Pro Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher recently spoke against transgender athletes in sports and reiterated his stance Wednesday.Earlier this month, Urlacher appeared on the "Global View" podcast and wondered why it is even a debate. On Wednesday's edition of "America Reports," he said it is "common sense.""Athletically, it's just not fair. You know, men are meant to play with men," Urlacher said. "That's why there's the NBA and the WNBA or LPGA and PGA Tour. They're different. I just don't understand how people think it's OK for a male to participate in a woman's sport."There are just so many biological differences. You have the guy that was swimming with the women there from Penn a couple years ago with Riley Gaines and some of her teammates, and you saw how he was with the men compared to with the women. It's just not fair. It's pretty obvious to most people."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMUrlacher also questioned why other girls and women are not speaking out but pointed out that doing so has hurt them."You see these girls stand up, and it's really hurting themselves when they stand up because they're not competing because they don't want to compete against a man. So, they're stepping down from their competitions," he added."And it's kind of funny coming from people who push women's rights, and they want to fight for women's rights, but they don't wanna fight for women's rights in sports. They want men to come in there and dominate the sports against the women. It's just, it's not fair. It's common sense. I think we've seen President Trump talk about it since he's been elected. It's pretty much common sense just to not have men in women's sports.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS OWNER JIM IRSAY DEAD AT 65"It's just not fair. You know, I saw a track athlete in South Carolina a couple of years ago doing the same thing, just winning every event. There's biological differences. Men should not be competing against women. It's not fair. It's dangerous. You saw the volleyball player, the man spiking the ball, hitting the woman in the face."It's not fair and it can be really dangerous. It's funny what Aaron [Rodgers] said. You don't see women try competing against men in our sports. You don't see them trying to play football. You don't see them try and do things that they wouldn't be as good at or could get hurt at."Illinois, where Urlacher spent his NFL career, has become a hotbed of controversy over the issue of trans athlete inclusion in recent days after a biological male competed in a seventh-grade track meet against biological females at the Naper Prairie Conference Meet.Several other states have defied President Donald Trump's executive order on the issue, resulting in Maine temporarily losing federal funding.Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X,and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

House Republicans passed President Donald Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" on Thursday morning, working through overnight committee meetings, last-minute huddles in the speaker's office and even a last-minute assist from the president.But while House GOP leadership preached party unity as they passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act by just one vote, two House Republican holdouts were unwavering in their concerns about the $36 trillion national debt crisis and ultimately voted "no."Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, took their concerns to social media on Thursday, telling their constituents exactly why they bucked the Republican Party on Trump's key legislative agenda."While I love many things in the bill, promising someone else will cut spending in the future does not cut spending. Deficits do matter and this bill grows them now. The only Congress we can control is the one were in. Consequently, I cannot support this big deficit plan. NO," Davidson said early this morning before the vote was final.MIKE JOHNSON, DONALD TRUMP GET BIG, 'BEAUTIFUL WIN AS BUDGET PASSES HOUSEMassie responded soon after, telling Davidson he agreed and "if we were serious, wed be cutting spending now, instead of promising to cut spending years from now."HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP TAKES VICTORY LAP AFTER PASSING TRUMP'S 'ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL'"Id love to stand here and tell the American people, We can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything is going to be just fine. But I cant do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near-term, but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before?" Massie said on the House floor.The Kentucky congressman, who regularly sports a national debt clock pin, presented a bleak reality for Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Thursday as most Republican holdouts rallied behind the final manager's amendment. "This bill is a debt bomb ticking," Massie said.When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Massie and Davidson voting against the bill, she said the president believes they should be primaried."I don't think he likes to see grandstanders in Congress. What's the alternative? I would ask those members of Congress. Did they want to see a tax hike? Did they want to see our country go bankrupt? That's the alternative by them trying to vote no. The president believes the Republican Party needs to be unified," Leavitt said.GOP HOLDOUTS UNMOVED BY TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL' TRIP TO CAPITOL HILLMassie, who has been campaigning on Trump calling him a grandstander, even fundraised on Leavitt's comments, writing on X, "The big beautiful bill has issues. I chose to vote against it because its going to blow up our debt. For voting on principle, I now have the President AND his press Secretary campaigning against me from the White House podium. Can you help me by donating?"Former Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who served as Chair of the House Freedom Caucus, has spoken out against the country's debt crisis amid House negotiations, piled on the national debt criticism on Thursday, writing, "The Big Ugly Truth is that the Big Ugly Bill will push the Big Ugly Debt over $60 trillion."Good found himself out of the job when he lost the Republican primary to now-Rep. John McGuire of Virginia last year.He was one of just a handful of House Republicans who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries, and then Trump threw his political might behind McGuire.The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a multi-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.While the bill seeks to make a dent in the national debt crisis by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending, the United States still has over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year 2025, according to the Treasury Department."I think the most essential truth in American politics is that nobody actually really cares about the national debt or deficit. Its too abstract to saturate public sentiment," Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus said after the bill passed.Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades.According to the space agency,scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located in Southern California, have reactivated a set of thrusters on the spacecraft.The roll thrusters have not worked since 2004 and are long believed to have been out of commission.These thrusters are important because Voyager's main thrusters appear to have some residue forming that could cause them to clog. Scientists estimate those thrusters could fail as early as Fall 2025.NASA ASTRONAUT REVEALS THEY NEARLY FAILED TO DOCK BOEING STARLINER TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONThe antenna on Earth responsible for sending commands to both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will be offline for several months.Deep Space Station 43, a 230-foot-wide antenna in Australia, will be offline until February 2026 due to needed upgrades.While that antenna is being upgraded, the team at NASA will not be able to communicate with the twin space probes.NASA FINALIZES STRATEGY FOR HUMAN PRESENCE IN SPACESuzanne Dodd, Voyager project manager and director of the Interplanetary Network at JPL, said these upgrades are important for future Moon missions."These antenna upgrades are important for future crewed lunar landings, and they also increase communications capacity for our science missions in deep space, some of which are building on the discoveries Voyager made," Dodd said in a press release.Each Voyager has a set of primary thrusters that control movement in all directions as well as smaller thrusters for what is called roll control.Using the smaller thrusters allows the Voyagers antenna to stay aligned with Earth, so the scientists can communicate with it.While there is a third set of thrusters, which were brought back online in 2018 and 2019, Voyager does not have the capability to perform the roll adjustments needed to keep a connection with Earth.If Earth happened to lose connection with Voyager 1, it would be nearly impossible to restore communication.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPVoyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has traveled nearly 15 billion miles away and is currently exploring interstellar space, which is beyond our Solar System.Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled farther than any other human-made objects. Voyager 1's notable discoveries include finding a thin ring around Jupiter, along with 2 moons orbiting the Solar System's largest planet that had not been seen before. It also discovered five moons orbiting Saturn, along with a previously unknown ring around the gas giant.

A former aide to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass who served as the deputy mayor of public safety has agreed to plead guilty to threatening to bomb City Hall last year, the Justice Department said Thursday.Brian Williams, 61, of Pasadena, agreed to plead guilty to a single-count of "information with threats regarding fire and explosives",whichcarries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. "In an era of heated political rhetoric that has sometimes escalated into violence, we cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats," said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. "My office will continue its efforts to keep the public safe, including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law."LA COUNTY DA NATHAN HOCHMAN PROMISES CRACKDOWN ON CRIMINALS: THE FUN IS OVERThe threat was carried out on Oct. 3, 2024 during a virtual meeting with Williams and others related to his duties, federal prosecutors said. During the call, Williams used the Google Voice application on his personal cellphone to place a call to his city-issued cellphone.He then left the meeting and called the chief of staff of the Los Angeles Police Department, in which he falsely stated that he had just received a call on his city-issued cellphone from an unknown man who threatened to bomb Los Angeles City Hall.Ten minutes after the call, Williams texted Bass and several high-ranking city officials in the mayors office and falsely reported, "Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda. I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat."Investigators determined that Williams never received a call and had made the bomb threat himself. Federal prosecutors noted that Williams never intended to carry out the threat.MENENDEZ BROTHERS' RESENTENCING MOVES FORWARD AS DA CALLS OUT 'DECEIT, 'NARCISSISTIC TENDENCIES' IN PRISONThe LAPD responded to City Hall to search for any suspicious devices. None were found, prosecutors said.Williams described the threatening call he claimed to have received to police and showed them the record of an incoming call that appeared as a blocked number on his city-issued cellphone.That incoming call record was the call Williams had placed to himself from the Google Voice application on his personal cellphone,investigators determined.Williams then texted Bass and other city officials."At this time, there is no need for us to evacuate the building, Im meeting with the threat management officers within the next 10 minutes," he allegedly wrote. "In light of the Jewish holidays, we are taking this thread a little more seriously. I will keep you posted.""Mr. Williams, the former deputy mayor of Public Safety for Los Angeles, not only betrayed the residents of Los Angeles, but responding officers, and the integrity of the office itself, by fabricating a bomb threat," said Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBIs Los Angeles field office. "Government officials are held to a heightened standard as we rely on them to safeguard the city. Im relieved that Mr. Williams has taken responsibility for his inexplicable actions."Williams is expected to appear in court in the coming weeks, prosecutors said.Fox News Digital has reached out to Bass' office.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher recently spoke against transgender athletes in sports and reiterated his stance Wednesday.Earlier this month, Urlacher appeared on the "Global View" podcast and wondered why it is even a debate. On Wednesday's edition of "America Reports," he said it is "common sense.""Athletically, it's just not fair. You know, men are meant to play with men," Urlacher said. "That's why there's the NBA and the WNBA or LPGA and PGA Tour. They're different. I just don't understand how people think it's OK for a male to participate in a woman's sport."There are just so many biological differences. You have the guy that was swimming with the women there from Penn a couple years ago with Riley Gaines and some of her teammates, and you saw how he was with the men compared to with the women. It's just not fair. It's pretty obvious to most people."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMUrlacher also questioned why other girls and women are not speaking out but pointed out that doing so has hurt them."You see these girls stand up, and it's really hurting themselves when they stand up because they're not competing because they don't want to compete against a man. So, they're stepping down from their competitions," he added."And it's kind of funny coming from people who push women's rights, and they want to fight for women's rights, but they don't wanna fight for women's rights in sports. They want men to come in there and dominate the sports against the women. It's just, it's not fair. It's common sense. I think we've seen President Trump talk about it since he's been elected. It's pretty much common sense just to not have men in women's sports.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS OWNER JIM IRSAY DEAD AT 65"It's just not fair. You know, I saw a track athlete in South Carolina a couple of years ago doing the same thing, just winning every event. There's biological differences. Men should not be competing against women. It's not fair. It's dangerous. You saw the volleyball player, the man spiking the ball, hitting the woman in the face."It's not fair and it can be really dangerous. It's funny what Aaron [Rodgers] said. You don't see women try competing against men in our sports. You don't see them trying to play football. You don't see them try and do things that they wouldn't be as good at or could get hurt at."Illinois, where Urlacher spent his NFL career, has become a hotbed of controversy over the issue of trans athlete inclusion in recent days after a biological male competed in a seventh-grade track meet against biological females at the Naper Prairie Conference Meet.Several other states have defied President Donald Trump's executive order on the issue, resulting in Maine temporarily losing federal funding.Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X,and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

House Republicans passed President Donald Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" on Thursday morning, working through overnight committee meetings, last-minute huddles in the speaker's office and even a last-minute assist from the president.But while House GOP leadership preached party unity as they passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act by just one vote, two House Republican holdouts were unwavering in their concerns about the $36 trillion national debt crisis and ultimately voted "no."Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, took their concerns to social media on Thursday, telling their constituents exactly why they bucked the Republican Party on Trump's key legislative agenda."While I love many things in the bill, promising someone else will cut spending in the future does not cut spending. Deficits do matter and this bill grows them now. The only Congress we can control is the one were in. Consequently, I cannot support this big deficit plan. NO," Davidson said early this morning before the vote was final.MIKE JOHNSON, DONALD TRUMP GET BIG, 'BEAUTIFUL WIN AS BUDGET PASSES HOUSEMassie responded soon after, telling Davidson he agreed and "if we were serious, wed be cutting spending now, instead of promising to cut spending years from now."HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP TAKES VICTORY LAP AFTER PASSING TRUMP'S 'ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL'"Id love to stand here and tell the American people, We can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything is going to be just fine. But I cant do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near-term, but promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before?" Massie said on the House floor.The Kentucky congressman, who regularly sports a national debt clock pin, presented a bleak reality for Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on Thursday as most Republican holdouts rallied behind the final manager's amendment. "This bill is a debt bomb ticking," Massie said.When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Massie and Davidson voting against the bill, she said the president believes they should be primaried."I don't think he likes to see grandstanders in Congress. What's the alternative? I would ask those members of Congress. Did they want to see a tax hike? Did they want to see our country go bankrupt? That's the alternative by them trying to vote no. The president believes the Republican Party needs to be unified," Leavitt said.GOP HOLDOUTS UNMOVED BY TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL' TRIP TO CAPITOL HILLMassie, who has been campaigning on Trump calling him a grandstander, even fundraised on Leavitt's comments, writing on X, "The big beautiful bill has issues. I chose to vote against it because its going to blow up our debt. For voting on principle, I now have the President AND his press Secretary campaigning against me from the White House podium. Can you help me by donating?"Former Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who served as Chair of the House Freedom Caucus, has spoken out against the country's debt crisis amid House negotiations, piled on the national debt criticism on Thursday, writing, "The Big Ugly Truth is that the Big Ugly Bill will push the Big Ugly Debt over $60 trillion."Good found himself out of the job when he lost the Republican primary to now-Rep. John McGuire of Virginia last year.He was one of just a handful of House Republicans who endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 GOP presidential primaries, and then Trump threw his political might behind McGuire.The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a multi-trillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.While the bill seeks to make a dent in the national debt crisis by cutting roughly $1.5 trillion in government spending, the United States still has over $36 trillion in debt and has spent $1.05 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year 2025, according to the Treasury Department."I think the most essential truth in American politics is that nobody actually really cares about the national debt or deficit. Its too abstract to saturate public sentiment," Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus said after the bill passed.Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager recently entered a plea in relation to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.Cedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains on Wednesday before Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.The maximum penalty under federal law is 10 years in prison, a term of supervised release following imprisonment and a fine.A sentence following a finding of guilt is imposed by the judge after "consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the federal sentencing guidelines," according to the release.CT POLICE QUASH NEW ENGLAND SERIAL KILLER RUMORS, ARREST MAN AFTER WOMAN FOUND DISMEMBERED IN SUITCASEOfficials said Lodge admitted that from 2018 through at least March 2020 he participated in the sale and interstate transport of human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Massachusetts.Lodge, then-manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, removed human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads and other parts from donated cadavers after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, but before they could be disposed of according to the anatomical gift donation agreement between the donor and the school, according to the release.He took the remains to his home in New Hampshire without the permission or knowledge of his employer, the donors or donors' families.AUSTIN MORTUARY EMPLOYEE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY EXPERIMENTING ON CORPSESAfter he and his wife sold the remains, they would ship the remains to the buyers in other states or the buyer would take possession directly and transport the remains themselves, according to the release.Remains stolen and sold by Lodge for a profit were sent to locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania."Cedric Lodges criminal actions were morally reprehensible and a disgraceful betrayal of the individuals who altruistically chose to will their bodies to Harvard Medical Schools Anatomical Gift Program to advance medical education and research," Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.MISSISSIPPI MORTICIAN ALLEGEDLY STASHED BODIES INSIDE STORAGE UNIT AFTER LOSING LICENSE, BUSINESS: OFFICIALS"While Lodge has agreed to plead guilty and taken responsibility for his crimes, this likely provides little consolation to the families impacted," Daley added. "We continue to express our deep compassion to all those affected."Several defendants charged in related cases pleaded guilty, receiving sentences of about a year in prison.Denise Lodge and Joshua Taylor are still awaiting sentencing.The case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the East Pennsboro Township Police Department in Pennsylvania.Harvard University did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happeningThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned.It's a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders."This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country."READ MOREGRADING TRUMP: Trump's 2nd-term approval ratings dip despite border security gainsYOU'RE NOT FIRED: Federal judge blocks Trump admin moves to dismantle Dept of EducationWHITE HOUSE WHITEWASH: New book exposes how top Biden comms staffer was 'tip of the spear' covering up Biden's cognitive declineWORLD CLASS: First lady embarks on 'new frontier' in publishing with audiobook of memoirFOREIGN TAKEOVER: New law would stop foreign adversaries from 'buying up our country' while Americans can't afford homesHERE TO HELP: Red Cross fighting to reach hostages, alleviate 'catastrophic' situation in Gaza'CHEATED' AMERICA: Republicans look to stop China's 'backdoor' tariff-dodging scheme'A PRICE TO PAY': Democrats predict passing Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will cost many Republicans their seatsBIG BILL, BIGGER DRAMA: Winners, losers, and grab-bags from House GOPs narrow passage of Big, Beautiful Bill'I'M GOING TO GO': Ilhan Omar refuses to answer reporter questions on fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy workersNANCY VS NANCY: Mace sounds off on stock trading in Congress, Pelosi remains silent: Something doesnt add upBORDER BOLSTER: Bipartisan Senate bill targets border human, drug trafficking with innovative technology'EVIL OF ANTISEMITISM': White House decries 'evil of antisemitism,' vows justice after fatal shooting of Israeli embassy staffersNEW TACTIC: ICE begins new, nationwide effort to arrest illegal aliens at immigration hearingsSICKEST GENERATION: RFK Jr.'s highly-anticipated MAHA report paints dismal state of child health, national security concernsSPLIT DECISION: Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma decision, in blow to religious charter schools'DID THIS FOR GAZA': Who is the suspect in the killing of 2 Israeli embassy staffers?HISTORY OF TERROR: Gunman kills Israeli embassy couple in Washington, following decades of embassy-targeted attacksTERROR AT HOME: Antisemitic shooting of Israeli diplomats adds to alarming rise in domestic terrorismENFORCEMENT FIRST: This state just became the latest in the country to ban sanctuary citiesGet the latest updates on the Trump administration and Congress, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.

The Orleans Parish district attorney torched the county's sheriff for failing to order a crime scene investigation after 10 inmates escaped from the New Orleans prison on Friday.District Attorney Jason Williams said in a Thursday afternoon press conference that he learned from New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick that Sheriff Susan Hutson never requested a formal crime scene investigation from the jail cell the 10 inmates used to escape."Time is also of the essence when trying to get good DNA samples or collect fingerprints to make sure those areas are not molested or destroyed in any way," he told the media. "So I am deeply concerned that there was not an immediate request by the sheriff to our local crime lab to get in there and examine, document, preserve and collect all of the forensic evidence that was available there so that we could already have it tested."He has also demanded that the sheriff's office preserve and turn over all surveillance footage from the jail from April 1 until Wednesday, as well as any other pertinent investigatory materials.It has been nearly a week since 10 inmates, some wanted for violent crimes like murder, brazenly escaped from their cell and over the jail's fence into the New Orleans community. They taunted authorities on the way out with written messages on the cell wall, including one that read, "To easy LOL."Five of those inmates, including Derrick Groves, who is a convicted killer of four people, are still on the loose.AUNT URGES CONVICTED MURDERER TO SURRENDER AS ORLEANS PARISH JAIL MANHUNT CONTINUESWilliams even suggested that members of the sheriff's department could be under investigation in the escape."We've also asked, we've sent letters out to the sheriff asking that she and all members of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office and any maintenance workers or crew members submit to voluntary samples of DNA, and provide fingerprints so that they can be included or excluded from this investigation," he said.He also said that if the sheriff's office, which runs the jail, had followed protocol, it is likely that all 10 fugitives would have been captured by now."Time is of the essence in terms of catching escaped fugitives," Williams said. "If they escape at 12:30 [a.m.], immediately upon awareness of that, we need to make sure that the public is notified, the media is notified, because if that had happened, in all likelihood, all 10 of these individuals would be in custody by now."Since a proper inquiry was never made, members of the NOPD crime lab and Williams himself on Thursday scoured the jail cell, the hole behind the removed toilet and the corridor through which the inmates escaped, in an attempt to collect evidence.LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL EXPECTS MORE ARRESTS IN NEW ORLEANS JAIL ESCAPE INVESTIGATIONHe described his Thursday visit to the crime scene as "very unusual.""But we have to make sure that we are focusing on this crime scene, the destruction of those bars, of that toilet, who could have assisted these individuals in getting out, whether they were in a uniform or not in a uniform," said Williams. "And obviously fingerprints, DNA, these pieces of evidence tell a story. And that's the type of evidence that a jury is going to be looking for when it's time to hold somebody accountable. And we need to make sure we're holding the right people accountable."Hutson earlier this week suspended her campaign for re-election as sheriff, saying her priority was to focus solely on catching the fugitives.One person from inside the jail has already been charged with aiding the inmates in the escape.Sterling Williams, 33, who was an employee of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office for allegedly turning off the water in the cell from which the escapees fled. He is being held on $1.1 million bond, $100,000 per count, in the Plaquemines Parish Jail.LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BLASTS 'PROGRESSIVE PROMISES' AFTER NEW ORLEANS JAIL ESCAPEOn Wednesday, the Louisiana State Police (LSP) announced that two more people were arrested for aiding the inmates after they escaped.Cortnie Harris, 32, of New Orleans and 38-year-old Corvanntay Baptiste of Slidell were arrested for assisting the fugitives. They are also being held at the Plaquemines County Jail.On Thursday afternoon, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced on X that Harris' bond was set at $2.5 million and Baptiste's at $1 million."You will be arrested and prosecuted if you assist these escapees in any way," she warned in the post.Sources close to the investigation told Fox News that Baptiste was Corey Boyd's girlfriend. She allegedly did not cooperate with the police and said she did not participate in the escape. Boyd was captured by LSP on Tuesday night.Harris, who is Leo Tate's girlfriend, allegedly admitted to her role in aiding the escapees, and gave a confession, according to the sources. Tate is still on the run.Boyd, 19, who was facing charges of second-degree murder before the escape, was the latest inmate captured. He was taken into custody on Tuesday night.

The College Football Playoff is reportedly undergoing a slight makeover.The playoff made a major change from four to 12 teams last season, which brought with it some flaws.Last season, the four highest-ranked conference champions had automatic byes and received the top four seeds. This year, the playoff bracket will be filled with straight seeding, with five spots still reserved for conference champions, according to ESPN.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"After evaluating the first year of the 12-team playoff, the CFP management committee felt it was in the best interest of the game to make this adjustment," CFP Executive Director Rich Clark said in a statement. "This change will continue to allow guaranteed access to the playoff by rewarding teams for winning their conference championship, but it will also allow us to construct a postseason bracket that recognizes the best performance on the field during the entire regular season."If the new format were put in last year, Oregon, Georgia, Texas and Penn State would all have had bye weeks. Instead, Texas and Penn State both had to play in the first round and won convincingly. The Longhorns beat No. 12 Clemson (15th in the country), 38-24, and then defeated No. 4-seeded Arizona State, which had a bye as the Big 12 winner but was ranked 11th in the country, in double-overtime.AUBURN'S BRUCE PEARL MOURNS LOSS OF 2 ISRAELI EMBASSY STAFFERS FOLLOWING KILLINGS AFTER JEWISH MUSEUM EVENTASU would have played Ohio State in a matchup of the No. 11 and No. 6 seeds, while Boise State would have gone against Indiana in a battle between the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds if straight seeding was used last season.Instead, Boise State, the Mountain West winner, had a bye in the quarterfinals as the No. 3 seed but was routed in the Fiesta Bowl by Penn State, a No. 6 seed, despite being ranked third in the country. The Nittany Lions defeated No. 11 SMU, 38-10, in the first round.All four conference champions lost in the quarterfinals.No. 8 Ohio State wrecked every team in its path en route to a national title despite playing in the first round. However, the Buckeyes didn't do themselves many favors with their seeding. They lost at home to Michigan to end the regular season. But they were ranked No. 6 by the committee despite their No. 8 seed.This rule change now makes Notre Dame, an independent team that does not have a conference affiliation, eligible for a bye week.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X,and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.