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NEED TO KNOW

• Donna Kelce opened up about her son Travis Kelce's retirement rumors in a video shared on Friday, Feb. 13

• The NFL mom shared what she wants for the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, and how he should make his decision

• Kelce is speculated to hang up his jersey when his contract expires in March

Mother knows best!

Donna Kelceis sharing her thoughts on her sonTravis Kelce's NFL future, and giving her motherly advice as he decides whether to retire from the league or return for another season.

The NFL mom was asked byTMZwhether she'd like to see the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 36, continue playing amid speculation that the star athlete will hang up his jersey now that his 13th season in the league has come to an end.

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"I just want him to do what he feels comfortable doing," she told the outlet in a video released on Friday, Feb. 13. "He's gotta talk to people in his life to decide what he wants to do."

She added, "So I'm not sure. We'll see what happens!"

Kelce has been the subject of retirement rumors since before the 2025-2026 season began. He signed a two-year extension in 2024, which expires in March 2026.

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Speculation ramped up over the course of the season, and tenfold towards its end, especially given how events played out:Kelce was admittedly frustratedwith his game, quarterbackPatrick Mahomes' suffered aseason-ending injuryand theChiefs missed a playoff berthfor the first time in a decade.

While Kelce kept his thoughts on retirement private for a large part of the season, he's opened up in recent monthsabout the factorsthat will play into his decision.

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"You know, that's a good question, man. I think I'm still searching for those answers... The way this one ended with a sour taste in my mouth," Kelce toldTony Gonzalezlast month when the retired Chiefs legend asked about his retirement decision.

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"I feel motivated, but I got to make the right decision for me," he shared.

Additionally,Clark Hunt— chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs — shared his organization's take on what's to come next year regarding Kelce, andendorsed the tight end's decisionif he elects to play a 14th season.

"Well as an organization, we certainly hope that he will come back," Huntsaid in a guest spot on NFL Network'sGood Morning Footballon Tuesday, Jan. 27.

"He had another great year, maybe not on par with where he was four or five years ago, but still had over 800 yards, and was really one of the leaders on the offensive side of the ball for us. So there's no doubt in my mind that he can still play," he continued.

Hunt added, "We're trying to be respectful and let him have the time that he needs to make a decision."

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The Philadelphia Phillies released outfielder Nick Castellanos on Thursday.

The move hardly was a surprise given Castellanos is owed $20 million during the final season of his five-year, $100 million contract. In addition, Castellanos found himself in a platoon role last season after being admonished for insubordination in June.

Adolis Garcia, 32, is expected to replace Castellanos in right field in the upcoming season after signing a one-year, $10 million contract in December.

Castellanos was benched on June 17, one day after reportedly making an "inappropriate" comment to manager Rob Thomson.

Thomson removed Castellanos from the outfield in favor of Johan Rojas as a defensive replacement in the eighth inning of a 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins. That's what prompted Castellanos to say something to Thomson that the manager deemed out of order.

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Castellanos, however, noted during an Instagram post on Thursday that he was benched for the following game after bringing a beer into the dugout following his removal from the game for defensive purposes.

Castellanos, who turns 34 on March 4, batted .250 with 17 home runs and 72 RBIs in 147 games last season, his fourth with Philadelphia.

A two-time All-Star, Castellanos is a career .272 hitter with 250 homers and 920 RBIs in 1,688 games with the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Phillies.

Garcia, also a two-time All-Star, batted .227 with career lows in home runs (19) and RBIs (75) over 135 games in 2025 with the Texas Rangers.

It was the second straight season of declining production from Garcia, who set career highs with 39 home runs and 107 RBIs for the World Series champion Rangers in 2023.

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Incollege basketball, about the only thing certain is uncertainty. The final NCAA men's tournament bracket still won't be announced for over a month, and it will in all likelihood look quite different from this latest projection from our USA TODAY Sports team of bracketologists.

In just the last few days since our most recent effort, we've seen half the teams that were projected as top two seeds lose. That includes Arizona, though the Wildcats are still comfortably on the first line.Iowa State,which lost to a TCU teammuch farther down the Big 12 standings, will slip back to a No. 3.

STARTING FIVE:Duke-Clemson, KU-Iowa State lead this weekend's games

MAJOR INJURY:UNC star Caleb Wilson breaks hand, will be sidelined

TheBig Tenshook things up as well. Purdue replaces Nebraska on the No. 2 line as theBoilermakers outlasted the Cornhuskers in overtime. Also falling back is Illinois to a No. 3 seed after the Fighting Illini lost in overtime for the second consecutive game.

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In the ACC, Virginia is back in the top 16 as a No. 4 seed, while North Carolina slides a line after losing at Miami. Virginia Tech inched closer to the bubble with a win at Clemson but still has work to do to make the field.

Bracketology: Latest NCAA tournament projection for March Madness

March Madness Last four in

Miami (Fla.), Southern California, San Diego State, UCLA.

March Madness First four out

: New Mexico, Virginia Tech, TCU, Missouri.

NCAA tournament bids conference breakdown

Multi-bid leagues:Big Ten (11), SEC (10), ACC (8) Big 12 (7), Big East (3), West Coast (3), Mountain West (2).

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:March Madness Bracketology: Latest NCAA tournament bracket projection

A fruit seller and father of two killed during his first protest. A biotechnology graduate with a passion for art who bled to death in her father's arms. A distraught family ordered to pay morgue officials $7,000 for a loved one's body unless they lie and say their relative died at the hands of anti-government rioters.

These are a tiny fraction of the thousands of Iranians killed or wounded when the governmentcracked down on protestsa month ago. With the nation still reeling, details about victims are trickling out and the world is gradually getting a clearer picture of the violence used to suppress the nationwide demonstrations.

Most of the killing happened during a two-day period between the night of Jan. 8 and Jan. 10, withover 7,000 people killedacross the country, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

"This was a very rapid48-hour massacre. I can't think of anything in Iran's own history that's comparable, unless I go back to the 18th century," said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based advocacy group.

The demonstrations, sparked in late December as the rial currency crashed and inflation soared, turned into one of the biggest challenges faced by the Islamic Republic in its 47-year history as thousands of people across the country, including members of the country's many ethnic minority groups, took to the streets todemand an end to clerical rule.

Communicating with journalists can be very dangerous for protesters' families, and Iran is in the middle of a communications blackout with severe restrictions on the internet and cellphone service. So to report on those killed by security forces, NBC News relied on sources outside Iran who were in touch with the families of victims inside the country.

These are the stories of four killed during January's carnage.

Negin Ghadimi

Negin Ghadimi studied biotechnology, but her real passion was art. In avideo posted on Instagram, 26-year old Ghadimi shows a sketch of a woman's dress covered with mirrors that she has designed. She wanted people to see their own reflections, she said.

"My view of my future is very bright," Ghadimi, a former competitive swimmer, says in a separate Instagram video.

She lived in the city of Sari in northern Iran and would sometimes visit family in Tehran, according to a relative who is not being identified for security reasons. "She was full of life, loved nature, loved art," the relative said in a telephone interview.

On Jan. 9, Ghadimi's family decided to attend a protest while on a visit to Tonekabon, a small city in northern Iran on the Caspian Sea.

"I told her, 'Baba, dear — you stay. Don't come. I'm going out,'" Ghadimi's father saysin an Instagram videoof a commemoration ceremony for her, his voice cracking.

"She said, 'No my dear, I'm coming to look out for you.'"

When Ghadimi and her family arrived at the protest, security forces began shooting tear gas at the crowd and the family was separated, her relative told NBC News. Again, Ghadimi's father tried to get her to leave, the family member said.

Ghadimi and her father were holding hands as they walked with other protesters when security forces began shooting at an intersection. A bullet hit the side of Ghadimi's body.

Ghadimi told her father she was burning, the source said.

Her father screamed for help and laid her on the ground, the family member added. Soon a crowd gathered and helped carry Ghadimi into a nearby house.

Ghadimi licked her lips over and over. Her shoes were covered in her own blood, according to the relative.

Nearby, the shooting continued unabated as Ghadimi's father, who had been shot in the hand with pellets, begged for help to get her to a hospital, according to her relative.

After around 45 minutes, a woman driving a car past the house stopped and agreed to take a heavily bleeding Ghadimi to the hospital. The medical staff tried to revive her, but it was too late.

"She lost her life in my arms, but I couldn't do anything for her," her father says in the Instagram video of the commemoration ceremony.

On Ghadimi's death certificate, a copy of which was seen by NBC News, her cause of death is listed as "Impact from a high speed projectile object to the body," rather than being shot by a bullet which would ordinarily be noted.

"It's ridiculous," her relative said.

Ghadimi's body was taken to Behesht-e Zahra, Iran's largest cemetery, located about 5 miles south of Tehran's southern suburbs, for burial. Nearby, crowds chanted anti-government slogans, her relative recounted.

Yasin Mirzaei Ghalazanjiri

A geophysics graduate student, Yasin Mirzaei Ghalazanjiri was studying in Italy when he decided to visit family in Kermanshah, a city in western Iran home to a large population of fellow ethnic Kurds, during his New Year's university break. He joined friends and family at a large protest in Kermanshah on Jan. 8.

It did not seem dangerous at first, but that changed quickly. Ghalazanjiri was shot in the chest by a sniper bullet and died on the spot.

"When they shot Yasin, his family and friends were around him," said a relative, who asked not to be identified because he was afraid Iranian security forces would harass or harm him outside the country or his family inside Iran.

"They wanted to take his body so it wouldn't be grabbed by security forces. But at that same time, another one of our family members was shot in the face with pellets," he added during a telephone interview.

The group decided to pull the wounded man to safety before going back for Ghalazanjiri's body. By the time the gunfire had subsided, Ghalazanjiri had disappeared.

When family tried to find the body at the city morgue, they encountered rows and rows of unzipped body bags.

The security forces at the morgue gave the family a choice: either say that Ghalazanjiri was killed by "rioters" among the protesters or pay 700 million toman, approximately $7,000. They called it "haq-e tir," or bullet price.

The family refused to accept the version of events pushed by the authorities and paid the money to get the body back. Even though the family paid, the security forces said they should keep quiet about the circumstances of his death or else they would rebury Ghalazanjiri in an undisclosed location.

A crowd showed up for Ghalazanjiri's burial at a family plot in a rural area outside Kermanshah and chanted anti-government slogans despite the threats, according to his relative.

On Jan. 15, the rector of the University of Messina, where Ghalazanjiri studied, expressed her condolences ata gathering of students, and Ghalazanjiri's picture was placed on an empty chair.

The entire family is heartbroken by the loss of a vibrant young man who had so much potential, his relative said.

"It's not only Yasin. Anytime we see the protest videos, it makes us cry," the relative said. "We're human after all. We're agonizing for everybody."

Sadegh Ghodsi and Ilya Ghodsi

Sadegh Ghodsi, a 38-year-old Tehran fruit seller, was not politically active. But on Jan. 8, the father of two decided to attend a protest with his cousin's son Ilya, 17, according to a source close to the family.

They were among other protesters in the Qaleh Hassan Khan neighborhood in western Tehran when security forces opened fire on the crowds, he said on condition of anonymity out of fear that Iranian security forces would harm him or his family.

Both were killed.

The family searched desperately for their bodies and eventually found them at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center south of Tehran. Videos that have leaked out of Iran and were verified by NBC Newsshow rows and rows of body bagsinside and outside the facility as families try to identify their relatives.

When family members found the bodies of Sadegh and Ilya, the authorities would not allow them to be removed. They, like other families, were offered a choice: pay a bullet price of 800 million toman, or about $8,000, or sign a document stating the two were members of the Basij, a paramilitary force overseen by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who were killed by "terrorists."

"They didn't have the financial resources to pay. They didn't have a choice, so they accepted," the source close to the family said in a telephone interview.

"When the family received the bodies, there were so many other bodies they were only given half an hour in the mosque for a funeral service," he added.

By Jack Queen

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is due in federal court in Minnesota on Friday to enter a plea in a criminal case stemming from ‌his coverage of a protest at a church against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Lemon, now an ‌independent journalist, livestreamed a protest against Trump's deployment of thousands of armed immigration agents into Democratic-governed Minnesota's biggest cities. The protest ​disrupted a January 18 service at Cities Church in St. Paul.

He was charged with conspiring to deprive others of their civil rights and violating a law that has been used to crack down on demonstrations at abortion clinics but also forbids obstructing access to houses of worship.

He is set to appear in federal court in St. ‌Paul at 1:00 p.m. (1900 GMT).

Lemon's lawyer has ⁠called the case an attack on First Amendment free speech rights.

Trump has frequently lashed out at the media, stripping journalists of access-granting credentials and suing some news outlets ⁠over their coverage of him. The president praised the Justice Department for bringing the charges against Lemon, calling the disruption of the church service a "horrible thing."

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a January 30 social media video that ​prosecutors ​will come after anyone who threatens the "sacred right" to worship ​freely and safely.

Thousands of protesters took to ‌the streets of Minneapolis and other U.S. cities in January to denounce an immigration crackdown in which federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens.

Trump has since agreed to end his deportation surge in Minnesota, with many agents set to return to their home states over the next week.

Organizers of the Cities Church protest told Lemon they chose the church because they believed a senior pastor there was working with U.S. Immigration and ‌Customs Enforcement.

In a livestream archived on his YouTube channel, Lemon ​can be seen meeting with and interviewing the activists before ​they go to the church. He then records ​the disruption inside and interviews congregants, protesters and a pastor, who asks Lemon and ‌the protesters to leave.

Independent local journalist Georgia Fort ​was also arrested and ​charged with the same crimes. Fort has denied wrongdoing and said she was reporting on the protest, not participating. She is scheduled to enter a plea on February 17.

Lemon spent 17 years at CNN, ​becoming one of its most recognizable ‌personalities, and frequently criticizes Trump in his YouTube broadcasts. Lemon was fired by CNN in ​2023 after making sexist on-air comments for which he later apologized.

(Reporting by Jack Queen in ​New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Nia Williams)