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Ricky Stenhouse Jr vows not to retaliate, wreck Kyle Busch at Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte 05/25/2024 07:23pm • CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has cooled off and no longer plans to wreck Kyle Busch at the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. But that doesn’t mean he and Busch are back on speaking terms. Stenhouse said he spoke to Busch’s team owner Richard Childress — who had Chase Elliott wins first NASCAR Xfinity Series race since 2016 at Charlotte Motor Speedway 05/25/2024 04:50pm • CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Chase Elliott proved he still knows how to win an Xfinity Series race. Running on fresh tires, Elliott held off Brandon Jones on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway to win his first race on the NASCAR's lower circuit since 2016 and his sixth overall. It was a rare cameo for E Verstappen endures a rare bad day in F1 but it's worse for Red Bull teammate Perez 05/25/2024 02:26pm • MONACO (AP) — Red Bull driver Max Verstappen endured a rare bad day in Formula 1 on Saturday, qualifying only sixth for the Monaco Grand Prix on a track notoriously hard to overtake on. A day after saying his car was “jumping like a kangaroo” during practice, the three-time world champion was Leclerc takes pole position for Monaco GP and ends Verstappen's bid for F1 record 05/25/2024 01:09pm • MONACO (AP) — Charles Leclerc took pole position for Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix and ended Max Verstappen's bid for a record-extending ninth straight pole on Saturday. Verstappen, who shares the Formula 1 record with the late Ayrton Senna, starts Sunday's race from sixth place for Red Bull on What you can do to try to stay safe when a tornado hits, and also well beforehand 05/25/2024 12:32pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Record warmth this winter fueled a deadly tornado outbreak across parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas in March. Then tornadoes killed multiple people and injured at least 35 others in Iowa. Recent twisters have even struck in places unaccustomed to them, such as one near L Millions vote in India's grueling election with Prime Minister Modi's party likely to win third term 05/25/2024 09:44am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians voted Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party. Many people lined polling st Drivers who try the Indy 500-NASCAR 600 double have had mixed results. Kyle Larson is next 05/25/2024 08:44am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Only four drivers have attempted one of the most grueling days in motorsports: the 1,100-mile Memorial Day weekend double. Kyle Larson is trying to become the fifth to race in both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 on the same day and the 31-year-old Californian This Memorial Day kicks off a buyer’s market for new cars 05/25/2024 08:40am • (CNN) — Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to offer some of the best deals on new cars in years. The discounts vary widely by manufacturer and type of car – don’t expect too much off on a Toyota SUV, for example. But it’s a good time to be in the market for an electric vehicle. The new ca Reopened bridge in Silver Spring marks milestone for Purple Line 05/25/2024 08:30am • After six years of closure, the Talbot Avenue Bridge in Montgomery County, Maryland, has reopened for pedestrian and vehicle traffic, marking what officials deemed progress in the yearslong Purple Line light rail project. Officials thanked the community for its patience while construction was und What's open and closed on Memorial Day 05/25/2024 08:15am • In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America's fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses increasingly have chosen to stay open on the holiday, leading to what is now one of the biggest retail sales and Car bomb in the Syrian capital kills one. Drone strike near Lebanon border targets two vehicles 05/25/2024 07:45am • BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb attached to a car exploded early Saturday in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage, state media reported. Damascus’ Mazze neighborhood houses the Iranian consulate, destroyed last m Kyle Larson hopes rain and his daughter's misgivings don't ruin Indianapolis 500 debut 05/25/2024 06:10am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Audrey Larson, all of 6 years old, is rooting for Alexander Rossi to win the Indianapolis 500. And if her dad doesn't flip his car — she is pretty convinced he will — then maybe he can finish second. That's some kind of cheering section that Kyle Larson is taking into “T It's not just Rafael Nadal: Retirement is in the tennis air as the French Open starts 05/25/2024 06:01am • PARIS (AP) — It’s not just Rafael Nadal who has folks wondering how many more tennis matches remain in his career. With the French Open set to start Sunday, plenty of accomplished players are getting ready to bid adieu to the sport soon, including three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray, maj Egypt agrees to send aid trucks through Israeli crossing to Gaza but impact is unclear 05/25/2024 03:53am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it was unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of Rafah amid Israel’s escalating offensive the The world’s best countries for tourism, according to the World Economic Forum 05/25/2024 03:00am • (CNN) — The United States has just won a significant honor – being named the world’s best country for travel and tourism in 2024 by the World Economic Forum.The rankings are determined by a broad range of criteria, including infrastructure, natural resources, sustainability, labor availabi