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Russian miner rescued from flooded mine, 8 still missing
What's a total solar eclipse and why this one is so unusual
Chart shows the path of the 2017 eclipse across the United States; 3c x 3 3/4 inches; 146 mm x 95 mm;
The Latest: US calls off search for 3 Marines off Australia
FILE - In this June 29, 2017 file photo U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey aircraft land on the deck of the USS Bonhomme Richard amphibious assault ship off the coast from Sydney during events marking the start of Talisman Saber 2017, a biennial joint military exercise between the United States and Australia. A MV-22 Osprey that had launched from the USS Bonhomme was conducting regularly scheduled operations when it crashed into the water off Australia's east coast, Saturday, Aug. 5. (Jason Reed/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Death row inmate who hanged self didn't want prison change
FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Patrick Leonard, convicted of the kidnapping, assault, attempted rape and aggravated murder of his former girlfriend Dawn Flick on July 29, 2000, in her home in the Hamilton County village of New Baltimore, Ohio. Leonard hanged himself March 5, 2017, on death row in Chillicothe, Ohio, according to the Ohio prisons agency. A state patrol file obtained by The Associated Press through a records request shows Leonard didn't want to make a planned move to a new prison and was discouraged by a recent legal setback, but the records say there weren't imminent signs Leonard would take his own life. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)
US in rare bull's-eye for total solar eclipse on Aug. 21
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Emmalyn Johnson, 3, tries on her free pair of eclipse glasses at Mauney Memorial Library in Kings Mountain, N.C. Glasses are being given away at the library for free while supplies last ahead of the big event on Aug. 21. (Brittany Randolph/The Star via AP)
Neymar provides pre-match show, with PSG debut put on hold
FBI: Explosive detonated at Minnesota mosque
Law enforcement officials investigate an explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn., on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. Bloomington police Chief Jeff Potts said Saturday that investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blast. Authorities say the explosion damaged one room but it didn't hurt anyone. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
Nation's oldest coal-fired steamboat returns to Mystic River
The steamboat Sabino cruises the Mystic River in Mystic, Conn., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. The vessel, billed by the Mystic Seaport maritime museum as the nation's oldest coal-fired steamboat in regular operation, resumed public cruises on Wednesday after a two-year, $1.1 million restoration project. (Andy Price/Mystic Seaport via AP)
Savannah museum wins $250,000 grant for slavery exhibit work
California speaker recall effort reflects Democratic tension
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, addresses the the Assembly in Sacramento, Calif. A recall effort against Rendon, a strong progressive now targeted by party activists upset that he derailed a bill seeking government-funded health care for all. Rendon said he supports single-payer health care in concept, but SB562 was "woefully incomplete." The measure lacked key details about how a single-payer system would function, including a plan to raise the estimated $400 billion it would cost. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Kid athletes train in triathlon named for Sandy Hook victim
Swimmers exit the water at the fourth annual Race4Chase kids triathlon finale in Southington, Conn. on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. The program, founded by the family of a Chase Kowalski, who was killed in the Sandy Hook shootings has grown to more than 20 sites in three states. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
Canadian working with Kenya opposition party deported
Canada goalkeeper Labbe candid about her depression
Samuelson sets unofficial record in 20th Beach to Beacon
Mary Keitany, 25, of Kenya, crosses the finish line to win the women's division of the 20th annual TD Beach To Beacon 10K road race Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
Iran vows 'unified' response to breach of nuclear deal
Irish PM: 'Matter of time' for N. Ireland and gay marriage
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar arrives for a Gay Pride breakfast meeting at the Northern Whig bar in Belfast, Saturday Aug. 5, 2017. Ireland's prime minister says it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is legalized in Northern Ireland — the only part of the United Kingdom where it still is banned. Varadkar, Ireland's first openly gay leader, made the comments at a gay pride event on Saturday in Belfast. (Peter Morrison/PA via AP)
In Hiroshima, one August morning in 1945 was dark as night – and this woman can’t forget it
Setsuko Nakamura, 85, was 13 years old when the U.S. military dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. She survived, but her siblings didn’t. She now campaigns for nuclear disarmament.
Billions lost in nuclear power projects, with more bills due
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Unit one of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station near Jenkinsville, S.C., is shown during a media tour of the facility. South Carolina’s utilities are abandoning two partly-built nuclear reactors. And they want permission to charge customers another $5 billion to cover their costs. An environmentalist says that money could have gone to renewable energy. Others say nuclear is key to cooling the planet and won’t exist if the federal government doesn’t finance it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Ottawa man, 54, charged with making child porn and sexual interference
Should springing of US terrorism convicts alarm Americans?
In this photo taken March 30, 2017, Ismail Royer poses for a photograph in Arlington, Va. Royer was been released from prison after serving more than 13 years on charges that he provided assistance to friends who wanted to join the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks. Dozens of convicts serving time in U.S. prisons for terror-related offenses are slated to be released in the next several years, prompting the question: Should Americans be afraid? (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Search called off for 3 US Marines who crashed off Australia
FILE - In this April 22, 2015 file photo, a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey comes in for a landing at Miami International Airport before a presidential visit, in Miami. Search and rescue operations were underway for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 while trying to land. Twenty-three of 26 personnel aboard the aircraft have been rescued, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Milan police arrest man in kidnapping of British model
Afghan official: Taliban seize control of key northern area
AP FACT CHECK: Trump and his real, and unreal, phone calls
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Trump counters criticism of his national security adviser
FILE - In this June 12, 2017 file photo, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attends a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. The president is making a public endorsement of his national security adviser and pushing back against criticism from conservative media. Trump said in a statement that he and aide H.R. McMaster ``are working very well together.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
3,500 Brazilian soldiers enter Rio slums amid violence spike
Soldiers patrol the Lins Complex slums in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. More than 3,500 Brazilian soldiers are occupying a series of slum communities in northern Rio de Janeiro as part of efforts to combat a spike in violence. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Russia's ex-ambassador to US rejects accusations of meddling
FILE - In this Monday, July 17, 2017 file photo, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak arrives at the State Department in Washington to meet with Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon. The former Russian ambassador to the United States on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, strongly denied the accusations of meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Kislyak, who has just returned from Washington, said on Russian state Rossiya 24 television that he was merely doing his job as a diplomat when he met with members of President Donald Trump’s team. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
The Latest: Venezuela opposition leader back to house arrest
Venezuela's Constituent Assembly sing the national anthem on the steps of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Defying criticism from Washington to the Vatican, Venezuela's ruling party on Friday installed a new super assembly that supporters promise will pacify the country and critics fear will be a tool for imposing dictatorship. The assembly's first order of business was selecting its head - former Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez, pictured left center front. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Don’t fear the Deep State. It may be America’s only hope
Doug Saunders
New U.S. secret weapon: The ‘I like Trump’ movement
Chuck Tatham, a native of Guelph, Ont., is writer/producer of the CBS comedy Superior Donuts.
I got back to nature. I wish I hadn’t
Margaret Wente
German publisher sues Turkey over jailing of reporter
19 migrants reach Spain's coast in 2 small boats
Terror not suspected in German crowd crashes; 1 killed
France works to protect its first panda cub after twin died
In this photo dated Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, provided by Beauval zoo, a veterinarian holds a cub born to the panda Huan Huan at the Zoo Parc de Beauval in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France. A giant panda in a French zoo has given birth to twins, the first-ever panda birth in France, but one died soon after childbirth. The Beauval Zoo southwest of Paris said panda Huan Huan bore twins late Friday night but despite efforts by panda experts from China to care for the firstborn, it did not survive. (Zoo Parc de Beauval via AP)
Ongoing 'Lucifer' heat wave stifles large swath of Europe
A girl uses an umbrella to shield herself from the sun in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Romanian meteorologists issued an extreme temperatures warning, with 42 Celsius (107.6 F) forecast for parts of western Romania and placing 12 counties under a "red code" heat alert for the next two days. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
British hospital worker defends staff in Charlie Gard case
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by his family, Charlie Gard lays in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. A member of the medical team that treated Charlie Gard has defended their care for the infant who died of a rare genetic disease while criticizing political and religious leaders who intervened in the case. The health care worker wrote an anonymous opinion piece in the Guardian newspaper Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, saying staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital "loved this child to bits" but reached the point where they could do no more. (Family of Charlie Gard via AP, File)
Aug. 5: For the love of a canoe. Plus other letters to the editor
The song of privilege my paddle sings ...
What should I do if my wife can’t reach the pedals of our minivan?
Open conflict triggers concern Poland might leave EU next
President of the European Council Donald Tusk speaks to the media outside the prosecutor's office in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk as a witness Thursday in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski — a case widely seen as a politically-driven attempt to discredit the EU leader. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
The Latest: Al-Shabab makes video of Kenya soldier's death
Supporters of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta cheer at an election rally in Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Kenyans are due to go to the polls on Aug. 8. to vote in presidential elections after a tightly-fought race between incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and main opposition leader Raila Odinga. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Turkey warns new military moves in Syria imminent
US campaign data firm: Kenya to deport CEO ahead of election
A supporter wears a cloth wrap showing Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, with writing in Swahili reading "President Uhuru, Five More" referring to the wish for another 5-year term, at an election rally in Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Kenyans are due to go to the polls on Aug. 8. to vote in presidential elections after a tightly-fought race between incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and main opposition leader Raila Odinga. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
China sets conditions for start of talks on sea feud code
ASEAN Foreign Ministers link hands "The ASEAN Way" at the opening ceremony of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines. They are, from left, Malaysia's Anifah Aman, Myanmar's U Kyaw Tin, Thailand's Don Pramudwinai, Vietnam's Pham Binh Minh, Philippines' Alan Peter Cayetano, Singapore's Vivian Balakrishnan, Brunei's Lim Jock Seng, Cambodia's Prak Sokhonn, Indonesia's Retno Marsudi, Laos' Saleumxay Kommasith and ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh. (AP Photo/Mohd Rasfan, Pool)
Road accident kills 4 Spanish nationals, driver in India
New program tackles homeless problem in tourist mecca
Trudeau takes unscheduled ocean dip while touring national park in kayak
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares a laugh with his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau as he delivers remarks at the Laurier Club donor appreciation reception at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, Aug 4, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
3 Kashmir rebels killed in fighting with Indian troops
Kashmiri protesters clash with government forces, not pictured, during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Government forces fired tear gas and pellets on Kashmiris who gathered after Friday afternoon prayers to protest against Indian rule in the disputed region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Supporters of deposed Pakistan PM welcome him in Islamabad
Myanmar troops arrest Rohingya suspects; 6 Buddhists killed
UAW defiant in Mississippi loss as union opponents celebrate
Nissan employee Betty Jones, left, consoles Morris Mock, right, while expressing her disappointment at losing their bid to form a union at the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss., Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Northwestern professor, Oxford staffer jailed in stabbing
FILE - This undated file photo released by the Chicago Police Department shows Andrew Warren, an employee of the University of Oxford in Britain. Warren and Northwestern University professor, Wyndham Lathem, both wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Chicago man have been taken into custody in Oakland, California, a Chicago police spokesman said Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)
North Carolina islands expect busy Saturday after outage
US 'disturbed by irregularities' in Rwanda landslide vote
Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrives to cast his ballot in Rwanda's capital Kigali Friday Aug. 4, 2017 for the presidential elections in which he is widely expected to win another term after the government disqualified all but three candidates. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Quebec ticket claims Friday night's $23 million Lotto Max jackpot
Eskimos off to best start in 56 years, improving to 6-0 with 33-28 win
Hamilton Tiger-Cats' C.J. Gable (32) is tackled by Edmonton Eskimos Christophe Mulumba-Tshimanga (10) and D'Anthony Batiste (64) during first half CFL action in Edmonton, Alta., on Friday August 4, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.
Venezuela constitutional assembly removes chief prosecutor
Venezuelan Bolivarian National Guard officers lineup outside of General Prosecutor headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. Security forces surrounded the entrance to Venezuela's chief prosecutor's office early Saturday ahead of a session of the newly-installed constitutional assembly in which the pro-government body is expected to debate the onetime loyalist turned arch critic's removal. (AP Photo/Wil Riera)
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