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Moscow said on Thursday that its forces had “finished fulfilling their tasks” and “demonstrated that Russia is not blocking the UN’s efforts to organise a humanitarian corridor to export agricultural goods from Ukraine.” Kyiv pushed back against Russia’s statement, saying that it drove Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops from the island with military force in an overnight assault. Ukraine’s armed forces released a video showing an offensive on the island, which made headlines in the early days of the war when Ukrainians stationed there told a Russian cruiser: “Russian warship, go f**k yourself!...

A FiveThirtyEight forecast projects that Sanders will rack up 540 delegates once the final haul from Tuesday’s vote is tallied, 145 more delegates than are projected to go to the anticipated second-place finisher, former Vice President Joe Biden. However, the combination of other candidates remaining in the race could amplify a spoiler effect, forcing the most likely candidates for the nomination to share votes with almost-certain losers and further divide the party ahead of its July national convention in Milwaukee....

That’s one of the secondary questions after the NFL reached an agreement with its players Sunday that extended the collective bargaining agreement through 2030. Several single-season records that are a treasured part of the 16-game format might be challenged when the league moves to 17 games. Others might be safe no matter what. Will that diminish the NFL record book? MORE: NFL’s highest-paid QBs in salary, guaranteed money, contract value...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted a tete-a-tete with Vladimir Putin is the only way to end hostilities that began on February 24, but his passionate plea contrasts with the dry Kremlin position of last week that such a meeting was “conceptually possible.” The mood music from Kyiv and Moscow officials this week has been more positive, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying on Wednesday the sides were “close to an agreement,” while Zelensky said Russia’s demands were “more realistic....

That might be a good thing after a 30-24 win over Troy. At Clemson, no less. A week after escaping Auburn with a 19-13 victory, Clemson struggled against Troy in a game that stayed unexpectedly close deep into the second half. Ray-Ray McCloud’s premature celebration on a punt return, a mistake that prevented a touchdown, painted a picture for those struggles. MORE: Week 2’s hot football images | Clemson-Troy box score...

Is this presidential campaign such a circumstance? One experiment in the artificial setting of a lab might not be very persuasive on the question of whether racism is eradicable, especially when pitted against real-world evidence of how African-American home buyers are discriminated against by financial institutions, for instance, and dark-skinned criminal defendants are treated more harshly than whites by jurors. But the primaries and caucuses have produced equally real-world evidence that race may matter much less than it once did....

Here are the three most common types of muscle issues you may experience with MS and what can be done about them. If you start to experience any related symptoms, it’s important that you raise them to your healthcare provider. Weakness Muscle weakness in MS is more than simply having a lack of energy or not having the strength to lift a heavy dumbbell. Rather, it’s having genuine difficulty moving your muscles, almost like they are too wobbly or tired to work....

Jozy Altidore appears ready to return to action after being sidelined since the World Cup with a hamstring injury. The U.S. striker appears to be in Sunderland’s plans for the new season, and manager Gus Poyet could hand him a chance to take the field when the Black Cats take on West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. Altidore will be eager to put to rest the bad memories of last season in England, when he managed just one goal in English Premier League play (and two in all competitions) for Sunderland....

He has not practiced medicine since August 1991, when he was Vermont’s lieutenant governor and was told, while treating a patient, that the governor had died. Last week Dean was in his second week of unemployment after five terms. One advantage he has in the competition for the Democratic presidential nomination is that he is unemployed. As Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were at comparable points in their quests for their 1968, 1976 and 1980 nominations, respectively....

The exact details as to why the relationship has gone sour aren’t known, and when Goal contacted Roshan’s representatives, they remained unavailable for comment. “I am honoured to be associated with the ISL, which represents India’s first effort at professional football. It is definitely the next big sporting brand in our country and will give young football talent a solid platform. “I hope my partnership with FC Pune City adds further strength to the team and star players’ football expertise," Roshan had said in 2014 when he was announced as the club’s co-owner....

An internal letter sent by billionaire CEO Ren Zhengfei, first reported by Bloomberg, references the ongoing troubles caused by his firm’s inclusion on the so-called “Entity List,” which stops tech companies from trading with Huawei without the U.S. government’s permission. “Two bullets fired at our consumer business group unfortunately hit the oil tanks,” Ren said in a letter dated August 2, Bloomberg reported. Since being added to the blacklist in May, links with key business partners—including Google, Qualcomm and Facebook—have crumbled....

The American Meteor Society (AMS) said it had received around 150 reports and several “spectacular” videos of the fireball, which was seen at 01:52 a.m. ET on July 22. Most of the sightings came from Indiana, but people in other states including Alabama, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky also reported seeing the event. Fireball is another term for a particularly bright meteor. Usually, they are brighter than magnitude -4, which is around the same for the planet Venus as seen in the morning or evening sky, according to the AMS....

Allegations of heavy drinking while on England duty have rocked the Three Lions and United captain, who made a public apology after the episode came to light. And Hughes recalled that the ex-United boss used methods that brought to mind the old KGB to make sure players were behaving. “You know very quickly if someone has been out, there are very few secrets in the world,” the Stoke City manager told reporters....

Bones were discovered on land off Damson Parkway, Solihull, on Wednesday, near to where excavation work is being carried out to expand the car factory site. Now speculation is rife that the remains could belong to missing schoolboys Patrick Warren and David Spencer, aged 11 and 13 respectively. The children were living around a 15-minute drive away from the site in nearby Chelmsley Wood when they disappeared on Boxing Day in 1996....

Footage shared on social media yesterday showed protesters sat outside the front of the president’s hotel as they continued to rail against the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis Police custody last week. The peaceful protest outside the Pennsylvania Avenue building came almost a week after demonstrators marched on the hotel carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs. Posting footage of yesterday’s demonstration outside the Trump International Hotel, Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson tweeted: “Barred from getting anywhere near the White House, hundreds have gathered outside Trump Hotel instead....

Snake catcher Nick Evans — who provides a snake removal service in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province — was called to the house in the Greater Durban area after residents spotted the snake under a bed. When he arrived, the black mamba was nowhere to be seen so he proceeded to look for it, the snake catcher said in a Facebook post. Evans looked under the bed, and behind a cabinet when suddenly, a rat that the snake had been chasing jumped out from a pile of clothes....

But this fall has been a terrible one for those in the business of making and selling rifles and shotguns. And for the dwindling core of optimists who believe the American consumer is doing just fine, the stock charts of companies like Cabela’s, Gander Mountain, and Smith & Wesson should cause them to check their scopes. Cabela’s, which started as a catalog retailer in Nebraska in the 1960s, has enjoyed explosive growth: It now boasts 26 stores, with seven more to open soon....

Yahoo’s operations team, four engineers led by cofounder David Filo (with an $8 billion stake in the company, surely the richest repairman in the world), got on the horn with GlobalCenter, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based service that hosts Yahoo’s machines. At first the nerd squad figured that a router had failed. But analyzing the flow of bits, they discovered what Global’s exec VP Laurie Priddy called “a huge tidal wave of data....