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IndyCar hopes competitive on-track racing captures audience as F1 season looks to be another snoozer 03/08/2024 04:45pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — IndyCar finally snapped six months of dormancy with a Felix Rosenqvist-led spirited Friday practice session that Formula 1 wishes it could reproduce. As the IndyCar season sets to begin Sunday on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, the series has a very real opportu Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. out of Saudi GP with appendicitis. Oliver Bearman steps up at age 18 03/08/2024 03:00pm • Ferrari has a new British driver, and it isn't Lewis Hamilton. Carlos Sainz Jr. was ruled out of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with appendicitis that required surgery on Friday and Ferrari handed 18-year-old Oliver Bearman his Formula 1 debut hours before qualifying. He placed 11th. “Carlos is out Manassero shoots career-low 61 for European tour to lead in South Africa 03/08/2024 12:05pm • EDENVALE, South Africa (AP) — Matteo Manassero shot a career-low round for the European tour of 11-under 61 to take a one-shot lead of the Jonsson Workwear Open in South Africa on Friday. The Italian hit a pair of eagles and seven birdies to go 15 under overall heading into the weekend at Glendowe A Greek novelist and a lawyer are the first same-sex couple to wed at Athens city hall 03/08/2024 05:08am • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek novelist and his partner became the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens' city hall, three weeks after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. The Greek capital's mayor officiated at the civil wedding on Thursday of Petros Hadjopou China trumpets rising car exports to Russia as its envoy holds talks in Ukraine 03/08/2024 04:59am • BEIJING (AP) — In Beijing and Kyiv, the divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese envoy crisscrossed Europe for talks on ending the war, his boss, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, trumpeted a sharp rise in China-Russia trade — which the West sees as Shane Lowry shows good form is more valuable than a bad track record at Bay Hill 03/07/2024 07:51pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Shane Lowry knew he was playing good golf because he gave himself a chance to win last week. He also knew his record at Bay Hill was as bad as any course he has played. Good form won out Thursday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Lowry made three birdie putts from outside 20 NBA announces the Phoenix Suns will host the 2027 All-Star game 03/07/2024 06:21pm • PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns will host the 2027 NBA All-Star game, the league announced Thursday, giving owner Mat Ishbia a marquee event for the city roughly one year after he purchased the franchise. This will be the fourth time Phoenix has hosted the All-Star game and first since 2009. The S 'They messed it up': Biden's backing for Haiti's unpopular leader digs US into deeper policy hole 03/07/2024 06:11pm • MIAMI (AP) — When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration. Now, almost three years later, Henry’ Montgomery County schools hosting Girls Summit to help parents and students with their health 03/07/2024 05:33pm • Montgomery County Public Schools is hosting their second Girls Summit this weekend which will offer education, resources and activities centered around young women's health. The first summit was held in October of last year after a CDC report revealed teen girls reported symptoms of depression ra Jake Paul fight against Mike Tyson is announced for July 20 and will be streamed live on Netflix 03/07/2024 03:36pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Social media star-turned-boxer Jake Paul will fight former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on July 20 at AT&T Stadium, Netflix announced Thursday. The streaming platform will provide live coverage of the bout between the 27-year-old Paul and 57-year-old Tyson, who hasn' Drama at Red Bull and the FIA dominates F1 ahead of Saudi Arabian GP 03/07/2024 01:33pm • All the action in Formula 1 is happening off the track. World champion Max Verstappen's father wants to oust the boss of Red Bull, the team that took his son to three consecutive titles. The president of the governing body has reportedly been accused of interfering in one race and trying to stop the Nick Dunlap among the stars at Bay Hill and playing as a single 03/07/2024 01:33pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Nick Dunlap finished in just under four hours at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday, which would have made it seem like any other round at Bay Hill with one exception. He was playing alone. He had the first tee time. The entire course was in front of him. The only comp DC game shop runs board games, tabletop role-playing section of Awesome Con 03/07/2024 12:39pm • Awesome Con is a celebration of all things nerd. And it's coming to D.C. The event combines the style of Comic Con in New York or San Diego and is coming to the District on Friday. The convention boasts actors from television and film speaking in panels and signing autographs, as well as an en Rafael Nadal withdraws from Indian Wells. It would have been his first tournament since January 03/06/2024 10:06pm • INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Rafael Nadal pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday night, a day before he was supposed to play his first official match in two months. Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, posted the news on social media, writing that he was announcing the withdrawal “with Biden and Trump dominate Super Tuesday races and move closer to a November rematch 03/06/2024 08:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, romped through more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and pushing the former president’s last major rival, Nikki Haley, out of the Republican race. Their victories from coast to coas