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Why fall, not winter, is the country's most dangerous driving season 09/24/2023 05:00am • Earlier sunsets, wet leaves and daring deer are a couple of reasons why the most dangerous driving season in the country is about to rev up. Most drivers believe winter comes with the most accidents and collisions. But according to Patrick Olsen, editor-in-chief at Carfax, it's actually fall. Max Verstappen easily wins the F1 Japanese Grand Prix to edge closer to 2023 series title 09/24/2023 04:39am • SUZUKA, Japan (AP) — Max Verstappen survived a dramatic first lap then coasted to victory at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday to move a step closer to securing his third consecutive Formula One championship. The Red Bull driver, who missed out on the podium a week ago in Singapore, started from p California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by governor 09/23/2023 10:00pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state. The legislation vetoed Friday night would have banned self-driv NHRA Carolina Nationals Pairings 09/23/2023 10:00pm • Saturday At zMax Dragway Concord, N.C. Sunday's Pairings Top Fuel 1. Mike Salinas, 3.647 seconds, 338.00 mph vs. 14. Mike Bucher, 8.073, 75.01; 2. Antron Brown, 3.655, 332.75 vs. 13. Spencer Massey, 3.766, 319.52; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.665, 331.61 vs. 12. Steve Torrence, 3.726, 328.70; 4. Brittany Forc Lahaina residents brace for what they'll find as they return to devastated properties in burn zone 09/23/2023 09:44pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Soon after one of Maui's Japanese Buddhist temples, the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, burned in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, its resident minister was desperate to go back and see what remained. Six weeks later, he's more hesitant. “Now I feel like I have to h 'Not wearing a seatbelt': Woodbridge man killed in early morning high-speed crash 09/23/2023 09:42pm • A man was killed early Saturday morning after a single-car crash in Woodbridge, Virginia. The Prince William County Police Department said the crash happened at 2:45 a.m. in the 3500 block of Veronica Lane off Smoketown Road. Officials said the driver of a 2014 Nissan Altima — identified as Auto workers still have room to expand their strike against car makers. But they also face risks 09/23/2023 08:30pm • Even after escalating its strike against Detroit automakers on Friday, the United Auto Workers union still has plenty of leverage in its effort to force the companies to agree to significant increases in pay and benefits. Only about 12% of the union’s membership is so far taking part in the wal Nemechek advances to Xfinity playoffs round of 8 with win at Texas 09/23/2023 07:59pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — John Hunter Nemechek moved into the round of eight of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win at Texas, where he took the final lead after front-running Justin Allgaier got moved up the track on the 195th of 200 laps on Saturday. It was the seventh win of the season for Ne Menendez gains a primary opponent as calls for his resignation grow after indictment 09/23/2023 06:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey announced on Saturday that he will run against Sen. Robert Menendez in the state’s Democratic primary for Senate next year, saying he feels compelled to run against the three-term senator after he and his wife were indicted on sweeping corruption cha A landslide in Sweden causes a huge sinkhole on a highway and 3 are injured when cars crash 09/23/2023 05:54pm • HELSINKI (AP) — A landslide in western Sweden caused a huge sinkhole on a major highway to Norway early Saturday, and three people were injured when their cars and a bus skidded off the road, police said. Photos and video footage showed a sinkhole 500 meters (1,640 feet) wide that had opened up o DC man killed in Prince George's Co. hit-and-run while walking on I-495 09/23/2023 05:48pm • A D.C. man was struck and killed in Prince George's County, Maryland, early Saturday morning and investigators are looking for the driver responsible. Maryland State Police said the crash happened before 2 a.m. on the inner loop of Interstate 495 south of Ritchie Marlboro Road. The man — identi Bubba Wallace on pole at Texas after making 2nd round of NASCAR's playoffs 09/23/2023 03:33pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Bubba Wallace will start from the pole at Texas, the first race after he just made the cut to get into the second round of NASCAR's playoffs. Wallace turned a lap of 188.337 mph in the final round of qualifying Saturday, finishing ahead of fellow playoff contenders and RF Reddick now in NASCAR's playoff mix at Texas after missing cut last year and then winning there 09/23/2023 01:55pm • Tyler Reddick this time made it into the round of 12 that starts in Texas, where last year he won a tumultuous and tiring race right after just missing the cut in NASCAR's playoffs. With a win at Kansas after opening these Cup Series playoffs with a runner-up finish at Darlington, Reddick advanced a French activists protest racism and police brutality while officers are on guard for key events 09/23/2023 01:38pm • PARIS (AP) — Families, community groups and far-left activists marched in cities around France on Saturday to decry racism and police brutality, putting authorities on edge at a time when French police are deployed en masse for a string of high-security events. Lingering anger over the killing by Biden faces foreign policy trouble spots as he aims to highlight his experience on the global stage 09/23/2023 12:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — This probably wasn't how President Joe Biden envisioned his big foreign policy week ending. Biden spent much of the time trying to make the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly as well as to Democratic donors and voters that his decades of foreign policy experience