Neither team nor NASCAR were amused. As a result, Truex missed his first opportunity to speed test his new ride. MORE: Starting lineups for Duels | Expect crashes | Sunday’s Daytona 500, 1 p.m. ET NASCAR stopped Truex and his No. 78 Toyota from taking the track on Sunday at Daytona. Furniture Row Racing was given five minutes to fix the problem. Fat chance that would happen, given Truex and team had to hustle the car back to their garage....

Infuriated by Logano’s winning bump-and-run maneuver that stole away his final lap lead, Truex Jr. followed up the thumbs down by saying straight-up in his post-race TV interview that he wouldn’t let Logano win the 2018 Cup Series championship. He had the backing of a crowd that like many NASCAR spectators didn’t appreciate Logano’s edgy driving style. “He may have won the battle, but he ain’t winning the damn war,” Truex Jr....

The top-seeded pairing defeated Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-1, 6-2 on Friday at the All England Club. MORE: Scenes from Wimbledon | Singles: Djokovic wins | Roger Federer vs. Andy Murray Hingis also will plan for Wimbledon’s mixed doubles title. She and partner Leander Paes of India, seeded seventh, pulled a major upset in Friday’s semifinals by defeated the No. 1 seeds — American duo Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mike Bryan 6-3, 6-4....

Martina grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia before she was granted asylum in the U.S. at age 18. Newsweek talked to her about life behind the Iron Curtain, her thoughts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and much more. This interview has been lightly edited for length. I think for most of us, we would say our childhood is impressionable, but you’ve had a really interesting experience in terms of where you grew up....

Martinez, 29, has been a creative spark for the Wanderers throughout the season and Dimas senses the Argentine can have a key impact against Sydney FC in a game the Red-and-Black desperately need to win. Western Sydney haven’t won a Sydney derby in over three years, while they have just two victories this season to sit seventh in the A-League table - 22 points behind the Sky Blues. “He’s [Martinez] a very important player for us… a top player....

The Belgium boss is one of the leading candidates to succeed Julen Lopetegui on a permanent basis following his sacking at the end of October. However, Martinez insists his only concern is Belgium’s Nations League matches with Iceland and Switzerland, which take place next week. “I don’t want to say whether I or my agent had contact with Real Madrid,” he told a news conference. “That is irrelevant and would be of little respect in the run-up to the matches against Switzerland and Iceland....

Hogan made the announcement at a news conference on Tuesday and signed two executive orders that aim to curb the spread of COVID-19. One order was the mobilization of 1,000 members of the state’s National Guard to assist hospitals around the state. Another order grants the Maryland Department of Health the ability to regulate hospital staffing and resources. “While we can’t manufacture doctors and nurses who don’t exist,” Hogan said during the conference, “we have continued to do everything we possibly can do at the state level in order to help our hospitals withstand this surge and to save lives....

In a press release Monday, the agency announced that over 508,000 fraudulent new unemployment insurance claims have been detected since the beginning of May—bringing the total number of fraudulent claims to 1.3 million. Governor Larry Hogan called the number “astonishing.” “With fraudulent activity rampant in unemployment insurance programs across the country, Maryland has consistently adapted and added new security measures to prevent, detect and report fraud,” Hogan said in a statement....

Anne Catherine Akers, 28, of Montgomery County, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and first-degree child abuse after police found her and her daughter with slashed necks on Saturday. According to the Montgomery County Department of Police, officers responded to a call at 10:50 a.m. March 27 after Akers’ father found blood on the floor of her home. Hours before the attack was discovered, Akers’ father tried to get into the home, but investigators said Akers had changed the locks over the weekend, WUSA9 reported....

Incredibly, the former West Ham and Liverpool star had never previously scored in Blaugrana colours, despite playing for the club for almost seven seasons. ‘Alli can become a true great’ But when Denis Suarez was chopped down in the penalty at Camp Nou with Barca already cruising 5-1 up, Masche stepped forward to convert the penalty. He beat Salvatore Sirigu to end a run of 319 games without hitting the net, to the delight of his team-mates who mobbed him after the successful effort....

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The Santa Monica Police Department said in a press release Tuesday that the customer entered the Vons store at around 10:35 p.m. without a face mask and began to “cause a scene.” Witnesses told police that when employees approached the customer to wear a facial covering he became “belligerent” and assaulted a staff member. A security guard then intervened and attempted to escort the customer out of the building, at which point a fight between the two ensued....

Shortly after high-fiving several rally-goers in Sanford, DeSantis was then seen rubbing his nose. Footage of the event on Monday night suggests there was very little mask-wearing from the crowd—a common occurrence at recent Trump rallies. It was the first in-person campaign event Donald Trump has held since he was diagnosed with COVID. The president did hold an event shortly before his positive test was announced. In the video, DeSantis can be seen walking through the packed crowd and giving high-fives to some of the president’s supporters....

The Texan company first notified the FSIS of the problem after receiving calls from customers complaining about finding “mirror-like” material in the products, which had been bought from grocery stores across the state. According to the FSIS, the problem is limited to the items produced on November 2, 2022, information that customers can find on the packaging of the products. Those recalled—which were shipped to retailers in Texas—can be identified with the establishment number “EST....

Responding to a letter sent by New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu criticizing a Massachusetts court, Chief Justice Kimberly Budd pledged to take the necessary steps regarding the case of Harmony Montgomery, a New Hampshire girl, the Associated Press reported. “I share your view that we need to learn as much as we can about what happened,” Budd wrote. In his letter, Sununu described Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, as a “monster,” with a criminal record, including armed assault, drug offenses and allegedly shooting someone in the head....

The tooth has been identified by Katie Kelley and Rebecca Robinson, professors of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, who are now conducting further tests to confirm their finding. It was discovered in the summer during an Ocean Exploration Trust expedition to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which stretches over 495,000 square miles. The find was unveiled on Wednesday on the trust’s Facebook page, Nautilus Live....

The teen confessed to starting the fire after officers came to search her house on Tuesday, the Peachtree City Police Department said in a release emailed to Newsweek. She was charged with first-degree arson. “Initial eyewitness information was eventually corroborated by video evidence recovered from the damaged servers inside Wal-Mart, leading to a suspect description. Through further investigative efforts by detectives, a suspect was identified,” the statement said. The fire broke out at about 7:20 p....

Unfortunately, I doubt these MW08 wireless, active noise-canceling earphones will alter the company’s name recognition in any meaningful way, but the design remains spot-on. The point is, while these M&D wireless earphones might not elicit the same initial reaction as AirPods’ or Bose’s, they should still be considered among any premium audio purchasers. The latest is definitely the greatest. I’ve tried and enjoyed the MW07 Plus earbuds from M&D, but with a few minor tweaks to that model, the MW08 have far exceeded expectations....

The Australian was in a share of the clubhouse lead with Jon Rahm and Justin Harding having opened with a three-under-par 69 on Thursday. It was Scott’s lowest opening round since he was defending champion in 2014, with the past two years seeing him begin with scores of 75. “Yeah, it is [nice to start well],” former world number one Scott admitted when addressing reporters. “I mean, one of the things in, generally in my career, I’m kind of a slow starter, certainly the last 10 years, I don’t jump out of the gates, it seems....

Day, who has battled back issues throughout his career and had epidurals in the lead up to this event, injured himself just before he was due to tee off on Thursday, when he bent down to kiss his daughter on the practice putting green. The Australian feared he would be forced to withdraw from the year’s first major due to the pain he was suffering, but he nevertheless managed to shoot 70 in the opening round after receiving treatment on the second and fourth tees....