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At their core, these conversations are all about power: who has it and who doesn’t. But one thing that has been missing from the debate is money. We cannot talk about power without implicitly talking about money, as the two are inextricably interwoven in a capitalist society. More money equals more power. It confers power in personal relationships, power to give your candidate a better shot at being elected, power to walk away from a job you don’t like, and even the power to parade around in your half-open bathrobe in front of junior employees, as former television host Charlie Rose apparently did, and get away with it for years and years....

RELATED: Black Lightning Setting Up Painkiller Spin-off Series Next Season Dailyn Rodriguez, executive producer and co-showrunner of USA Network’s Queen of the South, will write and produce the show while Greg Berlanti and his team from Berlanti Productions also produce alongside Warner Bros. Television. Rodriguez herself is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, adding even more positive representation to the production. It is currently unknown who will be playing the lead role of Yara Flor....

According to orbisculate.com, orbisculate is a verb meaning “to accidentally squirt juice and/or pulp into one’s eye.” Entrepreneur and former Harvard faculty member Neil Krieger invented the term. He tragically passed away from COVID-19 last April. Almost a year after his death, mobile developer Zynga added orbisculate to Words with Friends. RELATED: Zynga Acquires Torchlight 3 Developer to Help Move to PC and Consoles The inclusion of orbisculate is part of a more considerable effort by Krieger’s family to bring the word into widespread use....

On my first day I took a call from a nursing home where a patient had expired. Nervously, I wrote down the details and paged the on-call funeral director. But as the days passed and I was drafted for an increasing number of bizarre chores, I realized I was going to function as much more than a secretary. Most of my time was spent alone in that empty, quiet building, but when we were busy, I rushed around doing things I’d never imagined I could....

The Germans, eyeing their fourth Euro title and their first since 1996, opened the scoring when central defender Mustafi, starting in place of the injured Mats Hummels, rose high to head in a pinpoint Toni Kroos free kick in the 19th minute. Joachim Loew’s men, who also lost central defender Antonio Ruediger to injury earlier this week, were far from convincing and had keeper Manuel Neuer to thank for producing a string of superb one-handed saves in the first half....

The game will look to leverage Anzu’s blended in-game ad technology, bringing more opportunities for brands and advertisers in the Indian ecosystem. Being a leader in this space, Anzu will now bring to WCC2 ad viewability, brand lift measurement, audience verification, data enrichment, and fraud detection in partnership with industry leaders such as Moat, Comscore, Kantar, and Nielsen. This will be in addition to native ad placements with blended in-game banner ads across the game on Android and iOS devices....

The provincial city of just under 300,000 people was a surprise inclusion as a World Cup host, beating out better-known cities with much more sporting history. Located in central Russia, Saransk offers a chance to see another side of life outside the big cities. Here’s what you need to know about one of the 11 host cities in Russia: THE STADIUM Saransk has a new 44,000-seat stadium for the World Cup, strikingly decorated in red and orange to echo traditional arts and crafts....

MORE: Worst hairstyles | Beautiful people in Brazil Herrera admitted in Saturday’s press conference that Salcido wouldn’t give his side the same intensity in the center of the field as Vazquez, but said his experience and timing would be important factors. Guillermo Ochoa once again starts in goal for Mexico, with Miguel Layun and Paul Aguilar the wing backs; Hector Moreno, Rafa Marquez and Francisco “Maza” Rodriguez are the center backs; Salcido will be in front of the them with Hector Herrera and Andres Guardado the box-to-box midfielders....

An explosive device was placed on the hood of referee Leontios Trattos' car in a parking lot outside his apartment in a Nicosia suburb, police said. No one was injured in the pre-dawn blast, but his car and another vehicle were damaged. The bombing comes ahead of a friendly between the United States and Ukraine next Wednesday that was moved from Kharkiv because of violence in Ukraine. It wasn't immediately clear why Trattos may have been targeted, but the Cypriot league is tightly contested this season and passions are running high among supporters....

A Kieran Trippier free-kick in the 5th minute gave England the early advantage they were looking for and despite constantly knocking on Croatian doors, they just couldn’t find the net. They were punished by Ivan Perisic in the 68th minute and the game headed to extra-time. With the ball in the air, Perisic awkwardly headed it back into the penalty box and Mandzukic confidently put it past Jordan Pickford as he caught the English defence sleeping....

Jessica Jones, 21, visiting from the U.K., said she was forced to punch the coyote in the face after it pounced toward the mini goldendoodle, named Roxy, outside a home in Reading, Massachusetts on Monday. Officers were dispatched to a home on Avalon Drive at roughly 3:40 p.m. “I just shoved my arm in front of the dog, punched the coyote in the face and grabbed the dog and ran off,” Jones, who was left with several lacerations to her arm, told WCVB....

In a post shared to Reddit’s Am I the A******? (AITA) forum on January 20, user u/Shesaidhesaid explained she had a “flat chest” due to a combination of growth issues and health problems. She is proud of her body, but her fiancé’s sister “Mel” constantly makes comments about her chest. “My fiance and I went over to his parents house for his niece’s birthday,” Shesaidhesaid wrote. “I wore a sweetheart shape dress and my SIL saw the dress and went like ’this dress needs boobs, you ain’t got any....

Carolyn uploaded a clip to her TikTok account, @ccarollynn, saying “I wish I was joking,” as she went through each of the 11 commands, sparking a debate about toxic relationships. She explained the list was given to her as she left to pursue her studies, although she didn’t disclose where. “I thought it would be funny to do reading the rules my crazy, controlling ex-boyfriend sent me before I left for college,” she said....

User @iamjessvaladez posted a video to her followers this week, which has now been viewed over 190,000 times, that she was able to get out of her lease early after leaving a negative review on the apartment. “[W]hen you leave such a negative review online about your new apartment that they offer to end your lease early without any fees [sic] my karen era has been unlocked and it is working in my favor,” @iamjessvaladez, whose first name is Jess, wrote in text overlaid onto the video....

EastIdahoNews.com reported that Kavanaugh, 68, was sleeping in her American Falls, Idaho, apartment at 12:45 a.m. when the truck tore through her wall. “There were bright lights, and the engine was roaring. There was dust everywhere and blood everywhere,” she said. “It took out the whole bedroom wall, completely demolished my bed and threw me 8 feet.” American Falls Police Chief Brandon Wilkinson told the local news site a couple was arrested Sunday in connection to the incident—Scott Alan Soderquist and Jewelia Taneya Evange Holsapple....

A woman has issued a stark warning, telling people not to leave bottles of prosecco in a hot cars after her bubbly exploded. Jessica McCance, from Birmingham in the U.K., joked it was the priciest bottle she never got to drink, after sharing a breakdown of the cleaning bill. She uploaded a video to TikTok on Sunday, which can be viewed here, showing the interior of her damaged car....

26-year-old singer Chloe Papandrea, known by her stage name Cxloe, won $5000 after appearing on the radio with Steve Irwin at the age of six. Hilariously, a young Cxloe didn’t even realize she was talking to Irwin until a host pointed it out mid-conversation. “I entered a competition they were running at the time called ‘Australian Idol unhinged.’ Basically anyone could ring up with a talent other than singing to go into the running to win $5000....

In the popular Subreddit “Am I The A**hole,” the 16-year-old boy asked other users for their opinion on the incident in a post that has been voted on more than 9,270 times since it was shared on Tuesday. According to the teenager, his mother remarried following a “bad divorce” and had just been introduced to his half-brothers, aged 6 and 4, as well as her two other stepchildren last year....

Redditor u/Acceptable-Action410 wrote about the high-tension encounter on the subreddit “Am I The A**hole” in a post that has been voted on over 10,000 times. The Redditor explained that his sister and her husband have been struggling with infertility for some time and recently decided to pursue adoption. He said while he can’t imagine his sister’s pain and sympathized with the couple, the stress of the situation put a strain on the siblings’ relationship....

Beatrice Fediuk, née Hamel, passed away on February 12 in Winnipeg, Canada, aged 94. Fediuk, who was one of seven children, decided to write her own obituary, which isn’t uncommon. However the former teacher injected some humor into her parting statement. The local newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press, printed her obituary in their pages, and online, where it has captivated the imagination, and hearts, of people from around the world....