• NASCAR videos show multiple nooses before Bubba Wallace incident

    NASCAR videos show multiple nooses before Bubba Wallace incident

    Though the FBI concluded that a noose found in driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway was not a hate crime aimed at NASCAR’s most prominent black driver, official NASCAR videos reviewed by The Post show multiple nooses being used as garage-door pulls at the same racetrack in 2017 — and at least one in …
  • Bubba Wallace opens up after 24 hours ‘just short of pure hell’

    Bubba Wallace opens up after 24 hours ‘just short of pure hell’

    Bubba Wallace has become one of the most famous faces in sports over the past two weeks as he led the movement for NASCAR to ban the use of the Confederate flag, and even more so since a noose was found in his garage stall on Saturday, which on Tuesday was revealed to have been …
  • Dow sinks 700 points as coronavirus resurgence fears rattles Wall Street

    Dow sinks 700 points as coronavirus resurgence fears rattles Wall Street

    The Dow dropped 700 points on Wednesday amid growing fears that the sudden spikes in COVID-19 cases could delay the economy from rebounding as quickly as some had hoped. The Dow Jones industrial average index of blue-chip stocks ended the day down 710.16 points, or 2.7 percent, to 25445.94, while the S&P 500 fared only …
  • Al Sharpton Calls for Further Investigation into Nascar ‘Noose’ Incident: ‘I Do Not Think We Have Seen Closure’

    Al Sharpton Calls for Further Investigation into Nascar ‘Noose’ Incident: ‘I Do Not Think We Have Seen Closure’

    Reverend Al Sharpton on Wednesday called for further investigation into the “noose” found in African American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage despite the FBI’s determination that the object was not put there to target him and had been present since 2019. The FBI said on Tuesday, “The noose found in garage number 4 [at Talladega …
  • Stock indexes tumble as investors sweat out coronavirus spike

    Stock indexes tumble as investors sweat out coronavirus spike

    Wall Street’s major indexes fell on Wednesday as investors weighed the risk to domestic economy from rising coronavirus cases and a worsening forecast of the damage from the pandemic. Washington state made face masks mandatory in public places, while many other US states saw record cases, including Arizona and Texas, where restrictions meant to slow …
  • Bubba Wallace responds to FBI findings: ‘It’s a straight-up noose’

    Bubba Wallace responds to FBI findings: ‘It’s a straight-up noose’

    Nascar driver Bubba Wallace on Tuesday night defended his and the sport’s reaction to the “noose” found in his garage in light of FBI findings that the rope was actually a garage door pull. The FBI issued a statement earlier Tuesday that the pull rope was simply fashioned like a noose and that video evidence …
  • FBI Determines Bubba Wallace not victim of hate crime

    FBI Determines Bubba Wallace not victim of hate crime

    The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime and that a pull rope fashioned like a noose had been on a garage door at Talladega Superspeedway since as early as October, NASCAR said Tuesday. “The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door …
  • How did the media get duped — again — on the Bubba Wallace story?

    How did the media get duped — again — on the Bubba Wallace story?

    Here we go again… As reliably as children being fooled by Santa Claus, the news media has once again been duped by an obviously false story that fit their favorite narrative about race. Last year, it was the Jussie Smollett fiasco, on which I was one of the first media commentators to call out as …
  • ‘Noose’ Found in Bubba Wallace’s Garage Was Present since 2019, FBI Finds

    ‘Noose’ Found in Bubba Wallace’s Garage Was Present since 2019, FBI Finds

    A “noose” found in the garage of the only full-time African-American driver in NASCAR had been there since 2019 and was not planted as part of a hate crime, the FBI announced on Tuesday. Bubba Wallace, the driver, was informed of the purported noose by NASCAR after a member of his pit crew found it …
  • Noose found in Bubba Wallace’s stall a big misunderstanding: FBI

    Noose found in Bubba Wallace’s stall a big misunderstanding: FBI

    NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime, according to the FBI. The circuit’s only full-time black driver was not the target of racism. The noose found in the garage stall assigned to him at Sunday’s Talladega Superspeedway had been there since at least October 2019. The entire ordeal was merely …