The Dolphins flunked their test. Miraculously, after Robert Mueller’s investigation into its handling of the Ray Rice situation, the NFL gave itself a passing grade, then congratulated itself on its excellent work. Stripped to its basics, the 65-page report (not including appendix) concludes: There was no smoking video delivery. Mistakes were made. We … cough, cough … they must do better. The initial indifferent, resigned public reaction is rooted in the same doubt that was there when commissioner Roger Goodell first announced the big internal probe: What reason do we have to trust this?...

Not unlike her peers in the realm of internet eating shows, Ssoyoung had assembled a familiar set-up: Her plat du jour, a condiment on the side, and a professional microphone to amplify the squish and wriggle of every bite. Ssoyoung grabs an octopus and tightly squeezes its tentacles from top to bottom, close to the microphone, before dipping the live animal in a red sauce and popping its whole, bulbous mantle—which contains its organs—into her mouth....

The deer was first spotted by passers-by in the north-western U.S. state of Idaho with the metal trash can lid stuck around its neck. After waiting to see if the trapped doe could free herself, rangers from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) sedated her with a dart gun so they could cut away the lid. They eventually managed to free the trapped animal. The Idaho government said in a statement: “Trash can lids make awkward necklaces for deer....

The sport has seen a recent revolution of two-way players and stars who are being constantly shuffled around in different formations. It’s a throwback to college football’s early days of iron man ball, a testament to the pure athleticism of today’s players and a quest for head coaches everywhere to find the right tweak that will leave their opponents drawing a blank on how to stop them. Last season, college football had a Washington linebacker who turned into one of the Pac-12’s most devastating running backs, an Oklahoma State defensive lineman who would ice games with his receiving ability and a Hawaii specialist who both kicked and returned punts....

The stories sound like the plot lines of hit movies, from “Fatal Attraction” to “Sleeping With the Enemy” to “Cape Fear.” But increasingly, state legislators are hearing real-life versions, and they are responding with astonishing speed. California passed the first “anti-stalking” law in 1990, making it a crime to repeatedly follow or harass someone with a “credible threat” to cause fear of bodily harm. Since then, 20 more states have enacted similar laws, and at least a dozen others are considering them....

No sooner is he in place than the FBI rousts him out. They tell Mitch the firm is owned by the Chicago mob, which uses it to set up dummy corporations on Grand Cayman that launder countless millions. They offer him a choice: cooperate with the FBI and risk being murdered by his new colleagues, or refuse - and be sent to prison when the FBI moves in. Improbabilities abound, the characters are ciphers - and yet the story has significant strengths....

The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Darrell Caldwell, was fatally stabbed on December 19 while backstage at the Once Upon a Time in LA music festival in Los Angeles, where he was scheduled to perform. Caldwell had been ambushed by a group of between 40 and 60 men soon after a fight broke out, according to a video released by his family. Caldwell was rushed to the hospital but did not survive his injuries, the worst of which was reportedly a stab wound to the neck....

Ali Imdad, a former contestant on the Great British Bake Off program, was on his way home on Sunday evening in Birmingham when a woman told him that Asians were “everywhere” and blamed “people like him” for “all these bombings.” Imdad uploaded footage of the incident to social media. During the exchange, the woman can be heard telling Imdad: “50 years ago - there was no Asians. Now it’s everywhere....

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Climate change has caused yields in the main mustard seed producing countries to plummet. The seed is essential for the condiment that graces the top of the fast food favorite consumed in its millions as people celebrate Independence Day. But there may not be enough of the yellow stuff to go around due to mustard seed yields in France slumping by a half last year, while in the world’s second largest producer, Canada, there was a 28 percent drop....

Mourinho: I’m a nobody at Man Utd The 20-year-old has previously complained about refereeing in the Bundesliga, urging them to “act earlier and harder” to discourage opponents from fouling Dortmund players. Dembele admits he gets “irritated and furious” when he is fouled, but says he is trying to control himself in a more measured way. “I think it’s getting better, I get a bit less upset than I did at the beginning” he told Kicker....

Mobile operators and internet service providers have been told to restrict access to certain websites and virtual private networks that can avoid internet filtering, the Associated Press reported. The military, also known as the Tatmadaw, is also limiting access to only fiber data connections that are available to a small portion of the population. Instead, the Tatmadaw said it is developing an “intranet” for inside the country that allows access to only approved applications....

Unless a player — for example, the first overall pick in the entire draft — gets hurt. In that case, what happened in offseason workouts is vitally important. Unless it isn’t. The Browns aren’t really saying one way or another how serious Myles Garrett’s foot injury is. It happened Wednesday, the next-to-last day of mandatory minicamp, the last sanctioned workout before the league takes a break until late July’s training camps....

As senators debated the merits of overturning Arizona’s electoral college vote, protesters in Trump gear pushed past security guards at the Capitol, prompting concerns about legislators’ safety. Pence, who is presiding over the Electoral College certification proceedings, was taken out of the chamber and legislators are being asked to shelter in place. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was also rushed from the House floor. “Protesters have charged the Capitol and have surrounded the Senate chamber,” Senator James Lankford, who was speaking at the time of the recess, wrote on Twitter....

Short’s comments came during an interview on CBS in response to statements the ex-president made on Fox News on Wednesday. Last month, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, seizing thousands of files including some that were marked classified, as part of an investigation into whether Trump potentially mishandled the materials when he left the White House last year. The former president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in regard to the documents....

Speaking at a “Defend the Majority” rally in Augusta, Pence began by celebrating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. “So far, just in the last few days, 18 states have joined the Lone Star State to defend the integrity of our elections before the highest court in the land,” Pence said. “President Donald Trump deserves his day in court....

“The ballistic missiles at American bases in al-Asad, Erbil, we believe were intended to kill Americans,” Pence told Today host Savannah Guthrie on Thursday. On Tuesday, Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two military bases in Iraq that house American personnel. Since there wasn’t a single American casualty, some U.S. officials floated the idea that Iran orchestrated the attack that way. However, Pence told Guthrie that intelligence supported the belief that Iran wasn’t “shooting to miss,” as the Today host phrased it....

After Goose Gossage’s expletive-laced rant against Bautista and the current state of baseball earlier this month, Phillies Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt condemned the bat flip in a self-written article for The Associated Press. MORE: Dumbest unwritten rules | Bryce Harper calls baseball ’tired sport' “Why do so many players today feel the need to embellish their success with some sort of hand signal to the dugout?” Schmidt wrote. “What got more attention in last year’s postseason than a bat toss by Jose Bautista?...

Prokhorov was accused of a cover-up in an affidavit by Grigory Rodchenkov, who oversaw widespread doping as head of Russia’s doping control laboratory in Moscow. “We categorically deny this story,” the Journal quoted a representative for Prokhorov as saying. “It is based on totally irresponsible hearsay and is complete nonsense.” MORE: Ovechkin supports Russian athletes after Olympic ban According to Rodchenkov’s affidavit, he was told by Irina Rodionova, a Russian doctor who administered drugs to athletes, that Prokhorov paid “millions of rubles” to keep biathlete Irina Starykh from going public about her doping regimen in 2014 after she and fellow biathlete Ekaterina Iourieva were disqualified from the Sochi Winter Games for positive tests....