July 7, 2025 After the game, both MLS and the Crew shared their thoughts are with the keeper. Our thoughts are with Stefan Frei and Seattle Sounders FC 🖤💛 — The Crew (@ColumbusCrew)July 6, 2025 Stefan Frei. 🙏 — Major League Soccer (@MLS)July 6, 2025 Frei, 39, has been a staple of the Sounders in goal since joining the team in 2014. The Swiss keeper has led Seattle to two MLS Cups and the CONCACAF Champions League championship while earning an All-Star nod and the 2016 MLS Cup MVP. Sunday's game was supposed to be a highly-anticipated rematch of the 2020 MLS Cup, and for a while it lived up to the hype. Columbus striker Diego Rossi struck first in the 27th minute before Sounders forward Paul Rothrock equalized off a perfect pass from Kalani Kossa-Rienzi. Both sides picked up plenty of chances to pull ahead up until the final minutes before the game came to a sobering end.

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Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei taken off in ambulance after collision, head injury vs. Columbus

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Edson Álvarez's tiebreaking goal gives Mexico 2-1 win over US for 10th Gold Cup title

Edson Álvarez's tiebreaking goal gives Mexico 2-1 win over US for 10th Gold Cup title

HOUSTON (AP) — Edson Álvarez scored a tiebreaking goal in the 77th minute after a video review reversed an offside call, and Mexico beat the United States 2-1 on Sunday night for its record 10th CONCACAF Gold Cup title. Chris Richards put the U.S. ahead in the fourth minute, heading in a Sebastian Berhalter free kick for the second time in the tournament, but Raúl Jiménez tied the score in the 27th with his third goal of this Gold Cup. Mexico was awarded the free kick when Diego Luna fouled Alexis Vega on a flank. Johan Vásquez flicked the restart across the goal mouth and Álvarez burst past the defense, redirecting the ball from 3 yards just inside Matt Freese's far post. While the play was initially called offside, the goal was awarded by the VAR, and Mexico defended its title from 2023 while improving to 6-2 in Gold Cup finals against the U.S. Patrick Agyemang had a chance two minutes into stoppage time but he didn't make good contact on his short-range shot that was blocked by goalkeeper Luis Malagón. "We're disappointed obviously to not come away with a win," U.S. captain Tim Ream said. A sellout crowd of 70,925 at NRG Stadium was about 70% pro-Mexico and booed U.S. players when they walked out for pregame warmups. Mexico dominated with 60% possession and had 12 corner kicks to none for the Americans. This was the last competitive match for the U.S. and Mexico before co-hosting next year's World Cup with Canada. The U.S., which has seven Gold Cup titles but none since 2021, used a starting lineup with only a handful of players currently projected as World Cup starters, missing regulars due to vacation, injuries and the Club World Cup. Coach Mauricio Pochettino used their absence to evaluate players who could push for starting jobs during the friendlies this fall and next spring, and Luna, Agyemang and Freese emerged as contenders for World Cup roster spots. Richards out the U.S. in front when he headed Berhalter's free kick from about 40 yards off the crossbar. The ball bounced straight down and just crossed the goal line. Jiménez scored his 42nd international goal, third-most in Mexican history. He burst past the defense and one-timed the pass from Marcel Ruiz, beating Freese from about 10 yards on a shot that might have nicked Ream. Jiménez celebrated by grabbing a Mexico No. 20 jersey with "DIOGO J" in honor of Diogo Jota, his former Wolverhampton teammate whodied in a car crash Thursdayin Spain. Jiménez ran to a corner, sat down with the jersey and mimicked playing avideo game. ___ AP soccer:https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

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Edson Álvarez's tiebreaking goal gives Mexico 2-1 win over US for 10th Gold Cup title

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'Attack on rural America': Kentucky governor hits Medicaid cuts in Trump's megabill

'Attack on rural America': Kentucky governor hits Medicaid cuts in Trump's megabill

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshearargued the Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's sweeping tax policy bill will have a "devastating" impact on rural communities. "It's the single worst piece of legislation I've seen in my lifetime, and it is a congressional Republican and presidential attack on rural America," the Democrat told CNN's Dana Bash in a July 6 interview on "State of the Union." He said around 200,000 people in Kentucky arecould lose their healthcareunder the bill, which implements new work requirements for Medicaid and a raft of other restrictions that healthcare experts argue willtrigger hospital closuresin rural areas. Lawmakers included a $50 billion fund in the legislation to prop up these hospitals, but experts say itwon't be enoughto make up for the $155 billion expected decline in federal Medicaid spending in rural areas. Beshear, who is considered a potential presidential candidate for the party in 2028, said up to 35 rural hospitals in Kentucky could be at risk of closing as a result of the bill. "What that means is our economy takes a huge hit," he said. "You lose 200 jobs from doctors and nurses and orderlies and all of a sudden the coffee shop does worse, the bank doesn't have as many folks coming in. This is going to hit rural America right in the face." Still, Republicans have argued that the biggest expected cut to Medicaid – the implementation of work requirements for able-bodied adults – is popular among voters, and other changes such as more frequent eligibility checks are common sense options. Democrats "unfortunately seem to think that poor people are stupid. I don't think poor people are stupid. I think they have agency, and I think to have them register twice a year for these benefits is not a burden," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said on CNN on July 6. "People who want to infantilize the poor and people who need these Medicaid benefits are alarmist." Republicans in Congress passed themassive tax-cut and spending packageon July 3. Trumpsigned it into lawon July 4. It was thekey goalfor Trump and Republican leadership in Congress, whichcaptured a trifecta during the 2024 electionsand has used that political muscle to force what they've dubbed their"One Big, Beautiful Bill"through both chambers at a rapid-fire pace. The passage came despite deep reservations within their own party and unanimous opposition from Democrats who see it as a ticket towinning back congressional majoritiesin 2026. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Beshear calls Trump's Medicaid cuts an 'attack on rural America'

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Some countries will see tariffs 'boomerang' to April rates, treasury secretary says

Some countries will see tariffs 'boomerang' to April rates, treasury secretary says

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the U.S. will revert tosteep country-by-country tariff ratesat the beginning of August, weeks after the tariff rate pause is set to expire. "President Trump's going to be sending letters to some of our trading partners saying that if you don't move things along, then on Aug. 1, you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level," Bessent said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." "So I think we're going to see a lot of deals very quickly." President Donald Trumphad originally set a 90-day deadline — set to expire Wednesday — for countries to renegotiate the eye-watering tariff levels he laid out in his April 2 "Liberation Day" speech. Hepaused those ratesa week later, while setting a new 90-day deadline to renegotiate them. That deadline was set to expire Wednesday. CNN host Dana Bash responded to Bessent on Sunday, saying, "There's basically a new deadline," prompting Bessent to push back. "It's not a new deadline. We are saying this is when it's happening," Bessent said. "If you want to speed things up, have at it. If you want to go back to the old rate, that's your choice." On Friday, Trump, too, referred to an Aug. 1 deadline, raising questions about whether theJuly 9 deadlinestill stands. A White House spokesperson did not provide a comment when asked to clarify whether the April 2 tariff rates would resume July 9 or Aug. 1. The president hasrecently given shifting descriptionsof how firm the July 9 deadline is, saying at the end of June, "We can extend it, we can shorten it," only to double down on it several days later, saying he was not thinking about extending it. Shortly after midnight Friday, Trump referred to an Aug. 1 timeline, telling reporters that the April 2 tariff rates would resume at the start of August. Asked whether the U.S. would be flexible with any countries about on the July 9 deadline, Trump said, "Not really." "They'll start to pay on Aug. 1," he added. "The money will start to come into the United States on Aug. 1, OK, in pretty much all cases." Trump said Friday that the administration would start sending letters to countries, adding, "I think by the 9th they'll be fully covered." "They'll range in value from maybe 60% or 70% tariffs to 10% and 20% tariffs, but they're going to be starting to go out sometime tomorrow," Trump said overnight on Friday. "We've done the final form, and it's basically going to explain what the countries are going to be paying in tariffs." Trump said in aTruth Social postlate Sunday evening that tariff letters would be delivered starting at noon on Monday. Bessent also said Sunday that "many of these countries never even contacted us." Tariffs are paidby importers — which canpass on part or allof the costs to consumers — and not necessarily by entities in the goods' country of origin. The White House had initially projected confidence that dozens of countries would try to make deals. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said onNBC News' "Meet the Press"in April that "we've got 90 deals in 90 days possibly pending here." Late last month, Trump said, "Everybody wants to make a deal," and after he announced sweeping tariffs on April 2,he saidcountries were "calling us up, kissing my a--." "They are," he said in April. "They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please, sir, make a deal. I'll do anything.'" The renewed uncertainty is likely to further upset markets, where stock futures went lower Friday after Trump mentioned the country letters. Stocks have returned to all-time highs in part due to the lull in tariff news. So far, Trump has imposed higher import duties on autos and auto parts, steel and aluminum, and goods from China and Vietnam.

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NBA Summer League 2025: When will Bronny James, LA Lakers play next?

NBA Summer League 2025: When will Bronny James, LA Lakers play next?

Bronny Jamesis back with theLos Angeles Lakersfor a second year of Summer League action, which began play on Sunday, July 6. James completed his rookie season, playing on the Lakers' main roster and the South Bay Lakers as a two-way player. He saw limited action for the Lakers, averaging 3.4 points, 0.8 assists and 0.7 rebounds in 6.7 minutes per game. He started just one of the 27 games he played. James and the Lakers have already started their exhibition season for the offseason, competing in the California Classic on Sunday with a 103-83 victory over theMiami Heat. It remains unclear what James' role or expected playing time will be throughout the summer. James played shot 3-of-7 from the field, finishing with 10 points, two rebounds and a steal in 11 minutes as a starter for the Lakers on Sunday. He shot 2-for-5 from the 3-point line and went 2-for-2 from the free throw line. BRONNY JAMES THROWS IT DOWN 😤Year 2 Bronny loading 🔥pic.twitter.com/fkoloStQLH — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport)July 6, 2025 Game:Los Angeles Lakersvs.San Antonio Spurs Date:Tuesday, July 8 Location:Chase Center (San Francisco) Start time:10 p.m. ET TV: ESPN Stream: ESPN+ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:When will Bronny James, Lakers play in NBA Summer League next?

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Nationals finally move on firing Mike Rizzo, Dave Martinez. Good luck with that.

Nationals finally move on firing Mike Rizzo, Dave Martinez. Good luck with that.

In firing their president of baseball operations and their manager in a startlingSunday night massacre,Washington Nationalsownership exhibited something not readily apparent in the highest reaches of the organization. A pulse. This has been Dead Franchise Walking for the better part of several years, a ballclub seemingly on autopilot as longtime general manager Mike Rizzo aimed to assemble a roster and install a player development infrastructure despite a less than thorough buy-in from ownership, while manager Dave Martinez lauded the boys for battling, coached up the kids and flailed at the buttons of a bullpen where his options often boiled down to Uh Oh and Not Him. All the while, Rizzo and Martinez operated in a realm not unlike the kids on "Peanuts," free to go about their business while unseen and rarely heard adults lurked in the background. The biggest difference between Charlie Brown and Lucy is that Rizzo and Martinez delivered this franchise aWorld Series championship in 2019, the apex of an eight-year run of contention that spanned four managerial regimes and rewarded a bevy of grizzled baseball men from field to dugout to front office. Turns out it was the beginning of the end. TheViejoswho claimed the '19 title only got older, the club returning from the pandemic with a reigning World Series MVP,Stephen Strasburg, who'd soon turn into a $245 million sunk cost due to maddening and sad health concerns. Who'd have to wear the final five years of Patrick Corbin's $140 million contract as Corbin's slider flattened and fastball fizzled, the cost of doing business for one championship season. Cue six years of nondescript misery, best evidenced by the number of days spent over .500: 2020: 0 2021: 4, the last on June 30. 2022: 0 2023: 0 2024: 2, the last on May 10. 2025: 0 Through it all, Rizzo and Martinez took on the air of permanent caretakers, that they delivered one World Series title and doggone it, they'd do it again. This brew of conviction and swagger reached a zenith in July 2022, when Rizzo pulled off an epic baseball trade,dealing Juan Sototwo-plus years before free agency for what would turn out to be a bountiful return: All-Stars James Wood, CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore, plus two more promising youngsters in Robert Hassell III and Jarlin Susana. It wasa somber day, the beloved and just 23-year-old Soto gone in an instant, the final curtain falling on the championship club and Rizzo was asked if he could live with being known as the guy who traded Juan Soto. "I was the guy who signed him, too," Rizzo said, his gleaming championship ring dangling off a finger. Touché. Yet as the years rolled on, and Wood and Abrams and Gore bubbled up to the big leagues, that moment was less the building block of something great and more Rizzo's last great act. He was undercut by his inability to, in the final 10-plus years of his tenure, install a drafting and player development infrastructure to keep the talent pipeline moving. Since drafting Anthony Rendon sixth overall in 2011, the Nationals were largely a developmental black hole, save for guys who found greater success – see Lucas Giolito, Nick Pivetta, Erick Fedde – after the Nationals flipped them elsewhere. Yet Rizzo had perhaps the most unusual gig in the industry. The Lerner family, to put it gently, did things differently – sometimes a lot differently – than any other franchise in the game. Contracts - or deadlines to pick up options - for employees like Rizzo did not always land on the typical industry calendar but rather in the middle of the year, when baseball operations staffs are, you know, just a little bit busy. While Rizzo's confidence never withered, there was the near-constant specter of an expiring contract at hand, creating doubt for baseball ops employees and players alike. The franchise was mildly obsessed - and, truthfully, ahead of the curve - with deferring money in contracts. That could work out in cases like their late strike to get Max Scherzer in the fold, yet backfire in others, making their efforts to retain players like Harper seem unserious. A wave of homegrown stars, from Harper to Trea Turner to Soto to Rendon (whew!) found riches and, often, success elsewhere. And it took years for ownership to realize running a ballclub was not like another real estate asset; a conveyor belt of veterans – both uniformed and in baseball operations - complained over the years about missing essentials in the clubhouse, to needless expense report scrutiny and postseason travel arrangements that fell well below industry standard. Most recently, the club was well in the minority in failing to invest in the most cutting-edge training toolavailable to hitters, hardly dispelling the appearance the club was behind in analytics-oriented areas. Sure, perhaps it was past time for Rizzo and Martinez to go, if only for the life cycle those jobs tend to take on. Yet Sunday is still a very dark day for Nationals fans. Why? Well, the Lerners will now be tasked with hiring a new GM/president of baseball operations, a task they've never really taken on in the two decades they've owned the ballclub. They inherited Jim Bowden from the period in which the Expos/Nationals were wards of the state, operated by MLB, and decided, strangely, to keep him on. It wasn't until he became embroiled in a bonus-skimming, age-falsification scandal thatBowden resignedin March 2009. Enter Rizzo. A scout's scout, he was the highest-ranking man standing and hit the ground running, touched by the baseball gods with Strasburg and Harper available with the top overall pick in consecutive years (a bit of fortune impossible today with the draft lottery). Yet in Rizzo, ownership had a nice, self-contained unit: He was free to run baseball operations – quite well, for many years – so long as he accepted the Faustian bargain of mitigating ownership's, um, idiosyncrasies. Always willing to take a bullet – he might as well have been Sonny Corleone at the toll booth – Rizzo was able to keep the franchise running at a high level even if things didn't flow as naturally as other organizations. So, what now? Thanks to the lottery's bouncing balls, the Nationals will choose first in the July 15 draft, under the guidance of interim GM Mike DeBartolo. For now, baseball operations minus Rizzo remains largely intact in advance of that day. After that, there are little guarantees, the only on-field tension seemingly whether the Nationals can avoid 100 losses for the second time in four years. Lerner must hire a general manager and manager, and hopefully has learned from the time the family was a signature away from hiring Bud Black, only to discover managers don't workunder one-year contracts. Meanwhile, questions about the group's long-term commitments linger, what with a failed multi-year effort to sell the team, only for Lerner to pull the team off the market in February 2024. It was an extended period of flux, somewhat conveniently aligning with a down cycle in on-field performance yet producing anew questions of whether the club will commit to major free agents when the time comes to contend in earnest. The team will also be TV free agents, with the long-awaitedMASN settlementgiving the franchise agency in its broadcast future. A TV home, a head of baseball ops, a new dugout chief? That's an awful lot for an ownership group to take on. Sunday, they signaled that getting better was a bigger priority than mediocrity cloaked in stability. It was probably the right call. Now, the hard part arrives. And while the Nationals might have been too wedded to the good old days, it's an open question whether they have the chops to ensure it doesn't get any worse. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast.Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Nationals' Sunday night massacre with Rizzo and Martinez finally fired

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July 07, 2025

Nationals finally move on firing Mike Rizzo, Dave Martinez. Good luck with that.

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U.S. deports men from Asia and Latin America to South Sudan after legal saga

U.S. deports men from Asia and Latin America to South Sudan after legal saga

The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country ofSouth Sudan, following alegal sagathat had kept the deportees stuck in amilitary base in Djiboutifor weeks. Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight Eastern time on Friday. A photo provided by the department showed the deportees, with their hands and feet shackled, sitting inside an aircraft, guarded by U.S. service members. The deportations to South Sudan — a country plagued by armed conflict and political instability that the U.S. government warns Americans not to visit — mark an unprecedented new frontier in President Trump's government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration. None of the deportees is from South Sudan. They hail from Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Myanmar, Sudan and Vietnam, and were ordered deported from the U.S. after being convicted of crimes, including murder, homicide, sexual assault, lascivious acts with a child and robbery. The high-profile legal battle over the fate of the men culminated when two federal judges on Friday denied a last-ditch attempt by immigration rights advocates to halt the deportations, saying their hands were tied by recent orders from the U.S. Supreme Court. The deportations signify a major political victory for the Trump administration, which has sought to convince countries around the world — irrespective of their human rights record — to accept deportees who are not their citizens, including those convicted of serious crimes. "A district judge cannot dictate the national security and foreign policy of the United States of America," said McLaughlin, the DHS spokeswoman. "This Independence Day marks another victory for the safety and security of the American people." The deportations have also alarmed human rights advocates, who fear the men could face jail time, torture or other harms in South Sudan. They've argued the deportations to South Sudan are designed to punish the men for their crimes, even though they have already served criminal sentences in the U.S. "The U.S. State Department warns Americans against all travel to South Sudan, yet deported these men there without any due process," said Trina Realmuto, an attorney for the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which tried to halt the deportations. "Make no mistake about it, these deportations were punitive and unconstitutional." It's unclear exactly how the deportees will be treated in South Sudan. A Justice Department attorney told a federal judge Friday that South Sudan informed the U.S. it would offer the men a temporary immigration status, but the lawyer could not confirm whether they would be detained. The Trump administration has said in court filings that South Sudanese officials have made assurances that the deportees will not face torture. The men's deportation was made possible by a Supreme Court order earlier this week. At the request of the Trump administration, theSupreme Court on Thursdayclarified the scope of an earlier order it had issued to pause a lower court ruling barring deportations to third-party countries without a degree of due process and notice. That April lower court ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts had required the Trump administration to give detainees sufficient notice and a chance to be interviewed by a U.S. asylum officer before any deportation to a country where they did not hail from. That case thwarted several deportation efforts, including a plan to send detainees to Libya. When he learned of the administration's plan to deport the eight men to South Sudan in May, Murphy blocked that effort, mandating the U.S. to retain custody of the detainees and to offer them a chance to contest their deportation. The administration transferred the detainees to the Camp Lemonnier naval base in Djibouti, whereU.S. officials described dangerous conditions, including concerns about malaria, rocket attacks, inadequate security protocols and triple-digit outdoor temperatures. But theSupreme Court last monthsuspended Murphy's ruling from April. And on Thursday, it said Murphy could no longer require the government to allow the detainees in Djibouti to contest their deportation, since the order underpinning that requirement had been paused. Hours later, immigrant rights advocates asked a different federal judge, Randolph Moss in Washington, D.C., to halt the deportations to South Sudan. He did so on Friday, but only briefly before saying the request should be handled by Murphy. Moss expressed concern about risks to the men's "physical safety" and said the U.S. government should not be in the business of inflicting "pain and suffering" on people who have already served their sentence, even for a "terrible crime." But he said his hands were tied, telling the advocates they needed to ask Murphy for any intervention. Later on Friday, Murphy denied the advocates' request, saying the Supreme Court orders were "binding." Death toll rises as desperate search for Texas flash flood survivors continues Sabrina Carpenter on the biggest misperceptions about her How Lady Liberty became a beacon for immigrants

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