Tyreek Hill must find a new team in the NFL after the Miami Dolphins released the five-time All-Pro wide receiver on Monday.

Hill promises whatever team signs him is going to get someone “turned up and locked in.”

Hill penned a lengthy Instagram caption on Monday following the Dolphins’ decision to let him go before the start of the 2026 season, as their new regime ushers in big changes already to the roster.

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Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill looks toward the field on the sideline before an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sept. 29, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, file)

Other than Hill, the Dolphins are expected to release defensive end Bradley Chubb, offensive lineman James Daniels and wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.

Hill, who will be 32 in March, was reminiscent in his post while looking forward to what the future holds.

“Every chapter in life has taught me something,” Hill wrote on Instagram. “This one taught me leadership, resilience, and mostly gratitude. The love I have for this game is unexplainable. And right now, this off season, for the first time ever, The Cheetah is all the way turned up and locked in. Focused.

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“The Cheetah don’t slow done. Ever. …So to everyone wondering what’s next…just wait on it. The Cheetah will be back…Born Again.”

Hill also thanked the Dolphins organization, his teammates, the coaching staff and the fans for their time supporting him through his four seasons in Miami.

“From the moment I landed in Miami, I felt the Love. You believed in me. You pushed me. You celebrated with me. These past few years have been some of the most meaningful of my life and my career,” he wrote.

“We built something special, together, for the city of Miami.”

Hill is recovering from a season-ending injury he suffered on Sept. 29 against the New York Jets, needing surgery to repair significant damage to his left knee, which included a torn ACL.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill (10) scores a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills in the fourth quarter at Highmark Stadium on Sept. 18, 2025. (Gregory Fisher/Imagn Images)

Thus, Hill’s time in Miami came to a close after a blockbuster trade with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2022 immediately returned dividends in terms of his offensive production. With quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Hill finding quick chemistry, the latter had 1,710 yards on 119 receptions with seven touchdowns in his first season with the team.

Hill followed that up by leading the NFL in receiving yards (1,799) and receiving touchdowns (13) in 2023 to earn his eighth straight Pro Bowl nod.

He was certainly living up to the four-year extension he got from the Dolphins, which was reportedly worth up to $120 million. At the time, he was made the highest-paid receiver in the NFL.

But, in 2026, Hill was set to be a whopping $51 million cap hit. So, it’s an easy decision for new GM Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley to move on, giving them more room to improve the roster elsewhere.

It wasn’t all good for Hill in Miami, though, as off-the-field drama caught headlines as well. He was also detained in an altercation with law enforcement outside Hard Rock Stadium before a game in 2024.

It got to the point this season, after his injury, that he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his football future.

“At the end of the day, I feel like that decision is based upon how I feel and where my mindset is at the moment,” he said on the podcast of Terron Armstead, Hill’s former Dolphins teammate. “I’m happy with the career that I’ve had. I love playing football. I love it, but it takes a lot. It takes a lot on you mentally, it takes a lot on you physically.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill leaves the field after losing to the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

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“I’m at the point now where I need to have a conversation with mom, family, everybody. Wherever my mind is at the time, the decision will be made, but I know right now, I haven’t had time to live in the moment.”

Hill has made his decision now, and he’ll be looking forward to a free agency process.

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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FIRST ON FOX: College roommates of Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., who is now 37-years-old, said they were “horrified” after the now-Democrat member of Congress up for reelection this year allegedly “serrated” a chicken’s head off with “a dull kitchen knife” while they lived together. 

The incident allegedly stemmed from the vulnerable Democratic congresswoman and her roommates engaging in the practice of “urban farming,” a practice that is quite popular in Portland, where they went to a small private school called Reed College. 

Gluesenkamp Perez’s former roommate and others connected to her from their time at Reed College, recounted the incident when they were all trying to research ways to humanely kill the chicken, but Glusenkamp Perez allegedly thought everyone was being “f—ing pu–ies,” so she “grabbed” the chicken and began “grinding [the chicken] down with a dull knife” leading the animal to begin “gasping for air with no lungs to suck it in.”  

“Then she held up the body as it spazzed out and blood went everywhere like some crazy Santeria voodoo ritual,” recalled her former roommate, Isaac Eger, while attending Reed, who also wrote about his house’s “epic fail” at urban farming back in 2014. 

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Eger, who hosts the podcast that brought together folks from Gluesenkamp Perez’s past for an episode a few weeks ago, refused to speak with Fox News Digital or provide any comments on, or to clarify events from, his time living with the Washington State congresswoman. He did imply to Fox News Digital that his podcast is a joke, and said that if he had to clarify any part of it, that would extinguish the comedic value.

“Marie bravely was like, ‘Ill dispatch of this chicken,'” Eger recounted on the podcast episode subscribers must pay to listen to titled “Absolutely Sweet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.”

“Dude, I will never forget, like, frantically YouTubing how to humanely kill a chicken and Marie was just like, ‘You f—ing pussies, like, you’re on YouTube?’ It was, like, you and I on a computer, like, trying to figure this out and she just grabbed it and started swinging it around,” added Sam. 

“That’s not at all what happened,” Eger interjected. “She didn’t just ‘chop it.’ She took a dull kitchen knife and tried to serrate[ly] cut … she was grinding this thing down with a dull knife and I remember you were horrified. It was really bad. And we saw, like, the chicken’s, like, decapitated head just, like, gasping for air with no lungs to suck it in, and then she held up the body as it spazzed out and blood went everywhere like some crazy Santeria voodoo ritual.”

While Sam contested the serrating, he affirmed the knife was quite dull and said “for sure” after Eger began to describe the scene of the chicken’s blood spurting everywhere.

“For sure, for sure. Everyone knows that you can run around like a chicken with your head cut off, but what that saying leaves out is what happens to the head without the body and it’s, like, also still completely functioning for a second,” Sam continued as Eger laughed.

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Eger went on to point out what he felt the incident symbolized, particularly as it related to his old college roommate’s time as an elected member of U.S. Congress.

He said that while part of him “respected” Gluesenkamp Perez “for her bravery” and her pro-activeness in killing the chicken, he also chided the inhumane nature in which she killed the chicken and said it represented the large amount of “hubris” the now-congresswoman had even as a college student at a small private liberal arts school.

Rep. Emily Randall, D-Wash., accepts the “The Chick” painting from Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash., left, as members of the Washington State delegation look on, in Longworth building on Friday, January 9, 2026. The painting goes to the newest member of the delegation every new Congress. Pictured in the background are, from left, Reps. Baumgartner, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., Kim Schrier, D-Wash., and Rick Larsen, D-Wash. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“I think Marie is a very proud and she’s an incredibly stubborn person who I think has unbelievable confidence in herself,” Eger said during the podcast episode, which was entirely focused around the congresswoman and their history with her in college. 

“I think [that] is what it takes to become a f—ing congressperson,” Eger said. 

“I think we are finding a thread here, yeah,” added Sam. “I think also, like, being like, ‘F–k the consequences. I’m just going to go, like, being head– being headstrong.’ And just, like, ‘I’m going to take care of this. Like, and this might be a really bad idea, but here I am. It’s already done. It’s already happening.” 

During the Jan. 29 podcast episode, Eger, Boguslaw, who also declined to speak to Fox News Digital, and Sam also recounted their time living with Gluesenkamp Perez and her bunny she brought with her at the time named “Meatball.” According to the crews of former Reed College students, Gluesenkamp Perez would breed Meatball and then eat its kids.

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“A friend of mine said that when he came back to the house once, she started a rabbit-eating cult,” Eger said during the podcast. He and Boguslaw recalled how “absent-minded” Gluesenkamp Perez was when it came to their “urban farming venture,” describing how they would often have to take care of her animals for her less they would perish.

“Did you go with her to breed her rabbit and we watched them, like, smash the rabbit against the wall?” Eger asked Sam during the podcast episode.

“Meatball? Hell yeah,” Sam responded.

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat from Washington, reads a document on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Eger also took shots at the congresswoman he used to room with, describing her as a carpetbagger and accusing her of “cosplaying as a poor person” during college and still today even though he believed she was likely having college paid for by her parents, arguing she could not have been eligible for financial aid.

“Her parents are wealthy. Because if you can afford – and she’s one of four kids – if you can afford to pay for a $40,000 a year college, so that doesn’t include like the other, like at least $10,000 dollars a year in living expenses, you’re wealthy,” Eger argued during his podcast. “That means she wouldn’t have qualified for financial aid. Now, what she says in order – this is part of her lore, she’s definitely cosplaying as a poor person.”

“Which never happened at Reed. As far as I’m concerned,” Boguslaw said back sarcastically with a laugh.

Eger also charged Gluesenkamp Perez with lying about being a fifth generation Washingtonian during his 2-hour-long podcast episode, alleging she is actually originally from Houston.

“She grew up in Houston, Texas. Her father was Mexican, born in Mexico, where her mother, who is from Washington, met him,” Eger said. “She brought him over the border, and then Marie’s kind of an anchor baby.”

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., walks up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gluesenkamp Perez is the member of Congress representing Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers the southwest portion of the state, including the Vancouver and Portland-area suburbs around Clark County. 

She was first elected to Congress in 2022 and then was reelected in 2024. Gluesenkamp Perez has significantly out-raised all of her competitors, with almost $2.5 million cash-on-hand, according to Ballotpedia. 

Her nearest competitor is Republican John Braun, a member of the Washington State Senate, who has a little over $700,000 cash-on-hand, per Ballotpedia. 

Gluesenkamp Perez, nor any of her representatives, responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on this story.   

Russia The situation of conflict and tension between India and Ukraine has been continuing for the last four years. At least three people were injured in a drone attack by Russia on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) night in Odessa city of Ukraine. ukraine Officials of the State Emergency Service of Russia have said that this Russian attack has caused damage to the city’s civil and energy infrastructure and has also caused fire at many places.

Fire fighters trying to control the fire

After the Russian drone attack, smoke was seen rising from damaged buildings in many areas of the city, while firefighters reached the spot and carried out relief and rescue operations to control the fire. Rescue workers were seen talking to the local people and ensuring their safety.

The head of the City Military Administration gave information

In this regard, Serhiy Lysak, head of the City Military Administration of Odessa, said that two of the injured have been admitted to the hospital, while the condition of one remains critical. At the same time, after the attack, fire has also been reported in the upper floors of a multi-storey residential building.

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Maryana Martynenko, spokeswoman for the State Emergency Service in the Odessa region of Ukraine, said, ‘Today, Tuesday night (February 17, 2026), Odessa was once again attacked by Russia with a strike drone. In this drone strike, there was a lot of damage to energy and civil infrastructure and fires broke out at many places.

He said that rescue teams were working at different places in the city. Meanwhile, fire was also reported in a private house and a tire warehouse. The fire that broke out in an area of ​​about 300 square meters has been brought under control. After the incident, damage is being assessed in many affected areas of Odessa and emergency services are working to normalize the situation.

The grieving parents of a 26-year-old man are speaking out against Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) laws, arguing the system failed to protect their “vulnerable” son from being euthanized, despite a history of mental illness.

Kiano Vafaeian was euthanized on Dec. 30, 2025, in British Columbia. His family says he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 4 and began struggling with mental health after a car accident at 17. 

His mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, said his depression was often seasonal, yet he became “obsessed” with MAID after losing vision in one eye in 2022.

“He kept on emphasizing about how he could get approved,” Marsilla told Fox News Digital. “We never thought there would be a chance that any doctor would approve a 22 or 23-year-old at that time for MAID because of diabetes or blindness.”

Kiano Vafaeian, 26, was approved for MAID and underwent physician-assisted suicide in December. (Margaret Marsilla)

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MAID was legalized in Canada in June 2016. The law allows patients with “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions to request a lethal drug that is either physician or self-administered, to end their lives.

In 2022, after a Toronto doctor initially approved Vafaeian’s request, the family launched a public pressure campaign on social media to voice their opposition. The outcry led the doctor to withdraw approval. While Vafaeian was initially angry, his family said he showed signs of improvement over the following year, even moving in with them in 2024.

“He tried his best when he was in one of those good highs of life,” Marsilla said. “Then winter, fall started coming around, he started changing and then everything that we had worked for from spring and summertime just disappeared… he would start talking about MAID again.”

The family said Vafaeian was rejected by multiple doctors in Ontario before he sought out Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a prominent MAID provider, in British Columbia. Marsilla believes Wiebe “coached” her son on what to say to meet the criteria for “Track 2” patients — those whose natural deaths are not reasonably imminent.

Canadian man stands accused of illegally aiding in assisted suicide. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

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“We believe that she was coaching him… on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for,” Marsilla said. “Because if he had spoken back in 2024, and he was a good candidate for approving MAID, she would have done it right away, but she didn’t.”

Vafaeian’s parents say they were not notified of the approval and only learned of his death days after it occurred. They noted his medical records did not substantiate the “severe peripheral neuropathy” listed on his death certificate as a qualifying factor.

“This whole process came to us as a shock,” said Joseph Caprara, Vafaeian’s stepfather.

In 2021, eligibility for MAID was expanded to include applicants with “grievous and irremediable conditions” whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. The family is now advocating for the repeal of this “Track 2” provision and the passage of Bill C-218, a legislative effort to restrict MAID for patients whose underlying issue is solely mental illness.

Disability campaigners from “Distant Voices and Not Dead” hold a demonstration outside Westminster Hall in central London, on April 29, 2024, protesting against proposals to legalize assisted suicide in the UK. (Getty Images)

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“Realistically, safeguards for patients would be reaching out to their family members, giving them a whole bunch of different treatment options,” Marsilla said. Instead, she claims the current system allows doctors to approve and euthanize patients within 90 days on Track 2. 

“How is that safe for patients?” she asked.

Marsilla has shared her son’s story on social media, describing the situation as “disgusting on every level.” 

On Facebook, she wrote, “No parent should ever have to bury their child because a system—and a doctor—chose death over care, help, or love.”

Kiano’s mother, Margaret Marsilla, has been speaking out against Canada’s MAID laws, asking for more guardrails, after her son was approved for physician-assisted suicide despite no terminal illness. (Margaret Marsilla)

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Caprara said their family hopes sharing their story will expose the risks these laws pose to the “vulnerable and disabled” and give states and other countries pause before implementing similar legislation.

“We don’t want to see any other family member suffer, or any country introduce a piece of legislation that kills their disabled or vulnerable without appropriate proper treatment plans that could save their lives,” he said.

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Dr. Wiebe said, “Like my colleagues, every patient I approve for Track 2 has unbearable suffering from a grievous and irremediable medical condition (not psychiatric) with an advanced state of decline in capability and consents to MAID fully informed about treatments to reduce the suffering.”

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an assisted suicide bill into law on Monday, making New York the 13th state, plus the District of Columbia, to legalize allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. The law will go into effect in six months.

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The biggest upset of T-20 World Cup 2026 has happened. 2021 champion Australia is out of the tournament. Now Zimbabwe became the second team from Group B after Sri Lanka to qualify for Super-8. The match between Zimbabwe and Ireland on Tuesday was canceled due to continuous rain, due to which the Kangaroos suffered a loss. Australia’s last hope also ended with one point being shared between Zimbabwe and Ireland.

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Nearly two years after the viral Olympic chocolate muffin craze, a new dessert is stealing the spotlight — and Olympians are even eating it for breakfast.

Social media is flooded with posts about a molten lava cake offered at the Milan Olympic Village, known locally as tortino al cioccolato, or tortino cuore fondente.

The dessert frenzy follows the 2024 Olympics in Paris, when Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen’s obsession with a gooey chocolate muffin earned him the “Muffin Man” nickname. 

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An Olympian named Courtney Sarault, a speed skater from Canada, posted her own video of this year’s lava cake — and it garnered over 3 million views.

“THIS is the Olympic Games content we have been waiting for!” one TikToker posted under Sarault’s video.

Speed skater Courtney Sarault helped fuel the Olympic Village lava cake craze after posting a video of the luscious dessert. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)

Another person joked, “I should have tried harder at sports.”

In the video posted by Sarault, another athlete looking on admitted, “I eat that every morning.”

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Natalie Spooner, a Canadian ice hockey player, gave the lava cake a 9.1 out of 10.

“This is what I’ve been waiting for,” the professional athlete said in a TikTok video. “It’s gooey. It’s chocolatey. The middle is delicious.”

“The muffin has a fluffier texture, whereas the lava cake is pleasantly dense.”

“When you scooped that piece, I just KNEW it was gonna be good,” one viewer wrote.

Another said, “Looks better than the Paris muffin.”

Natalie Spooner, seen at right, gave the Milan Olympic Village lava cake (not pictured) a 9.1 out of 10, praising its gooey, chocolatey center as athletes shared the dessert across social media. (iStock; Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to Sarault and Spooner for additional comment.

The viral dessert has the same appeal as the 2024 muffin, said Danielle Sepsy, a bakery owner in New York City.

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Sepsy, who helped popularize the Olympic muffin in 2024, said both treats “have a somewhat molten ganache center” — and they’re both “super rich” in chocolate.

“The muffin has a fluffier texture, whereas the lava cake is pleasantly dense,” she told Fox News Digital.

Bakery owner Danielle Sepsy of New York City said both the viral muffin and the lava cake feature a molten ganache center. (Danielle Sepsy/@chefdaniellesepsy)

She described the muffin as a “true viral sensation,” prompting her bakery to add it to the menu in 2024 — where it remains today.

For those wanting to try making lava cake, there’s plenty of room for creativity, Sepsy said.

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She suggested making a ganache from spreads ranging from peanut butter and Nutella to tahini. 

These spreads “mixed with a little powdered sugar and butter [create] a delicious and unique molten center,” she said.

A rich lava cake is following in the footsteps of the viral chocolate muffin that swept the 2024 Paris Olympics. Sepsy tried to replicate the lava cake. (Danielle Sepsy/@chefdaniellesepsy)

The appeal of the desserts, Sepsy said, isn’t just because they’re delicious — but because of the novelty of professional athletes enjoying treats.

“Any molten center will stop you in your tracks, but I think there is something really human and relatable about the world’s best athletes indulging in these calorie-dense treats,” she said.

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“They’re just like us — sort of.”