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NASCAR playoff grid set after Blaney���s wild win and Formula 1 returns from summer break 08/26/2025 02:45pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Cook Out Southern 500 Playoffs - Round of 16 Site: Darlington, South Carolina. Track: Darlington Raceway. Race distance: 367 laps, 501.32 miles. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 9 a.m., qualifying, 10:10 a.m.; Sunday, race, 6 p.m. (USA). Last year: The first race of Fireworks and touchdowns: How Jalon Daniels and Kansas celebrated their new stadium 08/26/2025 12:50pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ��� Jalon Daniels was about to celebrate the first touchdown in the rebuilt stadium at Kansas when the pyrotechnics went off. Forgive him for being a little startled. The Jayhawks never had such trappings when they played in crumbling Memorial Stadium, a century-plus-old concrete Vingegaard concedes lead to Gaudu on tiebreaker rule as Turner wins 4th stage of Spanish Vuelta 08/26/2025 11:39am • VOIRON, France (AP) ��� Jonas Vingegaard conceded the overall lead of the Spanish Vuelta just like he had hinted he would do in the fourth stage Tuesday, as the race left Italy and crossed into France. British rider Ben Turner won the stage in a sprint finish for his first victory at a Grand Tour, w Everything you need to know about the Venice Film Festival 08/26/2025 10:12am • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� Some of Hollywood���s biggest stars are heading to Venice, Italy, for the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday. Here���s a rundown of everything you need to know about the festival, the Oscar buzz and who���s going. What is the Venice Internat Hurricane Erin leaves rough seas with 2 swimmers dead and a search underway for a missing boater 08/26/2025 06:09am • SALISBURY, Mass. (AP) ��� Hurricane Erin never made landfall but left behind rough ocean conditions along the U.S. East Coast. At least two people died after they had been swimming in the heavy current, and a search continued Monday for a man who was missing after his boat capsized. Beaches were beg Australian police hunt for gunman who killed 2 officers and shot another in a rural town 08/26/2025 05:11am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting Tuesday at a property in a rural part of Australia. The gunman remained at large as police scoured a vast remote area. The shooting occurred in midmorning when 10 armed police officers tried Pregnancy has become a nightmare for many women in Nigeria's conflict-hit north 08/26/2025 03:27am • KONDUGA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Aisha Muhammed was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she had the convulsions and high blood pressure of eclampsia, a leading cause of maternal death. Her village's only health clinic had no doctor, and the only medical help was 40 kilometers (25 miles) away in on Firefighters and weather are stabilizing Oregon wildfire. Flames so far spare California wineries 08/26/2025 02:28am • A wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon was starting to stabilize on Monday, authorities said, while a blaze in Northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state's most famous vineyards. Moisture helped the 1,200 firefighters battling Oregon's Flat Fire, but more w And now for something different, civility unfolds in a Missouri GOP congressman's town hall 08/26/2025 01:03am • BOLIVAR, Missouri (AP) ��� One of the few Republican U.S. House members making in-person appearances embarked on a town hall tour of his district to meet with constituents Monday, and a civil conversation broke out. Rep. Mark Alford and an audience of about 100 in west central Missouri spent an hour Louisiana governor says there's no sign of 'imminent danger' after fire at auto lubricant plant 08/25/2025 10:57pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Following a massive fire on Friday at an automotive lubricant plant in southeast Louisiana, residents are reporting soot on cars and oily residue in nearby bodies of water. But Gov. Jeff Landry said that there is no indication of an ���immediate danger to wildlife or to hu The Latest: Trump fires Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations 08/25/2025 09:19pm • President Donald Trump says he���s firing Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve���s board of governors, amid mortgage fraud allegations, opening a new front in the fight over America���s central bank. The president���s announcement came Monday night, days after Cook said she wouldn���t leave he FBI bushwhacks in Washington forest for traces of Travis Decker, wanted in deaths of 3 daughters 08/25/2025 09:17pm • LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) ��� The FBI on Monday launched an intensive two-day search for clues to the whereabouts of Travis Decker near the Washington state campground where his three young daughters were found dead in early June. But authorities stressed that there had been no break in the case and t Long-elusive Mexican drug lord Ismael ���El Mayo��� Zambada pleads guilty in US 08/25/2025 08:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael ���El Mayo��� Zambada will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges and saying he was sorry for helping flood the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and other illicit substances and for fueling de Democrats demand Trump resume a major offshore wind project near Rhode Island 08/25/2025 07:18pm • NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) ��� A nearly complete wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut faces an uncertain future after the Trump administration abruptly halted construction, and the states' Democratic governors, lawmakers and union workers called Monday for the president to reverse 'Leave our kids alone': Schools reopen in DC with parents on edge over Trump's armed patrols 08/25/2025 06:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Public schools reopened Monday in the nation���s tense capital with parents on edge over the presence in their midst of thousands of National Guard troops ��� some now armed ��� and large scatterings of federal law enforcement officers carrying out President Donald Trump's orders