Dae’Quan Wright is heading to LSU if he clears waivers after Browns released him
Cleveland Browns tight end Dae'Quan Wright warms up before a preseason NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
2026-08-24T14:57:32Z
Former Ole Miss tight end Dae’Quan Wright is heading to LSU if he clears waivers after being released by the Cleveland Browns, agent Drew Rosenhaus told The Associated Press on Monday.
Wright signed with the Philadelphia Eagles following the NFL draft and joined the Browns after he was released on Aug. 11. He didn’t play in Cleveland’s two preseason games.
Wright played two seasons for LSU coach Lane Kiffin in 2024 and 2025. He caught 39 passes for 635 yards and five touchdowns for the Rebels last season.
If he joins LSU, Wright is believed to be the first player to return to college after playing in the NFL.
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Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:23:03 +0000
Music Review: Mike D 5D’s debut solo album ‘Thank You’ offers glitchy, post-Beastie Boy fun
2026-08-24T15:21:58Z
ATLANTA (AP) — Mike D 5D, a new project from former Beastie Boy Michael Diamond, will release “Thank You” on Friday — the debut solo album from the MC and the first new music from the Beastie Boys’ camp since the 2012 death of Adam “MCA” Yauch.
“Thank You” is a debut album unafraid to traverse new sonic ground — and suffers only the occasional misfire.
Joined by his band — his sons Skyler and Davis Diamond as well as Eddie Ruscha, Will Graefe and Milo Ruscha — Mike D’s album bristles with stuttering drum and bass breaks and distressed vocals on the opening tracks “Switch Up” and “What We Got,” both of which sound as if they were pushed through an overdrive pedal. Somehow it works and is fitting with Mike D 5D’s high-volume and energetic style.
Less necessary are meandering and repetitive songs such as “Secrets Pt. II,” in which Mike D discusses his discomfort. “I got secrets,” the rapper implores, repeatedly — no, seriously, a lot — while failing to reveal one. The rapper has a musical idea, but not much of a lyrical one.
Much of the album plays out like a man in a bedroom with a vintage synth, a half dozen beered-up friends and a laptop stuffed with aging drum software. Such is true of the track “Crypto,” which purports to cast a cautious eye at greed, but lurches melodically. Ultimately, it relents to a frenetic and fuzzy declaration from Mike D of “All these people in your ear, they’re in your ear / All these people talking in your ear, in your ear” — which apparently means something to him.
But overwhelmingly, “Thank You” is messy, noisy glitch-rap fun. Consider “I Don’t Care,” one of the top tracks. It holds a down-tempo pace and finds Mike D weighing the balance of responsibilities and their emotional returns: “We all have a role / I didn’t see mine,” he sings. “Start with a goal get lost in the deadline.” The track excels thanks to wonderful Mini Korg synth work from Hubert Blanc-Fracard, formerly one half of the French music duo Cassius.
Despite a dash of low lights, “Thank You” is refreshingly inventive. That in itself is an accomplishment. To have the aim and drive to create something this new and far afield deserves applause. He’s reaching beyond the low rung recreations of Beastie Boy flavor he could have easily leaned into. But that’s easy and accessible and where’s the fun in that?
Credit is due here for exploration and commitment. He’s Mike D and he gets respect.
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“Thank You,” by Mike D 5D
Three stars out of five
On repeat: “I Don’t Care”
Skip it: “Crypto”
For fans of: A distressed “Paul’s Boutique”
Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:23:02 +0000
Gang coalition unleashes violent new attack on farming community in Haiti
2026-08-24T14:53:25Z
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang coalition attacked a once peaceful farming community nestled in the hills above Haiti’s capital, killing multiple people, an official told The Associated Press on Monday.
Kenscoff Mayor Jean Massillon said armed men raided the community late Sunday, setting fire to homes and killing residents.
“It is still impossible to establish a definitive death toll due to access difficulties and communication problems,” he said.
Wails filled the air in Kenscoff as survivors found the bodies of friends and family strewn on the streets early Monday. Massillon blamed the attack on members of Viv Ansanm, which the U.S. government designated as a foreign terrorist organization last year.
“They sowed chaos,” Massillon said.
He said gang members targeted a church and homes including those owned by Dr. Jean “Bill” Pape. He is a renowned doctor who runs a non-governmental organization in Haiti that helps patients including those with HIV and tuberculosis.
No further details about the attack were available. A spokesperson for the U.N.-backed gang suppression force did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Gangs control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince, the capital, with Viv Ansanm repeatedly targeting nearby Kenscoff.
Gang violence has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,100 people were reported killed from January to June and another 1,189 injured, according to U.N. statistics.
The attack comes less than a week after the U.S. government deported more than 160 people to the troubled Caribbean country for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.
Haiti is scheduled to hold general elections for the first time in more than a decade on Dec. 13, and it has been registering voters in Port-au-Prince and beyond. Experts have warned it’s currently too dangerous to hold elections.
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Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed.
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Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:23:02 +0000
Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea
2026-08-24T15:02:05Z
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another African nation that signed a third-country deporation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said Monday.
Under a series of often secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to two dozen countries that aren’t their own as it pushes ahead with its immigration crackdown, advocates say. Immigration lawyers say the practice is being used as a legal loophole to indirectly return some asylum seekers to countries they fled.
The group who refused to get off the plane in Liberia on Thursday include four Cuban men, a Brazilian man and a Cameroonian woman, the person and lawyer said.
A Honduran deportee aboard the flight said the group refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country” and that they would face danger there. They were then separated from the others, he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.
He said the other passengers got off in Liberia because they feared officers would force them.
Meredyth Yoon, litigation director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, said the deportees who resisted leaving the plane in Liberia were told they would be returned to the United States but instead were flown to Malabo city in Equatorial Guinea.
“It was a really heartbreaking and chaotic scene when they arrived in Malabo on Thursday,” Yoon said.
Some arrived in chains and in extreme distress, she said, including the Cameroonian woman and one of the Cuban men, who Yoon said has a serious medical condition requiring regular care.
Yoon said the six are held at a hotel with around 40 other deported migrants. There is no medical staff on site and conditions have worsened in recent months, she said, with food sometimes withheld and guards accused of threatening, beating and choking some of the migrants.
Equatorial Guinea’s government did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has turned the hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the U.S.
Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:23:02 +0000