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Translating… New York (CNN Business)Three days before Christmas in 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a law creating the United States’ first emergency stash of crude oil. The nation had been traumatized by an oil embargo a few years earlier.At the time, OPEC, the cartel of oil-producing nations, had a stranglehold on the world’s supply of…

Translating… (CNN)The CDC, FDA, White House and a who’s who of officials in suits want young people to stop using e-cigarettes amid a mysterious outbreak of hundreds of vaping-related lung illnesses.But what do actual vapers think?CNN went to New York City’s Washington Square Park to speak with young people who had or currently have a…

Translating… New York City police said Saturday that 76 immigration policy protesters had been arrested at a demonstration outside Microsoft’s flagship store in midtown Manhattan.The protesters demanded that Microsoft stop doing business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), staging a sit-in that forced the store to close its doors early.In videos posted to Twitter, protesters…

Translating… General Motors is working to avoid its first walkout in a dozen years if negotiations between the carmaker and the United Auto Workers don’t produce a new contract before the existing deal expires at midnight Saturday.If the contentious talks turn positive, the current agreement could be temporarily extended, though an 11th-hour deal appears unlikely at present.“Nobody…

Translating… The British pound hit a seven-week high against the dollar Friday amid easing fears of a no-deal Brexit. Stock markets meanwhile won support after China said some US agricultural products including pork and soybeans would be exempt from added tariffs, ahead of trade talks between Beijing and Washington scheduled for October. After flirting with…

Translating… Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen set the world on fire August 12 with the release of a new crispy chicken sandwich that the New Yorker called an “exquisite slab of chicken breast, hefty and juicy and snow-white, in its crenellated armor of that uncommonly crisp fried batter.” Households with longstanding devotions to Chick-fil-A were suddenly divided.…

Translating… Updated at 4:50 p.m.DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union agreed to temporary contract extensions with Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Friday as it grappled with a federal corruption probe that has implicated its president.But a Saturday midnight deadline for the UAW to agree on a new four-year labor contract with General Motors…

Translating… OPEC and its partners will not deepen their oil production cut yet but will discuss the topic again in December. This is what Saudi Arabia’s newly appointed Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman told media after this week’s meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee. A discussion, however, may not be enough. OPEC+ may be…

Translating… The FBI and the New York State Department of Labor are investigating allegations that a payroll company diverted millions of dollars in employee pay to its own bank account, officials said Thursday.An FBI spokesperson confirmed the investigation after the bureau’s Albany, New York, office tweeted that it was «seeking information from business owners who…

Translating… MIT is agreeing to settle a lawsuit that claimed it allowed its workers to be hit with big fees in their retirement accounts. DEA/M. Borchi/De Agostini via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption DEA/M. Borchi/De Agostini via Getty Images MIT is agreeing to settle a lawsuit that claimed it allowed its workers to be…