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Johnson lost three laps pitting under green for a new tire and wound up finishing two laps down in 19th in the Food City 500. The six-time Cup champion said he met with Goodyear’s Rick Campbell, one of the lead developers of the tires used on the Sprint Cup circuit. Goodyear officials have said that Johnson didn’t change right-side tires at the competition caution on Lap 50 and eventually the tire just wore out after more than 100 laps on a green surface....

The internet turned on the NBC late-night host as footage emerged of him doing a comedy sketch on Saturday Night Live in 2000. It shows the presenter impersonating comedian Chris Rock, with his face darkened with makeup. The 20-year-old clip has seen the hashtag #JimmyFallonIsOverParty gain traction on the social media platform. Newsweek has contacted Fallon’s representatives for comment. The video initially resurfaced two years ago following the controversy surrounding Megyn Kelly’s departure from the Today show after her comments about blackface, though it is unclear what caused it to reemerge today....

This one is packed with college football personalities from Tim Tebow to Kirk Herbstreit. Imagine the amount of tweets Kimmel’s staff had to go through to find such a mild tweet about Herbstreit. MORE: Early Top 10: Buckeyes begin 2015 as SN No. 1 | HAYES: The Urban Way: Ruthless and relentless This video contains language that may be offensive to some viewers. It’s hard to tell who got the worst of it, but they’re all equally funny....

The late-night host made a play on words by saying followers had been “donned” by the former president after theories that Joe Biden’s inauguration would be disrupted never happened. “This has been a very tough week for the QAnon crowd,” Kimmel said on Thursday night’s instalment of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “The prophecies that they built much of their lives around didn’t come to fruition. “These guys woke up yesterday thinking they were about to watch Trump round-up and arrest all the elites, the pedophiles and by six o’clock, Tom Hanks was introducing Bill Clinton to congratulate Joe Biden on being president....

J.K. Rowling on Saturday tweeted about an article on “people who menstruate” during COVID-19. The article on Devex.com states, “An estimated 1.8 billion girls, women and gender nonbinary persons menstruate, and this has not stopped because of the pandemic.” The article goes on to say that even during a pandemic, like the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the world since it detection in late 2019, “menstrual materials, safe access to toilets, soap, water and private spaces” are still critical....

Today, I am one of 10 million unemployed Americans searching for one of 6.9 million jobs. Since the restaurant industry in New York has been decimated, I’ve tried searching for positions in the non-profit sector and the growing retail cannabis industry. I have over 30 years of experience working in the hospitality industry, and skills in operations, project management, HR, training and development. What I do not have is a college degree....

The Louisville Courier-Journal said Oriana Rossi underwent surgery at an Indianapolis hospital after suffering multiple fractures to her back and neck. MORE: Photos from American Pharoah’s Triple Crown victory |Sports’ most gruesome injuries Bones Wirth, a friend of Rossi and jockey agent, told the newspaper that Rossi could be paralyzed from the accident. “It doesn’t look good,” Wirth told the Courier-Journal. “Keep our fingers crossed, but they say she’s got 5 percent chance of not being paralyzed....

Meeks put together the best year of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers last season, averaging 15.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. MORE: Heat free-agent list | Free agents: PG | SG | SF | PF | C Due to that sucess, Meeks will become the first player to sign with the Pistons during Stan Van Gundy’s tenure as coach and president of basketball operations. The Pistons also added free agent Cartier Martin on a one-year deal....

But the White House insists it’s not a signal that the two are on the path to becoming pals. “We’re not looking for an establishment of trust, as much as a predictability and stability because there are a range of threats and a range of opportunities in the world and the president wants to have the bandwidth to focus on them, not an adversarial relationship with Russia,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday, just hours after the two leaders spoke by phone....

In the latest poll released Wednesday by Emerson, former Vice President Biden remained in the lead with 32 percent support, while Sanders, a senator from Vermont, had 25 percent. Warren—a senator from Massachusetts—was a distant third with 12 percent and Buttigieg—the mayor of South Bend, Indiana—was in the single digits, with 8 percent. Businessman Andrew Yang came in fifth with 6 percent and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii polled at 4 percent, coming in sixth....

The Biden administration is taking over the distribution of the antibodies, which are used to treat COVID-19, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will now be in charge of distribution. DeSantis strongly criticized the decision on Thursday because it will result in Florida receiving fewer monoclonal antibodies than it previously had. He pledged to “fight like hell” to get the treatment to those in Florida who need it....

In a clip dug up from the archives by CNN, the then-senator of Delaware said history was “going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching” in reference to the looming threat of impeachment facing former President Clinton. Apologizing for his remark on social media overnight, Biden admitted it “wasn’t the right word to use” and said sorry before trying to redirect anger at Donald Trump....

According to FiveThirtyEight’s tracker, which puts together a weighted average of polling, the president’s approval rating is 50 percent. The figure, as of August 13, marked the lowest point the tracker has hit thus far since Biden was inaugurated. His disapproval rating of 43.8 percent is also at its highest point so far. In the first rating polled after Biden entered office, his approval was at 53 percent and disapproval at 36 percent....

The U.S. said it would not impose new sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG or its German Chief Executive Officer Matthias Warnig—an ally of President Vladimir Putin. The consortium, which is majority-owned by the Russian majority state-owned energy corporation Gazprom, has nearly completed the pipeline. This would take gas from the Russian Arctic under the Baltic Sea to Germany. With U.S. sanctions already in place on Moscow over issues including election interference and the SolarWinds cyberattack, the project’s critics in Congress argued that the pipeline would make Europe too reliant on Russian energy and could be used by the Kremlin as leverage to wield influence....

Japan’s Kyodo News said on Wednesday that a draft statement slated for the upcoming Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—or Quad—summit at the White House would warn against attempts to change the status quo in the East and South China seas. This week’s Quad forum will feature its first-ever in-person meeting between Biden and prime ministers Scott Morrison, Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga. The group held a virtual meeting in March in what was already a step up in the importance of the Indo-Pacific–focused partnership....

On Thursday, during a speech on the economy and ongoing inflation, Biden was asked by reporters about the second set of classified documents found in his possession. “I’m gonna get a chance to speak on all of this, God-willing soon…by the way my corvette’s in a locked garage, okay? So, it’s not like they’re sitting in the street,” Biden responded. “But as I said earlier this week, people know I take classified documents and classified materials seriously....

The endorsement of Biden from the New Hampshire Union Leader came as President Donald Trump heads to the Eastern state on Sunday to rally supporters there. The newspaper, which was established after the merger of two Manchester papers in 1913, had previously only endorsed Republican presidential candidates until 2016, when it backed Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson—the former GOP governor of New Mexico. The Union Leader is New Hampshire’s largest newspaper and the only paper circulated statewide....

The administration had planned to restart repayment requirements for federal student loans and federally-held student loans from February 1, but there has been widespread anger about the plan and criticism from some Democrats. A spokesperson for the Department of Education indicated in a statement on Tuesday the department was considering extending the interest-free payment pause, with a decision possible as early as this week. “Since day one of the Biden administration, we’ve been hard at work delivering meaningful relief to student loan borrowers,” the statement said....

The latest CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Biden leading Trump overall by six percentage points in Florida (48 percent to 42 percent), trailing Trump by one point in Texas (45 percent to 46 percent), and tied with the president in Arizona (46 percent). Trump won all three states in 2016, but has only maintained a lead over Biden in those states among just two demographics: men and white voters without a college degree....

In an appearance on conservative news network Newsmax, Eric Trump Trump suggested former president Donald Trump would easily defeat Biden in the next presidential election. “What’s the latest on 2024? Where’s his heart right now?” Newsmax host Greg Kelly asked Eric Trump on Tuesday night. Eric Trump responded that “a lot of people” across the country want to see his father back in the White House. “There’s half this country right now that feel they don’t have a spokesperson, they have no voice,” he said....