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By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The largest health care strike in US history produced a tentative labor agreement for a coalition of unions at Kaiser Permanente — but the deal was reached almost a week after the strike ended. That might seem odd. Once a strike ends, why should an employer settle?

By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Two weeks into what could be a four-to-six-week trial, jurors hearing the case against fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried have been inundated with evidence that looks, for now, pretty damning. While the defense has yet to call its own witnesses, it has stumbled frequently in cross-examining the

By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the end of its first week, millions have turned to platforms including TikTok and Instagram in hopes of comprehending the brutal conflict in real time. Trending search terms on TikTok in recent days illustrate the hunger for frontline perspectives:

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Grab physical DVDs while you still can. Netflix mailed its last red-enveloped DVD last month. Now Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of the 2023 holiday season, too. Best Buy says that streaming has made DVDs obsolete and it can

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Imagine you’re at the movies: The lights have dimmed, the previews are over, chatter dwindles to a hush. You take a sip of soda through a straw. You pop some artificially buttery popcorn into your mouth. You tear open a bag of Skittles and start to chew.

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint alleges that a high-ranking X

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The BBC said Friday that a group of its journalists covering Israel’s war with Hamas were held at gunpoint and assaulted by Israeli police in Tel Aviv. The disturbing incident, which the BBC said occurred on Thursday night, came as the team of three journalists drove to their hotel

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN New York (CNN) — Many schools, psychologists and safety groups are urging parents to disable their children’s social media apps over mounting concerns that Hamas plans to disseminate graphic videos of hostages captured in the Israel-Gaza war. Disabling an app or implementing restrictions, such as filtering out certain words and

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Ford is recalling certain models of the 2020-2022 Explorer due to a rollaway risk if the parking brake isn’t applied. There are 238,364 impacted vehicles in the recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said. It said a “disconnected driveshaft” could cause the car to roll away

By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — The European Commission sent a warning letter Friday to Google and its subsidiary YouTube over disinformation and graphic content linked to the Hamas-Israel conflict, in the European Union’s latest effort to scrutinize Big Tech’s handling of the war. The letter from European Commissioner Thierry Breton, addressed to Google

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — At least one journalist was killed and six others injured on Friday in southern Lebanon when Israel fired artillery into the area they were gathered. The incident — which impacted journalists from Reuters, the Agence France-Presse wire service and Al Jazeera — marks one of the worst press catastrophes

By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks on Wednesday criticized a message by its union about Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. The union, Starbucks Workers United, posted “Solidarity with Palestine” on social media platform X above an image of a bulldozer operated by Hamas tearing down a fence on

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Persistently high inflation took a toll on Americans’ attitudes this month as many began to pay back student loans following a three-year hiatus. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell 7% in October from the prior month, according to a preliminary reading released Friday. Sentiment in

By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife Batia are quitting a Harvard executive board in protest of how university leaders have responded to Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel. “Unfortunately, our faith in the University’s leadership has been broken and we cannot in good faith continue to support

By Krystal Hur, CNN (CNN) — The Israel-Hamas war is sending investors in search of defensive assets. Israel declared war on Hamas Sunday after the Palestinian militant group launched a brutal attack that killed at least 1,300 people. Stock markets initially fell on Monday, before rebounding. But investors have since bought up shares of virtually