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The final two of nearly 30 civil lawsuits that Cleveland Browns quarterbackDeshaun Watsonhad faced from women accusing him of sexual misconduct have been dismissed, according to court records.

The dismissal of these two lawsuits clears Watson of legal problems he had been facing since 2021 after 27 women came forward and accused him in court filings in Texas of exposing himself, touching them with his genitals or kissing them against their will, mostly during massage appointments.

Some of the women alleged Watson, 30, forced them to perform oral sex and one woman accused him of sexually assaulting her.

In one of the lastcasesfiled, a woman brought a civil lawsuit against Watson in September 2024, which alleged that he forced himself on her four years earlier while he was playing for Houston. That lawsuit, which was filed in Texas, sued Watson for $1 million in damages.

The two dismissals this week come as both of those lawsuits had been set to go to trial in the next few weeks. The accusations against Watson were made when he played for the Houston Texans.

It is believed that Watson has no other lawsuits pending in connection with the sexual misconduct allegations.

One of the lawsuits that was dismissed on Friday has been settled, said Tony Buzbee, the attorney for the woman who had filed it. Buzbee declined to comment further, citing confidentiality of the settlement agreement. Buzbee's client alleged Watson touched her with his penis multiple times during a massage session.

It was not immediately known if the other dismissed lawsuit had also been settled. Anissah Nguyen, an attorney for the woman who filed the lawsuit, didn't immediately respond to an email or call seeking comment. Nguyen's client had accused Watson of pressuring her to perform oral sex during a massage.

Watson's attorneys declined to comment.

Watson, who was traded to the Browns in March 2022, has long denied any wrongdoing, and two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict him. One of his attorneys, Rusty Hardin, had previously said the allegations against Watson were "meritless."

"I don't remember or recall any sexual encounters with her," Watson said in a 2023 deposition he gave while being questioned about the woman represented by Nguyen.

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The woman represented by Nguyen had also sued the Houston Texans, alleging Watson had assaulted women with the help and resources of the team. The lawsuit against the Texans was also dismissed last week.

A spokesperson for the Texans didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

In July 2022, 30 women who had accused the Texans of turning a blind eye to allegations against their former star quarterback settled their legal claims against the team.

It was not unusual that all the cases against Watson were settled, said David Ring, a California-based attorney who is not connected to the lawsuits and who has represented victims of sexual assault. He said the majority of civil lawsuits are typically resolved before going to trial and that high-profile defendants typically don't want cases to play out in a public courtroom.

"He's trying to put all of this behind him," Ring said.

Watson's legal problems began after dozens of women claimed to have been the victims of sexual misconduct or assault between 2017 and 2020.

Most of the lawsuits against Watson were settled in 2022.

Following the allegations,Watson was suspendedfor the first 11 games in 2022 forviolating the league's personal conduct policy.

Watson was also fined $5 million and underwent a mandatory evaluation before being reinstated by the league. He has played in only 19 games for the Browns due to the NFL suspension and injuries.

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This is the kind of chaos that has you glued to the screen … insanity!

In the third quarter of theDetroit Pistons-Charlotte Hornets game Monday night, a brawl ended up breaking out and the scene is pure bananas. A total offour players were ejectedas a result of the fight.

ForwardMoussa Diabateand forwardMiles Bridgeswere ejected on the Hornets' side, while the Pistons saw centerJalen Durenand forwardIsaiah Stewarttossed. Charles Lee, the head coach of Charlotte, was later ejected during fourth quarter action after being restrained from charging toward a referee regarding a call.

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With a little more than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter, Duren was fouled by Diabate while driving into the paint. After the former turned around, the two then got face-to-face, seemingly butting heads in the process. Eventually, Duren pushed Diabate's head, and from there, all hell broke loose. It was so crazy that the police even had to get involved.(RELATED: Olympic Athletes Are Being Warned Not To Celebrate With Their Medals Too Much Because They're Breaking)

While Diabate was being held back byDetroitforwardTobias Harris, Diabate tried to punch Duren, who walked away from the scene. However, Bridges ran after him and tossed a punch, with Duren retaliating with his own. Diabate tried to charge once again at Duren, but was held back.

To make the scene even wackier, Stewart got involved by exiting the bench for a confrontation with Bridges, with the latter throwing a punch at his opponent. From there, the two wrestled. In one portion of the chaos, Stewart had Bridges headlocked and punched him over and over again on the head.

It was chaos, absolutely beautiful chaos.

If theNBAcould be like this every night, sign me up for season tickets!

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in Georgia, striking three vehicles and leaving two people with minor injuries, authorities said, after one of the two pilots on board told air traffic controllers to let his wife and parents know he loved them.

The Hawker Beechcraft Bonanza landed Monday on Browns Bridge Road in Gainesville, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. It was headed to Cherokee County Regional Airport in Canton from Gainesville's Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport. The plane turned back after experiencing problems with the engine just after departure, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.

The plane didn't have enough power to make it to the airport. It landed on the road, the NTSB said.

"I think we're not going to make it," air traffic audio recorded by LiveATC.net said. "Please tell my wife, Molly, I love her, and my parents. I love them so much."

More than 10 minutes later, "We're going to be fine" is heard on the recording.

"We lost our engine taking off out of Gainesville," pilot Thomas Rogers toldWAGA-TV. "We tried to glide back, did everything by the book, but realized we weren't going to make it back with how far out we were, so we came down on the road."

The plane struck three cars, dislodging a fuel tank into one of them, Gainesville police Capt. Kevin Holbrook said. Two people were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, he said.

"The fact that they were able to land in the middle of hundreds of vehicles and only hit three of them, no power lines is very remarkable," Holbrook said, noting that the road is one of the main arteries through northeast Georgia. "The fact that no one was seriously injured or killed is just astonishing."

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DUBAI, Feb 10 - A top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader discussed ways to reach a "balanced and just" agreement with the United States during talks in Oman on Tuesday, as Washington and Tehran prepare to resume ​negotiations aimed at averting a new conflict.

Oman facilitated talks between Iran and the U.S. last week, which a spokesperson for Iran's ‌foreign ministry said had allowed Tehran to gauge Washington's seriousness and showed enough consensus for diplomacy to continue.

The talks came after U.S. President Donald Trump positioned a naval flotilla in ‌the region, raising fears of new military action. Trump, who joined an Israeli bombing campaign last year and hit Iranian nuclear sites, had threatened last month to intervene militarily during a bloody government crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran, but ultimately held off.

"After the talks, we felt there was understanding and consensus to continue the diplomatic process," said the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei.

Baghaei said Tuesday's trip to Oman by Ali Larijani, an adviser to Supreme ⁠Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been pre-planned, and that ‌Larijani would travel next to Qatar, which has also mediated in several Middle East crises.

Oil prices eased on Tuesday as traders remained focused on Iran-U.S. tensions.

DIFFERENCE OVER WHETHER TO DISCUSS MISSILE STOCKPILE

Oman's state news agency said Larijani and ‍Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq discussed ways to reach a "balanced and just" agreement between Iran and the U.S., stressing the importance of returning to dialogue to bridge differences and promote regional and global peace and security.

Iranian state media said the meeting lasted nearly three hours.

The date and venue of the next round of U.S.-Iran talks ​have yet to be announced.

The U.S. is seeking to expand the scope of negotiations with Iran beyond the nuclear issue to curb Iran's ‌ballistic missile programme, one of the biggest in the Middle East.

Tehran says its missile arsenal has been rebuilt since last year's 12-day bombing campaign by Israel and the U.S., and that its stockpile is non-negotiable.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use a meeting with Trump in Washington on Wednesday to push for any U.S.-Iran deal to include limitations on Tehran's missiles.

Baghaei said the U.S. "must act independently of foreign pressures, especially Israeli pressures that ignore the interests of the region and even the U.S."

In any negotiations, Iran would continue to demand the lifting of financial sanctions and ⁠insist on its nuclear rights including enrichment, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said.

Washington has ​demanded Iran relinquish its stockpile of uranium enriched to up to 60% fissile purity, a ​small step away from the 90% that is considered weapons grade.

VANCE SAYS TRUMP WILL DECIDE RED LINES

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Eslami, said on Monday: "The possibility of diluting 60% enriched uranium ... depends on whether, in return, ‍all sanctions are lifted or not".

Asked whether ⁠the U.S. would allow limited uranium enrichment by Iran, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said during a visit to Armenia on Monday: "I think President Trump is going to make the ultimate determination about where we draw the red lines in the negotiations."

Iran and the ⁠U.S. held five rounds of talks last year on curbing Tehran's nuclear programme, with the process breaking down mainly due to disputes over uranium enrichment inside Iran.

Since Trump struck ‌Iran's facilities, Tehran has said it has halted enrichment activity. It has always said its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful ‌purposes.

(Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Aidan Lewis)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A top Israeli official said Tuesday that measures adopted by the government that deepen Israeli control in theoccupied West Bankamounted to implementing "de facto sovereignty," using language that mirrors critics' warnings about the intent behind the moves.

The steps "actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state," Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel's Army Radio.

Palestinians, Arab countries and human rights groups have called the movesannounced Sundayan annexation of the territory, home to roughly 3.4 million Palestinians who seek it for a future state.

Cohen's comments followed similar remarks by other members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz.

The moves — and Israeli officials' own descriptions of them — put the country at odds with both regional allies and previous statements from U.S. President Donald Trump. Netanyahu has traveledto Washingtonto meet with him later this week.

Last year, Trump said hewouldn't allowIsrael to annex the West Bank. The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that aimed to stop the war in Gaza alsoacknowledged Palestinian aspirationsfor statehood.

Widespread condemnation

The measures further erode the Palestinian Authority's limited powers, and it's unclear the extent to which it can oppose them.

In a statement on Tuesday, President Mahmoud Abbas' cabinet "instructed all public and private Palestinian institutions not to engage with these Israeli measures and to strictly adhere to Palestinian laws and regulations in force."

A group of eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries expressed their "absolute rejection" of the measures, calling them in a joint statement Monday illegal and warning they would "fuel violence and conflict in the region."

Israel's pledge not to annex the West Bank is embedded inits diplomatic agreementswith some of those countries andrenewed warningsthat it was a "red line" for the Emirates led Israel to shelve some high-level discussions on the matter last year.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was "gravely concerned" by the measures.

"They are driving us further and further away from a two-State solution and from the ability of the Palestinian authority and the Palestinian people to control their own destiny," his spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said on Monday.

What the measures mean

The measures, approved by Netanyahu's Security Cabinet on Sunday, expand Israel's enforcement authority over land use and planning in areas run by the Palestinian Authority, making it easier forJewish settlersto force Palestinians to give up land.

Smotrich and Katz on Sunday said they would lift long-standing restrictions on land sales to Israeli Jews in the West Bank, shift some control over sensitive holy sites — includingHebron's Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs — and declassify land registry records to ease property acquisitions.

They also revive a government committee empowered to make what officials described as "proactive" land purchases in the territory, a step intended to reserve land for future settlement expansion.

Taken together, the moves add an official stamp to Israel's accelerating expansion and would override parts of decades-old agreements that split the West Bank between areas under Israeli control and areas where the Palestinian Authority exercises limited autonomy.

Israel has increasinglylegalized settler outpostsbuilt on land Palestinians say documents show they have long owned,evicted Palestinian communitiesfrom areas declared state land, firing zones or nature reserves.

More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for an independent state along with the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians are not permitted to sell land privately to Israelis. Settlers can buy homes on land controlled by Israel's government.

The international community overwhelmingly considers Israeli settlement construction to be illegal and an obstacle to peace.

"These decisions constitute a direct violation of the international agreements to which Israel is committed and are steps toward the annexation of Areas A and B," anti-settlement watchdog group Peace Now said on Sunday, referring to parts of the West Bank where the Palestinian Authority exercised some autonomy.

__ Natalie Melzer contributed reporting from Nahariya, Israel.

For multiple decades, Bob Knight led Indiana University's men's basketball team to unparalleled success. Knight won three national championships, one NIT title and 11 Big Ten Conference titles over his 29 seasons as the team's head coach.

As acknowledgement of Knight's excellence, Indiana University announced Monday it will build a bronze statue of Knight as a way to immortalize his accomplishments.

The statue of Knight will be displayed at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, where Indiana's men's and women's basketball teams play their home games. Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall opened in 1971, Knight's first year coaching Indiana, and already houses statues honoring the 1976 national championship team. Knight's statue will "be displayed prominently alongside" those statues, per a school release.

That 1976 national championship team was special, as Knight led it to a perfect 32-0 record during the 1975-76 season. That team remains the last Division I men's college basketball team to turn in an undefeated season.

During his 29-year run at Indiana, Knight put up a 662–239 record. That, combined with his national championships, led to Knight being inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Knight's time as Indiana's head coach ended in controversy, as he was fired shortly after being accused of choking one of his former players. After that story emerged, then-Indiana University president Myles Brand put Knight on a "zero-tolerance" policy. After multiple complaints about Knight's conduct, Brand fired Knight in 2000. Indiana students were outraged, marching in protest following the firing. Knight took a year off from coaching before heading to Texas Tech, where he spent his final seven seasons as a head coach. Knight put up a 138-82 record with Texas Tech before retiring in 2008.

For many years following his firing, Knight held a grudge against Indiana. That fence was finally mended in 2020, when Knight attended his first game at the school since his firing in 2000. His presence was met with a rousing ovation.

Three years later,Knight died after a lengthy illness. He was 83.

Indiana University did not reveal a timetable for Knight's statue, but promised to release more information on the project — which is being designed by Hanlon Studios — in the coming months. The project is being fully funded thanks to an anonymous men's basketball supporter, the school said.

San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Keion White was shot outside a nightclub following Super Bowl 2026.

"Keion White was a victim of a shooting and sustained a bullet wound to his ankle this morning in San Francisco. He is currently undergoing surgery at a local hospital. We will provide further updates when appropriate," said a statement from the 49ers.

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating the shooting.

"A preliminary investigation revealed a verbal altercation occurred between two groups inside a business.  The victim was injured when shots were fired by an unknown suspect," a statement from the SFPD said.

White was drafted by the New England Patriots in 2023 and traded to the 49ers in 2025.