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Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, among others — died Sunday. She was 80. Deutsch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022 and underwent successful treatment, but the cancer returned this summer. She died at her Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, said nurse Narek Petrosian of Olympia Hospice Care. AP chief United Nations correspondent Edith Lederer was among those with Deutsch at the end. They…

Last week, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) gave initial guidance based on the read through from the global outage caused in July. The cybersecurity specialist cut guidance, but the market cheered the limited impacts to the business so far. My investment thesis remains ultra-Bearish on the stock trading at an extreme valuation, with customers already pushing back on signing new deals. Source: Finviz Focus On FQ3 Guidance Back on July 19, CrowdStrike caused a global outage, impacting at least 8.5 million devices of customers using Microsoft (MSFT) via a Channel File 291 incident. Most customers were back online within hours and…

The Alternative for Germany has won elections in the eastern region of Thuringia, the first time a far-right party has secured victory in a state poll in the country’s postwar history. According to preliminary results, the AfD garnered 32.8 per cent in Thuringia, way ahead of all other parties. The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was in second place with 23.6 per cent.In the neighbouring state of Saxony, projections by public broadcaster ZDF put the two parties neck and neck, with the CDU projected to win 31.9 per cent and the AfD to come second with 30.6 per cent.Tino Chrupalla,…

Ahead of the presidential face-off, our panel set the stakes for the upcoming debate CNN Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings, CNN Political Commentators Karen Finney and Shermichael Singleton, and former Special Assistant to President Biden Meghan Hays join CNN’s Dana Bash to preview the presidential debate and Donald Trump’s changing position on reproductive rights.  Read the full article here

A standard life presents a standard quantity of opportunities. But wouldn’t you like more than a standard quantity of opportunities? A higher quantity of opportunities equals more possibilities for you to get some good ones to choose from. So how can you be presented with a higher quantity of opportunities? The most apparent answer is to change something in your life. The thing I changed was moving to Mexico. And it worked. Moving to Mexico provided me with a lot more opportunities than I would have been presented with if I had stayed where I was in the US. I’ll…

Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as “Credible” below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders who compensate us for our services, all opinions are our own. The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.500% as of July 31, which is 0.125 percentage points lower than yesterday. Additionally, the interest rate on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage is 5.875%, which is unchanged from yesterday. With mortgage rates changing daily, it’s a good idea to check today’s rate…

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign, is advising the GOP nominee to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy pivots in their upcoming debate.Harris “has already shown that she is trying to move away from her record, move away from her positions,” Gabbard said in a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”Gabbard is part of a small group of Trump advisers who are helping the former president prepare for the debate, scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC. Trump’s campaign insists that the candidate does not engage in traditional role playing…

Elon Musk’s endorsement of former President Donald Trump was meant to buoy the candidate’s chances in November. But more than a month after Musk officially put his weight behind Trump, a series of Democratic attacks have suggested that the endorsement has exposed a vulnerability. Since the tech billionaire endorsed Trump on July 13, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked Musk for his anti-worker stances. The campaign has called Musk and Trump “self-obsessed rich guys” and reposted audio from an event on Musk’s social media app, X, in which the two laugh together about firing striking workers. Harris allies including…

More than 10,000 hotel workers at 24 hotels stretching from Boston to the West Coast to Hawaii went on strike early Sunday morning, disrupting travel during a busy Labor Day weekend. The hotels are reportedly still open but guests will deal with a skeleton staff unable to provide full services. UNITE HERE, the union representing the striking workers, says they are striking not just for better pay but also better working conditions, including the return of automatic daily room cleaning that many hotels dropped during the pandemic. “We’re on strike because the hotel industry has gotten off track,” Gwen Mills,…

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) continues to be in a correction mode after hitting a June peak of over $225. The stock is currently trading at over 20% below the recent peak despite beating revenue and earnings estimates in the recent earnings. However, the stock is quite cheap when we look at some of the key tailwinds in various business segments. The automotive business reported an 87% YoY growth and has seen good growth projections for the future as the auto industry tries to build “smarter cars”. The IoT segment reported an 8% YoY decline in revenue, but new XR categories like Meta’s…