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Colts kicker Vinatieri retires from NFL

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Veteran kicker Adam Vinatieri announced his retirement from the NFL on Wednesday, calling time on a 24-season career that included four Super Bowl victories and a record 2,673 points.

The 48-year-old NFL all-time points leader confirmed his retirement during an interview on “The Pat McAfee Show.”

“By Friday, if paperwork goes in, you heard it here first,” Vinatieri told his former Indianapolis Colts team-mate McAfee.

Colts kicker Vinatieri did not play last season after undergoing knee surgery in late 2019.

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His decision to retire comes after a career that included 10 seasons with the New England Patriots from 1996 to 2006 before 14 seasons with the Colts.

Vinatieri won three Super Bowls with the Patriots in the 2001, 2003 and 2004 seasons as the Bill Belichick and Tom Brady era in New England took off.

His career total of 29 game-winning kicks included decisive kicks in the Patriots’ Super Bowl wins over the St. Louis Rams in 2002 and the Carolina Panthers two years later. He also won a Super Bowl with the Colts in his first season with the team in 2006.

One of his most famous game-winners came in the 2001 AFC playoffs, when he drained a 43-yarder in a blizzard against the Oakland Raiders.

Former Colts teammate Reggie Wayne was among those paying tribute to Vinatieri on Wednesday, writing on Twitter: “It was a pleasure to sit back and watch #greatness for many years.”

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.

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