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This week has a lot of divisional battles that could shape the remainder of the season. In the early window, we see Carolina taking on Atlanta, with both teams looking to avoid a 0-2 start. The Vikings and Bears also take each other on in what should be a very competitive NFC North division.
In the late window, we see the Chargers host the new-look Raiders after having a disastrous loss to the Cardinals in Week 1. The Commanders and Cowboys battle in Dallas, with both having lost their opener to a divisional foe. Of course, after Week 1, half of the league is 0-1 and looking to even up their record. The other half is looking to continue their success from Week 1.
The two prime-time games remaining are between the Colts and Chiefs in Kansas City on Sunday Night Football. On Monday night, we will see Monday Night Football between the Giants and the Rams, who return from being absolutely destroyed in Australia.
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Vikings vs. Bears, 1:00 ET, FOX
The Vikings march into Soldier Field to take on the Bears, who put up almost 60 points last week against the Panthers. While the Bears looked fantastic with Caleb Williams running the show, the Vikings had issues to address. Kyler Murray threw an interception on his first pass as a Viking, and then was injured. Carson Wentz came in and staged a major comeback over the Packers. Which team will come out on top in this NFC North battle between Chicago and Minnesota?
Ukraine targets Russia with over 1,000 drones, killing 2 as Moscow holds last day of elections
Ukraine delivered a barrage of missiles and more than 1,000 drones on Russia, which Moscow is calling the "largest ever" of the war and an attack on its parliamentary elections.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed the strike at the "dollars that support the war machine" as a push for Russia to "end its brutal war and choose peace."
"Tonight in the Moscow region, our long-range responses were felt very acutely," Zelenskyy wrote early Sunday morning on X. "One of the key enterprises of the Russian Federation's oil industry and an aggressor's logistics facility have been struck. These are billions of dollars that support the war machine."
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Zelenskyy added that the Ukraine attack was a stern response to Russian aggression, making a future call for the U.S., Europe and the G7 to deliver "new sanctions."
"This week alone, Russia has launched more than 2,000 attack drones against us, most of them jet-powered, as well as 1,700 aerial bombs and 19 missiles of various types," he wrote on X. "Ukraine is constantly looking for and finding ways to defend itself and respond to these attacks on life.
"It is important that our partners also look for and find ways to make Russia feel its war. Now is the right moment to take new sanctions steps against the aggressor and force peace through strength. The United States has the means to do this, Europe has them, and so does every G7 country. We are counting on new, strong steps."
The Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections this weekend and said two were killed and 20 wounded, according local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov.
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"The biggest attack by enemy drones has been repelled," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. "This unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed."
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across the country, as well as over the peninsula of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that 450 drones had been destroyed en route to the Russian capital, and that the attack had damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery and a residential building.
"Moscow must end its brutal war and choose peace instead of building layered rings of air defense at the expense of other regions," Zelenskyy wrote in a second X post. "Steps toward de-escalation are on the table – in energy and food security. What is needed is political will. I thank everyone who is strengthening Ukraine’s long-range capabilities. I am grateful to everyone who complements our long-range responses with responses through sanctions."
Ukraine continued to fend off Russian attacks, according to Zelenskyy. A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine’s Kherson region Saturday, killing a member of the clergy and wounding four people, he said.
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A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv also killed three children and their mother Saturday night, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration.
Ukraine's latest drone strikes took place on the final day of Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election — balloting that has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin’s policies.
Russia was also holding the vote in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claimed after the war began but still does not fully control, and in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was Russia invaded in 2014.
Putin accused Ukraine of trying to interfere in the election, citing what he said was a Ukrainian strike that killed an election official in her home in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region Tuesday. Reuters could not independently verify details of the attack and there was no comment from Kyiv.
Putin told the nation in a televised address before the election that the vote would underline support for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
"Your choice, and your will, will once again demonstrate that millions of people stand behind our soldiers, that we are a united people bound together by shared values, historical memory, and love for our homeland, and that no one will succeed in dividing or intimidating us," Putin said.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Ex-Roanoke swimmer speaks out against Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger for axing women's sports protection
Former Roanoke College swimmer Lily Mullens, who helped lead a public stand against a transgender athlete joining her women’s team, is speaking out after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration withdrew a proposed regulation intended to protect female-only sports and private spaces.
Mullens was one of three female swimmers who formally petitioned the Virginia State Board of Health to enact the regulation, along with Hungarian Olympian Réka György and former Roanoke teammate Carter Satterfield.
"Up until recently, due to Governor Youngkin’s leadership, which was founded in truth, Virginia was making tremendous strides toward finally doing the right thing and protecting females by keeping men out of women’s sports and spaces for good. However, under the new 'leadership' of Governor Spanberger, that progress has come to a screeching halt," Mullens told OutKick.
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"By failing to be open with the public about her decision months ago, she is signaling to the people of Virginia that she does not care about the female athletes in this state and she is aware that she is going against what the people want. As a woman herself, I had hoped that she would understand the importance of this issue and the petition I signed a year ago, but I have been proven wrong.
"As I continue to read about this failure and think about the current state of Virginia, I find myself questioning what kind of leader Spanberger wants to be. As someone with personal experience of what this situation can do to a team, a program, a school, or any person involved, I want to ask her why she would choose to be the type of leader who cowers to gender ideology. The type of leader whom people depend on, only to be let down. The type of leader who allows girls to feel inadequate and defeated, as my teammates and I once did.
"The truth is, and always will be, that men and women are biologically different. Virginia had a leader who understood this fact and did everything he could to protect women. I am saddened and disappointed to see such hard work thrown away, especially by a woman."
Mullens and several Roanoke College teammates attracted national attention in 2023 when they objected to a transgender student joining the women’s swimming team. The transgender swimmer ultimately withdrew from consideration before competing for the team.
Mullens, Satterfield and György later filed a petition asking the Virginia Board of Health to prevent biological males from participating on organized female-only athletic teams and entering female-designated spaces in which women and girls may be undressing.
The petition was filed in April 2025 and received more than 2,300 public comments. In August 2025, the Board of Health voted 14–0 to initiate a regulatory change.
The Youngkin administration subsequently approved a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action to begin developing the regulation. The notice was published in November 2025 and received another 321 public comments before the comment period ended in December.
However, the State Board of Health withdrew the regulatory action on July 30, approximately six months after Spanberger succeeded Youngkin as governor. The administration did not issue a news release announcing the decision at the time.
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"Upon review of statutory authority, the State Board of Health is not proceeding with this regulatory action," the official notice stated.
György has also criticized the administration’s decision.
"It’s really sad for me because I had the petition filed a year ago, and Youngkin approved it and wanted to take the next step and protect female athletes and female spaces in Virginia," György said.
György competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. The Virginia Tech swimmer finished 17th in the preliminary round of the 500-yard freestyle, one place outside the 16-swimmer finals field. Thomas advanced and went on to win the national championship.
György said the experience of competing against Thomas and sharing a women’s locker room with the transgender swimmer motivated her to advocate for sex-separated sports and private spaces.
During her 2025 gubernatorial campaign, Spanberger said Virginia previously had an effective process that allowed parents, schools, principals and coaches to evaluate transgender athletes’ participation individually. She said decisions should account for factors including a student’s age, the sport and the level of competition.
Spanberger's office has not responded to a request for comment.
Why the Packers should cover -3.5 against the Jets in NFL Week 2 after their Vikings collapse
We’ve got our second week of action in the NFL, and that means there is a full slate of action for us to chew on for betting. Last week was an okay week overall for football betting, but I’m looking to go perfect on today’s plays. The first action I have is in the early set of games as the Packers take on the Jets.
I was down on the Green Bay Packers coming into this season. I didn’t think they advanced very much in the offseason, and I felt like they were likely to take a step back as the rest of the division tries to get better. It is a tough division, with no true dog in the race. They all have a realistic shot at making the postseason, just as they did last season. It certainly was not the ideal start for Packers fans as they dropped their opener.
In Week 1, they took on the Minnesota Vikings, and Green Bay looked really good in the first half. They were up 19-10 at halftime. They even started the game with an interception of Kyler Murray on his first pass as a Viking. Murray was later injured, and the Packers couldn’t prevent a massive second half from Carson Wentz, who threw for 133 yards on 12-for-19 passing with three touchdowns. It certainly didn’t help that the Packers gave up two turnovers, but allowing 39 points when an opposing team has just 239 yards is pretty embarrassing.
The Jets had a much better opening week, but they did play an inferior opponent. They took on the Titans and weren’t intimidated in the slightest by seeing a former coach on the Tennessee sidelines. New York is 1-0, and although I doubt most of the fans even believe it means a march to the postseason is likely or possible, it is a nice start.
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In the Tennessee game, there were a few things that stood out to me about how the Jets managed the game. They had two rushing touchdowns and three field goals made. However, what was most impressive was that they gave the Titans no breathing room. I know the Titans don’t have a great offensive line, but they only gave up three sacks. The Jets defense overall held their opponent to just 195 total yards of offense.
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This should be an interesting game. Half of the league starts the season 0-1, which really isn’t that big of a deal. However, going down to 0-2 puts a team at a really big hole to start the year and make the playoffs. That’s what the Packers are avoiding. It seems like every season they have some odd loss to start the year. Losing to the Vikings on the road isn’t odd, but the way they lost was a bit peculiar.
I have some concerns about the Packers' backfield, but I also don’t think this Jets defense was quite as good as the Titans made them look. I expect the Packers to be much more locked in on this one, and they should win this game by a touchdown. Give me the Packers -3.5.
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Why the Chargers are worth buying low against the Raiders despite their ugly Week 1 collapse
One of the things about football is that everyone has an opinion, and typically it is a very loud and vocal opinion. Week 2 is one of the times when you’ll hear more of these opinions than ever because people have to react to everything they’ve seen after just one game. Try to keep in perspective what you watched for one week and not get too crazy.
Briefly, I’ll share who I’d buy some betting stock in, and who I’ll fade or be cautious about. The Bears offense looked good, but their defense looked rough; I’m not sold that they are going to be doing a new Super Bowl shuffle. The Ravens offense looked dominant, and I think they could remain that way. The Browns looked awful, and should remain terrible. I’d buy more options in the 49ers, and even the Rams, considering how bad they look. One team that I think is worth buying while they're down is the Chargers, who take on the Raiders.
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The Las Vegas Raiders did exactly what they were expected to do in the first week of the season. They were able to take out the Dolphins, and they showcased their best player, Ashton Jeanty, while doing it. The team looked much calmer on offense given that they have Kirk Cousins under center. I know that the Raiders don’t get to play a team of the Dolphins' caliber every week, but this was a good start for the squad and one to build off.
Let’s also not pretend that this offense looked like a well-oiled machine. Cousins was efficient, completing 21-of-30 passes and three touchdowns, but he also threw two interceptions. Jeanty, as mentioned, was heavily involved. He had 23 carries and six catches in the first game. The best strategy for them is to hand him the ball and see what he can do. Brock Bowers is likely out of this game still, so the passing game gets knocked down a bit.
The Los Angeles Chargers had potentially the worst Week 1 of anyone in the sport. They hosted the Arizona Cardinals and lost to them 26-14. The Chargers were the biggest favorite of the week, and they eliminated 30% of the Circa Survivor Contest. The Cardinals are expected to be one of the worst teams in football, and the Chargers made Arizona look like they are Super Bowl contenders. I’m sure there will be some adjustments for the Chargers, but what can they do?
Week 1 saw the Chargers give up 393 total yards of offense, including 277 through the air. Simply put, the secondary needs to be better. They also need to control the ball better. They threw an interception and lost a fumble in the game. Really, the only area they were better in was penalties. I have to expect their defense will be better in this one. With Jim Harbaugh leading the way, you can expect a defense to excel. I’m willing to give them another chance and say that Week 1 was a fluke.
I’m not 100% sure that the Chargers will be able to cover the big spread on the game of -6.5. I do expect them to load the box and dare Cousins to be the one to win the game. Justin Herbert should feast on the Raiders' secondary, so this doesn’t seem like a terrible bet. However, I think expecting the Chargers defense to improve and the Raiders offense to not be quite as strong is the best angle. I’m taking the Raiders to score under 18.5 points in this one.
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WATCH: Exclusive look at blue-collar workforce fueling America’s AI boom
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Digital got an inside look at a Houston training site preparing blue-collar workers for construction jobs tied to the massive infrastructure buildout powering America’s artificial intelligence boom.
The site will host a new training program under America’s Workforce Academy, a Meta-backed initiative aimed at expanding the skilled-trades workforce needed for data centers and other infrastructure projects.
Meta is investing an initial $115 million in the academy and working with Associated Builders and Contractors, CBRE, the National Urban League and local organizations on workforce-training programs around the country.
In Houston, Meta is partnering with Associated Builders and Contractors on a general construction training program scheduled to begin Nov. 2.
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Separately, the academy launched its fiber technician training program, developed with CBRE, in July in Indianapolis and Columbus. The first class graduated in August, and new classes begin every week.
In an interview with Fox News Digital at the Houston training site, Joel Thames, ABC vice president of health, safety, environment and workforce development, described America’s Workforce Academy as "the largest workforce development investment in history."
He said that while blue-collar workers are often left out of the debate over artificial intelligence, the academy will give everyday Americans a stake in the data-center buildout while preparing them for jobs in construction.
"This program is heavily weighted towards the worker," he explained.
"There's a lot of controversy that surrounds data centers and we encourage folks to get involved and really question and understand what's being built in their backyards," he said. "But if they are going to be built, our goal is to ensure that the worker is safe, they go home safe every night, that they build them correctly, and that they earn credentials that they can take into other facets of construction."
Announced earlier this year, America’s Workforce Academy has been praised by blue-collar advocate Mike Rowe for working to "completely rethink the way we train the next generation of skilled workers."
According to Meta, graduates of the Houston program’s four-week intensive training will earn an industry-recognized National Center for Construction Education and Research credential and an America’s Workforce Certificate.
Thames said the program is responding to demand for skilled workers as construction expands around data centers and other infrastructure projects. He cited a shortage of approximately 349,000 U.S. workers needed to meet current construction demand.
Meta has framed the broader workforce initiative in similar terms.
"The United States labor market needs hundreds of thousands of fiber technicians, welders, plumbers, electricians and other skilled trade workers," the company said in a news statement. "At Meta, we see this as an incredible opportunity for these American heroes to power America’s future."
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Thames said Meta approached ABC with a plan that included job opportunities for workers and funding for the training, while ABC would handle instruction and credentialing.
The Houston-area program will operate out of an approximately 20,000-square-foot facility near the Houston Ship Channel equipped with classrooms, a computer lab and two bays for hands-on practical training.
The facility is operated by the Construction & Maintenance Education Foundation, a nonprofit educational affiliate of ABC Greater Houston that will host the Houston-area training for America’s Workforce Academy.
Houston is one of several locations involved in Meta’s workforce initiative, with additional programs underway in Ohio and Indiana, and another program scheduled to start in Louisiana in November.
A Meta spokesperson said 277 students have already graduated in Ohio and Indiana, with more classes graduating every week.
According to Thames, the workforce is rising to meet the need.
"As soon as [Meta] announced it, we had thousands of applicants," he said.
Thames said the academy is expected to graduate about 300 people per month across its programs, with plans to expand.
He emphasized that the Houston curriculum is designed around construction skills and worker safety rather than instruction about artificial intelligence itself.
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"Even if the data center bubble burst and there’s no more data center work, they’re going to have credentials that they could build off of," he said.
The growth of AI data centers has increased demand for electricians, plumbers, heavy-equipment operators and other skilled tradespeople needed to build and maintain the infrastructure supporting the technology.
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Rather than taking a position on the pace of AI development, Thames said ABC’s focus is on ensuring workers are prepared for the construction jobs being created.
"At the end of the day, if the data centers are being built, we want them built correctly, we want them built safely, we want to ensure that these workers have what they need to continue and build a long career in construction," he said.
"If the data centers are going to be built, we want to make sure that those jobs land with Americans and American workers and keep those in house," Thames concluded.
Florida plastic surgeon accused of killing attorney in his office defends himself in murder trial
An unusual trial is underway for a Florida plastic surgeon, accused of murdering an attorney he’d opposed in court and disposing of his body in a dumpster before prosecutors say it ended up at the landfill.
Clad in an orange jail jumpsuit, Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, 47, is representing himself in court as he faces a first-degree murder charge with the possibility of the death penalty. He’s waived his right to a jury – the judge presiding over the Pinellas County trial is set to decide the doctor’s fate.
Kosowski was arrested in March 2023 in connection with the disappearance of attorney Steven Cozzi. He has remained in jail and insists he is innocent.
The two men met through a legal dispute.
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Cozzi had worked on a civil lawsuit beginning in 2019 involving money allegedly owed to Kosowski for work he’d done tied to personal injury cases. Cozzi helped represent the corporate clients Kosowski was suing.
During years of litigation, Kosowski developed a hostile attitude toward Cozzi, according to court records. He blamed Cozzi for his problems in the case and demanded that the attorney be removed as defense counsel, records show.
"He made a bunch of completely unwarranted, inappropriate accusations about Steve throughout the litigation," said Jake Pillsbury, an attorney who worked with Cozzi on the case.
Cozzi had told others that, during a deposition, Kosowski approached him in a restroom and "called him a scumbag" and "that he [Kosowski] was going to win," Pillsbury said in court.
Those close to Cozzi began to worry about his safety.
Cozzi’s husband, Michael Montgomery, had suggested arranging for "some kind of on-site security," if Cozzi had to meet with Kosowski again.
On March 21, 2023, Cozzi and Kosowski both were scheduled to attend a teleconference hearing at 10 a.m.
Before that, it was a normal Tuesday morning, Montgomery said. Cozzi brought him his morning coffee and they had a short conversation before he left for work. That was the last time he’d see him.
About 10 minutes before the meeting, Cozzi left his phone, keys, wallet, and other items on his desk and went to the office restroom.
He never showed up for the scheduled teleconference.
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Later, Cozzi’s boss entered the restroom and found spattered blood, court records show.
Security footage from the day Cozzi disappeared shows a subject arriving in a silver Toyota Tundra around 8:30 a.m. The prosecution alleges it was Kosowski.
A man wearing dark gloves entered the building where Cozzi worked carrying a box "large enough to conceal a human body," according to investigators.
At 10:22 a.m., the same man exited the building pulling a wagon covered with a reddish orange blanket.
The man could be seen struggling with the weight of the cart while pulling it to the truck, records show.
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That day, the Tundra was driven to Kosowski’s home in Tarpon Springs, Florida, videos pieced together from multiple surveillance cameras showed, according to court records.
On the way, the truck passed a Flock camera that captured an image of "a red bag or blanket in a cart that appeared to contain what resembles a human body located in the bed of the truck," according to arrest records.
Two days later, investigators arrived at Kosowski’s home with a search warrant and found the Tundra in the garage with blood in the truck bed, on the driver’s side headrest, on the driver’s side floorboard and on the garage floor.
Cozzi’s DNA was found in the Tundra and Kosowski’s garage floor, court records show.
In the search of Kosowski’s vehicles, investigators found a ballistic vest with a "substantial amount" of blood on it. They also found one iPhone and a "burner phone"––the term for an inexpensive, prepaid device meant to be discarded.
Law enforcement officials also found a vest meant to be worn by a medical first responder, sheriff's office patches, a foldable bike, a gas can, $282,000 in cash, two passports and black, industrial-sized garbage bags.
Investigators also found a black duffel that the prosecution has called "a murder bag." Inside, there were lighters, a Taser, scissors, brass knuckles, a crowbar, ski masks and a Guy Fawkes mask.
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The bag also contained a syringe, a needle and a vial of succinylcholine, a paralytic drug. It was labeled in a way that connected it to Kosowski’s plastic-surgery office in Miami.
After Kosowski was arrested, police informed him they’d be searching his body to collect possible DNA and fingernail clippings, and would be taking photographs of him, the prosecution said.
After that, camera footage from inside the patrol car shows Kosowski struggling to bring his hands from behind his back, underneath his feet and up to his face.
He then began to "meticulously suck on each of his fingers," a member of the prosecution team told the judge.
"He's using his tongue and getting up underneath it and slurping. He's using his teeth almost as a nail file, trying to destroy any trace of evidence that might bring him back to Steven Cozzi."
The prosecution argues that Kosowski began planning the killing long before he allegedly murdered Cozzi.
More than a month before the attorney’s disappearance, Kosowski allegedly visited Cozzi’s home without his knowledge and photographed a car in the carport, according to the prosecution team.
Kosowski also visited Blanchard Law Firm where Cozzi worked. He drove around the building and took photos multiple times before Cozzi’s disappearance, the prosecution has alleged.
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In early March 2023, Kosowski began searching Cozzi and Montgomery online, seeking information about their wedding and records about previous and current addresses, prosecutors said.
An employee of the building that housed the Blanchard Law Firm told investigators that a week before Cozzi’s disappearance, she found a man in a mask hiding in the office utility closet.
Suspicious, she asked him why he was there, court records show. He told her it was because of a power outage and walked away.
She watched him leave in a grey Toyota Tundra, investigators said.
Fingerprints matching Kosowski’s were later found in that closet.
Investigators never found Cozzi’s body.
On the day Cozzi disappeared, Kosowski’s cellphone was allegedly tracked traveling toward his second home in Miami. He pulled off on a dirt road in South Florida near the Everglades where there’s a dumpster, court records show.
Records of his cellphone’s location show he returned to the dumpster two days later, the prosecution alleges. The team argues that Kosowski returned to the garbage collection container to see if it had been emptied.
Law enforcement later investigated the dumpster and a K-9 trained in human detection alerted on it, indicating the presence of human remains. But a body was not found.
Investigators tracked down the garbage truck driver who collected that dumpster on his route. He remembers that day.
"It was a smell that he had never experienced," a member of the prosecution team told the court.
"He described that smell as vile. He had to crush the trash back in his garbage truck so many times, because the stench was so overwhelming––and this is someone who is a garbage truck driver."
The day he drove that load, the garbage truck driver stopped at a store to buy air freshener because he "could not stand the scent that was in his nose while he was driving around," the prosecution said.
That smell was "Steven's body decaying in the Florida heat for two days."
Video captured by a camera mounted on the garbage truck captured the load from the dumpster tumbling into the truck. That footage shows "a lot of black industrial-sized garbage bags, similar to the ones that Dr. Kozowski had in the trunk of his car," a prosecution team member told the judge.
Video shown in court shows bags falling into the truck that are "consistent with a human body," the prosecution team said.
Law enforcement officers visited the landfill where the garbage truck dumped that load, but it was more than a week after it was deposited.
By that time, more than 6,000 tons of compacted garbage had been piled atop the load.
Still, in an attempt to recover the body of Cozzi, they sifted through the landfill for days, officers testified in court.
"His hearse was a dump truck, and his burial site… is at the Collier County Landfill," a prosecutor told the court.
The prosecution team has called dozens of witnesses to testify before Judge Joseph Bulone.
In July 2025, a written plea of not guilty was submitted by an attorney representing Kosowski at the time. In that plea, he requested a trial by jury.
More than a year later, on Aug. 31, Kosowski told the court he’d changed his mind and wanted a judge to decide his fate.
His trialbegan on Sept. 14.
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For the first three days of the trial, Kosowski sat mostly quiet, blandly staring at witnesses, taking notes and giving short answers to questions from the judge. On the fourth day, he began cross-examining some of the prosecution’s witnesses who had presented evidence.
He has objected to evidence obtained from his body, from his Toyota Corolla and from his residence, according to court records. His motions to suppress the evidence were denied.
On Sept. 18, the fifth day of his trial, he asked the judge to strike a key witness’s testimony about DNA evidence. He argued that the witness, a DNA expert, didn’t provide enough of his own interpretation of the numbers.
Bulone denied the motion, but said Kosowski could challenge the DNA findings in closing arguments.
Fox News Digital was not able to reach Kosowski for comment.
The trial is set to resume on Sept. 22.
WATCH: AI safety scare sparks Cap Hill fight over guardrails: 'China's going to eat our lunch'
Trump’s dismissal of AI danger warnings as a "hoax" is fueling a Capitol Hill debate over whether Congress can impose new safeguards without slowing U.S. development and handing China an advantage.
"I don't think President Trump really knows what he's talking about," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told Fox News Digital. "I do think we don't need to be just complete doomsdayers about it. "
"[Trump] says almost everything is a hoax that he doesn't agree with," Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said.
The comments come after three top leaders in AI called for the slowdown of AI development, insisting the rapid speed at which the technology is developing poses serious safety risks for humans. Some Anthropic researchers even went as far to say that the pace AI is moving at could wipe out humanity.
But Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., warned against allowing safeguards to impede American development.
"It's not unreasonable for us to expect to have some guardrails," Sheehy said. "I mean, it's gonna be the most world-changing technology of our era."
He continued, "We don't wanna slow it down cause if we slowdown, China will win," he added. "But we also need to make sure that it's being done safely."
Some Democratic lawmakers say the industry’s own warnings strengthen the case for congressional action, arguing that concerns raised by the companies developing AI should be difficult for Washington to ignore.
"The American people don't normally hear from the businesses themselves saying that, ‘you know, we got some concerns about our own products,’ right?" Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said. "So when that happens, I think people are paying attention."
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"What I would love to see is for my Republican colleagues to realize that when the CEOs of these organizations are saying we need some guardrails, that maybe it's time to step up and have Congress do its job," Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said.
The recent widespread panic has intensified an already active debate in Congress, prompting more bipartisan efforts by lawmakers to introduce legislation that enforces guardrails on AI, and control over how quickly it continues developing.
These calls for additional safeguards are colliding with the growing concern that slowing AI development in America could allow China to gain ground in the global technology race.
"China is the only one that benefits from the United States slowing down AI," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said. "They're the biggest beneficiary of it.
"If we stop now, China's going to eat our lunch," she said.
Mace, along with other Republican lawmakers, are warning that the intentions of AI companies calling for a slow down and government intervention also may be deceiving.
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"These AI companies are beneficiaries of [a slow down] too because the big three are cornering the market, and more regulations and slowing it down helps them monopolize the market," Mace said.
The debate is set to move beyond Capitol Hill next week, when Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summit where conversations are expected to be had regarding AI and safety risks.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who agreed a slow down is needed in AI development, is expected to be among the technology executives attending Trump's state dinner for Xi.
‘Not a slam dunk’: Trump’s 2028 mail-vote push hinges on one big legal question
President Donald Trump faces legal uncertainty over whether his administration can put new federal mail-ballot rules in place ahead of the 2028 presidential election, legal experts told Fox News Digital.
The president issued an executive order in March directing the Postal Service to pursue new rules for federal mail ballots, including standardized ballot envelopes with an Official Election Mail designation and unique machine-readable barcodes. Per the order, the Postal Service would be empowered to turn away ballots that failed to meet its new standards, or those belonging to individuals who don’t appear on state-submitted lists of eligible mail voters.
On Sept. 14, the Supreme Court declined to lift a preliminary injunction blocking the rules from being implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. Now, whether or not his changes can be implemented before the 2028 election looms large over Washington.
Experts who spoke to Fox News Digital argued that the ruling will hinge on how the Supreme Court parses competing claims to authority between the executive branch’s ability to regulate mail and the right of states to administer elections however they see fit.
"If the Court views this primarily as an attempt by the President to regulate federal elections, the Court is likely to invalidate it," Florida State University law professor Michael Morley told Fox News Digital. "The President has no constitutional authority over federal elections and Congress has not delegated him broad statutory authority over the field."
If the Supreme Court views the case through another lens, however, Morley says that could change things.
"In contrast, the Court may instead view the new rules primarily as administrative requirements for the post office to ensure efficient operations and protect the integrity of the [mail]," he said. "Viewed from this perspective, the rule would be viewed as a much more prosaic matter and likely be upheld. It would be remarkable for the Court to conclude the Postal Service lacks authority to regulate the process through which millions of parcels of important (i.e., election-related) mail are submitted for delivery."
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The Supreme Court ruled by a margin of 7-2 to uphold the injunction preventing Trump’s executive order from being implemented ahead of the midterms. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted to uphold the injunction, noting that, though the Post Office may have the authority to implement such a regulation, forcing its new rule to be implemented so close to an election likely runs afoul of federal law.
Some have attempted to use the ruling to predict how the court will ultimately rule on the merits of the Post Office’s ability to regulate election-related mail.
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"At least six justices seem to think that the administration will lose on the merits," Stephen Richer, a legal fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Fox News Digital. "The Constitution doesn't vest authority to regulate elections to the president and I think that they would say that this effectively dictates how elections can be run."
"The Constitution delegates brought authority to the Congress and to the states to administer elections. And having this requirement sure seems like an additional requirement for administering mail voting elections," Richer, who was formerly a Republican election official in Arizona, continued.
Others, however, see the court’s ruling as primarily a procedural consideration rather than a proper rebuke of the administration’s efforts to regulate mail voting.
"Justice Kavanaugh, whose vote decided this outcome, was explicit that he believes the Postal Service likely has the statutory authority to require verified voter lists and tamper-resistant envelopes for federal ballot mail," America First Policy Institute senior legal fellow Chad Mizelle told Fox News Digital.
"He concluded there simply wasn't enough time left before the midterms to implement the rule responsibly. That's a timing question, not a ruling on the underlying law," Mizelle, who recently served as the chief of staff at the Justice Department, added. "What's at issue here is pretty basic: verified voter lists and tamper-resistant envelopes for ballot mail. The kind of chain-of-custody standards most people would assume already exist for something as important as a ballot."
Regardless of what the Supreme Court’s decision ultimately means for the rule’s future, the president has characterized the injunction blocking its implementation in the 2026 elections as a major defeat.
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"Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’" the president wrote on Truth Social shortly after the court handed down its decision. "It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left ‘Dumocrats,’ on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to d."
There have been individual cases of election and mail-ballot fraud, but they do not show that widespread fraud is occurring across U.S. mail voting.
If the president is right about the impact of his mail voting rule, however, that leaves a big question mark on the board as Election Day approaches.
"It's an interesting issue. It's not a slam dunk," Ilya Shapiro, a former law professor and current senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital. "And it's not about whether mail voting is good or bad. It's about who gets to set the rule for it, whether it's the state, Congress, or federal agency acting under general postal statutes that are quite broad."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Friday.
GOP senator alleges Schumer behind 'hit job' report on former patients
A Republican senator running in a tightening race in ruby-red Kansas argued that an explosive report detailing allegations of hundreds of lawsuits against his former patients was a political "hit job" planted by top Democrats.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital that a report from The New York Times that detailed hundreds of lawsuits against patients of his former OB-GYN practice over missed medical bills, some of which ended in arrests, was a political attack planted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
"I think that Kansans look at a story like this and realize it's from something like the National Enquirer, that this is totally a hit job by left media, an article paid for by Chuck Schumer," Marshall said during an interview at the Republican National Committee midterm convention in Dallas.
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Marshall was one of the founding partners of the Great Bend Regional Hospital and had his own OB-GYN practice called the Heartland Regional OB-GYN before winning his first bid for Congress in 2016.
During that time, and even after he was in office, the report alleged that Marshall and his lawyers filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding medical bills and charged patients an 18% annual interest rate.
Of those, 81 patients were arrested for missing court dates, The New York Times reported, and the outlet interviewed some of those who were arrested.
"I would never want anyone to be arrested because of money that they owe myself or the hospital," Marshall said. "But we had standard policies. Once they went to collections, I was never asked another — had nothing else to do with the process. These were professional companies that did the collection processes."
Marshall noted that as one of the few doctors who accepted Medicaid in the area, many of his patients would travel from other cities to see him.
He said that typically it would be nine months to a year before a collection agency was considered, and when that became an option, they would turn to the "same collection agency that most every other doctor and hospital in the region did as well. They were all standard practices."
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"My golden rule with my office manager is, look, if a person's making a payment of $5 a month, that's fine," Marshall said. "As long as you're communicating, make an effort, if they miss one, just communicate with us."
"So only a very small, small, small fraction of the unpaid bills even went to collections," he continued. "But once it left our office’s hand, we had nothing to do with any further decisions."
The report comes as Marshall is running for a second term in the Senate. He’s facing Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee and a megachurch pastor who led the largest United Methodist congregation in the country.
Tyson Brody, a spokesperson for Hamilton’s campaign, told Fox News Digital, "Roger Marshall's own lawyer said Roger Marshall specifically requested an 18% interest rate, 50% higher than the statutory rate in Kansas."
"Roger Marshall's own lawyer said Roger Marshall allowed him to seek warrants, arrests, and garnishments of new and expecting mothers," Brody said. "One woman said she requested a payment plan but was pressed to pay in full and another reported she was arrested while struggling with payments."
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"Senator Marshall should explain why he sued a woman who claimed he was charging her for his own mistakes, and why he had patients jailed for as little as $115," he continued.
Though Kansas is favored to stay in the GOP's control, Vice President JD Vance, one of the Trump administration's most valuable surrogates on the campaign trail this cycle, stumped for Marshall last week. While Vance lauded Marshall as a valued ally to President Donald Trump and instrumental in implementing his agenda, he was interrupted by a protester who referred to The New York Times' report.
"Now, this guy, this guy, I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, here's what happened is he decided to come in and lie about my very dear friend Doc Marshall, because the reality is that Doc Marshall has stood up for everyday Americans every single day he's been in the United States Senate," Vance said.
But back in Dallas before the Vance event, Marshall maintained that his office’s practices were above board, and questioned The New York Times’ characterization of what happened.
"Look, I'm not even gonna give The New York Times the honor of me reading their article. But I just think that I trust our judges a lot more than what they're describing there," Marshall said. "Our judges wouldn't do what they're describing in that article. There had to be something else going on."
"So it's just amazing to me. Here, I'm the only OB-GYN in the middle of 60,000 people on call every night," he continued. "I didn't get a night off for 30 years darn near. And take so many people we gave pre-care to and there's so many bills that we just wrote off as well. So I just think this is very much a mischaracterization of the whole process."