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Seattle Kraken captain Jordan Eberle agreed to a two-year, $11 million contract extension on Friday.

The 35-year-old forward has tallied 42 points (22 goals, 20 assists) in 59 games in his fifth season with the Kraken. His 18:37 average ice time is his highest since the 2014-15 campaign.

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A two-time All-Star, Eberle has 770 points (330 goals, 440 assists) in 1,119 games across 16 NHL seasons with the Edmonton Oilers (2010-17), New York Islanders (2017-21) and Kraken.

The Saskatchewan native was named the Seattle franchise's second captain on Opening Day of the 2024-25 season. Eberle was in the final season of a two-year, $9.5 million contract.

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Daniel Berger opened up a five-shot lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after a steady round Friday at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Fla.

Berger built on Thursday's 63 with a 4-under-par 68 to climb to 13 under at the halfway mark of the $20 million signature event. Akshay Bhatia posted a 66 to take sole possession of second at 8 under.

Also in striking distance are Sahith Theegala (67), Collin Morikawa (71) and Sweden's Ludvig Aberg (71), who are tied for third at 7 under, and Rickie Fowler, who's alone in sixth at 6 under after his second consecutive 69. Xander Schauffele (71) and defending champion Russell Henley (69) are tied at 5 under.

Berger, a former World No. 12 and 2021 Ryder Cup winner, hasn't won on the PGA Tour since the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He missed 18 months with a back injury and struggled to regain his old form once he returned.

On Friday, he rolled in five birdies while limiting himself to one bogey. He ranks second this week in strokes gained approaching the green and third in strokes gained putting.

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Bhatia is the closest to chasing him down after he poured in seven birdies on Friday and saved par from the bunker at the difficult par-4 18th.

Rory McIlroy improved on his opening round by four shots, the Northern Irishman's 68 vaulting him to 4 under and part of a tie for ninth. Scottie Scheffler (71) is at 3 under.

This is one of three signature events with a 36-hole cut. Only the top 50 and ties will make the weekend. U.S. Open winner J.J. Spaun (3 over), Irishman Shane Lowry (3 over), Australia's Jason Day (4 over), Patrick Cantlay (4 over) and Keegan Bradley (5 over) are among those in line to miss the cut, projected to be 2 over par.

Justin Thomas shot two straight rounds of 79 in his first start of the season following November back surgery. He finished in dead last among 72 players at 14 over.

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Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum faced a lengthy recovery after he went down witha torn Achilleslast May. While there was some doubt about whether he would be able to play this season, Tatum always kept hope alive, sayinghe wasn't ruling himself outback in September.

That prediction turned out to be true, as Tatum will return to action Friday night against the Dallas Mavericks,the Celtics announced. The team initially listed Tatum as questionable on its injury report before upgrading him to available.

His comeback follows an up-and-down rehab. At times,Tatum showed off incredible progress, offering hope he could get back before the year was over. But in January, a report emerged suggesting the 27-year-old starcould shut it down and prepare for next season.

Shortly after that report, Tatum's return started to look more realistic. In February, it was reported that Tatum was taking part in controlled scrimmages. He was assigned to the team's G League affiliate to start taking part in practices. Eventually, Tatum found himself listed on the Celtics' injury report, a sign he was getting close to a return.

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That culminated in Friday's news ahead of Tatum's long-awaited but inspiring return from a devastating injury.

Despite being without Tatum — and trading away Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday — the Celtics have performed much better than expected. The team sits near the top of the Eastern Conference, with forward Jaylen Brown in the midst of an MVP-caliber season.

While it's impossible to know whether Tatum will fully return to form upon his comeback, the forward should make an impact, even if he's not at full strength. Tatum has made the All-Star team in each of the past six seasons in which he was healthy, and while he hasn't won an MVP award just yet, he's been in contention for that honor multiple times over that period.

Last season, Tatum averaged 26.8 points, 8.7 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game. Those numbers earned him his fourth straight appearance on the first team All-NBA team.

The move comes at the perfect time. With the Celtics rapidly approaching the playoffs, Tatum should have enough time to work himself into form before the end of the regular season. If the team can get him back to full strength in time for the playoffs, the Celtics could be bound for a miraculous championship run during a year most wrote the team off.

Vice PresidentJD Vancehas largely opposed U.S. intervention abroad, but after President Donald Trump decided tostrike Iran, Vance now faces a conflict between his past comments and his role in the administration, forcing him to navigate thegrowing political divideand its possible impact on his potential future political ambitions.

In an op-ed Vance wrote in 2023, while he was still in the Senate, before Trump selected him as his running mate, he argued that leaders in both parties supported costly and unsuccessful interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.

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In the article, titled "Trump's Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars," Vance describes then-candidate Trump as the first significant break from that interventionist consensus. It argued that Trump started no wars in his first term, despite pressure to do so, and that was part of the reason Vance supported him in his 2024 presidential run.

Asked by talk show host Tim Dillon during the 2024 campaign how a Trump administration would handle a war in the Middle East, Vance said going to war with Iran would not be in the interest of the U.S. and that it would be "massively expensive."

"Well, I mean, a couple of principles, right? So, obviously, you know, Israel has the right to defend itself, but America's interest is sometimes going to be distinct, like sometimes we're gonna have overlapping interests, and sometimes we're gonna have distinct interests. And our interests, I think very much, is in not going to war with Iran, right? It would be huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country," Vance said at the time.

But speaking with reporters in Azerbaijan last month on the subject of Iran, prior to recentU.S. strikes on Iranthat killed several Iranian leaders,including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, Vance said that Trump was working toward a deal to ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, and if that did not work out, there were other options.

As vice president, Vance has been steadfast in supporting the administration's foreign policy agenda. During the administration'sfirst strikes on Iranin June, Vance was in the White House Situation Room with Trump and other top administration officials. During the military operation in which the U.S.captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Vance joined the president in Florida and was on the secure video conference monitoring the operation through the night.

"The president's told his entire senior team that we should be trying to cut a deal that ensures the Iranians don't have a nuclear weapon. But if we can't cut that deal, then there's another option on the table. So, I think the president's going to continue to preserve his options," Vance said in February.

Vancespoke to ABC News' Jonathan Karlthe day after the United States' June strikes on Iran, defending the administration's action. But when asked if he could definitively say that Iran's nuclear program had been destroyed, Vance said that the U.S. had set Iran's nuclear program back "substantially." In his address to the nation, Trump said that the strikes "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities.

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Vance told ABC News at the time that Trump was not interested in a drawn-out conflict in the Middle East. He made similar comments prior to Saturday's attack, tellingThe Washington Postthat there was "no chance" of a drawn-out war in Iran if the U.S. moved forward with the strikes.

Vance reiterated that same sentiment inan interview with Fox Newson Monday night, but also added that the operation against Iran "could go for a lot longer."

"There's just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no clear end in sight and no clear objective. What is different about President Trump, and it's frankly different about both Republicans and Democrats of the past, is that he's not going to let his country go to war unless there's a clearly defined objective," Vance told Fox News.

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"He's defined that objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never trying to rebuild the nuclear capability. It's pretty clear. It's pretty simple, and I think that means that we're not going to get into the problems that we've had with Iraq and Afghanistan," he said.

Following the U.S. strikes on Iran, Vance did not make any public comments on the military operation for two days. The first time he addressed the strikes publicly was on the Monday night interview with Fox News.

In the lead-up to Saturday's strikes, Vance made his reservations about the strikes known internally, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.

Once it became clear that the decision had been made to move forward, Vance shifted his focus to limiting casualties and pushed to move quickly on a strike out of fear that the plans could leak if the administration waited longer to engage, possibly leading Iran to attack U.S. troops in the region, the source also said.

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This is not the first time that Vance has expressed concerns internally about possible foreign military intervention by the U.S.

Last year, in the Signal group chat discussing the U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen that a journalist was inadvertently invited to join,Vance appeared to break with Trumpand questioned whether the president recognized that a unilateral U.S. attack on the Houthis to keep international shipping lanes open was at odds with his tough talk about European nations paying their share of such efforts.

"I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now," Vance wrote in the chat at the time. "There's a further risk that we see a moderate tosevere spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc."

Vance has not yet officially said whether he will run in 2028.

Vice presidential scholar Joel Goldstein told ABC News that if Vance, seen as afront-runner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, were to decide to run for president, the Iran operation would carry its own risks, as the conflict's fallout would be inherited by Vance.

"So, it seems to me that this situation poses a lot of risk for Vance: number one, it raises the question of his level of influence with Trump, given that Trump ends up taking a course that is, you know, widely at odds with the sort of rhetoric that Vance has used throughout his short political career, about foreign interventions and about what Trump would do or should do," Goldstein said.

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Goldstein told ABC News that the recent decision by the Trump administration to attack Iran and the several policy shifts and changes Vance has made over the past several years could lead voters to question his positions and values.

"It alienates people who like Vance because they think he's a noninterventionist, and now look at him and say, 'Why is he supporting foreign intervention instead of focusing domestically?' But it also raises the risk that people will think you're simply not credible and will wonder where is his core?"

"Here's a guy who has shifted on a number of things. And you know, that raises the risk that there's no substance there," Goldstein said.

Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved inthe war.

Much of the intelligence Russia has shared with Iran has been imagery from Moscow's sophisticated constellation of overhead satellites, one of the people said. It is not clear what Russia is getting in return for the assistance.

CNN has asked the Kremlin and the Russian embassy in Washington for comment.

It is also not clear whether any single Iranian attack can be linked to Russian targeting intelligence, which wasfirst reportedby the Washington Post. But several Iranian drones have hit locations where US troops have been in recent days. An Iranian drone struck a makeshift facility housing US troops in Kuwait on Sunday, killing six US service members, CNN has reported.

One of the sources briefed on the intelligence said, "This shows Russia still likes Iran very much."

The US also has intelligence suggesting that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts and missile components, three people familiar with the matter said, though Beijing has stayed out of the war up until now. China relies heavily on Iranian oil and hasreportedlybeen pressuring Tehran ⁠to allow safe passage for vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

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"China is more cautious in its support. It wants the war to end because it endangers their energy supply," one of the sources familiar said.

The CIA declined to comment. CNN has asked the Chinese embassy in Washington for comment on the suggestion China may be preparing to assist Iran.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday that Russia and China are "not really a factor" in the war with Iran.

Russia and Iran have been cooperating for at least the last three years on missile and drone technology, with Iran providing Russia with Shahed drones and short-range ballistic missiles to target Ukraine and helping to set up a massive drone factory to pump out Iranian-designed drones inside Russia. Iran has in turn sought Russia's help to bolster its nuclear program,CNN has reported.

The US operation against Iran currently involves more than 50,000 troops, more than 200 fighter jets and two aircraft carriers, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said this week, and administration officials have not said how long the war is expected to last. The US military objective, according to Pentagon officials, is to eliminate Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, which Pete Hegseth said this week Iran was using as a "shield" to develop its nuclear program.

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René López says he still has nightmares about the three years he spentdetained in ICE custody.

"It's an experience I wouldn't wish on anyone," López said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo from his home in Alexandria, Virginia.

About a decade ago, immigration officials argued that the citizenship López obtained as a minor through his naturalized mother was not valid. This put him on a path to deportation because of a previous drug conviction when he was younger.

During those years, López always insisted that he was a U.S. citizen when he was questioned by ICE officers, his lawyers, judges and journalists.

"I came from El Salvador with permanent residency when I was 11 years old, and when my mother became a citizen, I was 16 years old, so I automatically obtained citizenship derived from my mother. That's how it was," he said.

According to the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,derivative citizenship refers to the automatic acquisition of U.S. citizenshipby children under 18 years of age through the citizenship status of their parents and, under certain circumstances, by adopted children of U.S. citizens born abroad.

López was detained by ICE officials in January 2023 and was held at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia. He was not released until Feb. 13 of this year after the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appealsissued a rulingthat not only stopped his deportation, but also reaffirmed that he's a U.S. citizen.

"The court says in its decision that he has been an American citizen since 1998. That's why they are releasing him," said Benjamin Osorio, López's lawyer.

Neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security responded to requests for comment from Noticias Telemundo on López's case.

Why was a U.S. citizen detained by ICE?

López's arrest was the final step in a long process in which he had to fight the courts to try to have his citizenship recognized.

López came to the U.S. as a legal resident after his mom, a legal resident and a single mother, completed the paperwork to bring him from El Salvador in the early 1990s. When he was 16, his mother became a naturalized U.S. citizen and he automatically acquired derivative citizenship underTitle 8, Section 1432 of the U.S. Code,the law in effect at that time.

At age 20, López was convicted of drug offenses (in 2004 and 2005) and served a seven-year prison sentence. During his time in prison, he was visited by officials from DHS, who in 2009 determined that he had obtained U.S. citizenship through his mother.

"They came to see me in 2009 and declared that I was a citizen," López said in aninterview with Noticias Telemundo last year, while he was in custody.

After his release from prison in 2011, López rebuilt his life: He finished high school, learned electrical work, started his own company and spent more than a decade working, married and raising his children without further legal trouble.

However, in 2016, according to court papers and López's attorney, DHS changed its position, deemed him a legal resident but not a citizen and initiated removal proceedings because of his previous drug conviction.

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From that time until his eventual immigration detention in 2023, López and his attorneys had been trying to prove he had legitimately acquired U.S. citizenship through his single mother.

The government argued that the Salvadoran constitution had eliminated legal distinctions between children born in or out of wedlock, meaning that deriving citizenship from his mother was not enough.

"He would have had to prove that his father was also naturalized, but apparently his father never had a relationship with him," said Charles Wheeler, a senior attorney with theCatholic Legal Immigration Network.

López said that in 2023, "one day I went to work and about eight immigration agents were waiting for me." The agents told him he wasn't a citizen, that he was still a legal resident with "aggravated felonies," and that he was now deportable.

The ruling that declares him a citizen

Last month, the 4th Circuitissued its decisionconcluding that López met the requirements of the law that governed derivative citizenship before its reform in 2001. The judges analyzed Salvadoran law on parentage and legitimation, as well as López's family history, to determine whether or not his biological father had "established paternity" in the required legal sense.

"They concluded that my father never established paternity and never made me a legitimate son, even though his name appeared on my birth certificate," López explained. Essentially, the court agreed that his mom had been his sole parent and legal guardian, so deriving U.S. citizenship from her alone had been legal.

Immigration attorney Enrique Espinoza recommends that people with parents who are U.S. citizens by naturalization or birth consult with a lawyer and, if possible, obtain formal proof of citizenship — such asthe N-600 certificateor a U.S. passport — before a misunderstanding turns into a crisis.

In fact, Espinoza said it's not uncommon for people to have acquired U.S. citizenship through their parents "and not know it — that really does happen."

'ICE should not detain U.S. citizens'

Following the recent court decision, López's legal team is focusing on obtaining all the necessary citizenship certification and pursuing some form of redress.

"We are going to sue the government. ICE should not detain American citizens," said Osorio, López's attorney. After three years in prison, López lost his business as an electrician.

"He has lost his job. He has lost a lot. We are going to try to recover his money," Osorio said.

"This has cost me dearly; I've lost everything. My family had to endure a very unpleasant experience because of my unjust arrest, even though they knew I was an American citizen," López said.

While his legal team continues working on his case, López says he is trying to return to a normal life and always carries a copy of the 4th Circuit's decision in case a police officer or federal agent arrests him again. His main goal is to rebuild his electrical company and resume working with the contractors who knew him before his arrest.

"I can't get that time back — what's lost is lost," López said. "Now I have to start over. I have many contacts who know that my dedication and honesty at work are 100% guaranteed."

During the long nights while he was detained, López began writing songs about his legal situation and what he saw in the detention centers. He wrote that his family kept him going as he fought the government, and that the "love of my family continues to wait for me."

An earlier version of this story was first published in Noticias Telemundo.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is progressing inhis recovery from the right oblique strain he sufferedin a win over the Miami Heat last Thursday, but he's not back on the court yet and will be re-evaluated again in approximately one week, the team announced Friday,according to PhillyVoice's Adam Aaronson.

Both Embiid and rookie guard VJ Edgecombe, who is dealing with a back injury, didn't participate in Friday's practice, per the Sixers, via Aaronson.

Embiid has already missed three games with his oblique issue. He will miss at least three more based on the timeline the team provided, per Aaronson.

Embiid has appeared in only 33 of the Sixers' 62 games during their 2025-26 campaign. With 29 absences, he'sawards-ineligible this seasonand has been for a while.

The soon-to-be 32-year-old Embiid alsomissed five consecutive games last month with a sore right knee and shin issue.

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After playing in just 19 games last season because of lingering left-knee issuesthat ultimately resulted in him going under the knife in April 2025, Embiid found himself sidelined again for a significant stretch early this season, this timedue to a right knee injury.

When the seven-time All-Star center has been on the court this season, he's shown why he's still valuable. He's averaging 26.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He's turned in a dozen 30-plus-point performances, including a 40-piece in a Jan. 31 win against the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Sixers are 21-12 in the games Embiid has played in this season. They are 13-16 without him on the court, currently placing sixth in the Eastern Conference standings at 34-28 overall.

As for Edgecombe, last year's No. 3 overall draft pick, he sustained a lumbar contusion when he fell hard on his lower backafter being fouled from behind on a 3-point attempt in a lopsided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday.

He was in street clothes for Philadelphia's bounce-back win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. His status is up in the air for Saturday when the Sixers will play the Atlanta Hawks on the road.

Edgecombe is averaging 15.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game in his first year out of Baylor. He and Embiid are key pieces of a Sixers squad looking to return to the postseason.