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MORE: New Mexico State should be outraged, but these Week 1 overreactions are too much Not many more details are known about the break-in. Moccia spoke to the Las Cruces Sun News about what had happened. He said the bus was carrying administrators from New Mexico State athletics as well as donors. “When I got back to the bus after the postgame press conference, I was informed that the bus had been broken into or left unattended,” Moccia said....

The new changes are two-fold. One is a new aerodynamic rules package designed to lower downforce, and the other is a high-drag package that is expected to increase drag and reduce speeds by up to 10 mph. MORE: NASCAR arenas of speed | Austin Dillon’s spectacular crash in photos | NASCAR families The lower downforce package, to be used at Kentucky and Darlington (Sept. 6), calls for teams to use a 3....

Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, South, Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg, all polled better than the incumbent president, according to the Glengariff Group survey shared via email with Newsweek. However, Warren and Buttigieg’s leads over Trump were within the poll’s margin of error, which was plus or minus four percentage points. Respondents were asked whom they would vote for in a hypothetical presidential election that would occur the day they were surveyed....

The third-in-line to the British throne is pictured in Norfolk where the family have their country retreat, Anmer Hall, in Sandringham. The prince smiles warmly as he sits alongside a car while yellow flowers grow in a field behind him in the relaxed portrait. The Duchess of Cambridge captured the precious moment earlier this month, adding to the growing collection of official birthday photos she has taken herself. Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis celebrated their birthdays in May and April, when similar pictures were released by Cambridge family....

Amended complaints filed Thursday by attorney general Eric Schneiderman up the ante in the state’s fight against the companies, which have raked in millions from New York. While Schneiderman had previously sought to have DraftKings and FanDuel’s activities ruled illegal, he had not asked them to give back revenue. MORE: Daily fantasy can ruin lives | NFL’s arrogance on display in DFS controversy Now, however, the state is seeking “an accounting of monies collected from consumers in New York,” and orders directing the companies to “disgorge all monies resulting from the fraudulent and illegal practices alleged herein” and to “make restitution of all funds obtained from consumers in connection with the fraudulent, deceptive, and illegal acts complained of herein....

A flurry of shootings in New York City’s five boroughs over the past weekend involved at least two teenagers and put NYC’s total of shooting victims on the year to at least 942. NYPD data shows there were 776 shootings throughout all 12 months of 2019 and a total of 922 victims—at least 20 fewer than in the eight months of this year. The city’s homicide rate is also tracking higher than the previous year, with 237 reported year-to-date through August 1—an increase of 46 from the 181 murder victims recorded during the same time period in 2019....

According to a new poll by the Sienna College Research Institute, Cuomo’s favorability rating has surged in the past month, with a 71 percent favorability rating in March. The poll was conducted from March 22 to March 26 via telephone calls with 566 registered voters in New York and has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. The poll also found that the governor has a 23 percent unfavorability rating, with 6 percent saying they had no opinion....

While Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville will pause delivering babies after September 24, hospital officials said they will work with the state’s Department of Health to make sure the maternity unit doesn’t close permanently, according to television station WWNY. “If we can pause the service and now focus on recruiting nurses who are vaccinated, we will be able to reengage in delivering babies here in Lewis County,” Lewis County Health System Chief Executive Officer Gerald Cayer said at a news conference Friday....

De Blasio took to social media after the Nets announced four players tested positive for COVID-19, including injured superstar Kevin Durant. MORE: NBA players, other sports figures who’ve tested positive Durant’s positive test comes after Jazz teammates Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell contracted the virus, which continues to disrupt sports around the globe. De Blasio questioned the Nets as the world struggles to contain coronavirus, with at least 7,900 deaths....

The impromptu event occurred in spite of a citywide ban on large public gatherings, which Mayor Bill de Blasio extended last week to last through June. “There are to be no gatherings in New York City such as we saw last night,” New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said during a Wednesday news conference with the mayor. By Shea’s estimation, there were “several thousand” people who gathered in Williamsburg to recognize the passing of Rabbi Chaim Mertz, who recently died of complications after contracting COVID-19....

Los Deliveristas Unidos, “a labor organization of immigrant delivery couriers who kept New Yorkers fed during the pandemic,” was responsible for raising awareness of the poor conditions staff members were suffering through, according to The City. The legislation is believed to be the first in the United States aimed at providing minimum work standards for those in app-based food delivery services. The bills would require restaurant owners to allow delivery staff to use their restrooms....

On Monday, CNBC reported that Italy’s lockdown of the Lombardy region would be expanded to the entire country. Schools and universities will be closed until April 3, extending the previous closing schedule until March 15. All restaurants and bars will be required to close at 6 p.m. and Italians are not recommended to travel except for work or emergencies. American Airlines is the latest to suspend flights from the U....

Some of the dominant story lines: MORE: Top 25 players in the class of 2015 | More about Skal Labissiere | Breaking down Isaiah Briscoe’s decision P.J. Dozier spurns Louisville, elects to stay home at South Carolina. In the surprise of the day, the 2015 combo guard from (Columbia, S.C.) Spring Valley High chose to play for Frank Martin and the Gamecocks. The decision is a huge recruiting win for the program....

Yeah, they do look a bit like lost souls staring back at you. I think the best stuffed animals are the ones just curled up asleep. It was the first one I did. We filmed in Vancouver. They put us up in this lovely five-star hotel. I got to the set and the trailer was huge, and the director bounced up to me and asked if everything was OK. I said, “The trailer’s bigger than my hotel room,” and he said, “Do you want a bigger hotel room?...

The host of Newsmax TV’s Liberty Loving Latino program accused President Joe Biden of “blaming Trump” over a Friday Labor Department report that showed the U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April versus the 978,000 forecast by government economists. Salcedo accused “Democratic socialists like Biden” of perpetually denying accountability by blaming their GOP predecessors. Reiterating that the U.S. was “cursed by a third term of Obama,” Salcedo said the pre-adjustment April employment numbers are proof the “Trump economy” officially ended May 7, the day the Labor report was released....

Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on the eve of the election, Gingrich made attempts to cast doubt on the prospect of a legitimate win for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe and made vague and unsubstantiated references to potential voter fraud. On Monday night, Gingrich suggested the outcome of the election has the potential to be “very historic” for the GOP. Hannity then asks the former presidential hopeful, does Youngkin “need to win for this to have the maximum impact?...

Earlier this year, serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man who gave Europe its first budget airline, cashed in [Pound sterling]14 million of his easyJet shares to fund what he calls a “little shopping spree.” Boldly expanding his no-frills model into new markets, Stelios (he insists on first-name informality) plans to open the first easyHotel in London this year with prices from [Pound sterling]5 a night, an easyBus fleet and easyCruise, slated to sail next summer....

Messi, 29, is expected to be offered a new deal by Barca in the coming weeks and months, with his current contract set to expire in June 2018. Man Utd loanee report Neymar hopes the Argentina star will remain at Camp Nou, and expects a deal to be finalised soon - despite club president Josep Maria Bartomeu saying recently talks were yet to start. “We hope that Messi will stay in Barcelona with us,” he told reporters in Sao Paulo on Thursday....

The last time Suarez played he infamously bit an Italian opponent at the World Cup, earning him a four-month ban from competitive matches. Suarez, who has since transferred to Barcelona from Liverpool, was cheered by his new fans during the team’s presentation and went on as a substitute in the 75th minute to another round of applause. Neymar hadn’t played since fracturing a vertebra during the World Cup on July 4, ruling him out of the rest of the tournament....