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“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bulls***. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month,” Musk, who formally acquired Twitter last week, tweeted. Musk added his $8 check mark plan would adjust prices “by country proportionate to purchasing power parity” and would give Twitter “a revenue stream to reward content creators.” Additionally, he said the pay plan would include additional benefits such as “priority in replies, mentions & search,” the ability to post longer video/audio content and “half as many ads....

With recent figures from Bloomberg putting the car entrepreneur at a net worth of $90.3 billion, he is poised to overtake Zuckerberg, if Tesla stock continues to surge as it has over the past year. Bloomberg estimates that, year-to-date, Musk’s net worth has rocketed by $62.8 billion. On Monday alone, Tesla stock surged by 11 percent, bumping Musk’s worth up by nearly $8 billion. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, Elon Musk has profited from the pandemic in a more extreme way than his peers....

During an appearance on the Nelk Boys’ Full Send podcast, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO acknowledged he would accept a challenge from Kim. The hypothetical scenario was posed to him while Musk was talking about some of the more controversial messages he’s posted on Twitter in the past. One such message Musk mentioned was when he jokingly tweeted that he’d buy Coca-Cola if the company put cocaine back in its soft drinks....

RYAN: The Dodgers, as you know, recently committed $215 million over the next seven years to Clayton Kershaw, the still-young lefthander who is the best pitcher in baseball. Today, I’m committing the first overall pick in SN’s draft of National League West players to Kershaw. MORE: American League East draft That’s pretty much the same thing, right? At least, same ballpark? No? Oh well. I’ve spent the past half-hour sitting in this coffee shop trying to talk myself into selecting a position player, a guy who should play at least 140 games instead of one who will play just 33, with the top pick....

What league have you been watching this millennium? And what owner did you think this was? One of these days, we’re going to have to stop attacking Godzilla and start making friends with him. What Dan Snyder is planning for his team, and what Inglewood is building for the returning Rams — they’re both the next leap away from the palace Jerry Jones got built for the Cowboys. MORE: Ranking all 31 NFL stadiums | 49ers will reportedly target RGIII...

Fentanyl typically comes as a white powder, which can be mixed with other drugs—like methamphetamine and cocaine—and stamped onto pills. Increasingly, drugs being sold on the street as OxyContin, Xanax, Adderall, or other prescription drugs, are laced with fentanyl. A restaurant worker who uses stimulants to stay active for a 10-hour shift might consume fentanyl unwittingly. So might a college student who purchases Adderall to stay alert while studying. Because fentanyl is so potent, a slight difference in dosing can spell the difference between life and death, especially for people with no tolerance for opioids....

Emergency room nurse Coco Balalau clocked 84 hours last week, administering an array of patient treatments from beneath layers of head-to-toe safety gear. Almost all of Balalau’s personal protective equipment (PPE) was provided by her employer, a medical center located along the periphery of the Dallas metroplex. However, one critical garment—a machine-washable scrub cap with buttons judiciously sewn into the fabric on both sides—was newly handmade. Prompted by a colleague’s request and inspiration she found online, Balalau has crafted numerous caps and headbands for staff across several of the medical facility’s departments, as well as for the hospital’s president....

Carey, who uses she/they pronouns, plays Alicent Hightower in the HBO hit, a character who becomes the second wife of King Viserys I (Paddy Considine) through her father Otto’s (Rhys Ifans) machinations. Emily Carey Talks Being ‘Scared’ of ‘House of the Dragon’ Sex Scenes In Episode 4 Carey was required to appear in two intimacy scenes, one in which Alicent helps bathe King Viserys and the other a sex scene which Carey’s character appears to feel obliged to take part in, rather than desire it....

Tens of thousands of people remain without power in Moore County after authorities said two power substations were shot at in a “targeted” attack on Saturday. At a press conference on Sunday, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields didn’t identify any suspects or provide a motive, but said state investigators and the FBI are assisting. He also didn’t rule out a theory circulating on social media that the outages were intended to shut down a drag show....

According to Undercover Recruiter, it takes recruiters around 90 seconds to decide whether they would hire someone, but some candidates made life just that much easier for recruiters. Although it’s hard to perform under pressure, and most people have stories of times they truly messed up an interview, these cases might be some of the worst out there. Job interviewers took to online forum Mumsnet to share their hilarious anecdotes after one woman shared her friend’s “awful” tale of a recent candidate....

In Florida, at least 76 leatherback sea turtle nests have been found on Juno Beach since the end of February, the Loggerhead Marine Life Center said in a statement. According to the nonprofit, which focuses on sea turtle and ocean conservation, the absence of beachgoers offers turtles the chance to hatch without disturbance, while a lack of activity in the water enables adult turtles to mate closer to the shoreline....

Genetics A gene mutation or genetic disorder may increase your risk of endometrial cancer. With that in mind, some other cancers can be “red flags” for endometrial cancer risk, as they have the potential of having the same genetic underpinnings. One genetic disorder that contributes to a high risk of endometrial cancer is hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch syndrome. This condition increases your risk of certain cancers, especially colon cancer, endometrial cancer (your likelihood of developing it is 40 percent to 60 percent), and ovarian cancer....

Rooney, who retired from international football in 2017, will be part of Southgate’s squad at Wembley on Thursday in a fixture named ‘The Wayne Rooney Foundation international’. While some argue that the sentiment is a welcome change from the pragmatic environment of professional football, there has been plenty of disapproval from fans and media alike. Former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has slammed the situation as ‘a circus’, while Peter Shilton, England’s record appearance-maker, has suggested there are better ways to highlight Rooney’s charity activities....

Jos Buttler’s first series since replacing Eoin Morgan as captain has proved to be something of a rude awakening so far, with the tourists following up their opening win in Southampton with a 49-run triumph at Edgbaston. Despite a strong bowling performance from Buttler’s side, with Lancashire paceman Richard Gleeson taking 3/16 on debut and Chris Jordan claiming 4/27 to restrict India to 170/8, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah excelled with the new ball to take five wickets between them and skittle the hosts for 121....

The squid was spotted on a Farewell Spit Tours trip along Farewell Spit in Golden Bay, New Zealand. Tour guide Anton Donaldson was texted by a colleague that something exciting was awaiting him and the group as he drove the tour bus along the beach. When they got there, they found the 13-foot creature lying on the sand. “I announced it to the passengers and we all got out to take a look....

Astronomers first started observing the planet’s host star in the 1990s. A few years ago, they noticed a planet circling it. “This planet spends most of its time loitering in the outer part of its star’s planetary system in this highly eccentric orbit, then it starts to accelerate in and does a slingshot around its star,” Caltech’s Andrew W Howard, one of the study authors, said in a statement....

WEYMOUTH: What were you trying to accomplish in getting the Likud Party to pass this resolution? NETANYAHU: It isn’t a personal issue. It was raised because of statements made by the prime minister about [the creation of] a Palestinian state. Some say that your move backfired. Polls fluctuate. I am prepared to propose full self-government for the Palestinians with every right except the right to destroy the Jewish state. Nobody wants the Palestinians to have a state that could import weapons freely, make military pacts with Iran or Iraq, control our airspace or build an army that could threaten Israel....

Spoiled by the speed of the Internet, consumers now want everything, pronto. When you can bank, shop, chat and download the new Beck CD on Saturday morning in your jammies, it seems silly to have to wait for a Thursday-evening appointment to watch a favorite TV show. Soon you won’t. Within 10 years consumers will get instant gratification by pressing the remote of their “television,” the by-then-nostalgic term for the computer-driven home-entertainment appliance....

The envelope featured French postage and was addressed to “The Pope, Vatican City, Piazza S. Pietro in Rome,” Italy’s carabinieri—one of the country’s two main police forces—told Newsweek. An investigation is underway. Officers seized the mail at a sorting center in Peschiera Borromeo, located on the outskirts of Milan, after its presence was reported by the manager. It contained three Flobert-type 9-millimeter caliber pellets, according to Il Messaggero. There was also reportedly a message about financial operations at the Vatican....