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RELATED: Naruto Uzumaki’s Strongest Transformations, Ranked The village played a major role in the Fourth Great Ninja War. Hidden Leaf’s military might is feared throughout the ninja world as it is the home of some of the strongest clans in the Naruto series. Some of the clans in the Hidden Leaf are more powerful than the others, so here’s a look at the best of the bunch. Updated April 9, 2022, by Suzail Ahmad:The Hidden Leaf is known for its diversity....

In the past few days, the two agencies have been monitoring the hurricane, providing fascinating insights into the storm’s terrifying power. American astronaut Christina Koch—who is currently resident on the International Space Station (ISS)—captured these photos from an altitude of around 250 miles above the Earth early on Monday morning, revealing the vast scale of the storm as it battered the Bahamas. The image below shows infrared observations collected by the NOAA-20 satellite, which circles our planet from pole-to-pole, crossing the equator about 14 times every day....

In a mission by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope will launch from the coast of French Guiana in South America. The $10 billion, 7-ton telescope will have to be folded into the nose cone of a rocket. It will then unfold as it heads to its destination. Upon arrival, it is supposed to keep with Earth’s orbit around the sun, constantly staying on the planet’s nightside....

The Associated Press reported that NASA is working with U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to create the power source, independent from the sun, for missions to the moon by the end of the decade. “Providing a reliable, high-power system on the moon is a vital next step in human space exploration, and achieving it is within our grasp,” Sebastian Corbisiero, the Fission Surface Power Project lead at the lab, said in a statement....

Micah Roberts’ Top-10 Rated NASCAR Drivers NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Charlotte Motor Speedway Saturday, May 21, 2016 - 9:00 pm (ET) Rating Driver Odds Atlanta* Las Vegas* Texas* Kansas* 1. Kyle Busch 6/1 3rd 4th 1st 1st No All-Star wins, but only driver with top-five finishes on all four 1.5-mile tracks in 2016. 2. Jimmie Johnson 11/2 1st 3rd 4th 17th Event record four-time winner (2003, 2006, 2012-13); Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon had three....

With the Xfinity Series race on Saturday, the Indy 500 on Sunday morning and the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night, race fans will be treated to non-stop action over a 24-hour period. The Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR’s longest running race, will feature classic intermediate drivers (Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick) matching up with youngsters who have had recent success (Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson). MORE: Watch the Coca-Cola 600 live with fuboTV (7-day free trial)...

Austin Dillon took home the win in the first week of the season and the second of his career in February. He will attempt to win for the second time this year. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is the defending champion in the summer, but Daytona has been a fickle beast in recent years as no driver has repeated either as a seasonal winner, or simply in back-to-back races since Jimmie Johnson did so when he won both runs in 2013....

Larson’s three-race win streak at Michigan was broken in June when Clint Bowyer took home the title as Stewart-Haas Racing took the top three spots in the event. This run was rain-shortened, though, and had Kevin Harvick had a little bit more time, there weren’t bad odds that he would have taken home the victory. He is the betting favorite again Sunday at 11/5, but there are plenty of drivers who could find their way to the winner’s circle on one of the fastest tracks in NASCAR....

Harvick has been runner-up in five of the past six races at Michigan and the only time he didn’t finish second over that span (this race last June), he led the most laps (63) before a flat tire relegated him to a 29th-place finish. He may have eventually erased the one lap deficit had rain not shortened the event by 62 laps, a race won by teammate Kurt Busch....

Blaney jumped to the front of the field on a late restart and never relinquished the lead on the way to his second win of the NASCAR Cup Series season. William Byron and Kyle Larson made a hard push down the stretch, but Blaney managed to take the checkered flag by a margin of 0.077 seconds. “We got a great push by [Kyle Busch] on the restart and was able to get clear there,” Blaney said during his postrace interview....

After another major crash in which Alex Bowman’s car caught fire, Kyle Busch earned the win. Busch will be joined in the championship race by Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. Clint Bowyer needed a win to advance, but he crashed out of the race, while Aric Almirola fell short with a seventh-place finish. MORE: Watch NASCAR live or on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial) The title race will be held at Homestead-Miami Speedway next weekend....

That’s mainly because Kyle Busch is the two-time defending champion at Pocono Raceway and he has three wins in his last four races there. But Harvick getting that first win is huge especially since it absolutely guarantees him a spot in the playoffs as the postseason creeps closer and closer. MORE: Watch the Gander RV 400 live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Busch on the other hand has four wins already this year and is under no pressure to get a victory....

The intermediate track sets up an interesting race as three of the top four drivers in the playoff standings in Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick all have wins on 1.5-mile tracks this season and Busch and Harvick finished 1-2 in Texas in April. Joey Logano is the only driver with a spot locked up in the final four as he earned his second win of the year at Martinsville last week, but he still has a great chance to factor into the win this week as he finished sixth in Texas earlier this year and has finished no lower than seventh in his last five races on the intermediate track....

The NASCAR Busch Clash has kicked off the new season and Speedweeks at Daytona for 42 years, but it has traditionally been run on the 2.5-mile, high-banked oval at Daytona International Speedway. The short, all-star-type event typically served as a tune-up for the Daytona 500. Also read: NASCAR’s biggest races of 2021 But the 43rd NASCAR Busch Clash at Daytona will be run on the 14-turn, 3.6-mile road course that hosts the annual Rolex 24 at Daytona....

The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season has been one of the most unpredictable one in recent memory. With 19 different racers nabbing the checkered flag, there has been as much parity in stock car racing’s top division as one could hope for. Now, the series is down to the final four. Chase Elliott and Joey Logano are past winners, having hoisted the trophy in 2020 and 2018, respectively. Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain are unexpected finalists....

Many fans took to social media to accuse Kevin Harvick of intentionally causing a wreck so he could stay in the Chase. MORE: Sprint Cup: Eight drivers in the Eliminator Round The caution ended Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s title run and led to Joey Logano being declared the race winner. Harvick denied that his clipping of Trevor Bayne’s Ford was intentional, but fans weren’t swayed — with Harvick’s explanation or Helton’s review....

Yeah, there’s a chance a thunderstorm or two might be a nuisance on Saturday, but Sunday’s race day should bring pretty nice weather to Brooklyn, Mich., and its environs. MORE: Michigan schedule NASCAR had to postpone last weekend’s race and stage a rare Monday running for its Sprint Cup Series. Kurt Busch didn’t mind, since he won for the first time this season. Trouble is, a day’s delay means a shorter turnaround time for teams....

Drivers’ starting positions for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, the third race of the Cup Series playoffs and the final race in the Round of 16 (7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, TSN5, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), were based on four factors: Driver’s finishing position from the previous race (25 percent) Car owner’s finishing position from the previous race (25 percent) Team owner points ranking (35 percent) Fastest lap from the previous race (15 percent)...

The day will be all about retro paint schemes on the cars, series legends returning to the track and a storied venue that’s ready to tear up some more sheet metal. The current drivers found out Saturday during qualifying how they’ll line up for the start of the race Sunday afternoon (3:42 p.m. ET green flag; FS1, TSN5, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Here’s a look at the pole winner and starting lineup for the 12th race on the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series schedule....

In another sign of change from NASCAR’s old way of doing things, NASCAR officials apparently now believe, or are more willing to believe, that they can police all testing. NASCAR officials apparently believe they can save the team owners from themselves by cutting their costs by banning testing completely. The testing ban — except for NASCAR and Goodyear tests — was among the big swings NASCAR took Tuesday when it announced sweeping rules changes for 2015....