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CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — More major cities in the United States are letting public transit riders hop on board for free. Kansas City; Raleigh; Richmond; Olympia; Tucson; Alexandria, Virginia; and other cities are testing dropping fares on their transit systems. Denver is dropping fares across its system this summer. Boston

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — More major cities in the United States are letting public transit riders hop on board for free. Kansas City; Raleigh; Richmond; Olympia; Tucson; Alexandria, Virginia; and other cities are testing dropping fares on their transit systems. Denver is dropping fares across its system this summer. Boston is

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the US and one of the most recognizable fast food brands in the world. But in recent years, it has struggled. Thousands of Subway stores have closed since 2016. The company has had to coax back eaters who switched

CNN By Jennifer Hansler and Juliana Liu, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged China on Saturday to combat the “existential threat” of climate change by supporting international funds intended to help developing countries confront the crisis. On the second full day of her visit to Beijing, Yellen said the United

By Jennifer Hansler and Juliana Liu, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged China on Saturday to combat the “existential threat” of climate change by supporting international funds intended to help developing countries confront the crisis. On the second full day of her visit to Beijing, Yellen said the United States

By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — Financial trouble at the company that supplies more than a fifth of the UK population with water has raised alarm about the dire state of an industry that delivers a resource people can’t live without. The problems are most acute at Thames Water, London’s utility, but the wider

By Deepak Rao and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Indian authorities have arrested three railway officials as part of an investigation into one of the deadliest train crashes in the country’s history. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said in a statement that they had arrested three Department of Railways officials on Friday. The move

By Antonio Jarne and Krystina Shveda, CNN (CNN) — Inflation in the United States may have subsided in recent months – it peaked above 9% last summer and declined to 4% this May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ widely used Consumer Price Index. But even at its worst, price increases were a drop in

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — A judge has blocked New York City’s minimum wage law for food delivery workers from going into effect on July 12 until there is a hearing for a lawsuit filed by DoorDash and Grubhub against the city. The law, announced last month, would increase pay for app delivery workers

CNN By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — An interest rate hike later this month was already in the cards for the Federal Reserve. But after the June jobs report, the timing of a second hike remains unclear. Job gains remain robust, wage growth is still going strong, and unemployment continues to hover near

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — An interest rate hike later this month was already in the cards for the Federal Reserve. But after the June jobs report, the timing of a second hike remains unclear. Job gains remain robust, wage growth is still going strong, and unemployment continues to hover near historic

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The US job market cooled back down in June, adding just 209,000 jobs, and fueling optimism that the economy is on course to nail that elusive soft landing of lowering inflation without triggering a recession. The June job gains, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, were

By Jennifer Hansler and Juliana Liu, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — Beijing’s newly unveiled export controls on two strategic raw materials critical to the global chipmaking industry are a “concern,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on the first day of her trip to China, where she met the country’s premier in an effort to

By Tara Subramaniam and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in India’s central Madhya Pradesh state have demolished a man’s home after a video that appeared to show him urinating on a member of a tribal community went viral on social media this week. While the incident captured in the video allegedly occurred a year

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Food delivery platforms DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats are challenging in court New York City’s new minimum wage law for app food delivery workers. All three companies sued the city, maintaining that the law would hurt delivery workers more than help them. DoorDash and Grubhub filed a suit jointly