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EAGLES FOUND A BLOOD CLOT IN LONDON, PLAYED THEIR QB ANYWAY
The Eagles ruled Jalen Hurts out of Sunday's game against Carolina with a superficial blood clot in his calf, and the timeline the team published is the part worth reading twice. Hurts went to the training room on October 8 and told the staff he had been cleated in the Rams game four days earlier. The team flew to London, ran an ultrasound Saturday out of an abundance of caution, found the clot, and had doctors clear him to start anyway. He played the whole game, went 21 of 40 for 220 yards and a touchdown, and lost 19-17 to the Jaguars. Those same doctors asked for a follow-up scan within 72 hours. It came Wednesday night, showed movement in the clot, and now Philadelphia is publicly "determining the appropriate course of treatment." NFL Network's Ian Rapoport said that treatment often means blood thinners, which would keep Hurts off the field entirely, and called him out indefinitely. So in walks Tanner McKee, a 6-foot-6 sixth-round pick with two career starts, both of them Week 18 games nobody watched sober. He gets Carolina on three days of first-team reps while Saquon Barkley's hamstring and Will Shipley's foot sit on the injury report. The Eagles also released Andy Dalton, so the backup behind the backup is a rookie named Cole Payton.
MIAMI CUSTOMS FINDS TEN LIVE BIRDS IN A MAN'S UNDERWEAR
Alberto Hernandez Castillo, a legal permanent resident, landed at Miami International on Oct. 4 on World Atlantic Flight 503 out of Havana and got picked for secondary inspection. Officers went through his carry-on and his fanny pack and found nothing. Then they looked a little lower. The report notes an unexplained bulge near his waist and pelvis, and that he seemed nervous, which is the correct amount of nervous for a man wearing an aviary. The pat-down turned up six plastic tubes wrapped in tape with black mesh over the openings, tucked into black pockets sewn into his underwear. Inside were 10 live birds: eight yellow-faced grassquits and two blue grosbeaks, which are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. This was not a spur of the moment decision. Somebody sat down with a needle and thread and built custom bird housing into a pair of briefs. He had checked "No" on every customs question about bringing in animals or wildlife. Asked about the birds, he said they were for "personal use," then invoked his right to remain silent. He was charged with smuggling goods into the U.S., and Fish and Wildlife is investigating too. He is out on a $25,000 bond with arraignment set for Oct. 26.
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- abcnews.com - Man arrested at airport after allegedly smuggling birds in underwear: Investigators
- cbsnews.com - Unexplained bulge at Miami airport leads to discovery of 10 live birds sewn into Cuban man's underwear
- nbcmiami.com - Man returning from Cuba arrested at MIA after smuggling 10 birds in underwear, complaint says
EGYPTIAN FARMER DIGS UP YARD, HITS 28-FOOT PHARAOH STATUE
Khaled el-Shahat was working the patch of land in front of his house in Behbeit el-Hagar, a village in Egypt's Nile Delta, when he hit an inscribed stone block. He reported it to local antiquities officials. Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities sent a team for a rescue dig and came back up with two colossal royal statues and a pink granite block covered in hieroglyphs. The first find is a head measuring about 1.6 meters on its own, roughly 5 foot 2. Working backward from that, SCA secretary-general Hisham El-Leithy's team estimates the complete statue stood around 8.5 meters, about 28 feet including the base. The pharaoh wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Part of the back pillar carries his Horus name, Hor-Ka-Nakht-Mery-Maat, which translates to Strong Bull, Beloved of Truth. The granite block nearby adds two more titles, King of Upper and Lower Egypt and Son of Ra. The man found three separate ways to sign the same field. The second statue is a head and torso in the striped nemes headdress, legs and base gone, and the face resembles the first closely enough that researchers think it's him again. Ramesses II ruled roughly 66 years, from about 1279 to 1213 B.C., and spent a healthy chunk of it commissioning himself. Fragments with his name had turned up at the site before, but this scale suggests something monumental stood here centuries before the famous Temple of Isis went up.
FEDS SAY OPENAI ENGINEER USED HIS WIFE'S CHATGPT TO LEARN HOW TO BUG OPENAI
The FBI arrested 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer since July 2025, after staff found an audio recorder plugged into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room on Sept. 30. It had been concealed in toilet paper. Court filings identify the hardware as a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense, a thumb-sized board Amazon sells for $23.99. The company racing to build superintelligence got bugged with two-ply and twenty-four bucks of hobby electronics. Prosecutors say the homework happened on a chatbot account tied to his wife that shared identifiers with his own. Between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30, that account asked about building a continuous audio recorder, modifying Wi-Fi connectivity, improving live listening, and encrypting an SD card. So he allegedly asked the product how to spy on the people who build the product, while logged into the family account. After the discovery, OpenAI used its own models to analyze the device, then put a camera in the room and allegedly caught him returning to check behind the TV. Security also found a second recorder in an unattended bag that happened to contain his wallet and his ID. He faces one count under the federal Wiretap Act, up to five years and a $250,000 fine. OpenAI says no model weights, source code, or customer data were accessed.
NVIDIA AND APPLE EACH PUT $25 MILLION INTO TRUMP'S BALLROOM.
A leaked internal spreadsheet landed at The Washington Post, and now we know exactly what everybody paid for Trump's new White House ballroom. Nvidia and Apple each pledged $25 million, tying the Adelson family and Dish billionaire Charles Ergen at the top. Microsoft and Palantir went $10 million apiece. Google's $22 million came out of settling Trump's lawsuit over his suspended YouTube account, so Google paid a legal bill and got filed under patriotism. Cisco and ServiceNow each confirmed $5 million. Nvidia told CNBC its support for the country is "paramount, and independent of any business interests," which is a bold thing to say when the same administration decides which of your chips can leave the country. The Post found roughly half the $333 million came from companies or executives with federal contracts, and at least $77 million came from donors who wanted their names nowhere near it. The pledge form called the project the "Donald J. Trump Ballroom," in case anyone was confused about the theme. Trump said the ballroom was being paid for "a hundred percent by me and some friends of mine." The friends showed up. He didn't. White House spokesman Davis Ingle brushed off "fake conflicts of interests" and vowed to hunt down whoever leaked the spreadsheet, which is a confident reaction to a document he insists is totally fine.
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