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AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Earlier in this turbulent week for the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel joked that enough people had seen him cry. The Dolphins coach was referring to a news conference in which he choked back tears while reflecting on a controversial traffic stop involving Tyreek Hill hours before Miami’s

AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon, all rolled into one. The spectacle will be visible in clear skies across North America and South America Tuesday night and in Africa and Europe Wednesday morning. A partial lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the sun

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders produced no visible shift in their policy. Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said Saturday that permission to strike deep into Russia will speed up the resolution of the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney is a career Republican still vilified by Democrats for his bullish defense of the Iraq War as vice president. But his partisan loyalties were cast aside in extraordinary fashion last week when he endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris for the White House. Alberto Gonzales’ service in George W. Bush’s

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. historian and author Timothy Snyder has led a charity run in Kyiv to raise awareness of the conditions under which Ukrainian prisoners of war are held in Russia as the conflict approaches a third winter. The race came following a recent escalation in Russian missile and drone attacks.

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband and raped by dozens of men while unconscious is becoming a symbol of the nation’s fight against sexual violence. Several hundred people gathered at Place de la Republique in Paris on Saturday in support of the 71-year-old Gisèle Pélicot

Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s first hobby horsing championship has got underway in Frankfurt this weekend with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses. Roughly 300 riders, mostly youngsters, will canter around a gymnasium Saturday and Sunday, watched by 1,500 spectators. The competition

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The EU’s naval mission published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion. It came under attack

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Emergency authorities say four people in eastern Romania have been found dead after torrential storms dumped unprecedented rain, leaving hundreds stranded in flooded areas. Rescue services scrambled to save hundreds of people in the hard-hit eastern counties of Galati and Vaslui. The storms battered 19 localities in eight counties

Associated Press MORONI, Comoros (AP) — Authorities say the president of the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros has been “slightly injured” in a knife attack while attending the funeral of a religious leader. They say the suspect, who was identified as a 24-year-old male soldier, was found dead in a police cell on Saturday,

Associated Press BUKWO, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei. The Olympic athlete was honored Saturday with a military funeral. She died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire. Military officers played a prominent role in the funeral as Cheptegei held the

Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi,

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Iran described the launch Saturday as a success, making it the second such launch to put a satellite into orbit with that particular rocket. Independent scientists later confirmed the launch and

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Storm Ileana has weakened to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. The tropical storm formed Thursday off Mexico’s Pacific coast as it moved ashore, making landfall on the coast of the Mexican state of Sinaloa Saturday, a day after it pounded the resort-studded Los Cabos. On Sunday, wind

In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite

Associated Press MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his