Jeff Gordon was fastest in the first practice and teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. led the second session. Drivers did little drafting and focused on single-car runs as they tuned their Daytona 500 cars for Sunday’s race. Green flag for the 57th running of the Great American Race is scheduled for 1:31 p.m. ET. Prerace programming begins three hours earlier, with Fox and Fox Sports 1 handling the coverage. A day after the Budweiser Duels and with the 43-car Daytona 500 field set, only 14 drivers participated in the first of two practices and only 25 went out in the second session....

Because the liver is such an important organ that affects so many aspects of your health, hepatitis has widespread physical effects. Additionally, the emotional effects and uncertainty may be further compounded by the stigma and the fear of infecting others if you have one of the infectious types of hepatitis. Fortunately, there are things you can do to cope with these challenges. Emotional Viral hepatitis B and C are highly stigmatized....

Pardons were also issued to Trump allies including his former campaign manager Steve Bannon. In addition, the president commuted the sentences of 70 people. In December 2020, Carter, 38, pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a loaded gold-plated handgun on a private jet while traveling to Miami. He was expected to face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison at a January 28 court hearing. The White House released the full list of last-minute pardons on Tuesday night, confirming that Trump had “granted a full pardon to Dwayne Michael Carter Jr....

In Season 2, Park as Mindy performs an original song, written specifically for the show called “Mon Soleil” and fans can’t get enough of the track and Park’s performance. Newsweek has everything you need to know about “Mon Soleil” from Emily in Paris Season 2, including the romantic lyrics. Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris has not had the easiest of rides. In Season 1, audiences learned she had an impeccable singing voice but she was reluctant to let the world hear it after an embarrassing stint on China’s version of Pop Idol....

ESPN’s Lisa Salters had the proper reaction. MORE: NFC South worse than imagined | Josh Gordon sold car dealer on his character | New Super Bowl favorite The Worldwide Leader accidentally cut to Bell and Salters on the field after the game, with Salters giving Bell a rousing “WOO!” presumably in congratulation. Bell was a big reason why the Steelers were able to come from behind in the fourth quarter, scoring a touchdown to bring them within four points....

According to a survey of more than 75,000 U.S. homeowners aged 18 and older, conducted in 2021 by home design website Houzz, the amount of money spent on home renovations grew by 15 percent in the year prior to a median of $15,000. Kitchen projects were reported to be the most popular among homeowners doing renovations. While the median spend has been flat on these projects for the three years prior to 2021, “investment on major remodels of large kitchens jumped 14 percent to $40,000 in 2020 compared with $35,000 in 2019,” the survey found....

Anyways, Fallon was at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night to watch the Yankees take on the Blue Jays, and cameras caught him doing what any adult male in New York should do if caught by cameras at Yankee Stadium. MORE: A-Rod hits first HR since 2013 Crush your beer. We appreciate the effort, but clean up the spilling, man.

How does he do it? Forget art for a moment, let’s talk sex. Picasso was a womanizer like a salmon is a swimmer. In our era of Tailhook conventioneers and Antioch rules, such boundless heterosexual enthusiasm (Picasso had two wives, a half-dozen mistresses and countless affairs) doesn’t play that well. But in his paintings (and impish photographs of himself) Picasso makes the old male-gaze/female-object shtik seem as healthy and joyful as a picnic in Antibes....

In a piece featuring interviews with McCarthy and numerous top-ranking Republican members of Congress published Friday by The Daily Caller, the GOP outlined a sweeping retribution agenda ahead of the next Congress likely to feature high-level inquiries into the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis alongside myriad other agenda items including investigations into “big tech,” the origins of COVID-19 and inflation....

Over the last month, Kanye has posted screenshots of various news articles and private text messages with Kardashian, who was afraid for Davidson’s safety. Later, West posted an apology to Kardashian but the drama only intensified. Since then, these posts have been deleted. On March 2nd, West posted a music video for his song “EAZY” off his album Donda 2. The music video has been under fire due to the graphic contents, including the violent kidnapping of Davidson....

The team released a series of renderings Wednesday to show fans what the new ballpark and its surrounding are will look like once it's completed. Take a look (renderings courtesy of the Braves):

A clearer picture of the Midwestern state’s overall results are expected later on Wednesday, but Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has cautioned that the counting will take time due to the tens of thousands of ballots still outstanding as a result of the unprecedented level of mail-in ballots. About 5.2 million ballots have already been counted in Michigan and Biden leads Trump by approximately 30,000 votes. “We’re going to ensure that the results of our elections accurately reflect every single ballot vote that was cast....

From top to bottom, the Houston batting order is packed with hitters who are capable of putting a ball in the seats. The Astros have nine players in double figures, which puts them two away from tying the major league record. Marwin Gonzalez hit his ninth of the season on Tuesday, while backup catcher Hank Conger has eight homers. Jed Lowrie, who played only his 39th game of an injury-curtailed campaign on Tuesday, has five longballs....

Surgery Follow-Up It’s important to note that there may be some variations when it comes to individual cases; someone else’s recovery from hernia surgery might look different than your own. While you’ll likely be able to go home the same day of the treatment, you need to make sure you’ve arranged for someone to drive. During recovery, you and your healthcare provider will need to ensure everything is healing properly. What can you expect?...

Most hernia surgeries in America (about 70% for inguinal hernias) are performed as open surgery. Laparoscopic hernia repair is an option depending on the expertise of the surgeon. After inguinal and small ventral (umbilical, epigastric, etc.) hernia surgeries, patients will go home the same day. Sometimes, however, you may need to spend one or more nights in the hospital for observation and to aid in initial recovery after hernia surgery....

While most of the players hail from Liga MX -- including six from Herrera's former employer, Club America -- eight European-based names are also on the list, including minute-starved Javier Hernandez and Andres Guardado, whose Bayer Levekusen side lost 4-0 to Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League earlier this week. Tigres striker Alan Pulido, 22, who lit up South Korea for a hat trick on his debut in January, has been retained....

Hertz joins other large American companies in filing for COVID-19 related bankruptcy actions, including J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus. No Hertz locations in the U.S. are expected to close, including subsidiaries such as Dollar, Thrifty and Hertz Car Sales. “With the severity of the COVID-19 impact on our business, and the uncertainty of when travel and the economy will rebound, we need to take further steps to weather a potentially prolonged recovery,” said Hertz President and CEO Paul Stone in a statement Friday....