Donald Trump is seeking to deliver a knockout blow to Nikki Haley in New Hampshire's Republican primary, deploying racist dog whistles against the onetime South Carolina governor as the former president ramps up his campaign schedule and hammers his (...)
Austin Dillon passed an out-of-gas Jimmie Johnson two laps from the end in the Coca-Cola 600 for his first NASCAR Cup victory, returning the iconic No. 3 car to Victory Lane early Monday.
Dillon, the grandson of Hall of Fame car owner Richard (...)
Ryan Blaney demonstrated his improving patience and made sure that Kevin Harvick's misery at Charlotte Motor Speedway continued.
Blaney passed Harvick on a restart with three laps to go and held on to win the Xfinity Series race at Charlotte Motor (...)
As someone who has studied bobcats for almost four decades, wildlife ecologist John Litvaitis remembers many times returning from the field without spotting a single one of these solitary and shy creatures that often hunt at dusk.
But bobcats are (...)
In a race built on brave, bold moments, Kyle Busch used one to win NASCAR's annual All-Star race and its $1 million prize.
Busch used an aggressive three-wide pass for the lead Saturday night to take the All-Star event for the first time.
"It was (...)
Kyle Busch raced to his second straight NASCAR Truck Series victory Friday night, leading 90 of 134 laps in a dominating run at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Busch has 48 career Truck victories — three short of Ron Hornaday Jr.'s series record — and 173 (...)
Stuck in the longest losing streak of his career, Jimmie Johnson had a chance for a critical win that could salvage this ho-hum season for Hendrick Motorsports.
Hardly a championship contender for most of this season, Johnson grabbed a victory at (...)
Martin Truex Jr. led a Sprint Cup-record 588 of 600 miles to win the Coca-Cola 600 Sunday night, racing away from his bad-luck past at NASCAR's longest race.
Truex Jr. started from the pole, moved quickly out front and led all but eight of 400 laps (...)
With a victory seemingly out of reach in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton is looking ahead to the next round of voting to reposition her campaign to counter the rising primary threat of insurgent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Clinton hopes to use a (...)
A member of an international drug cartel has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in trying to expand the organization's reach into the United States, AP reported.
Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, part of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel run (...)
Joey Logano earned a critical win at Charlotte Motor Speedway to move into the third round of NASCAR's playoffs on a sloppy day for some of the biggest contenders in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Logano raced to his fourth victory of (...)
AlQa'dah 18, 1436, September 02, 2015, SPA -- A man has admitted scrawling racist graffiti on the homes of four African refugee families and will spend the next year in county jail, according to AP.
Forty-four-year-old Raymond Stevens pleaded guilty (...)
Two Romanian computer hackers who stole credit card information from more 800 U.S. merchants have been given lengthy prison sentences by a federal judge in New Hampshire, AP reported.
The Subway restaurant chain was hit hardest, with credit card (...)
The death toll from a powerful winter storm that pushed through the U.S. midsection into the Northeast has risen to 9.
Officials in Indiana say a man and a woman were killed when the scooter they were riding went out of control on a snowy street (...)
Brad Keselowski won the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday, leading the final 67 laps to give Penske Racing a winning start on auto racing's biggest weekend.
Keselowski raced to his first Nationwide victory of the (...)
Jimmie Johnson used a calculated strategy Saturday night to win NASCAR's All-Star race and its $1 million prize for the third time in his career.
The five-time champion won the first 20-lap segment of the Sprint All-Star race, then rode around at (...)
Mitt Romney easily won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, leaving his opponents in disarray and taking a big step toward becoming his party's choice to run against President Barack Obama in November.
Romney garnered 39 percent of (...)
Mitt Romney's rivals have one more chance to bruise the front-runner for Republican presidential nominee in New Hampshire during a Sunday morning faceoff, just hours after he largely brushed aside their criticism in the opening round of a weekend (...)
Kurt Busch sailed past feuding teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch to win NASCAR's annual All-Star race and its $1 million prize.
Hamlin and Kyle Busch, teammates at Joe Gibbs Racing and the hottest drivers in NASCAR right now, were racing each (...)
Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week for six months (...)
Police say a baby girl cut from her mother's womb is in good condition at a hospital, and a woman arrested at homeless shelter with the child awaits arraignment.
Thirty-five-year-old Julie Corey of Worcester, Massachusetts, was arrested Wednesday (...)
