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Suarez returns to the site of the closest finish in NASCAR history looking for a playoff payoff 09/07/2024 03:15pm • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) ��� The best year of Daniel Suarez���s life began in February when he won the NASCAR Mexico race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, an event essentially staged with Suarez as the star. Later that month came the closest finish in NASCAR history, a photo-finish victory at Atlanta Michael Jordan's NASCAR team skips the deadline to sign a new revenue model with racing series 09/07/2024 02:11pm • HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) ��� 23XI Racing, the NASCAR team co-owned by Michael Jordan, said Saturday it skipped a deadline to sign a new charter agreement with the sanctioning body because ���it did not have an opportunity to fairly bargain��� for a new contract. The two-car team owned by Jordan, active dri Officials say a troubled and delayed Baltic high-speed rail project still set for completion by 2030 09/07/2024 01:52pm • HELSINKI (AP) ��� Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Saturday they are committed to completing by the end of the decade a financially troubled and badly delayed high-speed rail project integrating the three Baltic countries with the continental European rail network. Set to link the Baltic capitals Vigil held for DC man fatally shot by police in Southeast 09/07/2024 08:02am • A candlelit vigil was held Friday evening by Black Lives Matter and Harriet's Wildest Dreams, to remember 26-year-old Justin Robinson, who was fatally shot by D.C. police last Sunday. Chants of ���Justice for Justin!��� were shouted out as hundreds of mourners returned to the scene where the AP PHOTOS: A ferocious blaze scars the land outside Greece���s capital 09/07/2024 01:13am • MARATHON, Greece (AP) ��� In the blackened remains of his workshop, sculptor Vangelis Ilias stacks what little is left of years of his efforts. In August, a ferocious wildfire swept through the mountains north of Athens, Greece's capital, pushing into the city and coming within feet of where Ilias c Phoenix police officer dies days after suspect charged with shooting 2 officers 09/06/2024 10:43pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� One of two Phoenix police officers who were shot earlier this week by a man who was trying to break into a car has died from his injuries, the department said Friday evening. Officer Zane Coolidge, a five-year veteran of the department, died Friday at the hospital where he was take Man charged with plotting shooting at a New York Jewish center on anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack 09/06/2024 09:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announced Friday. U.S. Attorney Grand jury indicts DC Council member Trayon White on bribery charge 09/06/2024 06:48pm • D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on a bribery charge after he was caught on video last month appearing to take lump sums of money from a local business owner. White, who has represented Ward 8 on the D.C. Council since 2016, was the chairman of the El Comandante Hern��ndez leads ���Tree Army��� in defense of Mexico City���s trees 09/06/2024 06:09pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Scooting on his electric skateboard through a southern Mexico City neighborhood, Arturo Hern��ndez spots a likely target for his next action and uploads a photo to social media calling his followers to help. A couple of days later, he and several of them are swinging sledgehamme Police have upped their use of Maine's 'yellow flag' law since the state's deadliest mass shooting 09/06/2024 05:43pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� There has been a huge jump in law enforcement requests for Maine courts to allow guns to be seized from people deemed a danger to themselves or others since the deadliest mass shooting in state history, the governor said Friday. Maine���s extreme risk protection order law wa NASCAR's charter disagreement with teams is at a breaking point as playoffs arrive 09/06/2024 05:20pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� After Tyler Reddick battled a stomach virus throughout the Southern 500 to eke out a 1-point win over Kyle Larson for NASCAR���s regular-season championship, he and the 23XI Racing ownership group went to collect the trophy. Reddick stood next to the trophy, team co-owner M 4 years in prison for driver in crash that killed 2 teen girls walking near Fairfax Co. school 09/06/2024 03:50pm • The Fairfax County, Virginia, man in a speeding BMW who plowed into two teen girls walking home from school in June 2022 has been sentenced to four years in prison following emotionally wrenching victim impact statements in court Friday. Usman Shahid, who was 18 at the time of the crash, was conv Movie Review: 'Strange Darling' is one of the most electric and unpredictable thrillers in years 09/06/2024 03:45pm • Stephen King called it a "clever masterpiece." Mike Flanagan added, ���Sublimely brilliant. You must go in blind.��� Allow me to throw my own stunned support behind the must-see new thriller "Strange Darling," written and directed by JT Mollner, who is now officially a filmmaking force to be Aaron Pierre is a star in the making. 'Rebel Ridge' shows you why 09/06/2024 03:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Before Aaron Pierre wanted to act, he wanted to be the fastest man in the world. Growing up in West Croydon in London, Pierre was drawn to track and field. He thought gold medalist sprinter Maurice Greene was the coolest man on Earth. Pierre ran the 60-meter, the 100-meter and seco Do you need support launching or growing your small business? Get help locally from Greater Washington Board of Trade, WACIF 09/06/2024 02:05pm • gwbotThe Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Washington Area Community Investment Fund aim to help drive economic development in our region through helping small businesses and start-ups, from launch through growth. WTOP Business Reporter Jeff Clabaugh sat down to discuss local trends a