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Kyle Larson celebrates NASCAR playoff waiver with another win, Cup Series lead

SONOMA, Calif. — The Indianapolis 500 is over and the worried wait to see if Kyle Larson’s participation in that event would cost him a shot at winning a NASCAR championship has been resolved. So it’s life back to the usual for NASCAR’s busiest driver. That means a lot more races and, of course, more winning. Larson celebrated NASCAR approving his participation in the playoffs with his third Cup victory of the season — a Sunday win at his home track. The victory for Larson, who grew up 80 miles away from Sonoma Raceway in Elk Grove, was his second on the rolling road ...

Social Security reform Is coming (really) and will bring political rewards

No matter what President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump promise you, and no matter its past as the untouchable “third rail” of American politics, Social Security will be modified one way or another within the next 10 years. While both candidates are misleading their voters, the party with the most to lose from ignoring Social Security’s troubles is the GOP. First, some background. It doesn’t matter that some people continue to believe the money for Social Security is in an account with their name on it, or that they trust Biden’s and Trump’s word not to touch ...

Trump’s COVID response was worse than we remember

Here are Trump’s words from that infamous April 2020 press conference about Covid: “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light. … And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. … I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. … And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.” Yet here we are, a little more than four years later, and the narrative about how COVID was ...

Young Haitian Missionaries Pay the Ultimate Sacrifice in Ministry

I cannot imagine the immense depth of grief and pain the families of Davy and Natalie Lloyd are bearing right now as the remains of this young missionary couple were recently flown back to the U.S. from Haiti. Davy, 23, and Natalie, 21, had their entire lives ahead of them, and soon after getting married in 2022, they began working for the Missions in Haiti full time. The mission was founded by Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, in 2000, and a Fox News report stated that Davy and Natalie “’gave everything’ for the people there.” They, along with the local Missions in Haiti ...

Clark, physical play and questions about fouls dominating discussions

Caitlin Clark has been tested during her first month in the WNBA with physical play from opponents that has brought an increased spotlight on the league. Not all of the attention has been positive. The conversations exploded over the weekend when Chicago’s Chennedy Carter gave a shoulder shot to Clark that knocked her to the floor before an inbound pass during the third quarter of the Sky-Indiana Fever game on Saturday. “I think everybody is physical with me, they get away with things that probably other people don’t get away with,” Clark, who like many good offensive ...

NFL teams actually care about kickoffs in practice again after rule change

FRISCO, Texas — The Kansas City Chiefs are considering the possibility of safety Justin Reid handling some kickoffs. The Dallas Cowboys are hoping tiny return man KaVontae Turpin might finally break a big one two years after he basically made the team doing exactly that in the preseason. Mostly, coaches and players in the NFL are wondering what they’re getting into with radical changes to the kickoff rule. It’s no longer a “ dead, ceremonial play,” as league executive and former player Troy Vincent so flatly described it late last season, about three months before owners ...