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NASCAR slams Stewart-Haas Racing for cheating to make 2 consecutive days of massive penalties 05/31/2023 06:11pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR issued its second massive penalty in as many days by levying huge fines Wednesday against Stewart-Haas Racing for a “counterfeit part” found on Chase Briscoe's car in a secondary inspection after the Coca-Cola 600. SHR's No. 14 team was docked 120 points in both t Movie Review: The giddy splendor of 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' 05/31/2023 05:48pm • Let's get this upfront: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was the best comic-book film of the last decade. With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages of comics, “Into the Spider-Verse” took a supercollider to all the conventions of the superhero movie. Solemnity was out. Go Movie Review: Sydney Sweeney is brilliant in ‘Reality,’ based on true story of NSA whistleblower 05/31/2023 05:48pm • “Reality,” a new movie starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room. There is nothing on the walls. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and ugly room in a nondescript rental property in a downtrodden neighborhood. Its script is as minimalistic — lifted directly from the tran Florida baby left inside hot car dies while parents are at church service 05/31/2023 05:24pm • PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — An 11-month-old baby died after being left alone in a hot car while her parents were inside a church for services along Florida's Space Coast, authorities said. The baby girl had been in the car outside the storefront church in Palm Bay, Florida, where her parents are pastors When should social workers separate families? A federal lawsuit raises thorny questions 05/31/2023 04:28pm • BOSTON (AP) — When child welfare workers and police knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had come to take their two young sons. It’s the kind of harrowing scene that pl Real-life ‘Fast and Furious’: Car sent flying over tow truck in Georgia, video shows 05/31/2023 04:00pm • VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — It looks like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. A sedan rockets into the air after driving up the ramp of a flatbed tow truck on a Georgia highway. And the whole crash is caught on video by an officer's body camera. Shocked motorists and law enforcement watched in horror a Toyota to invest $2.1 billion more in N.C. battery plant, will build big SUV at factory in Kentucky 05/31/2023 03:32pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Toyota will invest another $2.1 billion in an electric and hybrid vehicle battery factory that's under construction near Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will supply batteries to Toyota's huge complex in Georgetown, Kentucky, which will build Toyota's first U.S.-made el US safety agency to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles and set tougher standards 05/31/2023 02:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s auto safety agency plans to require that all new passenger cars and light trucks include potentially life-saving automatic emergency braking and meet stricter safety standards within three years. Wednesday's announcement by the National Highway Traffic 2 men in Virginia defrauded millions in COVID relief 05/31/2023 02:53pm • Two Northern Virginia businessmen will likely spend the next several years in prison after pleading guilty in a joint scheme to defraud banks and the Small Business Administration of around $7.6 million in COVID relief funds. Bennie Earl Magee, 54, of Manassas, Virginia, and Michael Gilcher, 45, Review: 'Ted Lasso' ends in heartwarming fashion with 'pitch' perfect finale 05/31/2023 02:29pm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9yjn7Lkdg After saying goodbye to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" last Friday and “Succession" and "Barry" on Sunday night, it's time to bid farewell to "Ted Lasso" on Wednesday — or should we say, "So Long, Farewell." That's the title of the series fina Limo company manager sentenced to at least 5 years for New York crash that killed 20 05/31/2023 01:41pm • SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A former limousine company manager was sentenced Wednesday to at least five years in prison for his role in a crash that killed 20 people in rural New York. Nauman Hussain, 33, was convicted of manslaughter earlier this month after prosecutors argued that he intentionally fa Here's how to prepare to start paying back your student loans when the pandemic payment freeze ends 05/31/2023 12:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A three-year pause on student loan payments will end this summer regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the White House plan to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt. If Congress approves a debt ceiling deal negotiated by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Credit cards, car loans and mortgages: Should financial literacy be required for students? 05/31/2023 12:41pm • Does your high school student understand interest rates, car loans and mortgages? That type of knowledge on financial literacy could become mandatory to get a diploma in the Montgomery County, Maryland, school system. “We as a system do believe that financial literacy is important. And it's cer Revitalized Alonso gives Spaniards hope of ending winning drought at home in F1 05/31/2023 12:13pm • It’s been nearly a decade since there was this much hype surrounding the Spanish Grand Prix. The last time the Formula One crowd in Spain had such high hopes of celebrating a victory by Fernando Alonso — the country's biggest racing idol — was back in 2013, when the two-time champion was drivi NYPD officer cites 'courtesy cards,' used by friends and family of cops, as source of corruption 05/31/2023 11:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of his colleagues on the force, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that lets people with a connection to law enforcement avoid traf