Search

A look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in America 07/14/2024 04:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates. A look at some of the assassinations and attempted assassin Will Power wins IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway that ended with a 4-car crash on the last lap 07/14/2024 04:04pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — It was Will Power's turn Sunday for Team Penske success at Iowa Speedway. Power broke through at the 0.875-mile oval, gaining his first IndyCar Series win at Iowa in the race that ended with a four-car, last-lap crash. Power had already crossed the finish line when Sting Ray Ro Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76 07/14/2024 01:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Simmons, television's hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday. Simmons died at his home in Los Angeles, his p Conor Daly replaces Jack Harvey for the IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway 07/14/2024 10:47am • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Conor Daly is replacing Jack Harvey in the No. 18 Dale Coyne Racing car for Sunday's IndyCar Series race at Iowa Speedway. Harvey left Saturday's 250-lap race at the 0.875-mile oval after 28 laps because of severe neck pain he has had since before last Sunday's race at Mid-Ohio The new hot truck comes from Japan and looks like a toy 07/14/2024 09:00am • (CNN) — Measuring about half the length of a Ford F-150, Kei trucks look almost like toys in comparison to your standard pickup truck. But for a car so tiny, you might be surprised at the massive following that they command. Kei trucks, built to satisfy Japanese light automobile regulations and Trump injured but 'fine' after attempted assassination at rally, shooter and one attendee are dead 07/14/2024 06:36am • BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. A barrage of gunfire set off panic, and a bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, The race is on to keep a 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into the Hudson River 07/14/2024 01:47am • HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — The race is on to keep a 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into the Hudson River. Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, and the structure, built in the middle of the river when steamboats still plied the water, is beginning to shift. Cracks are McLaughlin stays fast, wins first race of IndyCar doubleheader at Iowa 07/13/2024 11:02pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Scott McLaughlin said he didn't feel like he was an IndyCar driver until he got a win on an oval track. He reached that goal on Saturday night McLaughlin continued his fast weekend at Iowa Speedway on Saturday night, winning the first race of the IndyCar Series doubleheader for Cole Custer wins Xfinity race at Pocono in farewell season for Stewart-Haas Racing 07/13/2024 06:22pm • LOND POND, Pa. (AP) — Cole Custer drove away from Justin Allgaier over the final laps to give the 2023 Xfinity Series champion his first win of the year, earning a playoff spot for Stewart-Haas Racing in its farewell season with the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway. Custer had another dom Bubba Wallace admits to feeling 'miserable' at track for years in wake of NASCAR punishment 07/13/2024 05:56pm • LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Bubba Wallace and his wife have a baby on the way and a mortgage to pay on their home. So when Wallace eyed a pack of media at Pocono Raceway, he decided he’d be the one to open with a question. “Anybody got any money?” he quipped. Wallace was a bit light in the wallet Israeli strike targets the Hamas military commander and kills at least 90 in southern Gaza 07/13/2024 05:03pm • KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said it targeted Hamas’ shadowy military commander in a massive strike Saturday in the crowded southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 90 people including children, according to local health officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “there 1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Wise High School after vigil for former Prince George's Co. students killed in car crash 07/13/2024 02:45pm • A man has died and a woman was injured in a shooting Friday night after a vigil for three former students from an Upper Marlboro, Maryland, high school who died in a car crash last week. The man and woman were shot outside Wise High School around 10 p.m., Prince George's County police confirmed w A popular tour guide's death leads to more scrutiny of border issues 07/13/2024 01:12pm • Kristie Thibodeaux's gunfire death made headlines first because it happened in the French Quarter — New Orleans' oldest neighborhood and a place where residents of historic homes and owners of tourist-dependent restaurants and clubs have long worried about recurring violent crime. Then came the ne The son of Asia's richest man gets married in the year's most extravagant wedding 07/13/2024 01:06pm • MUMBAI, India (AP) — The youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, married his longtime girlfriend early Saturday in what many dubbed the wedding of the year, attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians, highlighting the billionaire’s staggering wealth and rising An Indian billionaire’s son is married after lavish celebrations that spotlight his global clout 07/13/2024 06:42am • NEW DELHI (AP) — It has been a wedding like no other — and the festivities have been going on for months. So where does one start? With a three-day pre-wedding celebration in March when Rihanna and Akon performed for a star-studded 1,200-person guest list? Or a four-day European cruise in May th