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Logano's run at 135.537 mph put him on the pole for theNASCARrace on Sunday. David Malukas, in his first season with the storied organization, started on the pole Saturday for theIndyCarrace.

NASCAR and IndyCar are bundled together this weekend for adoubleheader in the desert, and Roger Penske used the opportunity to assemble his six drivers spanning the two series for the 60th anniversary celebration.

Through qualifying, they have delivered: Austin Cindric qualified his Penske Ford third — behind reigning NASCAR champion Kyle Larson — and Ryan Blaney, who won last year's finale, qualified fifth.

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Blaney is the BetMGM betting favorite to win the race with 10 top-five finishes in 20 career starts at Phoenix.

Tyler Reddickset a NASCAR record by winningthe first three races of the season and will start fourth Sunday as he seeks a fourth consecutive victory.

Anthony Alfredo, the fill-in driver at Hendrick Motorsports asAlex Bowman battles vertigo,qualified 31st.

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Davis and theEaglesagreed to a three-year, $78 million extension, according to multiple reports. The deal comes with $65 million guaranteed and makes Davis the highest-paid nose tackle in NFL history.

While he wasn't slated to be a free agent in 2026, the extension ensures that the defender won't hit the open market next offseason. Davis will play the 2026 season on the fifth-year option, which is worth about $12.9 million, before the extension kicks in.

Drafted with the No. 13 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, Davis has been a mainstay on the Philadelphia defensive line, appearing in 64 regular season games and nine playoff contests through four seasons. The 26-year-old broke out for the Eagles defense in 2025, recording a career-high 4.5 sacks and 72 total tackles after an inconsistent first three seasons.

Davis' leap was on full display with afield goal block and return for a touchdownagainst theLos Angeles Ramsin Week 3 of the 2025 season.

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The Eagles will hope for a lot more of that in the future. Here's what to know about Davis' big deal with the Eagles:

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OT Tytus Howard:Traded to Cleveland Browns(previous team: Houston Texans)

Jordan Davis contract details

Davis inked a three-year, $78 million deal. Here's a look at the full terms, per multiple reports:

• Term: 3 years

• Total contract value: $78 million

• Average annual value (AAV): $26 million

• Guaranteed money: $65 million

It makes the former Georgia Bulldog the highest-paid nose tackle in NFL history. In terms of interior defensive linemen, Davis will be tied with former teammate, Milton Williams, as the second highest-paid at $26 million in AAV.

Jordan Davis stats

Davis has played in 64 games for the Eagles since being drafted in 2022. He has recorded eight sacks, 12 quarterback hits and 162 tackles since debuting.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Eagles, Davis agree to record extension ahead of NFL free agency

Arkansas Missouri Basketball

Meleek Thomas scored 28 and Trevon Brazile had 19 points and nine rebounds for Arkansas (23-8, 13-5 Southeastern Conference), which played without star freshman point guard Darius Acuff Jr. He missed the game with an undisclosed injury.

Acuff entered play leading the SEC in scoring and passing with 22 points and 6.2 assists per game.

Malique Ewin had 17 points and nine rebounds, and converted four straight free throws in the final 12 seconds of overtime to seal the game for the Razorbacks.

Brazile, who played his freshman season at Missouri, drained a 3-pointer with 22 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Razorbacks an 84-82 lead.

Mark Mitchell scored a career-best 32, and Shawn Phillips Jr. had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Missouri (20-11, 10-8), which has lost two straight heading into the conference tournament.

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Thomas split a pair of free throws with 32 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the game at 74 after the teams changed leads seven times in the second half.

Mitchell drained a layup with 14:25 to play in the second half to push him over the 1,000-point mark in 64 games through two seasons with Missouri.

Phillips slammed down an alley-oop from Mitchell with 16:42 remaining in the second half to put Missouri ahead 45-44 for its first lead of the game.

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Arkansas: Will open SEC Tournament play in the quarterfinals in Nashville on Friday.

Missouri: Will open SEC Tournament play in Nashville on Thursday.

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Berry, 59, opened up about her decision in a recent interview withThe Cut, where the actress also discussed her filmCrime 101, menopause, and hercriticisms of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

"After my third divorce, people started to say, 'What's wrong with her? She's crazy. She can't keep a man,'" Berry shared in the interview.

Despite the actress' expansive career, which spans more than three decades and includes ahistoric Oscar winfor Best Actress (Berry is the only Black woman to win in that category), the actress expressed fatigue over constant tabloid coverage of her relationships, which led her to shut interviews down altogether.

"I pretty much stopped doing interviews for a decade because I got tired of the same old story," Berry said. "It was always: 'Poor Halle — Unlucky in Love Again.'"

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When prompted to craft a headline to her liking, Berry first suggested "Halle Berry Is Not a Damsel in Distress," then "Halle Berry Is Not a Victim of Failed Relationships," and finally settled on "Halle Berry Never Said It's Anyone Else's Fault."

The actress is now more open to discussing both personal and professional highlights, as she recentlyannounced her engagement to boyfriend Van Hunton Feb. 5 while appearing onThe Tonight Show.

"There's some confusion," Berry told hostJimmy Fallon, referring to her recentThe Cutinterview in which she admitted Hunt had proposed, but she had not said yes yet.

"It's going around that I, that my guy Van Hunt — I've been dating him now for almost six years — well, there's some confusion that he asked to marry me and I said no. I did not say no."

In addition to Berry's gritty caperCrime 101,which she stars in alongsideChis Hemsworth, the actress has several projects in the pipeline, including an action-thrillerMaude v Maudethat features both Berry andAngelina Jolie.With an impressive resume already cemented, which includes her award-winning performance inMonster's Ball, her iconic role as Storm in theX-Menfranchise, as well as playing Bond girl Jinx inDie Another Day, the actress expressed gratitude for all that's occurred and what's to come.

"As a Black woman, now almost 60, I still get to work in movies and do what I love," Berry toldThe Cut. "I'm winning."

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Sweden Stateless Vessel

The Swedish Coast Guard said during a news conference Saturday that the crew of the Caffa is predominantly Russian, and the ship is on Ukraine's sanctions list, according to Swedish news agency TT.

The Caffa was also allegedly sailing under a false flag when Swedish authorities boarded it in Swedish territorial waters Friday to search it and conduct interviews, TT reported. It had been sailing under a Guinean flag.

Authorities are concerned about its seaworthiness and a person is under criminal investigation, TT reported. Other details about the Caffa and its crew were not immediately available.

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Sweden last year said it wouldstep up insurance checkson foreign ships in a move aimed at tightening controls on Russia's so-called"shadow fleet" of aging ships, which are used to transport oil and gas or to carry stolen Ukrainian grain.

The average age of the vessels is around 18 years, meaning they're near the end of their life span and are more vulnerable to accidents, especially if they're not well-maintained.

The government in Stockholm last year tasked the Coast Guard and the Swedish Maritime Administration with collecting insurance information not just from ships that call at Swedish ports, but also those that pass through the country's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone.

Authorities have not said whether they believe the Caffa is part of the shadow fleet.

The war in Iran has killed hundreds of civilians, displacedhundreds of thousands more, sent globaloil pricesskyrocketing, created a political crisis for President Donald Trump and shaken the stability of the Gulf. But for one nation at least, the chaos has created opportunity.

Russia has emerged from the first week of the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran as an early winner, seemingly able to profit from thesecondary economicand geopolitical effects of the war while others bear the costs.

Russia is one of the few nations that has maintained a friendly relationship with Tehran. Moscow condemned the U.S. and Israel's attack on Iran on February 28, calling it a "pre-planned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state," in astatement from Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministryposted to Telegram. Vladimir Putin similarly criticized the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a "cynical murder."

Read More:Wars Like Ukraine and Iran Are Pushing Countries To Rethink How They Get Their Energy

But while it may stand to lose a powerful ally in the region, Moscow may also benefit in the short term, analysts say.

"What we're seeing now was not hard to predict," says Robert Person, nonresident Senior Fellow with the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a nonpartisan think tank based in Philadelphia.

"Putin and his advisors have likely determined that war in Iran serves Russia's interests in the short term: higher energy prices, global distraction from a Ukraine war that Putin is not ready to settle, and America at risk of entrapment in another Middle Eastern quagmire," Person says.

"We don't know the degree to which any of this influenced the Trump Administration's decision-making, but I suspect they were of secondary consideration, if at all," he adds.

Here are the ways in which Russia is benefiting from the Iran war.

U.S. lifts restrictions on Russian oil

Russia has been under heavy sanctions from the U.S. and other allies since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including export controls, asset blockings, an oil price cap, and other restrictive economic pressures aimed at impeding its ability to fund its war.

President Donald Trump imposed an additional 25% import tariff on India over its import of Russian oil in August, arguing that its continued purchase undermined the sanctions regime designed to pressure Putin to negotiate over the Ukraine war.

But in response torising gas pricesin the U.S., Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week issued a 30-day waiver on the tariff and is considering further lifting of sanctions.

"Yesterday, the Treasury agreed to let our allies in India start buying Russian oil that was already on the water," Bessent told Fox Business on Friday. "We may sanction other Russian oil."

In anX postThursday, Bessent added that the "deliberately short-term measure will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government as it only authorizes transactions involving oil already stranded at sea."

Despite this, Russian leadership claims that there is "a significant increase in demand" for Russian energy products, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, "in connection with the war in Iran."

Rising oil prices

A combination of heavy sanctions and low oil prices had given Russia's energy industry a poor outlook just a little over a week ago.

Oil and gas revenues fell from 45% of Russia's federal budget in 2021 to around 20% in 2025, as sanctions imposed by the international community aimed at limiting Moscow's ability to wage war in Ukraine took effect.

Now, due to the crunch on global oil supplies caused by the Iran war, oil prices have spiked and Russia is one of the few oil-producing nations that stands ready to fully benefit from it.

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It was forced to sell its oil at a discount of $10-$13 a barrel before the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, now it is selling at a premium of $4-$5, according toReuters.

The combination of higher prices and the disruption to Gulf countries' ability to supply markets in Asia could provide a windfall to Moscow, just a year after its oil and gas revenuedroppedto its lowest levels since 2020.

Ukraine's Patriots

One knock-on effect of the Iran war is that it may directly impact Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russian missiles, delivering a boost to Moscow.

Ukraine was already facing a shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, the expensive $4 million-a-piece munitions it uses to shoot down ballistic missiles and drones. Now the U.S. is running through those same missiles to defend against a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones that are targeting U.S. bases and Washington's allies in the Middle East.

European Union Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius saidFridaythat the outlook for Ukraine was "critical," and said the E.U. would need to "develop missile production in a very urgent and very rapid way."

"Americans will not be able to provide enough of those missiles for the Gulf countries, for their own army, and also for Ukraine," Kubilius said.

Ukraine's vulnerability to aerial attacks was underscored overnight on Saturday as Russia launched a barrage of at least 450 drones and 19 missiles in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials, killing at least 10 people.

An analysis by Agence France-Presse found that Russia fired more missiles in overnight strikes in February than in any month since the beginning of 2023. The agency found that Russia launched 288 missiles at Ukraine in February, an increase of about 113% compared to 135 missiles in January.

At the same time as his country is struggling to defend itself, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would assist the Gulf in taking down Iranian drones by providing some of its much cheaper, homegrown drone-interception technology.

"We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection," against Iran's drone systems, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday on X. Ukrainian advisers and systems would shortly be on their way to the Persian Gulf region, Zelensky said, because "Ukraine helps partners who help ensure our security."

Russia has used Iranian-made Shahed drones to devastating effect against Ukraine over the last few years. Mostly out of necessity, Ukraine developed cheap interceptor drones known as the Sting system, which are operated by pilots who can guide them to crash into Shahed drones, forcing them to explode.

'Degrading America's projection of power'

Several news outlets, including the WashingtonPostand theAssociated Press, have reported that Russia has shared targeting intelligence on the U.S. military with Iran and is directing Iran on what to do with the information.

ThePost, citing officials familiar with intelligence on the matter, said the intelligence included the locations of American warships, aircraft and other military assets.

White House officials have not denied that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran, but they have downplayed the country's influence and its ability to harm military operations.

When asked by CBS News about the reports and how Russian information has aided Iran in targeting U.S. bases across the Middle East, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said:  "No one's putting us in danger".

"We mitigate it as we need to," the Pentagon chief continued. "Our commanders factor all of this, but the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live."

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy when he asked about Russia's reported role in helping Iran.

"I have a lot of respect for you, you've always been very nice to me," Trump told Doocy. "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

"Recent reports that Russia has provided Iran with intelligence used to target American forces in the region are consistent with the latter effort: anything to complicate or degrade America's projection of power shifts the relative geopolitical balance in Moscow's favor," Person says.

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Amir Muhammad Shanaran, 28, was killed on Saturday and his brother Khaled was critically injured after a reservist soldier opened fire on Palestinians in the south Hebron Hills, according to the Israeli rights group Btselem.

It was the third time this week a Palestinian was killed. On Monday,Israeli settlers killed two Palestinian brothersin the northern West Bank village of Qaryout. Three others were also wounded by gunfire in the incident.

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The Israeli military said it responded to reports of a violent altercation between settlers and Palestinians on Saturday. According to an initial review, a reservist soldier opened fire, injuring two Palestinians, and one later died of his wounds. The military said it is investigating the incident.

Palestinians and rights groups say that Israeli authorities routinely fail to prosecute settlers or holdthem accountable for violence.

Saturday's incident took place in the Masafer Yatta region, a collection of Bedouin villages which was depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. The documentarychronicles the struggleby residents to stop the Israeli military from demolishing their villages as well as Israeli settler violence against Palestinians.

The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry on Saturday accused Israel of "exploiting the atmosphere of war" and the lack of international attention to issues in the West Bank to intensify intimidation, violence, and forced displacement.