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By Chris Lau and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Leon Li used to play a discreet but indispensable part at one of China’s biggest tech giants. As an administrative officer, she worked around the clock to schedule meetings, prepare documents and provide her bosses with whatever support they needed. But in February, she

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Taking your romantic relationship to the next level — sharing a home — is a big deal in so many ways. If you opt to live together instead of marrying, you may think you’re saving money (e.g., no wedding!) and keeping your financial and legal independence from

By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — A global software outage Friday brought many computer systems across business, healthcare, technology and government sectors to a screeching halt in under 12 hours. How did the crash unfold? Which systems have recovered, and which ones are still affected? We break it down. (All times Eastern Time.)

By Reuters (Reuters) — American Airlines’ 28,000 flight attendants have reached a tentative labor agreement with the company, their union said on Friday. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents the flight attendants, said the deal addresses their concerns about compensation, work rules and retroactive pay. It did not offer more details. Reached after

By Natasha Chen, CNN Anaheim, CA (CNN) — Cyn Carranza buffs, cleans, waxes and scrubs Disneyland floors starting at midnight, so that guests coming the next morning feel as if no one had been there before them. But after her shifts working near a sparkling Sleeping Beauty Castle, she went “home” to a car, for

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The company that caused a massive computer outage across the world says a flawed update has been rolled back – but that doesn’t necessarily help the thousands of businesses that have been affected by the glitch. The CrowdStrike software issue at the heart of the outage runs at such

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts told CNN. CrowdStrike told customers early Friday that the outages were caused by “a defect found in a single content

By Sophie Tanno, Anna Chernova and Moscow staff, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, has been found guilty of spying and sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court, in a case that the US government, his newspaper

By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s ruling Communist Party has set ambitious long-term policy goals at its most important political meeting on reform, but offered little detail on how to pull the world’s second-largest economy out of a worsening downturn. In a behind-closed doors meeting known as the third plenum, more than

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Years ago, some people would spend hours at Starbucks. Today, it’s a takeout counter. At many Starbucks locations, you’re lucky to find anyone sitting down. Under Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ longtime leader, cafes were positioned as a “third place” between work and home, where people could linger for

CNN Analysis by Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — When computers and tech systems around the world went down Friday, snarling airports, closing Social Security offices and limiting jail operations, many people had one question: How on earth could this happen in 2024? A software update from a single cybersecurity company, US-based CrowdStrike, was the root

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department said on Thursday that it has made “substantial progress” in finalizing an agreement with Boeing to plead guilty to defrauding the US government, but more time is needed to work out the remaining details. Earlier this month, Boeing (BA) agreed to plead guilty to one

By Kathleen Magramo, Hassan Tayir and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — In China, it’s possible to travel six miles in a driverless taxi for just about 50 cents. Self-driving cars, commonly called robotaxis, are being popularized at cut-throat prices in Wuhan, a sprawling metropolis of over 11 million people in central China. It

By Ramishah Maruf and Mark Morales, CNN New York (CNN) — J. Michael Cline, the founder of movie ticket company Fandango, fell to his death from a New York City hotel Tuesday, a law enforcement official confirmed to CNN. The New York Police Department said that around 10 am on Tuesday, the 64-year-old was found

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Bissell has recalled about 3.2 million handheld Steam Shot cleaners, which are popular across social media, after more than 150 burn injury reports. The recall, posted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday, said that the steam cleaner, a popular item on TikTok under the hashtag