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Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN  —  In 1970, a protester in London, angered by the cancellation of a cricket tour, threw an egg at UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the leader of the Labour Party. His Conservative Party rival, Edward Heath responded, “This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in…

Washington CNN  —  Republicans have been running ads around the country that use a variety of dishonest tactics to try to create the inaccurate impression that the Democratic candidates they are targeting support defunding the police. Some of the Republican ads simply make things up. Other ads falsely describe bills the Democratic candidates have supported. Still other ads try guilt by association, noting that the candidates have supporters who have called to defund the police but not mentioning that the candidates themselves have rejected defunding the police. One particularly egregious guilt-by-association ad accuses a Democrat of marching with a pro-defunding…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The housing market is rapidly losing steam. Interest rates continue to rise. The stock market remains volatile. And inflation continues to be a major problem for people trying to pay their bills. Given all that, one might think the de-facto economic report card for the third quarter — gross domestic product, or GDP — due Thursday will be bleak. But here’s the thing. Economists are actually predicting decent, if not spectacular growth. The consensus forecast from economists surveyed…

The NFL is a league built on and desirous of parity. Jets and Giants fans may have forgotten that, what with their teams having resided below the poverty line for so long. So far in this 2022 season, though, we are seeing a new type of parity, in which almost every team in the league somehow got worse — out of the blue and all at the same time — than 5-1 Big Blue and 4-2 Gang Green. As I return from vacation and thank Erich Richter for filling in last week, we start by staying aboard these two local…

Birthday cards from the King and Queen Consort have been sent to Brits turning 100 and 105, with one of the first going to centenarian Ruth Park-Pearson on October 21 Brits celebrating their 100th and 105th birthdays have become the first in the country to receive cards from the new King and Queen Consort. Hundreds of those celebrating the landmark ages across the United Kingdom have heard from the monarch to wish them happy returns. The posting of messages to mark significant birthdays and anniversaries is a tradition dating to 1917 and the reign of King George V. Among those…

The family of a missing Georgia teen says that the 17-year-old’s remains have likely been found nearly a month after he disappeared, according to a local report.Yaron Kathuri was last seen around 8 a.m. on Sept. 28 in Douglasville wearing a white NASA hoodie and jeans, the Douglasville Police Department said earlier this month.On Saturday, police said human remains were discovered at Arbor Station and Douglas Boulevard, one of Yaron’s last known locations. While detectives have yet to positively identify the remains, the teen’s family told FOX5 Atlanta that they believe the body is Yaron’s.MISSING SOUTH CAROLINA WOMAN’S FAMILY MAKES RENEWED…

Some of the top crypto traders including Cold Blooder Shiller have tweeted bearish Aptos price predictions despite its rally to over $10.Aptos Price PredictionsThe controversial new Layer-1 blockchain’s APT token was listed on every major crypto exchange on October 19, following a private sale for venture capital investors.After its day one pump to around $17 – $30 depending on the exchange – the Binance APT/USDT pair even wicked as high as $100 – the Aptos price then crashed to a low of approximately $6.80, leading some traders to speculate retail investors were being dumped on by VCs.Cold Blooded ShillerNothing goes…

SEOUL: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un sent a congratulatory letter to Xi Jinping on his re-election as China’s leader, saying he hoped to further develop their ties, state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday (Oct 23). “The 20th Congress of the CPC (Chinese Communist Party) offered a significant landmark for the Chinese party and people in propelling the historic process of the Chinese nation’s great prosperity under the banner of the socialist idea with the Chinese characteristics in the new era,” Kim said in the letter. “I, together with you, will shape a more beautiful future of the DPRK-China relations…

College alum tells CNN: The only way to open the door was to take on student loan debt CNN national correspondent Camila Bernal speaks to the executive director of Student Debt Crisis Center and an economist on the personal and widespread implications of President Biden’s student loan debt relief program. Source: CNN

Blue-collar workers are used to being monitored 24/7. Lean manufacturing facilities often have productivity screens right by work stations to see progress in real time — and gauge whether staff should get a bit extra at the end of the day or be docked for not working hard enough.Likewise, low-wage service staff working in restaurants or retail chains often have their lives upended by algorithmic software that co-ordinates their schedules to customer demand, making it difficult to look after children or plan very far in advance. Upper-level white-collar workers have historically enjoyed more humane evaluation methods; but now, thanks to…