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Hugs from MJ: Bubba Wallace eager to show just reaching playoffs not enough 09/01/2023 09:49am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bubba Wallace got a big hug from team owner Michael Jordan in the pits at Daytona last week after the racer clinched his first career NASCAR playoff appearance. Now, Wallace is primed to show he and his 23XI Racing team have even more in the tank this season. Wallace, winl NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 09/01/2023 09:07am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more a Greece: Firefighters rescue 25 migrants trapped in forest as massive wildfire approached 09/01/2023 08:26am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek firefighters rescued a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in northeastern Greece Friday as flames from a massive wildfire burning for two weeks approached, authorities said. The fire department said the group became trapped in the forest between two villages in th NASCAR playoffs begin with Denny Hamlin ready to shake label as greatest driver without a Cup title 09/01/2023 06:00am • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Only 36 points separate the 16 drivers as NASCAR's playoffs begin Sunday at Darlington Raceway in what might be one of the closest fields in the history of this format. After so many near-misses, is it finally Denny Hamlin's year? “It’s always my year," Hamlin said with Car bomb explosions and hostage-taking inside prisons underscore Ecuador's fragile security 09/01/2023 01:41am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. Ecuador� 2nd man charged in July shooting at massive Indiana block party that killed 1, injured 17 08/31/2023 09:58pm • MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor Thursday charged the second man arrested in a July shooting at a massive block party in central Indiana that left one person dead and 17 others wounded. Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman announced he charged Justin E. Bonner, 29, of Muncie with unlawful posse Iowa teen on trial for killing of 2 fellow students says he feared for his life 08/31/2023 09:35pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teenager feared for his life when he fatally shot two fellow students at an alternative educational program for at-risk youth, his lawyer said Thursday, rebutting a claim by prosecutors that the shooting was a premeditated attack on rival gang members. Preston Walls MS-13 gang member pleads guilty in 2016 slaying of two teenage girls on New York street 08/31/2023 08:45pm • CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A member of the violent MS-13 street gang pleaded guilty Thursday for his part in the murders of four people, including two teenage girls who were attacked with a machete and baseball bats as they walked through their suburban Long Island neighborhood seven years ago. En 5 of the Best Stocks to Buy Now 08/31/2023 08:00pm • Stocks are at a crossroads heading into autumn. After a vigorous rally in the first half of the year, the market has been more volatile over the past couple of months. As the Federal Reserve continues its monetary tightening agenda, investors continue to fret about things such as the housing market, Sandwich generation feels financial squeeze in caring for parents, kids 08/31/2023 08:00pm • After Michelle Creeden's father was diagnosed with a quickly progressing form of dementia, he moved in with her and her son. Related: Sign up for stock news with our Invested newsletter. "I have a seemingly endless amount of student loans, but my son and I made it safely through the pandemic, Residents pick through the rubble of lost homes and scattered belongings in Hurricane Idalia's wake 08/31/2023 07:37pm • HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida and Georgia residents living along Hurricane Idalia's path of destruction on Thursday picked through piles of rubble where homes once stood, threw tarps over ripped-apart roofs and gingerly navigated streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees and dang Former F1 driver Felipe Massa ready to go to court as he claims he was 'robbed' of 2008 title 08/31/2023 07:26pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa says he is ready to take Formula One's governing body to court to press his claims that he was “robbed” of the 2008 title, which he lost by one point to Lewis Hamilton. Massa said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that he Rule allowing rail shipments of LNG will be put on hold to allow more study of safety concerns 08/31/2023 06:31pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety concerns related to transporting that fuel and other substances like hydrogen that must be kept at extremely low temperature Police stop Nebraska man for bucking the law with a bull riding shotgun in his car 08/31/2023 05:00pm • A car driving with a bull in it was pulled over by police in northeast Nebraska's biggest city. Don't worry, he didn't steer. Norfolk Police Capt. Chad Reiman said it didn't take long for officers to track down the modified Ford Crown Victoria sedan with a bull riding shotgun after a 911 call about Squeezing in one last summer trip over Labor Day weekend? Expect crowded airports and full flights 08/31/2023 04:22pm • DALLAS (AP) — By some measures, air travelers have enjoyed a less stressful summer than last year, but canceled flights remain elevated as airlines face their last big test of the prime vacation season: Labor Day weekend. The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that this will be the third