By EDWARD ACQUAH and MARK BANCHEREAU, Associated Press

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Nineteen West African nationals deported by the U.S. to Ghana have been moved to an unknown location, a lawyer for one of the deportees said.

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Ana Dionne-Lanier, who represents one of the nationals, told The Associated Press on Thursday the group arrived in Ghana on Nov. 5 and were put in a hotel. They are protected from deportation to their home countries due to the risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment, she said.

“We don’t know the location of any of them,” Dionne-Lanier said, adding that neither she nor her client’s family has been able to reach him.

She said part of the group was sent by bus to an unknown border location between last weekend and Monday, while a second group, which included her client, was moved “under heavy armed guard” from the hotel around Wednesday.

The Ghanaian government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program.

The Trump administration’s deportation program has faced widespread criticism from human rights experts, who cite international protections for asylum-seekers and question whether immigrants will be appropriately screened before being deported.

The administration has been seeking ways to deter immigrants from entering the U.S. illegally and remove those who already have done so, especially those accused of crimes and including those who cannot easily be deported to their home countries.

Faced with court decisions that migrants can’t be sent back to their home countries, the Trump administration has increasingly been trying to send them to third countries under agreements with those governments.

Last month, the Ghanaian rights group Democracy Hub filed a lawsuit against Ghana’s government, alleging that its agreement with Washington is unconstitutional because it wasn’t approved by the Ghanaian parliament and that it may violate conventions that forbid sending people to countries where they could face persecution.

In September, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in a federal court that it had no power to control how another country treats deportees. It said that Ghana had pledged to the U.S. it wouldn’t send the deportees back to their home countries.

Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal.

By WAFAA SHURAFA, Associated Press

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (AP) — Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

Forensic staff receives bodies of unidentified Palestinians returned from Israel at a facility in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The bodies were returned after Hamas late Thursday handed over the body of one of the last four remaining Israeli hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that launched the war in Gaza.

Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. His wife, Ayelet, was killed during the attack.

The armed wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said Godard’s body was recovered in southern Gaza.

The remains of 25 hostages have been returned to Israel since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Oct. 10. There are still three more in Gaza that need to be recovered and handed over. Hamas returned 20 living hostages to Israel on Oct. 13.

For each hostage returned, Israel has released the remains of 15 Palestinians, an exchange central to the ceasefire’s first phase. Overall, the number of bodies of Palestinians received so far is 330, of which only 95 have been formally identified, according to Gaza Health Ministry officials.

Also on Friday, the bodies of 27 unidentified Palestinians were interred in Deir al-Balah. Some 182 Palestinians whose identity wasn’t ascertained have already been buried, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Health officials in Gaza have said identifying the remains handed over by Israel is complicated by a lack of DNA testing kits.

The exchanges have gone ahead even as Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating other terms of the deal. Israel has accused Hamas of handing over partial remains in some instances and staging the discovery of bodies in others, while Hamas has accused Israel of opening fire at civilians and restricting the flow of humanitarian aid into the territory.

UN human rights chief says settler violence must end

The U.N.’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, on Friday joined a chorus of condemnation over a recent string of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, urging an end to the violence and for Israel to hold the perpetrators accountable.

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U.N. Human Rights Commissioner spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said Türk also called on Israel to end its “unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory,” immediately stop all new settlement activities and evacuate all settlers.

Al-Kheetan said more than 260 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians were recorded in October, more than in any month since 2006.

“We reiterate that the Israeli government’s assertion of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and its annexation of parts of it are in breach of international law, as the International Court of Justice has confirmed,” said Al-Kheetan.

Israeli settlers on Thursday torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank. That followed violence two days earlier during which dozens of masked Israeli settlers set fire to vehicles and other property in the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf.

The attacks on the two Palestinian villages prompted Israeli President Isaac Herzog to denounce them as “shocking and serious.” Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said the military “will not tolerate the phenomena of a minority of criminals who tarnish a law-abiding public.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that there’s concern that the events in the West Bank “could undermine what we’re doing in Gaza.”

Israeli officials have sought to cast settler violence as the work of a few extremists. But Palestinians and rights groups say that the violence is widespread and carried out by settlers across the territory, with impunity from Israel’s far-right government, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hasn’t commented on the surge in violence.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank said six teenagers — aged 15 to 17 — were shot and killed by Israeli fire in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. In the most recent incident Thursday, two 15 year-old boys where killed near the village of Beit Ummar.

The Israeli military said in three of the four incidents, its soldiers were responding to “terrorists” hurling either Molotov cocktails or explosives, or were in the process of carrying out a “terror attack.” In one incident, the military said troops acting according to “standard operating procedures” opened fire against Palestinians throwing rocks to “remove the threat.”

What’s next for Gaza

The next parts of the 20-point plan call for creating an international stabilization force, forming a technocratic Palestinian government and disarming Hamas.

The fragile agreement aims to wind down the war that was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.

Israel responded with a sweeping military offensive that has killed more than 69,100 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by independent experts.

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who turned the nation’s largest retailer into a tech-powered giant since taking over in 2014, will retire in January.

John Furner, a long time insider and head of Walmart’s U.S. operations, will take over, the company said Friday.

McMillon’s retirement is effective Jan. 31, 2026. Furner will start as CEO the next day.

During McMillon’s tenure as CEO, he invested heavily in its workers by increasing wages, expanding parental leave and launching a program for certificates or degrees for employees seeking education opportunities. Walmart has also lowered its prices and embraced technology like artificial intelligence to improve customer and worker experiences.

It’s almost become a rite of passage for an NFL quarterback.

Your film is going to get broken down by The QB School.

This comes courtesy of former NFL quarterback J.T. O’Sullivan. He spent nearly a decade in the NFL spending time with the New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.

The 46-year-old journeyman uses his knowledge to break down quarterbacks via his YouTube channel, which offers some basic analysis, and his Patreon channel, which offers more nuanced analysis.

The roller coaster quarterback J.J. McCarthy took the Vikings on in the 27-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens was the most recent topic of discussion. This marked the first time O’Sullivan went in depth on McCarthy via his Patreon channel.

Here are some of the highs and lows of what O’Sullivan witnessed:

The good

There was a decent amount of praise from O’Sullivan despite McCarthy only completing 20 of 42 pass attempts in the game. He lauded some of McCarthy’s play on the opening drive, for example, such as the strike to star receiver Justin Jefferson near the sideline, as well as the dime to receiver Jalen Nailor deep down the field.

As hard as O’Sullivan was across the 90 minutes of film, he also wasn’t afraid to commend McCarthy when he felt like he did a good job. He loved the scramble drill in the final minutes when McCarthy escaped pressure before finding Nailor to move the chains. He also loved the perfect throw that McCarthy unleashed to Nailor on what proved to be his only touchdown of the game.

“That’s pretty sweet,” O’Sullivan said. “That’s not open. That’s thrown open. That’s a pretty spectacular throw.”

The bad

There was a distinct part of the game when O’Sullivan felt McCarthy started to get sped up. It came after a completion to Nailor across the middle of the field.

Though it was a good throw in a vacuum, O’Sullivan lamented the fact that McCarthy didn’t stick with his initial read and target tight end T.J. Hockenson on a wheel route. He highlighted how McCarthy shouldn’t have worked to Nailor on the backside, because there was no guarantee it was going to be there.

“This drive is when things are starting to look fast to J.J.,” O’Sullivan said. “We’re skipping over things.”

It appears O’Sullivan is spot on, because head coach Kevin O’Connell mentioned earlier this week that McCarthy moved off Hockenson too quickly during his progression in the pocket.

“The miss there is rough,” O’Sullivan said. “It really is.”

The next time O’Sullivan was critical of McCarthy came on his interception to safety Malaki Starks. As much as he appreciated giving Jefferson a chance to make a play, O’Sullivan seemed to think there were better options in that moment than McCarthy simply throwing it up for grabs.

“You want to get him touches,” O’Sullivan said. “You’re going to force him the ball. You feel really good about getting 1 on 1. You don’t want to just blind chuck it either if it’s not the look that we’re looking for.”

It’s also worth noting that O’Sullivan was extremely hard on Jefferson for his effort throughout the game. He didn’t like how Jefferson lightly jogged in pursuit following an interception by cornerback Marlon Humphrey. He also didn’t like how Jefferson appeared to pull up on a few routes as his frustration manifested on the field.

The ugly

There was common theme that O’Sullivan harped on down the stretch as McCarthy’s mechanics slowly started to devolve.

“I guess I’d classify it as inconsistent footwork,” O’Sullivan said. “That’s the nicest way to do it.”

On a pretty good throw to Jefferson near the goal line that probably should’ve been caught, O’Sullivan noted McCarthy almost looks like he’s clicking his heels as he climbs up too far in the pocket.

“We’re not playing quarterback in a phone booth here,” O’Sullivan said. “We’re moving to problems and we’re going to hit our hand on somebody’s head because we can’t control our feet.”

The worsening of his fundamentals led to McCarthy airmailing Jefferson on what should’ve been a rather routine throw to the sideline.  It could’ve gone for a big gain as there was nobody within 10 yards of Jefferson thanks to the play design.

“You can’t miss that throw,” O’Sullivan said. “That’s brutal.”

There was a point that O’Sullivan referred to McCarthy’s struggles as “a floating dumpster fire” while continuing to buzz through the film.

“I cannot with this footwork,” O’Sullivan said. “These things are certainly fixable. These are not things that get fixed, though, from a game on Sunday to a game on Sunday. These are offseason things.”

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