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Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Speedway, Ind.) — Katherine Legge has been around long enough in racing that folks in motorsports know how to pronounce her last name.It’s “Leg.” Not “Leg-EEE.”  They know how to pronounce her name because she has built a resume over the last 20 years, racing primarily in sports cars, along with 47 career INDYCAR starts. She also has dabbled in NASCAR, with 19 national series starts. She has been an Acura factory driver in sports cars (including four victories) and has run nearly three full INDYCAR seasons. She has a couple of Formula E starts as well.The…

LONDON — Police in the UK say they are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse after looking into potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Police in Surrey, the county immediately southwest of London, said in a statement Tuesday that they are investigating two separate allegations. One relates to locations in Surrey and Berkshire in the mid-1990s to 2000. The other relates to the mid- to late 1980s in West Surrey. No arrests have been made. “We take all reports of sexual offending seriously and will work…

The organizers of the Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on Monday said Tuesday that at least five of its boats “sustained shots” fired by the intervening soldiers.In two videos datemarked Tuesday of what appears to be the same incident, posted on the Global Sumud Flotilla’s (GSF) Telegram channel, activists on a vessel called the Girolama can be heard shouting “don’t shoot” as metallic pings are heard. A video posted by the group on X includes the caption: “With hands in the air, participants implored ‘do not shoot’. This is an attack on humanity. This is what apartheid looks like: when…

Manchester United visit Brighton and Hove Albion in their final match of the Premier League season on Sunday.  Michael Carrick has overseen huge improvement since taking charge of the Red Devils in January, and the Englishman is expected to be announced as United’s new permanent head coach in the near future. After recovering well from a disastrous first half of the campaign, the Manchester outfit now sit third in the top flight table and have already secured qualification for next season’s Champions League. Those in charge of the club will already have one eye on this summer’s transfer market, though,…

In his bid to become the next Mayor of Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt has dubbed himself the (temporary) Prince of Bel Air.  The former Hills star made light of a recent TMZ report, which claimed that instead of the Airstream trailer Pratt suggested he was living in after his Pacific Palisades home burned down in 2025, Pratt was actually putting his feet up at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air.  In a spoof of Will Smith’s “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” opening theme song to the show of the same name, Pratt tells the story of how he was forced to abandon…

In a movie called Mercy, you’d expect compassion — instead, you get cold algorithms, hard deadlines, and a justice system that wouldn’t know a second chance if it filed an appeal. This near-future sci-fi thriller throws Chris Pratt into a courtroom where the judge isn’t just stern — it’s silicon. And from there, the film makes one thing clear: in this world, “processing your feelings” is less important than processing your data. Review The premise is easily the movie’s biggest strength. A justice system run by AI, a detective who helped build it, and a race against time to prove…

The Maryland Prescription Drug Affordability Board agreed to set an upper payment limit for the Ozempic diabetes treatment, marking the second time that the state panel has taken such a step in recent weeks. The board, which is designed to function like a state utility commission, will now oversee a process to lower the cost of the type 2 diabetes medicine for the state and local governments by January 2027. At the time, the price will be capped at $274 for a 30-day supply, a move the board estimates will save $5.8 million a year. The expected cost was benchmarked…

Three adult men, one of whom was a security guard, were killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, authorities said.The security guard appeared to play a “pivotal role” in keeping the shooting from “being much worse,” police said at a news conference, noting that the victims were found out front of the center.”His actions were heroic,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said of the security guard during a press briefing Monday. “Undoubtedly he saved lives today.”People stand behind police tape at the scene of a shooting outside the Islamic Center of San Diego,…

‘Tank Day’ marketing campaign provoked backlash for eliciting bloody suppression of 1980 Gwangju uprising.Published On 19 May 202619 May 2026The head of Starbucks Korea has been dismissed after a marketing campaign that evoked a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters provoked outrage, including from South Korea’s president.CEO Son Jung-hyun was fired to hold him accountable for the “inappropriate” promotional campaign launched on the anniversary of the May 18, 1980, uprising in Gwangju, the coffee chain’s South Korean operator said on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listShinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin “personally ordered” Son’s dismissal after a “strict and thorough…

Yves here. The authors below have developed a model for the impact of tariffs that goes beyond widely-used and arguable simplistic approaches. Their integration of production networks and other factors suggests that even short-lived tariffs can do significant, lasting damage. By Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Schreiber Family Professor of Economics Brown University; Can Soylu, Brown University; and Muhammed A. Yıldırım, Assistant Professor of Economics Koc University. Originally published at VoxEU Tariffs have returned as instruments of economic and geopolitical policy, but their short- and medium-run macroeconomic effects are still not fully understood. This column introduces a new framework that integrates global production…