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New York CNN — A strike at General Motors’ Canadian plants is over less than a day after it started, according Unifor, the union that represents more than…
Read more GM settles strike at Canadian plants | CNN BusinessCNN — The National Park Service and US National Archives and Records Administration are calling on Americans to help reveal the untold stories of the United States’ first…
Read more Call to arms: Thousands of Revolutionary War stories are waiting to be told. A new project asks the public to help uncover them | CNNSeoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea is getting older – and its care facilities are changing to match. The number of child care facilities in the country…
Read more Goodbye child care centers, hello elderly homes: South Korea prepares for aging population | CNNLondon CNN — Britain’s biggest water supplier said Wednesday it needed to raise more cash from investors, as UK media reported the government was preparing contingency plans to…
Read more The company supplying water to millions of Londoners is in deep trouble | CNN BusinessSan Francisco CNN — D’Arcy Drollinger, a veteran of San Francisco’s vibrant drag scene, has been named the city’s first-ever Drag Laureate and will become an ambassador for…
Read more San Francisco announces inaugural Drag Laureate, the first position of its kind in the country | CNNParis CNN — Clashes erupted in Paris on Monday marking May 1, a traditional day of union-led marches, in the wake of hugely unpopular changes to France’s pension…
Read more France is still mad about a hike in the retirement age. But can the protests last? | CNNEditor’s Note: This is an updated version of a story that originally ran on April 14, 2023. New York CNN — It’s April 18, the official deadline to…
Read more Today is Tax Day. Here’s what you need to know if you haven’t filed your return yet — and even if you have | CNN BusinessNew York CNN — So far this tax season, the IRS has received more than 90 million income tax returns for 2022. That means tens of millions of…
Read more Still haven’t filed your taxes? Here’s what you need to know | CNN BusinessHong Kong/Atlanta CNN — Oil prices spiked during Asian trade Monday after OPEC+ producers said they would cut production in a surprise move. Brent crude, the global benchmark,…
Read more Oil prices surge after OPEC+ producers announce surprise cuts | CNN BusinessCNN — University of Alabama men’s basketball star Brandon Miller has declared for the 2023 NBA Draft, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The 20-year-old freshman forward Miller is…
Read more Alabama men’s basketball star Brandon Miller declares for NBA Draft, per reports | CNNCNN — King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests over the French government’s controversial pension reforms. Both France’s Élysée Palace and Buckingham Palace…
Read more King Charles state visit to France postponed amid violent pension protests | CNNEditor’s Note: Catherine Poisson is an associate professor of Romance Languages at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Her research has focused on literature and culture of France from…
Read more Opinion: Why France is fuming at Macron | CNNParis CNN — French transport networks, oil refineries and schools were hit by widespread disruption Thursday as workers staged a national strike to protest an increase in the…
Read more French airports, schools and oil refineries hit by national strike over pension age increase | CNN BusinessParis CNN — Impromptu protests broke out in Paris and across several French cities Thursday evening following a move by the government to force through reforms of the…
Read more French workers may have to retire at 64 and many are in uproar. Here’s why | CNNParis CNN — The City of Lights has a garbage problem. Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French…
Read more Parisian streets littered with trash after wave of strikes | CNNCNN — Millions of Californians already hammered by ferocious snowfall were hit Thursday by a new storm, with torrential rain threatening to cause dangerous flooding and the Weather…
Read more Rain rates in California during newest storm may reach 1 inch per hour | CNNCNN — The Senate passed a politically charged resolution on Wednesday to overturn a Biden administration retirement investment rule that allows managers of retirement funds to consider the…
Read more Senate votes to overturn Biden administration retirement investment rule Republicans decry as ‘woke’ | CNN PoliticsNew York CNN — Despite higher prices, endless talk of a possible recession and falling markets, 401(k) participants managed to keep their savings rates relatively steady in the…
Read more 401(k) balances rise, despite economic and market challenges | CNN BusinessLondon CNN — Russia will cut crude oil production by half a million barrels per day starting in March, a little over two months after the world’s major…
Read more Russia to cut oil output by 5% as sanctions bite | CNN BusinessCNN — Every year, Americans in snowy states wait with bated breath to see whether Punxsutawney Phil will spot his shadow. And every year, we take Phil’s weather…
Read more The bizarre history of Groundhog Day — or, how we decided to trust a subterranean rodent | CNN
