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NASCAR's $1 million All-Star Race to run at North Wilkesboro again in 2024 09/28/2023 05:55pm • RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race will remain at North Wilkesboro Speedway in 2024 after this year's event — the first race for NASCAR's top series there in 27 years — attracted a capacity crowd thrilled to return to stock car roots. State legislators joined NASCAR and t Why this week's mass exodus from embattled Nagorno-Karabakh reflects decades of animosity 09/28/2023 04:54pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The exodus of ethnic Armenians this week from the region known as Nagorno-Karabakh has been a vivid and shocking tableau of fear and misery. Roads are jammed with cars lumbering with heavy loads, waiting for hours in traffic jams. People sit amid mounds of hastily packed lu AP PHOTOS: Tens of thousands of Armenians flee in mass exodus from breakaway region of Azerbaijan 09/28/2023 04:37pm • More than half the population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the breakaway region recently reclaimed by Azerbaijan, creating a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians. The migration began Sunday. By Thursday evening, over 78,300 people — more than 65% of the population of 120,000 — had left for Armenia, a Motorcyclist dies after crashing into back of Virginia Department of Transportation truck on I-95 09/28/2023 04:10pm • A motorcyclist is dead after a crash involving two cars — including a Virginia Department of Transportation truck — on northbound Interstate 95 in Prince William County Wednesday afternoon. The motorcyclist was identified Thursday as Victor M. Harper II, 30, of Dumfries, Virginia. The seri Over half of Nagorno-Karabakh's population flees as the separatist government says it will dissolve 09/28/2023 03:58pm • YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said Thursday it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by year's end after a three-decade bid for independence, while Armenian officials said over half of the region's population has already fled A car bombing struck a meat market in central Somalia. Six people died, officials say 09/28/2023 03:23pm • MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A car bombing struck a meat market in central Somalia on Thursday, killing six people and wounding 14, local officials said, the third attack of the day in the volatile East African country. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack at the market in the t Prince George’s Co. looks at making roads safer by design — not just through traffic stops 09/28/2023 03:16pm • More than two dozen pedestrians and bicyclists have died on Prince George's County, Maryland, roads this year. That's partly why groups that advocate for safer, more multimodal streets are hailing a package of legislation titled the "Walkable Urban Streets Act" that’s moving through the Prince Michael Gambon, veteran actor who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter' films, dies at age 82 09/28/2023 03:05pm • LONDON (AP) — Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor knighted for his illustrious career on the stage and screen and who went on to gain admiration from a new generation of moviegoers with his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died. H Authorities in Falls Church looking for driver who may have handled raccoon with rabies 09/28/2023 02:20pm • An injured raccoon struck by two cars in the heart of Falls Church, Virginia, last weekend has tested positive for rabies. Authorities are now looking for a driver who helped move the wounded animal out of the roadway. The raccoon was the first animal to test positive for rabies in the Northern V Monument honoring slain civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and friend is unveiled in Detroit park 09/28/2023 02:10pm • DETROIT (AP) — A monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate a white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with the Black friend who helped raise her children following her death. A ceremony was held NASCAR to return to Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval for 30th anniversary of debut at the Brickyard 09/28/2023 02:00pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NASCAR will return to the 2.5-mile oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway next season for the 30-year anniversary of stock cars racing at the historic venue. The inaugural Brickyard 400 was held on Aug. 6, 1994, and was won by Indiana icon Jeff Gordon in the first of his five Ind Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/28/2023 01:50pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Lebanese police say US Embassy shooter was motivated by personal grudge against security guards 09/28/2023 01:43pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police said Thursday that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut last week allegedly did so because of a personal grudge against the guards at the compound. The police said they had arrested the suspected shooter on Monday, identifying him Traffic deaths declined 3.3% in the first half of the year, but Fed officials see more work ahead 09/28/2023 11:48am • Traffic fatalities dropped 3.3% in the first half of the year compared with the prior-year period, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency said Thursday that an estimated 19,515 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the first half of 2023. There were 20 Romanian court eases geographical restrictions on divisive influencer Andrew Tate 09/28/2023 11:05am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Thursday ruled to ease geographical restrictions on Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The decision by the Bucharest Tribuna