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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: Elon Musk is seen arriving at The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)

Elon Musk’s Twitter pitch deck shows he plans to quintuple revenue and debut a mysterious new product, NYT reports

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 01: Two pro-choice demonstrators are surrounded by anti-abortion demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Monday, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Draft of Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade leaked, Politico reports

Pedestrians walk past a COVID-19 testing site near the World Trade Center in New York, the United States, March 29, 2022. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 80 million on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. (Photo by Wang Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images)

New immune-evading Omicron variants BA.4, BA.5 are likely in every U.S. state, an expert says. Here’s where they’ve been identified so far

A woman wears a face mask in Mexico City

BA.4, BA.5, 2 new Omicron variants detected in the U.S., could spark another COVID wave. Research shows these people will fare best

Dr. Anthony Fauci

‘Was damage done? I don’t know’: Health experts are slow to criticize Fauci but quick to correct his claim that we are ‘out of the pandemic’

Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., left, and Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., attend a BYD Co. press event in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010.

Bitcoin ‘stupid and evil,’ Berkshire Hathaway vice chair Munger says

A health worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine to a student during a rural vaccination drive by Broadreach NGO at Duduzile Secondary School in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, seen as a more accurate way of measuring its impact than official statistics, climbed to 301,106 in the week ended March 5, according to South African Medical Research Council data. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

BA.4 and BA.5, two new Omicron variants sweeping South Africa, detected in U.S.

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider.

Twitter is reportedly reconsidering Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer, with the two sides set to meet Sunday

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — “Elon Musk” Episode 1803 — Pictured: (l-r) Mikey Day, host Elon Musk, Chris Redd, and Melissa Villaseñor during the “Chad on Mars” sketch on Saturday, May 8, 2021 — (Photo By: Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s cryptic ‘moving on’ tweet sparks speculation he’s done with Twitter takeover

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 08: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit ahead of a celebration of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House on April 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Jackson was confirmed by the Senate 53-47 and is set to become the first Black woman to sit on the highest court.

Blinken, Austin to visit Kyiv on Sunday: reports

An 1890 illustration from a French newspaper showing the Russian flu in Paris

Will COVID ever end? A forgotten pandemic from the late 1800s might offer some clues

People wait in line for COVID-19 testing in Los Angeles

A company that promised COVID results in 24 hours faked results when it couldn’t deliver, authorities allege

Jack Dorsey, former chief executive officer of Twitter

Jack Dorsey rips Twitter’s board, says it has ‘consistently been the dysfunction of the company’

KYIV, UKRAINE – AUGUST 24, 2021 – MiG-29 air superiority fighters (L) spread smoke in the colors of the National flag of Ukraine to conclude the solemn military parade on the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (Photo credit should read Yevhen Liubimov/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

‘Buy me a fighter jet’: Ukrainians launch website to crowdfund war planes

Pet owners with a French Bulldog before boarding a bus transporting passengers to the Hong Kong International Airport for a chartered flight in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. After more than two years of Covid restrictions that have no end in sight alongside a deepening political crackdown, the ranks of people leaving the Asian financial hub for good are steadily increasing–but many are finding that getting out is no easy feat. Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Are pets spreading COVID? It’s less likely with Omicron, study finds—but other animals are at higher risk