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The Chicago Bears have given linebacker Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade,according to multiplereports.

Edmunds became a two-time Pro Bowler with the Buffalo Bills, who drafted him 16th overall out of Virginia Tech in 2018. He's spent the past three seasons with the Bears.

Even though Edmunds missed four games during the 2025 campaign with a groin injury that he suffered late in a Week 11 win over the Minnesota Vikings, he still finished the regular season with a team-leading 112 total tackles. He's gone over the century mark in that department in each of his eight NFL seasons.

The Bears have Edmunds under contract for the 2026 season at $15 million,according to the Chicago Tribune's Brad Biggs. He will turn 28 in May.

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Chicago brought him aboard in 2023. It made a splash in free agency,signing not only Edmunds but also fellow linebacker T.J. Edwards.

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At the time, the Bears inked Edmunds to a four-year deal reportedly worth $72 million, with $50 million of that money guaranteed.

Since, Edmunds has remained productive. He's not just a tackle vacuum, either. Over the years, he's proven he has a knack for intercepting passes. He picked off four of them this past season. Edmunds did that in 2023, too, his first year with the Bears, even recording a 45-yard pick 6 in Week 15 of that season.

That's not to say he doesn't have his lapses in coverage, but he does have a track record of making game-changing plays.

He was especially good against the run this past season. No Bears player piled up more run stops than Edmunds (25), per Pro Football Focus, which defines those as "tackles that constitute a 'failure' for the offense."

Yet, as Bears head coach Ben Johnson has emphasized, every season is a new season.

Given the reports that surfaced Wednesday, Chicago could very well enter the 2026 campaign without one of its standouts from a breakout 2025.

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Cal Raleigh has already gone deep this spring, yet the switch-hitting Seattle Mariners catcher isn't focused on trying to hit 60 home runs again this season.

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Raleigh, who had an MLB-leading 60 homers last year,hit a 427-foot homeragainst the Chicago White Sox in an exhibition game Tuesday. His first spring homer came in his third game.

"I think the elephant in the room is 60 home runs. That's not something I'm setting out to do," Raleigh told Seattle Sports this week. "To me, I'm just trying to be as consistent as possible, trying to do what I did last year."

His 60 homers last season were the most for a player who was primarily a catcher, having started 119 games behind the plate and another 38 at designated hitter. The 29-year-old Raleigh,nicknamed "Big Dumper,"also had a career-high 125 RBIs and finished second in theAmerican League MVPvoting behind New York Yankees slugger and third-time winner Aaron Judge.

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Judgeand Raleigh are both set to play for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, which begins pool play next week. Judge set theAL record with 62 home runsin 2022.

They are among only seven players with a 60-homer season, andMark McGwireand Sammy Sosa are the only ones to do so in consecutive seasons (1998 and 1999). McGwire and Sosa are the only players with multiple 60-homer seasons, and Sosa had a third in 2001.

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The first All-Star Race at Dover is going to be a marathon.

NASCAR announced the format for this season's exhibition race, and it's complicated. The race is also 350 laps long.

The three-segment race will be divided into two 75-lap segments and a final 200-lap segment. The overall race is just 50 laps shorter than every Cup Series race held at the track since 1997.

Every team will begin the All-Star Race, too. The first two segments will contain every driver and team that entered the race. The field will then be whittled down to 26 drivers — there are 36 full-time teams in the Cup Series — for the final 200 laps.

How the 26 drivers will be decided

Here's where it gets complicated. Bear with us here.

Drivers who have won a race in 2025 and 2026 and all active Cup Series champions and All-Star Race winners are automatically in the third segment.

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Fourteen drivers won a race in 2025 and Tyler Reddick — who went winless last season — has won the first two races of the 2026 season. That's 15 drivers already with Reddick, Denny Hamlin, Shane van Gisbergen, Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney, Chase Briscoe, William Byron, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, Austin Cindric, Josh Berry, Austin Dillon, Bubba Wallace, Ross Chastain and Joey Logano.

Full-time drivers who are past Cup Series champions and All-Star Race winners are in too. Kyle Busch fits that criteria. That makes it 16.

At the moment, that leaves 10 open spots for the final segment unless a winless driver from 2025 who isn't named Reddick or Busch wins a race in 2026 before the All-Star Race is held.

Those remaining spots will be filled by the driver who has the most votes in a fan vote and then via drivers' average finish in the first two segments. If seven spots are needed to fill the 26-car field, the seven drivers with the best two-stage average finish will make the field if they aren't already automatically qualified for the final segment.

Got all that? Good. There's one more wrinkle too. The top 26 finishers from the first stage will be inverted before the start of the second stage. That means the driver who wins the first stage will start 26th in the second stage.

All the machinations are NASCAR's latest attempt to inject life into the All-Star Race. The race moved to Dover in 2026 after North Wilkesboro Speedway — the site of the last three All-Star Races — was given a points race this season. The All-Star Race is Dover's only race date of the season as the concrete one-mile oval hasn't produced the most thrilling racing in recent seasons.

For Americans who call Puerto Vallarta home,the violence over the weekendwas an explosive reminder thatthey live in a countrythat is also home to some of the world's most powerful drug cartels.

But they're not about to give up their place in the sun.

Charity Palmatier, who lives year-round just outside the scenic city in a beachside development with other expats from the United States and Canada, dismissed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel'storching of buses and cars Sundayto protest the killing of its leader as "performative."

"The cartels like to make statements," Palmatier, 57, who has lived in the area for nearly a decade, told NBC News on Tuesday. "They have temper tantrums when one of their big guys gets captured or killed."

The violence erupted after drug kingpin Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho," died following a shootout with the Mexican military about 180 miles east of Puerto Vallarta.

There had been a $15 million reward for the capture of the head of a cartel that is one of the main suppliers of cocaine to the U.S. market and which earns billions from the production of fentanyl and methamphetamines.

Palmatier noted that while vehicles and some businesses were set ablaze and masked gunmen raided some residences and menaced people on the street, "no citizens were injured or killed."

"It's not the Wild West down here," she said. "It's much more safe than you would think."

Karen Davis-Farage, who divides her time between homes in Vallarta, as the expats call it, and New York City and Los Angeles, admitted that she booked a plane ticket to get out of town after a restaurant on the first floor of the building where she lives was set on fire.

"The cartel was driving up on motorcycles, they had these bags, and they were telling people to get out of the cabs, or get out of the car, or get out of a bus, and they were throwing these bags into the vehicle which was then lighting them on fire," Davis-Farage, 70, said. "Those were going on all over the city. You couldn't count all the plumes that were going on in the air."

But after it was over and she was able to go outside and see the damage, she canceled her flights back to the U.S. She said the threat appeared to be over.

"Everybody is safe and sound," she said of her friends in Puerto Vallarta.

The State Department on Tuesdaylifted its shelter-in-place warningfor U.S. citizens in the Mexican state of Jalisco, which is where Puerto Vallarta and another resort city that experienced violence, Guadalajara, are located.

Some 1.6 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico,according to government figures from 2024, many of them expats who spend the winters there, although the number of Americans living there year-round is also growing.

Mexico City is the most popular destination for American expats, according toMexico News Daily,which cited government figures.

But the coastal cities in Jalisco are increasingly becoming a magnet for Americans in search of sunshine, a lower cost of living, as well as a slower pace of life, according to various websites likeViva Tropical that areaimed at expats.

Tourist visits — and eventually a new home

Both Palmatier and Davis-Farage said they started visiting Puerto Vallarta while still in college, drawn by the city's colonial charm, its spectacular beaches and artsy vibe.

"It's very mystical," Davis-Farage said. "From the mountains to the ocean, it's so beautiful, so vibrant. There's a lot of creative people who come here and stay here from around the world."

Palmatier said she lives in an expat bubble where she doesn't need to speak Spanish well to get by. But, she said, the Mexican friends she's made have been very warm and welcoming.

Alvaro Orozco, a Houston-based real estate agent who counts expats in Mexico as his customers and who previously lived in Puerto Vallarta for three years, said none of his clients are pulling up stakes since Sunday's disturbances.

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"No doubt what happened was scary, but generally it's very safe over there," he said. "A lot of the time, what happens in Mexico feels more dramatic in the United States."

This was different, he said, because it was so unexpected and happened in a community in which violent crime is something that generally happens elsewhere in Mexico.

"What happened Sunday, they were not killing random people, which is the kind of crime that really scares people," he said. "It was a show of power by the cartel."

Davis-Farage said that right around the time when the gunmen flooded the streets and started spreading mayhem, she was entertaining a visiting sorority sister. She said that she lives in a building near the beach filled with expats and that it was her friend who first noticed the "fog on the water."

"We don't have fog like that," she said. "I walked out on my balcony and saw black smoke on the horizon; I could smell the smoke and realized it was fire."

Davis-Farage said she immediately flashed back to Sept. 11, 2001, when she was working in lower Manhattan and Al Qaeda terrorists piloted hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center twin towers.

"I was at 9/11, I watched the buildings come down," she said. "It all came back. The kind of feeling where you are not in control and you know you could be in danger."

Davis-Farage said she and her friend joined the other expats gathered on the top floor of the building, where they scoured the web for news about what was happening on the streets.

"We felt pretty safe staying on the roof … I felt safer there than in my apartment just because we were amongst other people," she said.

Then her phone pinged and there was a text from a friend who said a bus had exploded nearby.

"They had to evacuate his condo," she said. "That created another level of fright. "

The fright escalated a few hours later.

"We smelled smoke and we realized that our building was on fire," she said. "That was probably the scariest part."

It turned out, Davis-Farage said, a cartel member had tossed an incendiary device of some kind into a restaurant on the ground floor. The only casualties, she said, were some of the instruments that the house band kept there.

Asked if she ever felt her life was in danger, David-Farage did not answer directly.

"The irony of this experience is, we never heard sirens," she said. "We never heard a siren the entire day. My reasoning is if (firefighters) had come out to try and put out the fires, they would have been killed by the cartel."

While there have been numerous accounts of tourists running for their lives from masked gunmen firing shots in the air, Palmatier said she never personally felt in any danger while she sheltered in place in her building. Most of the residents are expats like her from the U.S. and Canada.

"I see what happened as something that happens as a matter of course from time to time in Mexico," she said. "This got a lot more play because it was a big guy they managed to catch."

Palmatier believes that when violence happens in Mexico, "it certainly is not directed at someone like me."

Davis-Farage said, "I just hope people don't stay away from Vallarta because of this."

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Supreme Courton Wednesday ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid only $1 a day in Colorado.

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The unanimous ruling is a procedural defeat for the GEO Group, but it's not a final decision. The company is fighting a lawsuit from 2014 alleging detainees in Aurora had to perform unpaid janitorial work and other jobs for little pay to supplement meager meals.

GEO defended its practices and argued that the case should be tossed out because it's immune from lawsuits as a government contractor.

After a judge disagreed, the company asked the Supreme Court to allow it to quickly appeal the ruling. But the justices refused.

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The Florida-based GEO Group is one of the top private detention providers in the country, with management or ownership of about 77,000 beds at 98 facilities. Its contracts include a new federal immigration detention center where Newark, New Jersey, MayorRas Barakawas arrested ata protestin May 2025, before the case against the Democrat was dropped.

Similar lawsuits have been brought on behalf of immigration detainees elsewhere, includinga case in Washington state, where the company was ordered to pay more than $23 million.

Follow the AP's coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court athttps://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court.

An American Airlines plane was removed from service after a "puncture" was found on its exterior while in Colombia on Sunday, the company said.

The puncture was a bullet hole, a source with knowledge of the situation told NBC News.

According to a statement from American Airlines, the plane was undergoing a routine inspection in Medellín when the damage to the aircraft was found. There were no injuries or flight-related issues reported to the airline, it said.

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"The aircraft was immediately removed from service for further inspection and repair," the statement said. "We will work closely with all relevant authorities to investigate this incident."

Colombia's Civil Aeronautical Authority said in statement Tuesday, translated by NBC News, that it was aware of reports of a plane found with perforations. The authority added that it was not contacted by the airline or any authorities in the United States on the matter.

"The Civil Aeronautics Authority remains attentive to any official communication from international agencies or the airline that may clarify the facts and determine the origin of the reported issues," the statement said.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Cameron Boozer had 24 points and 13 rebounds as No. 1 Duke beat Notre Dame 100-56 on Tuesday night, handing the Irish their worst home loss since 1898.

Duke (26-2, 14-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), playing its first game this season as No. 1, coming offwin over then-No. 1 Michiganon Saturday, ended Notre Dame's streak of six home wins against AP No. 1-ranked teams, starting with UCLA in 1974, when the Fighting Irish ended UCLA's record 88-game winning streak.

The 6-foot-9 Boozer, a national Player of the Year candidate, overpowered Notre Dame, scoring 20 points and grabbing nine rebounds in the first half as the Blue Devils rolled to a 54-22 halftime lead. He hit 10 of 12 shots in the first half.

Darren Harris scored 16 points for Duke and Patrick Ngongba II and Caleb Foster scored 13 points each.

Cole Certa and Brady Koehler scored 14 points each for Notre Dame.

NO. 2 ARIZONA 87, BAYLOR 80

WACO, Texas (AP) — Jaden Bradley scored 25 points, Brayden Burries had 24 and Arizona outlasted Baylor, giving the Wildcats a two-game lead in the Big 12 standings with three to play in the regular season.

The Wildcats erased a 10-point deficit early in the second half, then had to withstand a back-and-forth finish. There was a 13 1/2-minute stretch in which the margin never was more than two points and the lead changed hands 13 times.

Tobe Awaka had 10 points and 13 rebounds for Arizona (26-2, 13-2), which has won its last three games since back-to-back losses that followed a 23-0 start to the season. Motiejus Krivas finished with 12 points.

Cameron Carr had 26 points for Baylor (14-14, 4-11). Isaac Williams scored 16 and freshman Tounde Yessoufou added 12.

The remaining four contenders for the Big 12 regular-season title all have 11-4 conference records: No. 4 Iowa State, No. 5 Houston, No. 14 Kansas and No. 16 Texas Tech.

Arizona finally took the lead for good on Bradley's long jumper from the right wing that made it 76-75 with 4:04 left. Burries added a short jumper a minute later.

NO. 3 MICHIGAN 77, MINNESOTA 67

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Elliot Cadeau had 15 points and L.J. Cason scored 11 of his 14 points in the second half asMichiganbeat Minnesota to clinch at least a share of the Big Ten title for the first time in five years.

The Wolverines (26-2, 16-1) can earn an outright championship with a win at No. 10 Illinois on Friday night or next week at Iowa or at home against 15th-ranked Michigan State.

Michigan was coming off a 68-63loss to Dukethat dropped the Wolverines down from No. 1 and vaulted the Blue Devils to the top spot in theAP Top 25.

The Gophers (13-15, 6-11) trailed by just four at halftime before giving up too many 3-pointers. Michigan made 9 of 18 shots from beyond the arc in the second half.

Minnesota's Cade Tyson scored 20 points, Langston Reynolds had 15 points and Isaac Asuma and Bobby Durkin scored 12 apiece.

NO. 4 IOWA STATE 75, UTAH 59

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Joshua Jefferson scored 21 points, Milan Momcilovic made four 3-pointersto break the Iowa State recordfor 3s in a season, and the Cyclones beat Utah.

Momcilovic entered the game with 100 3-pointers and surpassed Dedric Willoughby's record of 102, set in 1997, when he hit back-to-back 3s in the second half. The 6-foot-8 junior forward has 104 after going 4 of 8 from deep against the Utes; he is shooting better than 50% from long range. He finished with 14 points.

Making its first visit to Salt Lake City, Iowa State (24-4, 11-4 Big 12) held Utah without a field goal — seven straight misses — over a stretch of 9:14 in the second half to turn a five-point lead into a 17-point advantage.

Jefferson recorded his 34th consecutive game in double figures. Jamarion Batemon added 13 points.

Terrence Brown scored 18 points, Don McHenry had 14 and Keanu Dawes added 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Utes (10-18, 2-13), who have lost nine of 10.

The Cyclones' pressure defense sped up the Utes' ballhandlers, delaying their offensive sets and forcing them into 18 turnovers.

NO. 11 VIRGINIA 90, NC STATE 61

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Thijs De Ridder scored 19 points lead five Virginia players in double figures as the Cavaliers beat North Carolina State, cruising in their final tuneup before Saturday's showdown at No. 1 Duke.

Virginia (25-3, 13-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) never trailed as it won its ninth straight. However, there was cause for concern for the Cavaliers when De Ridder limped off the floor and headed to the locker room with about five minutes remaining.

Sam Lewis added 16 points for the Cavaliers, who trail only the first-place Blue Devils in the ACC standings. Jacari White scored 15 and Malik Thomas added 12.

Virginia blocked 12 shots — led by 7-foot freshman Johann Grunloh with a career-high eight — and its bench outscored N.C. State's 32-5. The Cavaliers went 12 of 26 from 3-point range.

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Paul McNeil Jr. had 22 points and six rebounds for the Wolfpack (19-9, 10-5). Darrion Williams added 14 points and Ven-Allen Lubin scored 11.

NO. 16 TEXAS TECH 80, CINCINNATI 68

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Christian Anderson had 31 points and a career-high 11 rebounds, leading Texas Tech past Cincinnati for a second consecutive victory since starforward JT Toppin's season-ending knee injury.

Anderson's eighth double-double of the season — and his two-year career — was his first with rebounds and filled the void the Red Raiders (21-7, 11-4 Big 12) are facing without Toppin, one of the nation's double-double leaders. The guard's first seven double-doubles were with assists, and he had seven against the Bearcats.

Moustapha Thiam had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Cincinnati (15-13, 7-8), which had a four-game winning streak — tied for its season best — stopped three days after anupset victory at Kansasthat dropped the Jayhawks six spots to 14th in the AP Top 25.

LeJuan Watts scored 13 points for Texas Tech, and Donovan Atwell, one of the nation's best 3-point shooters, added 12 while taking all nine of his shots from long range and making four.

Anderson had his highest-scoring game in the Big 12 as the Red Raiders made it a pair of double-digit victories since Toppin went down in aloss at Arizona State.

UCF 97, NO. 19 BYU 84

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Themus Fulks had 24 points and 11 assists, Jordan Burks also scored 24 and UCF shot 14 of 24 from 3-point range to run away from BYU for an upset.

Jamichael Stillwell added 12 points, 12 rebounds and six assists as the Knights (20-7, 9-6 Big 12) earned their first victory over the Cougars by outscoring them 44-34 in the paint and shooting 56% from the field — including 58% on 3s.

AJ Dybantsa led BYU with 29 points and eight rebounds. Robert Wright III had 20 points on 7-of-21 shooting, and Aleksej Kostic scored 14 off the bench. The Cougars (20-8, 8-7) shot 41% from the floor and trailed the entire way.

UCF got off to a blistering start on offense and didn't let up. The Knights went 11 of 16 from 3-point territory and shot 57% from the field overall before halftime.

NO. 21 MIAMI (OHIO) 74, EASTERN MICHIGAN 64

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Brant Byers scored 16 points and Antwone Woolfolk added 14 as Miami of Ohio beat Eastern Michigan to remain the only undefeated team in Division I men's basketball.

Peter Suder had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the RedHawks (28-0, 15-0 Mid-American Conference), who extended the best start in program history and added to their school record for wins in a season. Miami also boasts the best start and longest win streak in MAC annals.

Gregory Lawson II led the Eagles (10-19, 4-12) with 29 points, his career high.

Miami opened 0 for 6 on 3-pointers until Eian Elmer connected with 8:58 left in the first half. Despite shooting 22.2% from long range, the RedHawks took a 43-22 lead into halftime after closing the period the same way they started it: with a 12-0 run.

Miami entered shooting 40.3% from 3-point distance, good for third in the nation and best in the MAC.

MISSOURI 73, NO. 22 TENNESSEE 69

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — T.O. Barrett scored a career-best 28 points and Mark Mitchell added 23 to help Missouri beat Tennessee.

Trent Burns had seven rebounds and four steals off the bench for the Tigers (19-9, 9-6 Southeastern Conference), who improved to 3-1 at home this season against AP Top 25 opponents and 18-1 when scoring at least 73 points.

Ja'Kobi Gillespie scored 19 points, Nate Ament had 17 and Felix Okpara added 15 points and eight rebounds for Tennessee (20-8, 10-5), which had won four consecutive games and eight of the past nine.

Tennessee outrebounded Missouri 42-30 but scored just 20 second-chance points despite grabbing 18 offensive boards. It was the sixth time a ranked Volunteers team lost to an unranked opponent this season.

Bishop Boswell hit a layup with 4 seconds left to cut Missouri's lead to 71-69, but Jacob Crews made two free throws on the other end to seal the win.

DAYTON 77, NO. 23 SAINT LOUIS 62

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Amael L'Etang scored a career-high 26 points and Javon Bennett added 17 as Dayton beat Saint Louis.

Saint Louis has lost two of its last three games since winning 18 straight. The Billikens were 25-2 for just the second time in school history, and the loss to Dayton prevented them from reaching 26-2 for the first time.

Jordan Derkack scored 14 points for the Flyers (19-9, 10-5 A-10), who improved to 14-2 at home. It was their 12th straight win over Saint Louis in UD Arena.

Kellen Thomas led the Billikens with 24 points and Dion Brown had 15.

After trailing by as many has 25 points in the first half, the Billikens (25-3, 13-2) got within 11 late in the second half, but couldn't complete the comeback.