Derrick Harmon injury update: Steelers rookie avoids seasonending injury Ayrton Ostly, USA TODAYAugust 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM Derrick Harmon injury update: Steelers rookie avoids seasonending injury The Pittsburgh Steelers' top rookie won't be off the field for too long.

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Derrick Harmon injury update: Steelers rookie avoids season-ending injury

The Pittsburgh Steelers' top rookie won't be off the field for too long.

Defensive lineman Derrick Harmon suffered a knee injury during the Steelers' preseason finale against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night. He was carted off the field and was visibly emotional on the broadcast as he left the game.

Luckily for the Steelers, he has avoided a season-ending injury.

Harmon suffered a MCL sprain and will miss about a month of action, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

That month-long recovery time puts him in line to return either in Week 4 for the Steelers' game against the Minnesota Vikings in Dublin, Ireland, or Week 6 at home against the Cleveland Browns following the bye.

#Steelers first-round DT Derrick Harmon, who was ruled out with a knee injury last night, was diagnosed with an MCL sprain, sources say. He's expected to be out about a month, which makes him a candidate to begin the year on IR.But could have been worse. pic.twitter.com/JQ48XGeewq

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 22, 2025

Harmon was expected to be the Steelers' lone rookie starter on defense this season.

Pittsburgh's top rookie last season, offensive tackle Troy Fautanu, suffered a season-ending injury in Week 3. The Steelers seem to have avoided that outcome for Harmon.

Steelers DE depth chart

Pittsburgh's depth chart lists their defensive formation as a 3-4 base scheme under coordinator Teryl Austin. Harmon was expected to start at the DE spot this season but isn't the only option on the roster at the moment.

Here's how things look after their preseason finale in Carolina:

Derrick Harmon

Logan Lee

Kyler Baugh

Lee was a sixth-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft and did not get a single snap of action during the regular season last year. Baugh is a rookie undrafted free agent.

Backup defensive tackles Isaiahh Loudermilk and Esezi Otomewo might end up rotating at the position to start the regular season with Harmon out.

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El Salvador is enforcing strict student dress codes to bring discipline back to schools MARCOS ALEMÁNAugust 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM 1 / 3El Salvador Schools HaircutsA youth gets his hair cut at a barbershop to adhere to public school rules for hair in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.

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1 / 3El Salvador Schools HaircutsA youth gets his hair cut at a barbershop to adhere to public school rules for hair in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Principals this week in El Salvador began greeting students individually at school gates, not only to wish them "buenos días," but also to inspect their haircuts and school uniforms.

President Nayib Bukele has expanded his efforts to remake his country to students' appearance as part of bringing discipline back to schools, once a recruiting ground for the country's powerful gangs.

His newly appointed education minister, Karla Trigueros, is an Army captain and physician who visits the country's schools wearing fatigues.

She sent a memo Monday to all school principals saying not only would they be held to a high standard as role models for students, but they must stand at the gate looking for clean and neat uniforms, "appropriate" haircuts and formal greetings from students.

Failure to follow the directives would be considered a "serious lack of administrative responsibility," Trigueros said in the memo.

The rules already existed, but weren't enforced. The order generated lines in barbershops across the country as boys sat for neat, high and tight haircuts and many students posted videos of themselves being shorn.

Bukele is a millennial leader who leaned toward baseball caps and jeans during his first term but has taken on more formality in his second. He shared the memo on X, writing, "to build the El Salvador we dream of, it's clear we must completely transform our educational system."

Anecdotally, parents seemed to support the latest move by the highly popular president too.

"I feel like it's good, that's how you straighten them out from a young age," mother María Barrera said Thursday as she watched her son enter the Concha Viuda de Escalon school.

"I didn't know, but my son came clean, though a little hairy," said María Segovia, who takes her son to school on her way to work. "I took him to the barber today. We're going to comply because it's good."

Parent Ramon Valladares alluded to the powerful gangs that ruled neighborhoods and recruited school kids for years before Bukele's crackdown that has imprisoned more than 88,000 people suspected of gang ties. In those days, teachers feared imposing discipline on students who might have gang connections.

"Now that the government is putting things in order, maybe people might not like it, right?" Valladares said. "But there are some families like ours who are open-minded about any situation. So for me, it's great."

One student who was pulled out of line and identified himself only as Juan said they got him for not having a school insignia on his shirt pocket.

"I promised to bring it tomorrow," he said. "I thought it wasn't so serious and I put on another shirt."

Vicky Alvarado, principal at the Francisco Menéndez Nation Institute, said "the students always gets in, their entrance is never prohibited, what we do is call attention so they comply."

Bukele's administration recently alleged the gangs were trying to reestablish themselves through schools. In June, more than 40 students were arrested at three public schools in the capital, San Salvador.

One of the country's teachers' unions said it supported the new guidance, but believed it was necessary to adjust laws protecting children that made it difficult to impose school discipline.

"Many teachers, in a desire to achieve order and discipline in schools, were reported and many were punished," said Paz Zetino Gutiérrez, secretary of the El Salvador Public School Teachers Union.

Attempts to regulate hairstyles in U.S. school districts have caused a furor. Some were criticized for disproportionately affecting students of color and attempting to deny cultural and religious identities.

Human rights lawyer Jayme Magaña criticized the instructions, however, saying the requirements in the Trigueros memo could create hardships for families with limited resources.

"If moms can't pay the barbershop, if their homes don't have (running) water, (or) electricity to iron, if they haven't given them shoes, put yourself in that position Minister (Trigueros), and dress like a civilian," Magaña wrote on X.

Bukele trolled those he called "haters" in a post on X late Thursday, saying critics accuse Trigueros of repressing students above a video of girls asking her for her autograph.

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ExclusiveTrump plans to make Cold Warera plutonium available for nuclear power Timothy GardnerAugust 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold Warera plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for reactors, according to a source familiar with the matter and a draft memo outlining the plan.

Plutonium has previously only been converted to fuel for commercial U.S. reactors in short-lived tests. The plan would follow through on an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in May ordering the government to halt much of its existing program to dilute and dispose of surplus plutonium, and instead provide it as a fuel for advanced nuclear technologies.

The Department of Energy, or DOE, plans to announce in coming days it will seek proposals from industry, said the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The source cautioned that because the plan is still a draft, its final details could change pending further discussions.

The plutonium would be offered to industry at little to no cost -- with a catch. Industry will be responsible for costs of transportation, designing, building, and decommissioning DOE-authorized facilities to recycle, process and manufacture the fuel, the memo said.

The details on the volume of the plutonium, industry's responsibilities in the plan and the potential timing of a U.S. announcement, have not been previously reported. The 20 metric tons would be drawn from a larger, 34-metric-ton stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium that the United States had previously committed to dispose of under a non-proliferation agreement with Russia in 2000.

The Department of Energy did not confirm or deny the Reuters reporting, saying only that the department is "evaluating a variety of strategies to build and strengthen domestic supply chains for nuclear fuel, including plutonium," as directed by Trump's orders.

Boosting the U.S. power industry is a policy priority for the Trump administration as U.S. electricity demand rises for the first time in two decades on the boom in data centers needed for artificial intelligence.

The idea of using surplus plutonium for fuel has raised concerns among nuclear safety experts who argue a previous similar effort failed.

Under the 2000 agreement, the plutonium was initially planned to be converted to mixed oxide fuel, or MOX, to run in nuclear power plants. But in 2018, the first Trump administration killed the contract for a MOX project that it said would have cost more than $50 billion.

The U.S. Energy Department holds surplus plutonium at heavily guarded weapons facilities including Savannah River in South Carolina, Pantex in Texas, and Los Alamos in New Mexico. Plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years and must be handled with protective gear.

Until Trump's May order, the U.S. program to dispose of the plutonium has involved blending it with an inert material and storing it in an experimental underground storage site called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.

The Energy Department has estimated that burying the plutonium would cost $20 billion.

"Trying to convert this material into reactor fuel is insanity. It would entail trying to repeat the disastrous MOX fuel program and hoping for a different result," said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"The excess plutonium is a dangerous waste product and DOE should stick to the safer, more secure and far cheaper plan to dilute and directly dispose of it in WIPP."

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Lisa Shumaker)

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Congo's prosecutor asks for the death penalty for former President Kabila for war crimes JUSTIN KABUMBAAugust 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM FILE Former Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila arrives to meet with religious leaders at his Kinyogote residence in M23 controlled Goma, Eastern Con...

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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo's public prosecutor on Friday asked for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia in a treason case that includes war crimes charges related to his nearly 20-year rule of the West African nation.

Kabila, who led Congo from 2001 to 2019, has been on trial since July, charged with war crimes, murder and rape. He took office at the age of 29 — after his father and former President Laurent Kabila was assassinated — and extended his mandate by delaying elections for two years after his term ended in 2017. in 2001.

He is also accused by the Congolese government of supporting the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized major cities and towns in the country's east in the past months.

Kabila had been in self-imposed exile since 2023 until April, when he arrived in the rebel-held city of Goma following its seizure in a rapid rebel offensive.

His supporters say the trial is politically motivated. Kabila's presidential immunity was revoked in May, which analysts at the time viewed as a step towards an eventual prosecution. His current whereabouts are unknown.

In court on Friday, Gen. Lucien René Likulia representing the prosecution also asked, in addition to the death penalty, for a 20-year-sentence for Kabila's alleged apologetic behavior for war crimes and 15 years for conspiracy. The general did not elaborate on those charges or say what they refer to.

No date has been set for the sentencing.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi last year accused Kabila of backing the rebels and "preparing an insurrection" with them, a claim Kabila denies.

Ferdinand Kambere, a former minister under Kabila and current head of his party, the PPRD, said revoking Kabila's immunity as senator-for-life was the start of the campaign against him.

"What we saw was truly a disgrace for the Republic," Kambere told The over the phone.

Henry-Pacifique Mayala, a researcher and coordinator of the Kivu Security Tracker, told the AP that the prosecution's demands seem to be "more of a settling of scores session than a quest for truth."

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from Tennessee jail so he can rejoin family in Maryland to await trial TRAVIS LOLLER and KRISTIN M. HALL August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from jail in Tennessee on Friday so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.

The Salvadoran national's case became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's immigration agenda after he was mistakenly deported in March. Facing a court order, the Trump administration brought him back to the U.S. in June, only to detain him on criminal charges.

Although Abrego Garcia was deemed eligible for pretrial release, he had remained in jail at the request of his attorneys, who feared the Republican administration could try to immediately deport him again if he were freed. Those fears were somewhat allayed by a recent ruling in a separate case in Maryland, which requires immigration officials to allow Abrego Garcia time to mount a challenge to any deportation order.

On Friday, Abrego Garcia walked out of the Putnam County jail wearing a short-sleeved white button-down shirt and black pants and accompanied by defense attorney Rascoe Dean. They did not speak to reporters but got into a white SUV and sped off.

The release order from the Tennessee court requires Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he will be in home detention with his brother designated as his custodian. He is required to submit to electronic monitoring and can only leave the home for work, religious services and other approved activities.

An attorney for Abrego Garcia in his deportation case in Maryland, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said in a statement Friday his client had been "reunited with his loving family" for the first time since he was wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvador prison in March.

"While his release brings some relief, we all know that he is far from safe," Sandoval-Moshenberg said. "ICE detention or deportation to an unknown third country still threaten to tear his family apart."

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed the decision to free Abrego Garcia.

"Activist liberal judges have attempted to obstruct our law enforcement every step of the way in removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from our country," Noem said in a statement. She called ordering his release a "new low" by a "publicity hungry Maryland judge," apparently referring to the judge overseeing his original deportation case rather than the Tennessee judge who ordered him freed.

"We will not stop fighting till this Salvadoran man faces justice and is OUT of our country," Noem said.

Earlier this week, Abrego Garcia's criminal attorneys filed a motion asking the judge to dismiss the smuggling case, claiming he is being prosecuted to punish him for challenging his removal to El Salvador.

In a statement Friday, defense attorney Sean Hecker called the charges a "vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the Administration's continuing assault on the rule of law."

Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty to the smuggling charges, which stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee for speeding. Body camera footage from a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer shows a calm exchange with Abrego Garcia. There were nine passengers in the car, and the officers discussed among themselves their suspicions of smuggling. However, Abrego Garcia was allowed to continue driving with only a warning.

A Department of Homeland Security agent testified he did not begin investigating the traffic stop until this April, when the government was facing mounting pressure to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.

Abrego Garcia has an American wife and children and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him protection from being deported back to El Salvador, where he faces a "well-founded fear" of violence, according to court filings. He was required to check in yearly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement while Homeland Security issued him a work permit.

Although Abrego Garcia can't be deported to El Salvador without violating the judge's order, Homeland Security officials have said they plan to deport him to an unnamed third country.

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