F1 News: Max Verstappen Tops Off His Emilia Romagna GP Victory With 24-Hour Race Win Three-time F1 champion Max Verstappen clinched a tense victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, whilst also winning in the virtual Nurburgring 24 Hours event during the same weekend. This past ... 05/19/2024 - 2:00 pm | View Link
Kristen Faulkner, Sean Quinn win US cycling road race championships in West Virginia Kristen Faulkner rebounded from a second-place finish in the U.S. time trial championships by dropping Ruth Edwards along with everyone else and rolling uncontested to the finish to win the national ... 05/19/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
Norris charge not enough to deny Verstappen victory at Imola Max Verstappen saw off a late challenge from Lando Norris to secure victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. Verstappen controlled the 63-lap race right up until the final 10 laps, when his hard ... 05/19/2024 - 6:58 am | View Link
Sherlock earns first FR Americas win in Race 2 at Road America Titus Sherlock (No. 31 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) earned his first-career win in Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) at Road America on Saturday afternoon. After an ... 05/19/2024 - 12:15 am | View Link
Max Verstappen’s narrow F1 Imola victory solidifies McLaren as a serious threat “Honestly, I think the McLarens are on equal pace to the Red Bulls now, which is really impressive to see,” George Russell said on Saturday. “When you look at the last three races, (McLaren) have been ... 05/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Jim Otto, the Hall of Fame center known as “Mr. Raider” for his durability through a litany of injuries, has died, the team confirmed Sunday night. He was 86.
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The cause of death was not immediately known.
“The Original Raider,” the club said in a statement posted on the social platform X.
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash raises the immediate question of who will succeed him in running the government. Raisi was not only expected to succeed the 85-year-old Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but his death also has consequences for the future of one of the most powerful positions in the Middle East.
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The Supreme Leader, also known as the Velayat-e Faqih in Shia Islamic theology, is the ultimate ruler in Iran and is responsible for making all major decisions concerning the state.
Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed in the northwest of Iran on Sunday, was both the President of Iran and a candidate jockeying to succeed the elderly actual ruler of the country, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Both political positions carried an elevated risk level roughly comparable with that of traveling by air inside Iran—where aviation safety, compromised by decades of sanctions and uneven maintenance, has claimed the lives of almost as many senior Iranian officials as its shadow war with Israel, which also loomed over Raisi’s reported demise.
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The cause of the crash—which also killed Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, and others—is pending investigation.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman postponed a planned four-day trip to Japan due to concerns over the king’s health, Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said.
The trip set to start Monday was to have been the crown prince’s first visit to Japan since 2019. Hayashi said at a regular news briefing in Tokyo the two nations would reschedule the visit, without indicating when.
New Taiwan President William Lai Ching-te urged China to stop its intimidation of the democratic island, comments aimed at calming a dispute at the heart of a geopolitical rivalry involving the world’s two biggest powers.
“I call on China to stop intimidating Taiwan verbally and militarily, and, together with Taiwan, to shoulder our responsibility to the world to do our utmost to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and the region,” Lai said Monday in his inaugural address on an overcast day in Taipei.
Bruce Nordstrom, who as head of Nordstrom Inc. for four decades helped transform the family-run company from a regional shoe seller into one of the largest U. S. apparel retailers, has died. He was 90.
The former company chairman died Saturday at his home, his sons Pete and Erik Nordstrom said in a statement.