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• All the latest news and deals before today’s deadline

• Vikings reunite with QB Kirk Cousins in deal with Vegas

• Niners add WR Keenan Allen; Bills land S Amani Hooker

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In NFL-adjacent news:

Jordon Hudson is suing two Airbnb hosts over a Ring doorbell camera video of a shirtless Bill Belichick. Hudson says that the 2023 clip invaded her privacy by prompting public disclosure of her relationship with the former Patriots coach.

‘Video footage appears to show the use of restraints on a child who seemed to pose no threat to those around him’

Democratic lawmakers in California are demanding answers from the Trump administration about the safety and whereabouts of an eight-year-old Haitian boy who they say was put in restraints and taken into custody by federal immigration officers at a check-in last week.

Video obtained by NBC News shows the third-grader being led away by three armed officials after he was summoned to what his family said was a routine immigration appointment in San Diego on 4 November.

As Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, Republicans pick Jordan for last two years of Trump’s presidency

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Republicans have elected veteran congressman Jim Jordan as their new leader in the House of Representatives, putting a strident defender of Donald Trump at the helm of their conference as they navigate the fallout from sweeping losses in last week’s midterm elections.

Jordan will serve as minority leader under a new Congress that begins next year, where Democrats will have their largest margins in both the House and Senate in years. He will be responsible for shaping the party’s strategy against the waves of investigations Democrats have promised to open into Trump’s second term, as well as their vows of an ambitious legislative agenda, regardless of whether it has the president’s support.

Jordan, the hardline conservative from Ohio, beat fellow congressman Steve Scalise by a vote of 106-73; Thune won re-election without a challenger

• Republicans elect Jim Jordan as House minority leader after party’s midterm defeats

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During his press conference, Hegseth was resolute that the articles of impeachment are baseless, and that all attacks were carried out legally.

“As for the articles themselves, Iran, the cartels, Maduro, Yemen, everyone was a lawful operation ordered by the commander-in-chief, then ordered by myself, notified to Congress and executed by American warriors who did their jobs,” he said. “We destroyed terror regimes’ capabilities. We sank the boats carrying poison into our communities. We put a narco dictator in handcuffs. These are not high crimes. This is the job, and it’s the job well done.”

Legal battle escalates as far-right US podcaster continues to spread false claims that France’s first lady was born a man

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have brought a fresh defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens in her home state of Tennessee, in an escalation of a transatlantic legal battle as the far-right US podcaster continues to spread false claims that France’s first lady was born a man.

The Macrons first sued Owens and her media companies in July 2025 in Delaware in response to what the French first couple called “verifiably false and devastating lies” being repeated by Owens on her podcast and on X. According to that lawsuit, those lies included that Brigitte Macron, 73, was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux – who is actually her older brother – and committed identity theft to hide a gender transition; that Emmanuel Macron was elected as French president as part of a CIA mind-control program; and that the couple are blood-related relatives committing incest.

Estranged father of Duchess of Sussex was arrested for keeping child sexual abuse material, authorities say

The 82-year-old estranged father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle, just days after his arrest for keeping child sexual abuse material in storage units in California, authorities said on Tuesday.

Thomas Markle was in custody awaiting a hearing in federal court in Tampa, Florida, first assistant US attorney Bill Essayli said.

The federal agency is requiring all GLP-1s to include information about the potential risk on warning labels

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a new warning on GLP-1 medications – which can facilitate weight loss – over a rare eye condition that could lead to sudden and permanent blindness.

On Monday, the FDA announced that it is requiring all GLP-1 medications – including Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound, as well as Sanofi’s Soliqua – to include information about the potential risk of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, also known as NAION, on warning labels.

Smiling and dressed for the US Capitol, brand-new Congress members from Abdul El-Sayed to Annie Andrews attend a new-member orientation

• Minnesota acquire veteran quarterback for 2027 pick

• Cousins returns to Vikings after six seasons with team

• No 1 pick Mendoza set to make first NFL start

Kirk Cousins is heading back to Minnesota.

The Vikings have acquired the veteran quarterback from the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2027 draft, according to multiple reports, including from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

• All the latest news and deals before the today’s deadline

• Vikings reunite with QB Kirk Cousins in deal with Vegas

• Niners add WR Keenan Allen; Bills land S Amani Hooker

• Follow the buildup to the 4pm ET cutoff and fallout

• Email Bryan with your thoughts on the deadline moves

In NFL-adjacent news:

Jordon Hudson is suing two Airbnb hosts over a Ring doorbell camera video of a shirtless Bill Belichick. Hudson says that the 2023 clip invaded her privacy by prompting public disclosure of her relationship with the former Patriots coach.