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Photo for Headline Surfer / NASCAR will crowning of a Cup Series champion for the first time at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday, Nov. 8. In recent years, the finale had been held at Homestead-Miami Speedway. 

By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - NASCAR, like all of the other organized sports and entertainment entities in the US and around the world have had to make adjustments in schedules - either cancelling outright or deferring events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

DELAND, Fla. -- As of Thursday, the elections office in Volusia County had receieved 46,196 vote-by-mail ballots abd has counted everyone of them for the Aug. 18 primary.

Talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money are close to collapse after a meeting in the Capitol generated lots of recriminations but little progress. White House officials say President Trump could take executive action if a deal isn't reached.

YouTube download / AP video / Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, an early advocate among Republicans of wearing masks and other pandemic precautions, tested positive Thursday for the coronavirus just ahead of a planned meeting with President Donald Trump. (Aug. 6)

-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer - Daytona Beach, Sanford, Orlando, FL

President Donald Trump billed his trip to Ohio Thursday as a chance to promote economic recovery and to talk trade. But one month into a new North America trade agreement, Trump announced his intention to reimpose tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

Highlights for this day in history on Aug. 7: U.S. embassies bombed in E. Africa; Congress OKs powers to expand the Vietnam War; The Battle of Guadalcanal begins; Kon-Tiki ends its journey; Comedy icon Oliver Hardy and news anchor Peter Jennings die. 

A woman alleging abuse by one of her troop leaders in the 1980s detailed the ordeal in a lawsuit filed against Girl Scouts of the USA, part of a flurry of child sex-abuse cases using a “look back window” for making civil claims against abusers.

Pygmy hogs - the world's smallest and rarest wild pig - are under a virus lockdown. Not because of the coronavirus, but because of the first outbreak of African Swine Fever in India.

U.S. Coast Guard members helped release two endangered sea turtles off the coast of Florida into the wild on Thursday. The turtles, named Emma and Bubbles, were rescued in June and rehabilitated at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A ceremonial vehicle caravan will drive across the Tom Staed Veterans Memorial Bridge in Daytona Beach Thursday morning to mark its vehicular lane opening.