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Keselowski received an early penalty after running in the top five with a shot to jump a spot or two during a pit stop under caution. Keselowski, however, was assessed an outside tire violation, falling to the rear of the field for the restart. |
He also suffered an overheating problem that hindered him midway through the race. He remained patient before taking the lead and pulled away from the field. |
While the mishaps prevented him from contending early, he had to maintain focus. It was a struggle at times. |
"As a driver, those are probably some of the most difficult moments, knowing you have a fast race car and circumstances are playing against you," Keselowski said. "There are two ways you can react to that. You can let the moment define you or you can define the moment." |
It was Keselowski's first win at Iowa Speedway since 2009. He noted the similarities to that victory. His team fought troubles that day using different strategies and beat Kyle Busch's team, which he called one of the best at the time. |
"It was very much a defining moment," Keselowski said. "Especially with it being the inaugural race here. It was a win that, at that time, was the biggest of my career." |
Penske Racing managed to sweep the top two spots with Sam Hornish Jr. placing second. Vickers was third, which is his first top-three finish at Iowa Speedway. |
Hornish started 14th and came away with his fourth runner-up finish of the season. This one was a little different than his second-place finish to Penske teammate Joey Logano two races ago in Chicago. |
Hornish said being the top Nationwide finisher was a boost for points, making second easier to accept. |
"I felt we had maybe a third- or fourth-place car and we finished second," Hornish said. "I'm pretty proud of the way the guys did a great job on pit road for us. I'm actually pretty happy with it." |
For the second straight race at Iowa Speedway, Austin Dillon led the majority of the way but failed to seal the victory. He led 116 laps but fell back to fifth for the final restart. It resembled his performance in June's DuPont Pioneer 250 when he led 207 of 250 and was runner-up to Bayne. |
Dillon decided to take four tires when many of the leaders -- including Vickers, Regan Smith, Elliott Sadler and Bayne -- took two tires to move ahead of him. |
Dillon's fourth-place finish kept him in front in the season points standings. Dillon owns a 14-point lead over Smith. |
Does A Lack Of Secrecy Mean Russian Spies Want Their Actions To Be Known? Abundant evidence points to Russian military intelligence carrying out murders, attempted murders and sabotage throughout Europe. The lack of secrecy could mean the GRU wants its actions to be known. |
Abundant evidence points to Russian military intelligence carrying out murders, attempted murders and sabotage throughout Europe. The lack of secrecy could mean the GRU wants its actions to be known. |
We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about spies, specifically Russian spies. Now, normally there might not be that much to talk about some spycraft is supposed to be invisible. But lately Russian spies have been all over the headlines. We have got two stories. And in a moment, we're going to meet a group ... |
First we're going to dig into these headlines about the GRU, Russian military intelligence. And here to help us do that is NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre. Hey, Greg. |
GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Hi, Mary Louise. |
KELLY: So the GRU has been around for a century, since around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution - but safe to say for a lot of us here in America, the first time we heard about them was 2016. |
KELLY: An assassination attempt that did not manage to assassinate the two people who were being targeted - go on. |
MYRE: That is correct. And the two suspects were seen on the security cameras, which are all over Britain. And then the suspects go back - are back in Russia, and they make this very strange appearance on Russian television to explain what they were doing in Salisbury. |
MYRE: ...To see this tower. It's 123 meters high. And then they said, well, it was cold and slushy, and so they turned around after a couple days and headed back to Russia. |
KELLY: OK, so fast forward to this month, to October and to some equally questionable spycraft on display in the Netherlands. |
MYRE: Right. And so this is sort of the follow-up. The Dutch announced just last week that they've caught four, they say, GRU agents with high-tech equipment in a rental car outside the office for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was testing the chemicals apparently used in the attack back in March. Now, they... |
KELLY: It sounds so clumsy. It almost makes you wonder if they wanted to be caught or at least didn't care if they were caught. |
MYRE: I think what we could say is they really don't seem to care if they're caught. The Russians just deny, deny, deny, and there's no indication that they're stopping these kinds of actions. |
KELLY: But what is the U.S. trying to do to stop these kind of actions? I mean, we keep hearing about indictments, for example, against GRU officers. |
MYRE: That's right. The indictments against GRU officers - seven were announced last week, 12 from the Mueller investigation in July. So there is this naming and shaming and providing details at a level we really haven't seen previously. Now, one of the interesting developments is how to respond. Two months ago, Presid... |
KELLY: NPR's Greg Myre, thank you. |
If Tuesday's brief market plunge from the bogus Associated Press tweet sent your pulse racing, it might be time to find a good sedative. |
Such events, most traders and market experts agree, are bound to happen again, and there doesn't appear to be a lot regulators can do for prevention. |
"If there's fake bad news, there's not much that can be done about it," said Chicago securities attorney Andrew Stoltmann. "It's just a byproduct of the trading system that we have in place." |
At 1:07 p.m. EDT Tuesday, a tweet on the AP's Twitter feed said there was an explosion at the White House and President Barack Obama had sustained injuries. |
In a blink, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged some 145 points as the Twitter universe digested the news, which was retweeted vigorously. As realization crept in that the AP feed had been hacked and the tweet was a fake, order came back and the market continued on its way. |
The scene was much like the May 6, 2010, "Flash Crash" episode when liquidity evaporated and the Dow cascaded nearly 1,000 points before recovering. |
Chatter Tuesday quickly turned to what could be done to stop recurrences where social media apparently can be used to manipulate the market. |
The answer: Probably not much. |
"When you have the ability to get a newsworthy event in 140 characters or less and you can instantly move a market, you know what this means. You're going to bring out a lot of people who know they can move a market," said Todd Schoenberger, managing director at LandColt Capital. "How can you regulate it? You really ca... |
Securities Exchange Commission officials were silent Wednesday on any investigations or concern they may have, despite some questioning whether the fake tweeter broke any laws. |
"The Hack Attack demonstrates the perilous position in which we find ourselves with social media and technology," Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in a commentary for CNBC. "It also may well have been illegal." |
In fact, the SEC recently caused a stir when it said companies now can disseminate news on social media so long as shareholders are properly apprised. |
As for the traders directly affected, they likely won't be getting any relief. |
A New York Stock Exchange source who spoke on condition of anonymity said it's likely no trades will be canceled. |
Stopping any future incidents likely could be achieved only by slowing down the high-frequency traders who dominate the market now and respond to the type of news plants that occurred Tuesday. |
HFTs run on computer programs tied to algorithms, some of which in turn are hooked into news feeds that use social media postings for information. |
"They provide liquidity while times are good, and when times are bad they're not required to provide that liquidity," Stoltmann said of HFTs. "They're the barnacles on the wheels of progress, and I would like to see them eliminated." |
In addition to stirring the pot further about high-frequency trading, there also likely will be more talk about the reliance of Twitter and other vehicles to drive trades. |
The microblogging site has become indispensable to financial journalists and market pros alike in following trends, but could lose some of its cachet. |
"There's nothing new about market rumors," said Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx. "The fact that rumors are distributed through the same mechanism that Justin Bieber uses to communicate with his fans does seem to diminish the seriousness of capital markets. I get that." |
Colas found it odd that HFT algos would be kicked in from a single-source report. He said most programs are written with safeguards to confirm reports with multiple sources. |
In this case, that may not have happened, and some traders, along with the market's credibility, suffered. |
"At the end of the day this is nothing new. The mechanism is new," Colas said. "The mechanism doesn't seem like it's something that should be seriously used as a one-stop shop for investment decisions. Whoever did that paid the price, because it was a really stupid trade." |
The event, which took place at Borough Market, forms part of the organisations’ culinary Germany #EnjoyGermanFood campaign. |
It was co-hosted by partners Tourismus Marketing Baden-Württemberg, the German Wine Institute and Eurowings. |
Food tourism is frequently referred to as one of the biggest trends in tourism, along with “experience” holidays. |
Some of the UK’s most prominent tour operators, journalists and influencers discovered last night how culinary Germany provides food experiences to be remembered, whatever your food preference or budget. |
With a food truck, regional food tastings, insider tips from visiting food experts and a specialist cocktail mixer from partner Baden-Wurttemberg Tourism, the GNTO provided plenty of delicious and inspiring reasons to visit Germany. |
There was also a guide to regional wines courtesy of the German Wine Institute and a special appearance from Germany’s current reigning Wine Queen. |
Eurowings provided an overview on how to get there, thanks to the many affordable, quick Eurowings routes from the UK to Germany. |
The GNTO recently announced an increase of overnight stays by visitors from the UK, of 4.1 per cent for January-February 2018, compared to the same period in 2017. |
With the number of overnight stays registered at 726,977, the UK remains in second position worldwide of the most important source markets for Germany, ahead of the USA, Switzerland, Italy and France. |
Germany has more than 300 restaurants with one or more Michelin stars and eating out contributes €6.7billion per year towards the German economy. |
Yet eating out also offers excellent value for money and affordable menus in the smaller, regional, family run restaurants to be found all over the country. |
Beatrix Haun, director of the GNTO UK & Ireland, said: “There are many clichés about German food. |
“Tourism is the ideal way to discover there’s more to Germany’s food scene than beer, bratwurst and ‘brezn - delicious though they are! |
has mostly specialized in testosterone movies. But chalk it up to the success of female-powered The Hunger Games and the stardom of Jennifer Lawrence. As well as the sensibility of Summit’s Erik Feig, who shepherded the Twilight Saga films and is now production president for Lionsgate as well. He’s just acquired the ri... |
LOS ANGELES — The introduction of Disney Infinity, an ambitious video game and toy initiative, has been pushed from June to late August, a retail window that Disney said on Wednesday was more favorable. |
But the delay also shifts Infinity from Disney’s fiscal third quarter to its fourth, meaning that any chance of a turnaround at the company’s video game unit will occur later than some investors expected. |
Mr. Pleasants said retailers, impressed with the public reaction to Disney’s demonstration of Infinity in January, pushed for an introduction closer to the all-important holiday season, which starts in October. “The date became an issue in terms of them asking, ‘Is there a better opportunity here?’ ” Mr. Pleasants said... |
There may also be competitive reasons for the August date. Disney hopes that Infinity will be its version of Skylanders, a popular product from Activision Blizzard in which players collect action figures and then transfer them into the game’s action by plugging them into a sensor base. Skylanders has generated more tha... |
August is traditionally a quiet time for video games as families spend money on vacations and back-to-school clothes. But Mr. Pleasants said retailers were willing to devote significant shelf space to the Infinity product line. Disney also hopes that children will return to school with the Infinity action figures in th... |
It is not unusual for video game studios to push back release dates, but the reason usually involves glitches and missed deadlines. Mr. Pleasants insisted that was not the case here. |
Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive and chairman, told Wall Street analysts and investors in May that “we’re targeting 2013 as a year of profitability” for Disney Interactive. He technically fulfilled that pledge in the last quarter; Disney’s video game and Web business turned an operating profit of $9 million aft... |
But most people interpreted Mr. Iger’s remark to mean that the unit, Disney’s smallest by far, would make money for the fiscal year, which ends in mid-September. There is now little chance of that, as revenue from Infinity will be mostly pushed into 2014. “This will definitely impact our goal of achieving profitability... |
HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan said it would be a "terrible shame" if the nation lost out to competing nations because of Government interference. "I think when you start moving taxation for political reasons, the trouble is, it's an industry that can move," he said. "I know a large number of bankers are moving... |
Will banks begin race out of London? |
HARTFORD – Just in time for summer and the crush of tourists heading to the Southeastern Connecticut shoreline, the state is launching new weekend rail service to Old Saybrook and New London. |
"This is great news for Connecticut," said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in a statement announcing the additional trains on the Shore Line East line. "New train service will make it easier and more convenient to get to the coast and ease road congestion during peak season. Visitors come from all over to enjoy Long Island ... |
The train service, which begins Saturday, will include 19 weekend and holiday trains, including 14 from New Haven to New London and 5 from New Haven to Old Saybrook. This is in addition to the 30 regular weekday trains along the Shoreline East line, which is operated by the state Department of Transportation. |
On the shoreline, which relies heavily on summer tourists, officials cheered the announcement. |
"Our business community is very vibrant and the train, especially on weekends, will add a lot," said Judy Sullivan, executive director of the Old Saybrook Chamber of Commerce. |
Old Saybrook's train station is located at the north end of Main Street, within walking distance of many shops and restaurants as well as the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center. "This is good news," Sullivan added. |
The rail service has another benefit: It offers "an attractive alternative to traveling on Interstate 95 during congested weekend traffic periods," said state DOT Commissioner James P. Redeker. |
"Expanded service on Shore Line East is great news, and it's just in time for the summer tourism rush in southeastern Connecticut," added Department of Economic and Community Development Deputy Commissioner Kip Bergstrom. |
"Weekend service on one of the busier commuter routes in the state unlocks the tremendous economic potential of the region because of its many popular attractions and destinations," Bergstrom said. "This allows more residents to explore what's in their own backyards and opens up the New London area to even more visitor... |
(Host) Refugee processing centers along the U.S. border are inundated with people trying to enter Canada. According to immigration officials, many of those seeking asylum are concerned a pending agreement between the United States and Canada will make it more difficult for them to cross the border. |
VPR’s Steve Zind reports from Lacolle, Quebec. |
(Zind) Patience here is a necessity. A narrow waiting room in the Canadian Customs building just across the border from Rouse’s Point, New York is filled with people seeking refugee status in Canada. They sleep in chairs or on the floor, surrounded by their suitcases. Women cradle young children. Men pace and smoke out... |
(Zind) On a normal day, only about a dozen people come through this processing center. On this day, one hundred a twelve people are hoping to be admitted to Canada as refugees. |
(Zind) Robert Gervais of Canadian Immigration says the refugees are entering Canada now because they’re concerned about a new immigration agreement about to be signed by the U.S. and Canada. The Safe Third Country Agreement will require a person to apply for refugee status in the first country he or she enters. The sta... |
(Zind) The new immigration agreement is the result of efforts to tighten security on both sides of the border in the wake of September 11. Not all of the refugees waiting in Lacolle are aware of the pending changes. A Turkish man says he’s lived in New York for several years. Now he’s applying for refugee status in Can... |
(Zind) The man said he has been waiting at the Canadian immigration center for three days. The number of refugees arriving in Lacolle has been increasing daily. Now there’s not enough room to house them. Members of the Vermont Refugee Assistance Program are working to set up a refugee shelter in Plattsburgh, New York. |
For Vermont Public Radio, I’m Steve Zind at Canadian Customs in Lacolle, Quebec. |
The man who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre was charged Thursday with terrorism-related counts for plotting an earlier attack that was aborted. |
Enrique Marquez, 24, was charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The charges allege he plotted with gunman Syed Rizwan Farook to launch attacks in 2011 and 2012 at a community college and a congested freeway at rush hour, but they never carried out their plans. |
Marquez also was charged with illegally purchasing two assault rifles that Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, used to kill 14 people at a holiday meeting of Farook's health department co-workers on Dec. 2. |
The shooters died hours later using those same firearms in a gunbattle with police. |
Marquez was working at a Riverside bar at the time of the shooting and is not alleged to have had a role in the attack, but prosecutors said he was linked to the killings by the guns and bomb-making materials he bought that the couple planned to detonate. |
A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court charges Marquez with three counts that could bring a maximum of 35 years in federal prison. |
A lengthy affidavit outlines evidence against Marquez, including statements he gave investigators over 11 days after he waived his rights to remain silent and be represented by a lawyer. |
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