Gov Landry turns to Pentagon as state’s violent crime soars above US average
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says he has formally requested federal assistance (RFA) to activate up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard personnel under Title 32.
Landry announced his intentions during an appearance on “Hannity” Monday evening, stating his request for federal assistance had been submitted to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Landry cited “ongoing public safety concerns regarding high crime rates throughout the state,” adding that local law enforcement is overwhelmed by the number of homicides, carjackings and gang violence that “significantly exceed the national average.”
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He also says manpower shortages have been compounded by hurricanes and other natural disasters, causing the already thin police force to be stretched to its breaking point.
Louisiana faces “a convergence of elevated violent crime rates in Shreveport, Baton Rouge and New Orleans coupled with critical personnel shortages within local law enforcement,” according to Landry.
The additional Guard support is expected to “supplement law enforcement presence in high-crime areas, provide logistical and communication support, and secure critical infrastructure.”
Under Title 32 authority, they would patrol high-crime neighborhoods, bolster police presence in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport, while securing critical infrastructure.
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In the past, deployments of the National Guard have proven effective, Landry said, pointing to a 50% drop in crime during Mardi Gras and other major events earlier this year.
According to USA Facts, Louisiana ranks among the nation’s most dangerous states consistently. In 2024, for every 100,000 people, there were 520 violent crimes and 2,296 property crimes. Compared to the U.S. average, the violent crime rate in 2024 in Louisiana was 44.8% higher, and its rate of property crime was 30.5% higher.
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Although not everyone is on board, as local officials in Shreveport and New Orleans have voiced concerns, Landry insists the crisis demands urgent action.
His request is now in Washington, leaving the fight over Louisiana’s safety in the hands of Hegseth, who will decide whether the support is necessary.
Five races to watch with 5 weeks to go until Election Day 2025
With five weeks to go until Election Day, polls indicate a very close contest in the battle for New Jersey governor.
New Jersey is just one of two states, along with Virginia, that hold statewide elections for governor this November. And the contests, which traditionally grab outsized national attention, are viewed as crucial early tests of President Donald Trump’s popularity and agenda, and key barometers ahead of next year’s midterm showdowns for the U.S. House and Senate.
Also in the political spotlight this November is the ballot box proposition over congressional redistricting in California, the three state Supreme Court contests in battleground Pennsylvania, and New York City’s high-profile mayoral election.
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Democrats, who are aiming to exit the political wilderness following last year’s election setbacks when they lost control of the White House and Senate and failed to win back the House majority, are highlighting their success so far this year in special elections.
“There’s wind at our back,” Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin recently touted. “We have overperformed in every single election that’s been on the ballot since Donald Trump was inaugurated.”
But Republicans point to the multitude of problems facing the Democratic Party.
“Sadly for the DNC, the truth is that Democrats’ approval rating is at a 30-year low as the party has hemorrhaged more than 2 million voters over the past four years,” Republican National Committee communications director Zach Parkinson told Fox News Digital recently.
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Here’s a closer look at 2025’s top elections.
New Jersey
He’s not on the ballot, but Trump and his unprecedented second-term agenda weigh heavily on this year’s ballot box battle for governor of New Jersey.
And Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli, who enjoys the president’s support, says Democratic nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill is trying to use Trump as a cudgel.
“Listen, if you get a flat tire on the way home from work today, she’s going to blame it on the president. There isn’t anything she doesn’t blame on the president,” Ciattarelli argued, as he sat this week for an interview with Fox News Digital.
Sherrill, in a recent fundraising email to supporters, charged, “As Trump has inflicted all this damage on our country, Republican politicians like Jack Ciattarelli have cheered him on every step of the way.”
And at their first debate a week and a half ago, she pointed to Ciattarelli and claimed that “he’ll do whatever Trump tells him to do.”
The combustible ballot box battle in New Jersey was rocked last week after a report revealed that the United States Naval Academy blocked her from taking part in her 1994 graduation amid a cheating scandal.
Ciattarelli and his campaign are calling on Sherrill, who went on to pilot helicopters during her military career after graduating from the Naval Academy, to release her military records to explain why she was blocked from attending her graduation ceremony.
“What we learned today is that she was part of it in some way, shape or form. Come clean, release the records. Tell us what’s in your disciplinary records. I think the people of New Jersey deserve that,” Ciattarelli said Thursday night in an interview on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
But a second report revealed that the National Personnel Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, errantly released Sherrill’s improperly redacted military personnel files, which included private information including her social security number, to a Ciattarelli ally.
The news spurred calls by top Democrats across the country for an investigation.
“To have a guy I’m running against, it will stop at nothing, it will stop at nothing, who will illegally obtain records. It’s just beyond the pale,” Sherrill, who served as a federal prosecutor before winning election to Congress, charged Thursday night on the campaign trail in Plainfield, New Jersey.
The two candidates face off next week in the second and final debate in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.
Ciattarelli, who is making his third straight run for governor and who came close to upsetting Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy four years ago, discounted talk that Trump is the dominant issue in the race.
And Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker and a certified public accountant who started a medical publishing company before getting into politics, charged that the Democrats are to blame, as he works overtime trying to link Sherrill to Murphy and the Democrats who’ve long controlled the state legislature in Trenton.
Virginia
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is facing off against former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the race to succeed GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Youngkin is prevented from running for re-election, as Virginia’s constitution does not allow sitting governors to seek consecutive terms.
Earle-Sears was born in the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6. She served in the Marines and is a former state lawmaker who made history four years ago when she won election as Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor.
Spanberger is a former intelligence officer in the CIA who won election to Congress in 2018 before securing re-election in 2020 and 2022.
The winner in November will make history as Virginia’s first female governor in the commonwealth’s four-century-long history. Additionally, if Earle-Sears comes out on top, she will become the nation’s first Black woman to win election as governor.
Trump and his policies are a major issue in the state’s gubernatorial showdown.
The president’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a mission this year to chop government spending and cut the federal workforce.
The moves by DOGE, which was initially steered by Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, have been felt acutely in suburban Washington’s heavily populated northern Virginia, with its large federal workforce.
New York City
The mayoral election in the nation’s most populous city always grabs outsized attention, especially this year as New York City may elect its first Muslim and first millennial mayor.
Democratic socialist 33-year-old state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani’s victory in June’s Democratic Party mayoral primary sent political shock waves across the country. And he’s come under attack from Republicans and from his rivals on the ballot over his far-left proposals.
Mamdani is the clear frontrunner in the heavily blue city as he faces off against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who came in a distant second in the primary and is now running as an independent candidate. Cuomo is aiming for a political comeback after resigning as governor four years ago amid multiple scandals.
Also running is two-time Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, a co-founder of the Guardian Angels, the non-profit, a volunteer-based community safety group.
Embattled Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who was running for re-election as an independent, dropped out of the race on Sunday, but his name remains on the ballot.
Trump, a native New Yorker, has continuously been in the spotlight in the race for months.
California Prop 50
Voters in heavily blue California will vote in November on whether to temporarily set aside their popular nonpartisan redistricting commission and allow the Democrat-dominated legislature to determine congressional redistricting for the next three election cycles.
The vote will be the culmination of an effort by Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Democrats to create up to five left-leaning congressional seats in the Golden State to counter the new maps that conservative Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law last week, which will create up to five more right-leaning U.S. House districts in the red state of Texas.
The redistricting in Texas, which came after Trump’s urging, is part of a broader effort by the GOP across the country to pad their razor-thin House majority to keep control of the chamber in the 2026 midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Democrats currently hold a 5-2 majority on Pennsylvania’s highest court.
But three Democrat-leaning justices on the state Supreme Court, following the completion of their 10-year terms, are running to keep their seats in “Yes” or “No” retention elections.
The election could upend the court’s composition for the next decade, heavily influence whether Democrats or Republicans have an advantage in the state’s congressional delegation and legislature, and impact crucial cases including voting rights and reproductive rights.
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While state Supreme Court elections typically don’t grab much national attention, contests where the balance of a court in a key battleground state is up for grabs have attracted tons of outside money.
The state Supreme Court showdown this spring in Wisconsin, where the 4-3 liberal majority was maintained, drew nearly $100 million in outside money as both parties poured resources into the election.
Mormon church attacker ‘hated’ the faith, White House says as FBI hunts for answers
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt provided an update Monday on the FBI investigation into the shooting and fire at a Michigan Mormon church on Sunday.
“Based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith, and they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note. All of those questions have yet to be answered, but certainly will be answered by the FBI,” Leavitt told “Fox & Friends” after speaking with FBI Director Kash Patel.
Leavitt said the FBI is “currently executing multiple search warrants at the residences and the family homes of this perpetrator to try to get to the bottom of why he would commit such an act of evil.”
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Thomas Jacob Sanford was named by authorities as the man who rammed a Chevy Silverado into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, before opening fire on the hundreds of worshipers gathered there.
The White House press secretary praised local law enforcement for their response to the shooting.
“Local police officers were on the ground of this scene within minutes and neutralized this shooter, no doubt saving lives, and they should be commended. Our police officers are heroes and this president will always respect them and support them,” Leavitt continued.
Leavitt said the shooter was a member of the community and previously served in the United States Marine Corps in Iraq.
“His family is cooperating with the FBI. And so they are currently trying to dig in and get to the bottom of why he committed – there’s just this heinous act of violence. It’s unfathomable. And as the president rightfully put in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians,” she added.
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At least four people are dead, seven are in stable condition and one remains in critical condition. Two were killed by gunfire; two others were found after the fire.
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The shooter, armed with what appeared to be a rifle, exchanged gunfire with officers and was killed at the scene.
President wins major victory over tech giant in censorship case
President Donald Trump has won a $24.5 million settlement from YouTube over the platform’s suspension of his account following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
The Alphabet-owned company is the last of the three major social media platforms sued by Trump, alongside Meta and Twitter, now called X, to resolve claims tied to his removal.
According to a court filing obtained by Fox News Digital, $22 million of the settlement will be contributed on Trump’s behalf to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit supporting construction of a new White House State Ballroom.
Per the filing, Alphabet will also pay $2.5 million to other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union, author Naomi Wolf, and several individuals.
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The deal closes out a series of high-profile legal battles Trump launched against Big Tech after being banned from multiple platforms.
Meta reached a $25 million settlement earlier in 2025, while X reportedly paid $10 million, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
YouTube suspended Trump’s channel on Jan. 12, 2021, saying his content violated policies against inciting violence.
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The channel was reinstated in March 2023. Trump’s lawsuit argued the ban was unconstitutional and violated his First Amendment rights.
Negotiations reportedly included mediation sessions at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in May, where he invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin.
Discussions allegedly continued over golf and lunch at Trump’s nearby club.
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John P. Coale, Trump’s lead attorney, emphasized the role of Trump’s return to the White House in accelerating the settlements. “If he had not been re-elected, we would have been in court for 1,000 years,” Coale said, per The Wall Street Journal.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the settlement to Fox News Digital and pointed to the filing as their official response.
Woman strips down to bikini in protest of California school board’s locker room policy
Local California women’s rights activist Beth Bourne protested the policy allowing transgender students access to girls’ locker rooms by stripping down to a bikini at a local school board meeting.
Bourne, who chairs the Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, took part in the Davis Joint Unified School Board meeting on Sept. 18 where she highlighted school policies on locker room access.
“I’m a parent in the Davis Unified School District, and I’m here today to talk about the policies you have for the locker rooms in the junior high schools. So Emerson, Holmes, Harper Junior High. Right now, we require our students to undress for PE class. So I’m just going to give you an idea what that looks like when I undress,” Bourne said before taking off her clothes to reveal a bikini.
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She continued, “So right now, this school district is saying that, depending on a child’s transgender identity, that they can pick which bathroom they want. So we have, right now at this school district, we have children self-identifying into different bathrooms just based off of their—”
Bourne was interrupted by members of the board, who ordered her to stop.
“I’ve got to finish my comments. You are violating my First Amendment right,” Bourne was heard saying.
When she pushed back, School Board Vice President Hiram Jackson called for a recess.
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After about five minutes, the meeting resumed, and the board allowed Bourne to finish her comments. Bourne again began stripping down to a bikini. The board ordered another recess and resumed more than 30 minutes later, moving on to a new topic.
Fox News Digital reached out to Bourne and the Davis Joint Unified School Board for comment.
Bourne told CBS News on Sept. 19 that she has attended the school board meetings every month for the past three years to address the locker room issue and felt she needed to take drastic measures to make her point.
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“If the adults don’t feel comfortable watching someone, and I’m a 50-year-old woman, how can they expect girls to feel comfortable doing that in the locker room?” Bourne said. “I thought I made a really good point.”
Trustee Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald told local news publication The Vanguard that the police were called after the second recess and that the board is considering next steps.
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“We are going to be meeting about this, about what to do in such situations, and we’re going to, I know that our superintendent is going to be speaking with counsel to see what can be done because it’s very inappropriate for anybody to be coming before the board and behaving in such a manner. It’s very inappropriate,” Escamilla-Greenwald said.
Massive comet heading to Earth may be alien technology, Harvard astrophysicist says
A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report.
Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be an artifact of alien technology rather than a natural body because it weighs more than 33 billion tons and spans at least 3.1 miles across.
The object, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected, after Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.
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The astrophysicist also revealed in a Medium blog post that new data and measurements indicate the comet’s nucleus is more massive than first estimated.
3I/ATLAS was spotted in July with observations showing the comet is shedding huge amounts of carbon dioxide and dust as it races toward the Sun.
Loeb and his colleagues calculated a slight “non-gravitational acceleration” in its movement caused by “outgassing” which suggests the object must be far heavier than early models assumed.
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The comet dwarfs Oumuamua, just a quarter-mile long, and Borisov, about 0.6 miles across.
“This makes 3I/ATLAS three to five orders of magnitude more massive than the previous two interstellar objects we’ve observed,” Loeb wrote in his post.
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Next week the comet will pass within 1.67 million miles of Mars’ orbit while also coming close to both Jupiter and Venus.
Loeb has urged NASA to turn the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter towards the object and said that even a single bright pixel could fine tune estimates of its true dimensions.
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“We should not decide about the nature of 3I/ATLAS based on the chemical composition of its skin,” Loeb wrote.
“For the same reason, we should not judge a book by its cover,” he added.
Florida task force seizes enough cocaine ‘to kill every American’ in record effort
EXCLUSIVE – A Florida-based multi-agency task force has seized a record one million pounds of cocaine during fiscal year 2025 — a haul officials say represents 378 million lethal doses, enough to kill every American.
The seizure was announced by Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), led by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The unit, which includes the U.S. Coast Guard, works with partner nations to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs through the “transit zone” between South America, Central America and the Caribbean and to weaken transnational criminal organizations.
According to the task force, the amount of drugs seized over the past 12 months is enough to fill 42 dump trucks. The 2025 fiscal year ends Tuesday.
JIATF-S confirmed to Fox News Digital that the effort has denied cartels and narco-terrorists $11.34 billion in revenue and removed 377.9 million lethal doses from the streets.
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JIATF-S operates across 42 million square miles, from the Eastern Pacific to the Western Atlantic, stretching from international waters north of the Caribbean Antilles to the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn.
The region has long been a major trafficking corridor for drugs, arms, cash and people. Well-financed and sophisticated criminal networks continue to exploit the area, officials said.
“By disrupting the flow of these deadly drugs, JIATF-S is saving lives and protecting our homeland,” the agency added.
A seizure of this magnitude has never been accomplished before. Officials said the one million pounds of cocaine does not include the strikes on Venezuelan narco-terrorists.
The Trump administration has vowed to intensify military action in the Caribbean as part of its counter-narcotics strategy.
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In recent months, U.S. forces have conducted multiple operations targeting smuggling vessels as President Donald Trump pushed to crack down on cartels and stem the flow of cocaine and other illicit drugs into the United States.
In February, Trump designated groups, including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel as foreign terrorist organizations. The Justice Department has also offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Maduro is accused by U.S. authorities of helping lead the Cartel of the Suns, a Venezuelan drug-trafficking network allegedly comprised of senior government and military officials.
“As he gained power in Venezuela, Maduro participated in a corrupt and violent narco-terrorism conspiracy with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” a State Department bulletin states.
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Prosecutors allege Maduro helped arrange multi-ton shipments of FARC-produced cocaine and directed the Cartel of the Suns to provide the group with military-grade weapons.
In August, Trump approved the deployment of several U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers to strengthen counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean.
Maduro responded by declaring that Venezuela was ready to resist any attacks, calling the move “an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat.” He has accused Trump of orchestrating a broader campaign to overthrow his government.
Phil Mickelson joins grieving father in criticizing justice system after daughter’s killing
An emotional speech from a grieving father led LIV Golf star Phil Mickelson to call out the justice system.
Mickelson saw the testimony by Stephen Federico at a House Judiciary Subcommittee meeting Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska on the city’s light rail less than two months ago.
Federico’s daughter, Logan, a 22-year-old aspiring teacher from Waxhaw, North Carolina, was visiting friends at the University of South Carolina when “career criminal” Alexander Dickey allegedly broke into a Cypress Street home on May 3 and shot and killed her.
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Dickey had been arrested 39 times on 25 felonies. Federico shared his grief and explained why he continues to push for change in the legal system.
Mickelson was clearly moved, reposting Federico’s remarks on X with his own message.
“The judge(s) who let this person go should be held accountable and in jail,” Mickelson wrote.
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Federico’s testimony was raw and emotional.
“Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down going to sleep, feeling somebody come into their room and wake them. Drag them out of bed, naked, force on her knees with her hands over her head, begging for her life,” he said, fighting back tears.
“She was 5-foot-3, she weighed 115 pounds. Bang! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devante Dickey, who was arrested 39 goddamn times, 25 felonies, was on the street. … You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. Stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us … please. You have the power. We put you into power to do what you have to do. We’re asking you, we’re begging you all to stop this.”
Federico later appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” where he explained his mission further.
“I’m fighting for Logan. I have to be Logan’s voice because nobody else will be. I don’t have anybody fighting for her justice. Somebody has to fight for the innocent people who are left here. We have to make some drastic changes in our system. People like Alexander Dickey should not be on the street — people know that,” he said.
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Dickey’s criminal record spanned eight agencies. He was booked 11 times between 2013 and 2025, facing multiple burglary and larceny charges. A first-degree burglary conviction in South Carolina carries a minimum 15-year prison sentence and up to life in prison.
Federico said the system gave Dickey more rights than his daughter ever had.
“They cared more about making sure he wasn’t put in prison than worrying about whether or not he was going to hurt somebody,” he said. “His crimes escalated every time he made a new one. He finally graduated to the jackpot and executed our daughter. We’re still trying to hear from our South Carolina solicitor to see if he’s going to get the death penalty or not. Obviously, it checks all the boxes that it does.
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“But they’re more concerned about keeping criminals out of the prisons and institutions than they are to try to rehabilitate them. You can’t rehabilitate some of these guys, it’s just impossible.”
Tyreek Hill rushed to hospital after leg buckles during Monday night clash
Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was taken to a local hospital after suffering a gruesome knee injury on Monday night against the New York Jets.
Hill needed to be carted off the field in the third quarter after his left leg buckled in awkward fashion as he was making a catch near the sideline. The ESPN broadcast showed a replay of the action. Hill’s leg was bent in a direction it shouldn’t have been, to put it simply.
Both medical staffs for the Jets and Dolphins made their way quickly to Hill, who was put into an air cast and placed on the back of a cart. He was seen smiling almost out of disbelief as the Dolphins crowd at Hard Rock Stadium cheered for their speedy wide receiver, who acknowledged them as the cart drove to the tunnel.
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Hill was quickly ruled out of the game with what the Dolphins called a knee injury. Head coach Mike McDaniel confirmed after the Dolphins 27-21 win that Hill dislocated his knee.
He will remain in the hospital overnight, though he said Hill had an upbeat attitude despite what the future for this season at least holds.
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A dislocated knee usually means that other ligaments were torn in the process, which would effectively end Hill’s season. The Dolphins will await a definitive diagnosis there, but it’s likely Hill’s cleat won’t be on anytime soon.
“He is being taken to a local hospital for imaging, evaluation and observation,” the Dolphins’ statement on X read.
Hill and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa were on the same page in this game, as No. 10 caught six passes for 67 yards to lead the Dolphins in that category before his injury.
Considering the seriousness of the injury, Hill’s 2025 season could be over. He has just 15 catches for 198 yards with one touchdown over four games this year.
The Dolphins came into this game against their AFC East foe struggling with an 0-3 record, as Mike McDaniel’s offense hadn’t been its usual electric self.
Hill had a slow start to the 2025 campaign, catching just four passes for 40 yards in a blowout loss to the Indianapolis Colts. He looked like his normal self, though, when he had 109 yards on six grabs in Week 2 against the New England Patriots.
Hill scored his first touchdown of the season last week on “Thursday Night Football” against the Buffalo Bills, where he had five catches for 49 yards.
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Hill is in his 10th NFL season, his fourth with the Dolphins after six with the Kansas City Chiefs.