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NASCAR's concrete coliseum is back to normal for Sunday's race at Bristol. Drivers welcome the move 03/16/2024 07:33pm • Bristol Motor Speedway has ditched the dirt and is back to being a concrete coliseum for its annual spring race. The famed short track added red clay each of the last three years for its first of two events. Reviews were mixed, and as the novelty wore off, sub-par racing inside the 0.533-mile bullri AP reporters aboard a US military plane watch small batches of aid airdropped on a destroyed Gaza 03/16/2024 02:24pm • ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — As American military pilots closed in on the northern coast of Gaza, Associated Press journalists aboard the aid mission could hardly spot a single building left untouched by six months of brutal war. They watched as three tons of humanitarian aid — food, w No room for compromise for Maryland Senate on $1.2 Billion House revenue proposal 03/16/2024 08:28am • Democrats in the House are pressing a nearly $1.2 billion package they say will pay for both a multi-billion expansion of education funding and a multi-billion projected shortfall in the state’s Transportation Trust Fund. The package highlighted Friday by House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Balt FIFA gives president Infantino 33% raise in pay deal worth $4.6 million in Women's World Cup year 03/16/2024 06:20am • GENEVA (AP) — FIFA raised president Gianni Infantino's base salary 33% last year to lift his total pay package to more than 4.13 million Swiss francs ($4.67 million), soccer’s governing body said in its financial report. Infantino was re-elected unopposed in 2023 to extend his presidency to 11 y School shooter's parents could face years in prison after groundbreaking Michigan trials 03/15/2024 03:40pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Parents of the victims of a Michigan mass shooting were steadfast observers at court hearings that led to three separate convictions of an entire family. One of their goals now is to see more change rise out of the 2021 tragedy at Oxford High School. “We can put people on Maryland House pushes higher taxes, online gambling in $1.3B plan for education and transportation 03/15/2024 02:53pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A budget showdown at the Maryland General Assembly is brewing, with top House leaders outlining on Friday a $1.3 billion plan for new state revenues to pay future education and transportation costs that Senate leaders think is too hefty now and unsuitable for the state’s cu Businesses are ready for April's total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer 03/15/2024 01:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Eclipse-themed beer. Jewelry and ornaments. And doughnuts that capture the sun's disappearing act with the help of buttercream frosting. With April 8's total solar eclipse right around the corner, businesses are ready for the celestial event that will dim skies along a generous pat Vikings acquire extra 1st-round pick at No. 23 from Texans in trade for pair of 2nd-rounders 03/15/2024 11:33am • EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings acquired Houston's first-round pick in a pre- draft trade Friday, giving them the 11th and 23rd overall selections as potential capital toward their next franchise quarterback. The Vikings sent their second-round pick and one of their sixth-round picks for AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa 03/15/2024 02:50am • March 8–14, 2024 An Honor Guard gives a little girl flowers on International Women’s Day in St. Petersburg, Russia, and women wear masks during a Women’s Day protest in Madrid, Spain. Aid packages of rice and flour are transported to Gaza from Larnaca, Cyprus. Trains are parked during a strike The Latest | Egypt appeals for more aid deliveries by land to Gaza as Israel warns of Rafah push 03/15/2024 12:14am • Egypt’s top diplomat made an emotional appeal Thursday for an urgent increase in humanitarian aid going into Gaza by land, even as an aid ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The push to ge James Crumbley, who bought gun used by son to kill 4 students, guilty of manslaughter in Michigan 03/14/2024 09:53pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the teen’s parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil. The jury verdict 15 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for 2024 03/14/2024 08:00pm • Interest rates have been the overarching factor for dividend investors over the past year. The Federal Reserve's rapid interest rate-hiking campaign led to a dramatic sell-off in many traditional safe-harbor sectors such as consumer staples, utilities and telecom. As inflation has started to subside Beans: Health Benefits, Recipes and Expert Advice 03/14/2024 08:00pm • If there's one food you should be eating more often to benefit your health and the health of the planet, it is beans. Small but mighty, beans are packed with nutrition. They are a rich source of fiber, essential vitamins and minerals, and plant-based protein. They also have the potential to feed the How Much Does an Alaska Cruise Cost in 2024? 03/14/2024 08:00pm • If you're planning a cruise to Alaska this year, you may be enticed by low prices (in the hundreds) for a weeklong cruise. However, it's important to know that those fares are just the beginning of the cost for the entire trip. Typically, the lowest advertised prices with mainstream cruise lines don US military chief tours arms plants with GOP lawmakers to show that Ukraine aid boosts jobs at home 03/14/2024 05:40pm • CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) — As they stood before massive rocket launchers built in part by their Arkansas constituents, Republican lawmakers were getting an unambiguous message Thursday from America’s top military officer: A Ukraine aid package that’s stalled in Congress will not only help in the figh