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NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch announced he will be stepping away from full-time racing.Busch made the announcement from his hometown of Las Vegas and said he will miss the rest of this season and will not race full-time in Cup next year.”As I continue to focus on my health and work towards being cleared, I will be stepping away from full-time NASCAR Cup Series competition in 2023,” Busch said in the statement.  Busch’s teammate Bubba Wallace, co-owner Denny Hamlin, and Toyota Racing Development President David Wilson attended the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the announcement.The retirement announcement comes as…

Dikembe Mutombo is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumor in Atlanta, the NBA said Saturday in a statement. “[Mutombo] is receiving the best care possible from a collaborative team of specialists in Atlanta and is in great spirits as he begins treatment,” the league’s statement read. “Dikembe and his family ask for privacy during this time so they can focus on his care. They are grateful for your prayers and good wishes.” Dikembe Mutombo reveled he has a bran tumor.Getty Images The 56-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before starring at…

Exclusive: The ‘superhero’ amputee had Prince Harry momentarily dumbfounded on a video call when he asked him: ‘What’s your favourite crisp?’ After thinking about it, Harry said it was salt and vinegar He’s achieved so much already in his first eight years that it’s no surprise Tony Hudgell isn’t even fazed by meeting royalty. The “superhero” amputee had Prince Harry momentarily dumbfounded on a video call when he asked him: “What’s your favourite crisp?” After a stunned silence, Harry ­replied, “Ooh, that’s interesting”, then mulled it over before revealing it was salt and vinegar. Unimpressed, Tony cheekily shook his head…

BRISTOL, Conn. — A Connecticut police officer who was wounded in an apparent ambush that killed two of his fellow officers fired the shot that killed the attacker, police said.In a Facebook post Saturday, police in Bristol said Alec Iurato was hit by gunfire and returned fire on Wednesday, killing Nicholas Brutcher. The state medical examiner’s office said Brutcher, 35, died from a gunshot wound to the neck with spinal cord injuries.Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were gunned down outside a home where they had responded to a 911 call about possible domestic violence that authorities said appeared to…

A Georgia teenager disappeared four months ago, and there have been no promising leads regarding her whereabouts since.The now-17-year-old was 16 when her parents believe she left her family’s Carrollton home by climbing out of her second-story bedroom window on June 14 without her computer or phone, which had recently been confiscated after her parents said they found out she had been in communication with strangers online. “Heartbreaking that we are FOUR months later and Kaylee Jones is still missing,” the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, which has taken the lead in the search for Jones since June, said in a Friday…

Brazen bandits in Queens beat a senior citizen in broad daylight and then robbed him of $17,000 in cash he was carrying, the NYPD said. The Middle Village incident unfolded about 1:20 p.m. Thursday, police said. The 66-year-old victim was walking on 71st Street towards Juniper Valley Road when an unknown individual approached him from behind, pushed him to the ground and began punching and kicking him, cops said. A 66-year-old man was attacked and robbed of $17,000 in cash in Middle Village, Queens on Thursday afternoon.DCPI The man valiantly tried to fight off the bandit, who could be seen…

CNN  —  Nine lions that were rescued from Ukraine have arrived safely at their new home in Colorado. The big cats were “urgently relocated” from Bio Park Zoo in Odessa, Ukraine, when the Russian invasion first began, according to a news release from The Wild Animal Sanctuary. A convoy transported the lions from Odessa across Moldova to Romania; their journey stretched for over 600 miles, says the sanctuary. They arrived at the Targu Mures Zoo in Romania’s Transylvania region on May 24. The lions spent months at the zoo waiting for an emergency travel permit so they could board a…

Raise a negroni sbagliato with prosecco in it, Anna Delvey is a free woman. We all know the story of Delvey (real name: Anna Sorokin)—a Russian immigrant who posed as a German heiress and deceptively obtained lumps of cash in the pursuit of her dream, the Anna Delvey Foundation, a members-only arts club. The relentless grifter lived large in New York, reeking of money despite not having any. Luxury flexing is a complex thing, and Delvey aped the appearance of minimal, expensive restraint that only the truly affluent can get away with. Nowadays, the vibe has shifted toward the soft neutrals…

The creator of the best-selling trading card game in history is being hailed as a “hero” after he died trying to save an American girl off the coast of Okinawa.Kazuki Takahashi, 60, died in July after the tragic incident that went without clarification from officials for weeks.The Japanese Coast Guard explained that officials consulted with the family of the late comic artist, who expressed desire to downplay Takahashi’s tragedy so as not to draw attention away from the ongoing care of the young girl.US, SOUTH KOREA CONDUCT PRECISION BOMB DRILLS AFTER NORTH KOREA FIRES BALLISTIC MISSILE OVER JAPAN US Army…

JACKSON, Mich. — A judge has dismissed a young woman from the jury hearing the trial of three men in connection with a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after attorneys accused her of flirting with one of the defendants.Judge Thomas Wilson announced Friday that the woman has been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys raised concerns the juror was having too much non-verbal communication with defendant Paul Bellar, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported.“It didn’t just happen on one day — it happened over multiple days,” Wilson said of the juror’s behavior. “I decided it’s safer to err on the side of…