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Reigning NASCAR champion Ryan Blaney wins pole for Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway 03/16/2024 07:36pm • Ryan Blaney has won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The reigning Cup Series champion covered the 0.533-mile concrete track in Bristol, Tennessee, in 15.356 seconds on Saturday. He edged Josh Berry for the No. 1 spot and will lead the field to the green flag in the Food NASCAR's concrete coliseum is back to normal for Sunday's race at Bristol. Drivers welcome the move 03/16/2024 07:33pm • Bristol Motor Speedway has ditched the dirt and is back to being a concrete coliseum for its annual spring race. The famed short track added red clay each of the last three years for its first of two events. Reviews were mixed, and as the novelty wore off, sub-par racing inside the 0.533-mile bullri Police identify woman shot, killed by ex-boyfriend while on phone with 911 in Fairfax Co. 03/16/2024 06:15pm • A man is in custody following the shooting death of a woman late Friday afternoon in what police believe was a domestic violence-related dispute near the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in the area of Annandale, Virginia. Fairfax County police responded to the 3200 block of Woodburn Road around 4:30 Russia says Ukrainian shelling killed 2 in a border city while it thwarted an incursion 03/16/2024 05:06pm • Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod killed two people, officials said Saturday, while Russia claimed to have thwarted a new attempt by saboteurs to cross the border. Saturday’s attacks occurred as Russians entered the second day of voting in a presidential election that is all but 8-year-old dead, 2 other juveniles hospitalized when driver overturns car, crashes into tree in St. Mary's Co. 03/16/2024 03:50pm • An 8-year-old is dead and two other juveniles were sent to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after the car they were in overturned and struck a tree in St. Mary's County, Maryland, early Saturday morning. Ashley Nicole Nolan, 27, of Leonardtown, was driving a 2008 Honda Odyssey north on Man, woman arrested in connection to dead baby found in Florida trash bin 03/16/2024 08:53am • HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A woman believed to be the mother of an infant found dead in a trash bin earlier this year has been arrested, along with a man who police said helped her dispose of the body outside a South Florida apartment complex. They are both charged with failure to report a death, and No room for compromise for Maryland Senate on $1.2 Billion House revenue proposal 03/16/2024 08:28am • Democrats in the House are pressing a nearly $1.2 billion package they say will pay for both a multi-billion expansion of education funding and a multi-billion projected shortfall in the state’s Transportation Trust Fund. The package highlighted Friday by House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Balt With Navalny dead, his allies keep fighting to undermine Putin's grip on power 03/16/2024 01:52am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Alexei Navalny’s team is used to working independently. The most potent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin was frequently absent for long stretches after being arrested, assaulted, poisoned, or imprisoned. But when Navalny died suddenly in February at age 47 in a rem North Korea's Kim enjoys a Russian luxury limousine gifted by Putin as the two nations expand ties 03/15/2024 11:04pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin, Kim’s sister said Saturday, praising the car’s “special function” and the two countries' deepening bilateral ties. In February, Putin sent Kim a high-end Aurus Sena Tornadoes kill 3 and leave trails of destruction in the central US 03/15/2024 10:36pm • LAKEVIEW, Ohio (AP) — Blaine Schmidt sifted through the broken glass and splintered wood throughout his Ohio home Friday, salvaging a guitar and a bundle of diapers. His couch and a crib had been ripped apart by one of many tornadoes that tore through the central U.S., killing three people and inj Jurors weigh fate of Afghan refugee charged with murder in a case that shocked Muslim community 03/15/2024 09:09pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday wrapped up their case against an Afghan refugee on charges that he gunned down a man in 2022 in what turned out to be the first of three ambush-style killings involving members of the Muslim community in New Mexico's largest city. Muhammad Syed, who s Connecticut trooper acquitted in shooting death of Black college student following chase 03/15/2024 06:24pm • A white Connecticut state trooper was acquitted of all charges Friday in the death of Mubarak Soulemane, a Black 19-year-old community college student who was shot as he sat behind the wheel of a stopped stolen car holding a kitchen knife and apparently in the throes of a mental health crisis. Troop African Development Bank chief criticizes opaque loans tied to Africa's natural resources 03/15/2024 06:09pm • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for the continent's rich supplies of oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries. “They are just bad, first and foremost, because you can’t price the asse Riders can climb 'halfway to the stars' on San Francisco cable car dedicated to late Tony Bennett 03/15/2024 06:05pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco. San Francisco officials on Valentine's Day dedicated one of the city's iconic cable car Things to know about Uber and Lyft saying they will halt ride-hailing services in Minneapolis 03/15/2024 05:52pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Lyft and Uber have said they will halt operations in Minneapolis because of a new city ordinance that increase wages for app-based drivers, the latest salvo in a longtime fight between gig economy workers and the tech giants. The city’s council vote Thursday overrode a mayoral