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Gun homicide and suicide rates in the U.S. each increased by more than 8% from 2020 to 2021, according to a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both hit highs not recorded since the early 1990s.Firearm homicides reached the highest level documented since 1993, while gun suicides were the highest since 1990.Gun homicide rates increased among both men and women, the report said, with the highest numbers among people 25 to 44 years old. In that age group, there were increases in all racial and ethnic populations. Overall, Black people continued to experience the highest…

Washington CNN  —  The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election is aiming to quickly wrap up the grand jury’s work after the midterm elections and could begin issuing indictments as early as December, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said that her investigation into attempts to subvert the 2020 election will go quiet beginning later this week to avoid any appearance of influencing the upcoming election. But while her investigation will not make any overt moves in the next few…

JGI | Jamie Grill | Blend Images | Getty401(k) plans hold a whopping $7.7 trillion in retirement savings. But cash-outs of small accounts pull billions from the system each year and can harm investors’ chances of a secure retirement, research shows.A trio of the industry’s largest 401(k) administrators — Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group and Alight Solutions — have teamed up to change that.Alongside Retirement Clearinghouse, they have created a consortium — Portability Services Network, LLC — to automatically reconnect workers with old 401(k) accounts they may have lost or left behind after leaving a job.The partnership, which the companies call…

Lisa T. Su, CEO of Advanced Micro DevicesAdam Jeffery | CNBCAMD issued preliminary third-quarter results on Thursday that are well below its initial guidance.The company reported preliminary quarterly revenue of approximately $5.6 billion. It had initially said it expected $6.7 billion in revenue for the quarter, plus or minus $200 million. AMD also said that its non-GAAP gross margin is expected to come in around 50%, while it had previously expected gross margin to be closer to 54%. Shares fell more than 3% in after-hours trading.AMD said the shortfall was a combination of a “weaker than expected PC market and…

Researchers investigated how mice with Crohn’s disease-like inflammation of the ileum are affected by stress.They found that psychological stress did not increase intestinal inflammation and induced the formation of tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) by increasing the production of interleukin 23 (IL-23) and IL-22, which are cytokines involved in the inflammatory response.The researchers also found that the stressed mice with ileitis were protected against a secondary, chemically induced colon injury, suggesting that TLOs may improve the mucosal barrier in the intestines.The findings of this study demonstrate that stress may have a beneficial effect in some conditions.According to the CDC, about 7…

Videos posted on social media showed sheets covering what appeared to be the bodies of children lying in pools of blood in the garden of the childcare centre. Reuters could not immediately authenticate the footage. About 30 children were at the facility when the attacker arrived, fewer than usual, as heavy rain had kept many people away, district official Jidapa Boonsom, who was working in a nearby office at the time. “The shooter came in around lunch time and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first,” Jidapa told Reuters. At first people thought the shots were fireworks,…

Teen vaping rates are rising once again, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday — a signal that as kids have returned to school, so has their use of e-cigarettes.Data from the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey showed that 14.1% of high school students and 3.3% of middle school students said they’d recently used an e-cigarette or other vape. The survey, led by both the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, was conducted from January through the end of May.The vast majority of surveyed youth, 84.5%, said they used flavored e-cigarettes, most often in fruity or other sweet flavors.Linda…

Erivo shares that the presentation’s theatrical setting made it all worthwhile. “The production design for the show was really beautiful—a postapocalyptic, alien-esque vibe—and the music was really great,” says Erivo. As someone who frequently wears Louis Vuitton on the red carpet, Erivo was taking in designer Nicolas Ghesquière’s new pieces and eyeing looks for future appearances. “My favorite look was the black leather halter-neck dress that looks like the buckle on the boots that were in the show two seasons ago,” she says. “It had a cream belt at the neck and a cream massive belt at the hem of…

A number of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collected by Starry Night Capital, an NFT fund established by the Singaporean bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), were moved to a new wallet by Teneo, the consultancy leading 3AC’S bankruptcy proceedings.The tokens which were moved to a Gnosis Safe address include Pepe the Frog NFT Genesis, sold for ETH 1,000, or about $1.36 at the crypto’s current price, in October 2021, and Fidenza #718, sold for ETH 240 in November 2021, according to data collected by blockchain analytics platform Nansen. Other NFTs which were transferred include three pieces by XCOPY, including Some…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. It’s been a hard year for markets, and investors are looking for a bit of reprieve as we enter the fourth quarter — historically a good one for stocks, especially during midterm election years. Unfortunately, this year may buck the trend. The outlook, as Goldman Sachs analysts put it, is “murky,” and more volatility is expected. With so much uncertainty around inflation, central…