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The San Diego Padres will be without one of their top arms for the rest of the postseason and well beyond.

Joe Musgrove started Game 2 of a National League Wild Card Series Wednesday but was taken out after just 3⅔ innings due to elbow tightness in his throwing arm.

That’s never a good sign, and the worst-case scenario played out.

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San Diego announced Friday that Musgrove will undergo Tommy John surgery, almost certainly shelving him for the entire 2025 season as well.

Musgrove has been hampered by injuries since the 2022 campaign, the best of his career. His season ended early last year after he had inflammation in a shoulder capsule. This season didn’t start off so hot. He compiled a 5.66 ERA in his first 10 starts. San Diego then placed him on the 60-day IL with a bone spur in his right elbow.

When he returned, Musgrove returned to form, pitching to a 2.15 ERA in his final nine starts of the season, including an outing in which he allowed six earned runs in 4⅓ innings early last month. It added up to a 3.88 ERA, but he clearly was trending in the right direction.

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However, on Wednesday night, he was taken out of the game, walking off the field with a trainer and clearly emotional.

“I’m devastated I’m not going to finish what we started,” Musgrove said on Friday of his “sudden and drastic” injury. 

“It’s a matter of coming to grips that this is it for me.”

Musgrove said when he got his elbow checked out over the summer, doctors told him it was a “matter of time” until the worst happened.

“The writing was on the wall for me. It was a matter of when,” he said.

Despite Musgrove leaving the game early, San Diego took down the Atlanta Braves to move on to the National League Division Series.

It’s their third trip to an NLDS since 2020, all of which will have come against the NL West rival Los Angeles Dodgers.

Musgrove figured to be an option to pitch Game 3 of the NLDS on an extra day of rest.

That series begins Saturday night in Los Angeles with an 8:38 p.m. ET first pitch. 

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A Rolling Stone reporter argued Friday that former President Trump wishes he could have “death squads” of police to shoot criminals and pile their bodies in the streets.

MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire interviewed Asawin Suebsaeng about a piece he wrote with fellow Rolling Stone senior politics reporter Tim Dickinson headlined, “‘American Death Squads’: Inside Trump’s Push to Make Police More Violent.”

Trump spoke about crime at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, this past Sunday, suggesting that a brief, decisive period of law enforcement could drastically reduce crime in America. 

“One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know? It will end immediately,” Trump said.

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“So it wasn’t just that Trump saw the film ‘The Purge’ on his flight there heading to that rally, there’s some teeth to this proposal,” Lemire said as he spoke to Suebsaeng about his piece. “Tell us what you found.”

The Rolling Stone reporter said that this statement from Trump was “definitely not a rhetorical one-off thing,” and that “he and his chief ideological lieutenants have shown over the years, including during his administration, including during this current campaign, that they want to back up with the full force of the Department of Justice, the executive branch, and the federal government.”

Suebsaeng claimed that according to insiders from the Trump White House, the former president had outbursts demanding crackdowns on criminals. 

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“During his presidency, there would be multiple times where, according to our sources, he would be doing things like banging his fist on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and demanding that, ‘Why aren’t the police going around shooting all kinds of street criminals and drug dealers and piling up their bodies on American streets, so it can send a very grim message to gangs and all kinds of other suspected criminals in America?’” the reporter claimed. 

“He did this so often and so garrulously that there were some administration officials who referred to it to us as his ‘American death squads’ idea, which was something highly influenced by his admiration of what Rodrigo Duterte did in the Philippines,” he added.

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The reporter conceded that death squads “maybe” won’t happen, but emphasized the significance of even the possibility. 

“Is it possible that a second term, re-elected Trump could get exactly that? No, maybe not. But the point is, he wants to get to as close to that as humanly possible, which is a remarkable thing for a modern American presidency,” he said.

Suebsaeng then claimed that in late 2020, Trump “toyed with the idea of pulling federal funding from different states and cities that were not sufficiently ‘pro-cop’ enough for his liking, or didn’t let the police get away with enough degrees of abusive behavior or even alleged racial bias. He’d threaten to pull federal funding if they didn’t do those things to his liking.” 

He claimed further that Trump “has talked to people recently about using pardon powers to excuse different officers, where people have been federally charged with things.”

“There’s all kinds of things that his second administration would be planning with the Department of Justice, with the power of the executive branch, to try to make police in this country as cartoonishly violent as men like Donald Trump would like them to be,” the Rolling Stone reporter said. 

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung responded to Fox News Digital, “President Trump has always been the law and order president and he continues to reiterate the importance of enforcing existing laws. Otherwise it’s all-out anarchy, which is what Kamala Harris has created in some of these communities across America, especially during her time as California attorney general when she emboldened criminals. Now she has allowed criminals and terrorists cross the border unchecked, wreaking havoc throughout communities.”

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The NFL said it will not mediate between the Miami Dolphins and Tua Tagovailoa about a potential return date. 

Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, told reporters Tagovailoa “is seeing the top expert,” and the NFL will not have a role in deciding his potential return date. 

“Patient autonomy and medical decision-making really matters,” Sills said. 

“And I think that’s what we have to recognize goes on with our concussion protocol as well. Ultimately, when patients make decisions about considering their careers, it has to reflect that autonomy that’s generated from discussions with medical experts giving them the best medical advice,” Sills said via ESPN.

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The Dolphins quarterback has been on injured reserve since Sept. 17 after suffering a scary concussion after a collision with a defender in Week 2 against the Buffalo Bills. The concussion against the Bills was the third documented concussion of his pro career. 

During a conference call, Sills and Jeff Miller, the NFL executive vice president overseeing player health and safety, also said that the NFL had its fewest number of concussions in the preseason since tracking started in 2015. 

There were 44 concussions in practices and games, a decrease of about 24% from last year.

One of the reasons for the lower number of concussions is changes to equipment.

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“The reason for that change has certainly to do with changes to rules, changes to equipment, including the Guardian cap, as well as a host of other efforts we’ve made over the years to drive the numbers down,” Miller said. 

There was a nearly 50% reduction in concussions in the preseason among players wearing the Guardian cap in mandated sessions versus the pre-mandate average.

In addition to the Guardian caps, nearly 99% of players wore top-performing helmets, including more than 250 players wearing helmets that the league says provide as much — and in some cases more — protection than a helmet paired with a Guardian cap.

The dynamic kickoff led to fewer injuries in the preseason, but there were still concussions on the revamped play. 

“We saw a couple more concussions on the dynamic kickoff than we thought we would see,” Miller said. “We haven’t seen any concussions in the first three weeks of the dynamic kickoff in the regular season.”

“While there is no finish line in our efforts to make the game safer, the injury data from this preseason is an example of how the league’s deliberate approach to player safety continues to deliver results,” Sills said. “We’re committed to building a culture of safety around the game, and this preseason was another positive step in that direction.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A Georgia woman died alongside her twin newborn boys while hunkering down for their safety as Hurricane Helene ripped through their rural town. 

Obie WIlliams discovered his daughter, Kobe Williams, 27, and her sons, Khyzier and Khazmir, after a tree fell on top of their trailer in Thompson, 120 miles east of Atlanta, causing her to fall on top of the children. 

Williams said he received a call from his daughter last week as Helene battered the area. She heeded his advice and sheltered in the bathroom with her month-old babies until the storm passed. When she stopped answering her family’s phone calls, Williams dodged power lines and downed trees to check on her and the boys. 

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“I’d seen pictures when they were born and pictures every day since, but I hadn’t made it out there yet to meet them,” Williams told The Associated Press, days after the storm ravaged eastern Georgia. “Now I’ll never get to meet my grandsons. It’s devastating.”

Williams’ grandsons were born Aug. 20 and are the youngest known victims of Helene, which has claimed the lives of at least 230 people throughout the Southeast.

The death toll is expected to rise as search and rescue continues to comb through new areas.

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Williams described his daughter as a lovable, outgoing and strong young woman who always had a smile on her face and loved to make people laugh. She was studying to be a nursing assistant but had taken time off from school to give birth to her sons.

“That was my baby,” he said. “And everybody loved her.”

Williams, who lives in Augusta, said many of his 14 other children are still without power in their homes across Georgia. Some have sought refuge in Atlanta, and others have traveled to Augusta to see their father and mourn together.

Williams said they are waiting for the bodies to be released by the county coroner and for roads to be cleared before arranging a funeral.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Christina Hall slammed her ex Josh Hall as she announced that she has listed her Tennessee home.

The 41-year-old reality star took to her Instagram Story on Thursday to share that she was selling her farmhouse in Leiper’s Fork for $4.5 million. Josh, 44, has been living at the residence since the two split in July.

“My Tennessee home is officially for sale,” the TV personality wrote on an image of the house. “Excited for a new venture in business & real estate!”

Christina bought the farmhouse, where she films her HGTV series “Christina in the Country,” in February 2021 prior to meeting Josh. In court documents that she filed in July, the “Flip or Flop” alum listed the house as a “Separate Property Interest,” along with other assets, including her Newport Beach, California, home and another property in Tennessee.

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Christina previously stated that she used the farmhouse as a rental property during times when she was not staying there. The former couple agreed that Josh could stay at the residence unless it was being rented out, per a legal document that was filed in September and obtained by People magazine.

In a follow-up post on her Instagram Story, Christina wrote, “I guess ‘Leiper’s Fork’ is gonna have to come off the bio soon.”

The comment appeared to be in reference to Josh’s Instagram bio, in which he lists “Leiper’s Fork” as his current location. In August, sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that Josh moved out of the Orange County, California, home they once shared.

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“Time to go back to reality soon… Remember when you said you would never steal from me or my kids and you would just be happy in a van with your dog? I guess plans changed,” Christina added, with a thinking face emoji.

“All about trying to take everything you can… With your mind on my money and my money on your mind…,” she wrote, adding a money bag emoji.

The stealing allegation appeared to be referring to Christina accusing her estranged husband of transferring $35,000 of her money into his personal bank account on July 8 after their divorce filing, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

“I would not have asked him to send himself my money the day after I told him we are getting divorced,” Christina stated in the documents.

In another post that she shared to her Instagram Story on Friday, Christina wrote, “And yes, this is stealing from me and my family. Asking for an obscene amount of $$ from me for a short-term marriage is factual. Stealing rental income for two of my sole properties and separate homes is factual (booking a cleaner does not make you a property manager) I have one who gets a % for her actual work of being a property manager.”

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“Also your ‘rep’ is literally always off on their statements..trying to make you look all innocent in this…okkk…you ‘buying’ Bentleys is funny. A min down payment on one car isn’t buying sh**..Pretty sure I’ve made all the payments on all the cars. (And on everything) and everyone knows this anyways…and also this is my page and as long as you’re being a gold digging little biatchh I don’t have to stop doing anything..everything I’ve said is 100 accurate and I haven’t even scratched the surface of your character..,” she continued.

“Defamation is ‘false claims’ ..you damaged your own reputation sweetie. You aren’t Amber Heard – nice try.

“P.S. my autobiography is in the works,” she added.

Christina’s representative told Fox News Digital that they had “no comment” regarding her recent posts.

In a statement, a representative for Josh told People magazine, “Josh has said repeatedly that he wants to handle the divorce like an adult — in the courts, not in social media and the tabloids. Over and over again, Christina has insisted otherwise, creating public spectacles, but Josh has still stayed quiet. But now Christina is defaming him. These are false, libelous claims. Josh hasn’t stolen a penny from her or her family. This is a red line, and Christina has crossed it. Instead of repeating Christina’s false statement, the media should ask why Christina keeps insisting on handling this matter in public instead of through the law.” 

Christina and Josh secretly married in 2021 and later had a formal ceremony in Hawaii. The couple had been planning to star alongside each other in the upcoming show, “The Flip Off,” which will feature Christina’s ex-husband Tarek El Moussa and his wife Heather Rae El Moussa.

Christina was married to Tarek from 2009 to 2018. The former couple share two children, daughter Taylor and son Brayden.

Before marrying Josh in 2021, Christina finalized for divorce from her second husband, Ant Anstead. Christina and Anstead married in 2018 and share a son together.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Stanton and Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.

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Sunday’s WNBA playoff game between the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces was the most-watched semifinal round game the league has seen in 22 years.

The game drew an average of 929,000 viewers, up 60% from the semifinals last year.

The numbers of the rematch of last year’s WNBA Finals got the attention of Jemele Hill, who seemed to try to make a point about Caitlin Clark.

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“And yet I keep seeing irresponsible headlines claiming the WNBA playoffs are down because of no Caitlin Clark,” Hill wrote on X.

Despite historic numbers for the WNBA, it can be argued ratings would have been much higher had Clark been playing.

After Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers for her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun Sept. 22 while competing with an NFL Sunday, she followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost both games, however, sending Clark home for the offseason.

That Game 2 viewership was more than double what the Liberty and Aces drew earlier this week.

Hill, though, despite her take on “irresponsible headlines,” admitted viewership would be higher with Clark.

“Would the ratings be higher if she were in it? Of course. But guess what, [an NBA] Finals would rate higher if it were Lebron vs. Steph. Or, if big market teams were in the mix. So what? That’s the headline.”

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Still, it was historically good for any WNBA playoff game that doesn’t involve Clark. It was better than any of the TV numbers for the finals games between the two teams last year. 

Both of those games have also fallen well behind some of Clark’s regular-reason games in terms of viewership. In early September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a Week 1 Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. 

Clark was named the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year Thursday, receiving 66 of the 67 first-place votes. Angel Reese received the remaining vote.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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I’m using the new Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max with iOS 18.1. For some reason, Siri responds about 60% of the time when I ask it to call or text someone. Yes, this garbage even happens to me, and I’ve been helping folks with their tech lives for decades. 

That’s why I’ve channeled my frustrations into easy ways to make your tech less annoying, too.

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Let’s start with Alexa: Amazon Echo smart speakers repeat what you just said, but you can turn off that default setting with just a few clicks. Open your Alexa app, tap More > Settings > Voice Responses, then turn on Brief Mode. Ah, short, sweet and to the point.

Stop apps asking for ratings: Don’t want to be nagged to leave a rating for an app? On an iPhone, tap Settings > App Store and toggle off In-App Ratings and Reviews. There’s no fix for Android, unfortunately. Hey, Google, fix that!

You’re drowning in tabs: Here’s a faster way to navigate when you have lots of tabs open. Hit Ctrl + 1, 2, 3 and so on to go to that tab number. On Mac, it’s Command + a number. To cycle through tabs, hit Ctrl + Tab on Windows or Cmd + Tab on Mac.

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What the heck is that? Music blaring unexpectedly from a browser tab is no fun, especially when you can’t turn it off right away. Most browsers let you deal with this pretty easily now. In Chrome, for instance, simply right-click on the tab header and click Mute site.

Quick text search: You know you sent someone a pic but can’t find it. On iPhone, open Messages, tap a convo, then the person’s profile photo or group name. Scroll to Photos > See All. On Android, open Messages, then tap the search bar at the top.

Fix the ducking autocorrect: This is one reason I rely on voice texting so much. When you type, autocorrect can keep changing the word you meant to write. Adding custom words that don’t get corrected helps. On an Android, head to Settings and choose System > Keyboard > Personal dictionary. From iOS, it’s under Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.

Printer out of black ink? Change the color to #010101. It’ll look black, but it’s really 99% gray. While you’re at it, knock down the font size and switch to Courier New or Garamond. They use the least ink. Bonus: If the prints are just for you, look for draft mode in your document settings.

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30-second cleanup: If your phone’s home screen is a hot mess, folders to the rescue! Use a finger or stylus to drag one app on top of another to make a new folder. I like doing this to create folders by category (think one for social media apps, another for shopping apps and so on).

Undo drastic changes: Ever spent hours typing something and then — poof! — it all just vanishes on you? Simply hit “Undo” and it should come back. Press Ctrl + Z on Windows or Cmd + Z on a Mac. Ahhhh, there it is.

Desktop alerts: Notification overload is too much for my brain when I need to focus. Turn them off in Windows via Settings > System > Notifications. In macOS, it’s under your System Systems > Notifications.

Shhh: You can instantly silence incoming calls on your smartphone by pressing the side button, volume up or volume down button once. Nice.

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Caitlin Clark was selected WNBA Rookie of the Year by 66 of 67 voters. Many of the 66 who did vote for her have been quick to declare their innocence in voting against her. 

When Clark was announced the winner of the award Thursday, it was revealed the one vote against her went to Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese, Clark’s rival. 

Multiple WNBA media members who voted for this year’s award made claims on social media that they did not vote for Reese and voted for Clark instead. 

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The voter who chose Reese had not identified himself or herself before the time of publication. That voter’s actions in selecting Reese has ignited controversy across social media. Multiple social media users have criticized the decision. 

Clark would have become the fifth WNBA player in the league’s history to unanimously win Rookie of the Year, joining teammate Aliyah Boston, who won it last season; league MVP A’ja Wilson in 2018; Elena Delle Donne in 2013; and Tina Charles in 2010. Statistically, Clark’s rookie year this year was superior to any of those players as rookies. 

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Clark broke multiple league and franchise records in her first WNBA season, including the single-season record for assists, the rookie scoring record and most points by a guard in a single season in WNBA history. 

Reese was considered a dark horse contender for the honor behind Clark for the first few months of the season. However, her rookie campaign was cut short after she underwent season-ending surgery on her wrist after being injured Sept. 6. 

Clark widened her lead in nearly every statistical category in the weeks prior to and after Reese’s season ended. 

Prior to that, in head-to-head matchups this year, the Fever beat the Sky three out of four times. In two of those contests, Reese put up more points than Clark, while pulling down more rebounds than Clark in all four meetings. Clark registered more assists in all four meetings. 

Clark led the Fever to the playoffs for the first time in eight years as the team’s leading scorer. 

Reese was the third-leading scorer on a Chicago team that finished the season with a 13-27 record, third-worst in the league, and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2018. 

The one statistic Reese held an edge over Clark was rebounds, with more than twice as many rebounds per game at 13.1 compared to Clark’s 5.7. Reese has a natural height advantage at 6-foot-3, compared to Clark at 6-foot.

But Clark held advantages in points with 19.2 to Reese’s 13.6 per game, assists with 8.4 to Reese’s 1.9 and even blocks with 0.7 to Reese’s 0.5, despite the height disadvantage. 

Like Clark, Reese also broke a WNBA single-season record during her rookie year, breaking the single-season record for rebounds with 418 during a game against the Minnesota Lynx Sept. 2. Unlike Clark, Reese did not hold that record by the end of the season. After Reese’s season-ending surgery, MVP A’ja Wilson broke Reese’s record in the final week of the season, when Wilson recorded her 419th rebound.

Despite the statistical discrepancies between Clark and Reese, the Sky rookie had her passionate supporters this year who argued her case over Clark. 

Former NBA All-Star Joakim Noah, a 6-foot-11 center who specialized in rebounding and dominating in the paint, told Fox News Digital he would vote for Reese over Clark for Rookie of the Year if he had a say during an interview at NBA Night at the Emirates Suite at the U.S. Open in early September. 

“I would say Angel Reese,” Noah said. “When I look at her play, she reminds me a lot of myself.”

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